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Exhibition focuses on 20th century "Outsider Art" in the US
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting an exhibition devoted to an important group of works by artists historically marginalized or excluded from traditional narratives of art history and typically described as Outsider artists. Of God and Country: American Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection explores their work through themes ranging from history to daily life, including the nations legacy of enslavement and racism, the landscape, and meditations on death and mortality. The exhibition features voices that variously critique and celebrate American life, often expressing ambivalence toward both the past and present while strong faith in the future, whether in this life or the next. Each work is drawn from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, including gifts, promised gifts, and loans to the museum. Sasha ... More

MUSEION - Museum of modern and contemporary art in Bolzano presents 'Lucia Marcucci. Poesie e no'
BOLZANO.- Museion Passage a freely accessible space dedicated to enhancing the museum's collection and its links with the local territory hosts Poesie e no, an exhibition that marks the 90th birthday of Italy's leading exponent of Visual Poetry, Lucia Marcucci. The artists work is included in the Archivio di Nuova Scrittura, a collection donated to Museion and the Mart museum by Paolo della Grazia in 2020. The exhibition highlights Marcucci's artistic research and experimentation in the 1960s and 1970s, through both her works and numerous theoretical and poetic writings. The works come from the Mart, the artist's private archive, and from the Archivio di Nuova Scrittura part of the museum collection. Museions focus on this figure is part of its ongoing research into the works and artists in its collection: This includes underlining the contemporary ... More

Edward Stack, 88, longtime President of the Baseball Hall of Fame, dies
NEW YORK, NY.- Edward Stack, who as the president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame conceived the eligibility rule that continues to prevent the election of Pete Rose, the prolific hitter who had been banned from Major League Baseball for gambling, died June 4 in Port Washington, New York, on Long Island. He was 88. His daughter Amy Stack said his death, at a senior living facility, was caused by complications of an injury in January that led to the amputation of his left leg. In 1991, Stack, who held various positions at the Hall from 1961 to 2000 and presided over its annual induction ceremony in Cooperstown, New York, faced a challenge: what to do about Rose, a star player across three decades, whose 4,256 career hits, the most in baseball history, made him clearly worthy of enshrinement. Two years earlier, the baseball commissioner, ... More

The wild rumpus starts June 30 with Heritage's most complete Maurice Sendak event ever
DALLAS, TX.- Maurice Sendak, perhaps the greatest children's book author and illustrator of our time, has more in common with the Brothers Grimm than most would admit. But Sendak would admit it, being a fan of the Grimms'grim tales to the point of collecting and illustrating them. Like the Grimms, Sendak was interested in the way the world looks and feels to kids who have to negotiate it, and he knew that stories could tell us some unvarnished and necessary truths about human nature (and nature itself) in a way that could fire their young imaginations while shooting straight about the hopes, fears, dangers and pleasures of growing up. Post World War II, as Disney continued to clean up Grimm's dark universe and kids books played it increasingly safe, Sendak went against the grain, and via his masterpieces like Where the Wild Things Are, In ... More

Raise a toast to the bar from 'Cheers,' which sold for $675,000 at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Cheers to the winner of The Bar Where Everybody Knows Your Name! The bar counter with brass railings and bar stools from the beloved NBC series found a new home Saturday night when it sold for $675,000 at Heritage Auctions, topping the three-day Comisar Collection Platinum SignatureÂ® Auction. The exhilarating bidding war over the bar was a fitting way to toast the long-running series that wrapped 30 years ago. More than 4,700 bidders worldwide participated in the historic June 2-4 event, which realized $5,351,696 and saw nearly 1,000 props, costumes and sets from historic, influential and popular TV shows find new homes and caretakers. Every piece came from the collection of James Comisar, who spent more than three decades collecting, conserving and preserving television history in the hopes of opening a museum ... More

Anselm Kiefer completes a trilogy of exhibitions at White Cube Bermondsey
LONDON.- In Anselm Kiefer Finnegans Wake, the artists new paintings, sculptures and installations respond to (that is, struggle with and transform) James Joyces novel of 1939. Kiefer first read the Irish writer as a young man, devouring Ulysses (1920) and embarking on a slow and spiralling relationship with the later, more exacting, Finnegans Wake. It is a book of circles and echoes, more or less overt or secret; its riverine movement begins in the midst of things, and turns back on itself on the final page. The novel seems to contain all words, all thoughts, all histories. Likewise, the works Kiefer assembles here, bristle with motifs and materials seen elsewhere in his art. There are fields of rubble and wire, skeletal sunflowers, the DNA helix, the ouroboros snake that eats its own tail. Concrete, copper, glass vitrines, unreadable books made ... More

Maya pottery exhibition presents science to offer insights into ancient artistic practices
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- Look Three Ways: Maya Painted Pottery is on view through Dec. 31 at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia alongside three other exhibitions. The exhibition draws from The Fralins collection of Maya painted pottery made between 250-900 C.E. to highlight three approaches used by scholars to restore lost knowledge about the complex social networks in which Maya pottery was circulated. The homelands of the ancient Maya spanned a vast region that today includes central and south Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador. Maya peoples expressed their cultural practices and belief systems through distinct artistic styles and a hieroglyphic writing system. Over time, many pieces of pottery have been removed from ancient Maya sites without archaeological excavation. ... More

...things come to thrive...in the shedding...in the molting... by Ebony G. Patterson now on view at NYBG
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is hosting things come to thrivein the sheddingin the molting, a major site-specific exhibition of sculptural and horticultural installations by visual artist Ebony G. Patterson that is the result of a yearslong engagement with the Botanical Garden to explore its collections and settings. As the first visual artist ever to embed within the institution for an immersive residency, Patterson worked directly with the Gardens grounds and collections to form a new body of work that includes sculptures, installations, and interventions with living plants, bringing her unique perspective on formal gardens to life in the galleries and landscape of the Gardens 250-acre National Historic Landmark site. The exhibition opened Saturday, May 27 and continues through Sunday, September 17, 2023. As the title suggests ... More

Braxton Garneau's exhibition Procession on view until July 1 at GAVLAK
LOS ANGELES, CA.- GAVLAK Los Angeles is hosting until July 1st Braxton Garneaus solo exhibition, Procession. Garneaus work is based in collecting and researching materials, culture and history. Focusing on harvested and hand-processed materials, he explores the sociocultural history of his Caribbean heritage. In Procession, Garneau will present a new series of works focused on ritual and costuming through the complex history of Canboulay, and the characters of present day Carnival. Materiality is at the forefront of Garneau's work. The natural materials used in his paintings are grounded in the inextricable colonial histories and cultural ties of Caribbeans whove spent generations in proximity to them. His portraits are built up using asphalt, a natural emulsion of mineral elements and bitumen, and raffia, a fibre made from palms found ... More

Is it the end of an era at the Metropolitan Opera?
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Operas 2022-23 season may well have been the end of an era. Since September, the Met, which was to close for the summer Saturday, has put on 22 titles 23 if you count both stagings of Mozarts Magic Flute, one complete in German and one an English-language holiday abridgment. As a repertory house and the countrys largest performing arts organization, it juggles multiple works at a time. On some weekends, its been possible to see four different operas in 48 hours. But is there enough of an audience to fill so many performances in a 4,000-seat theater? Ticket sales have been robust for some new productions, even of contemporary works. But revivals, less obviously newsworthy and less widely promoted, are no longer sure things especially slightly off-the-beaten-path stuff like Mozarts Idomeneo or ... More

Not your father's pinball arcade. But maybe your mother's.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Rachel Karlic and her sister, Rebecca Hinsdale, were students at Western Michigan University, they sometimes played pinball with their friend Kate Porter in a 24-hour video rental store near campus. The store was called Video Hits Plus, with the Plus maybe referring to the basement attractions, which, in addition to the pinball machines, included an air hockey table and a pornographic video section. After graduating, the three women went their separate ways, eventually reuniting in Chicago in 2011. This was around the time that pinball machines, after nearly dying out in the early 2000s from competition with home gaming consoles, started becoming more popular again. It helped that new machines were more complex, with modern electronics and mechanical features like the motorized skyscraper on the 2021 Godzilla machine. ... More