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Galerie Nathalie Obadia opens Andres Serranos fifth solo exhibition with the gallery
PARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting The Robots, Andres Serranos fifth solo exhibition after Infamous (2019), Sacramentum, Sacred Shadow (2012) and Cuba (2014) in Brussels, and Torture (2016) in Paris. For over thirty years, Andres Serrano has produced an oeuvre in line with his times sensitivity or the Spirit of the Times, which can be literally translated as Zeitgeist a term borrowed from German philosophy, designating the intellectual and cultural climate, the judgments and ways of thinking that characterize a specific point in time. Born in 1950 in New York, the artist grew up in an America that was trying to turn over a new leaf, after being deeply weakened by a society marked by excesses and abuse, where cruelty had reached a climax. However, those same limits persist today: Andres Serrano probes them by lifting ... More

For 'KPOP,' a Broadway transfer is more like a reinvention
NEW YORK, NY.- Back in 2017, the musical KPOP had the kind of off-Broadway premiere that showbiz dreams are made of. The buzz around the production which had the rare distinction of being about a specifically Asian pop-music style and having a largely Asian creative team was so intense that desperate New Yorkers were pleading for tickets to its sold-out run at the small A.R.T./New York Theaters in Midtown Manhattan. Talk of a Broadway transfer started quickly thereafter, but, for a variety of reasons including the pandemic, it took five years for KPOP to finally make the jump. Now, at long last, the show is in previews, with an opening night set for Nov. 20. The musical Broadway audiences will see, however, is a very different beast from the one that opened in 2017: This is not so much a transfer as a reinvention. The ... More

50 years ago, Stevie Wonder heard the future
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1972 half a century ago Stevie Wonder reinvented the sound of pop by embracing all he could accomplish on his own. He released two albums that year: Music of My Mind in March and then, less than eight months later, on Oct. 27, the even more confident and far-reaching Talking Book. Talking Book was a breakthrough on multiple fronts. It demonstrated, with the international smash Superstition, that Wonder didnt need Motowns hit factory methods songwriters and producers providing material that singers would dutifully execute to have a No. 1 pop blockbuster. Wonder had given signs on earlier albums that he would not just be writing love songs. Talking Book reaffirmed that, and also extended his sonic and technological ambitions, as he used state-of-the-art synthesizers and an arsenal ... More

Greene Naftali opens an exhibition featuring work by Jacqueline Humphries
NEW YORK, NY.- Jacqueline Humphries integrates gestural expression with the effects of new technologies, exploring how painting can capture and complicate the sensory experience of a screen-based world. Her imposing, large-scale canvases have long equated painting with other media interfaces, subjecting its analog format to an evolving set of signs and symbols from our online vernacular. These latest workspresented singly or linked in multi-panel configurationsfeature stenciled motifs of emoticons and emojis, logos, and digitally-enlarged patterns that fill the surface, derived from images of white noise or splattered ink from a faulty printer. The prevailing mood skews toward the ruminative here, and the style of rendering toward deformation; Humphries uses the trappings of our networked existence to weigh how it actually ... More

MusÃ©e Cantonal des Beaux-Arts opens major exhibition of Lubaina Himid's work
LAUSANNE.- A major exhibition of the luminous and powerful work of Lubaina Himid offers an overview of the British artists output for the first time. An influential figure in contemporary art, from the central role she played in the British Black Art movement in the 1980s to her receipt of the Turner Prize in 2017, LUBAINA HIMID (b. 1954, Zanzibar) has constantly explored the possibilities that painting offers while questioning the narratives it conveys. In doing so, she has drawn attention both to aspects of history that have been made invisible and to the extraordinary moments of daily life. Comprising brightly colored paintings, monumental installations, and sound environments, Lubaina Himid: So Many Dreams offers a unique opportunity to discover the scope and depth of the artists work. The exhibition unfolds along several narratives ... More

kaufmann repetto opens gallery's second exhibition with Marcia Schvartz
NEW YORK, NY.- kaufmann repetto is presenting Husks, the gallery's second exhibition with Marcia Schvartz. While the artist's first presentation with kaufmann repetto in 2021 took a retrospective approach to her nearly five-decade career, this exhibition debuts a series of ceramics a medium she has been working with for over twenty years paired with paintings. Recognized for her recurrent focus on the female figure, which she represents in a radically anti-patriarchal and decolonial manner, Schvartz recognizes (and depicts) that which is feminine in more than just the human form. Feminal energy is bound within and throughout 'Pacha Mama,' or Mother Earth, represented both in forms of ripe fertility such as in flowers and fruiting bodies but also in the remnants of fecund forms, as seen in vacated shells and discarded husks. The ceramic ... More

Gruin Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Belynda Henry
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Belynda Henrys distinct signature - steeped in classical form - is resonant with authenticity of place, and rich in contemporary language. In the wild, lush valley where she has lived her entire life, Henry absorbs natural abstractions from her surroundings to create compositions that bring regional landscape forth in universal ways. She utilizes raw pigment from the earth to touch upon a deep stratum, and employs sensuous layering to develop her own enveloping, ethereal imagery of the natural world. From her studio, set in a fold of the valley that she inhabits, Henry is immersed in her landscape. Over the decades she has observed its essence from dawn to dusk, walked its primordial forest, and known this place through en plein air practice. It has to be real, based on the experience of whats out there, she says. Henrys recent show ... More

Li Qing's second solo show at Almine Rech opens in Shanghai
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai is presenting Li Qings second solo show at the gallery on view from November 4 to December 3, 2022. The view-finding function of the window frame is affirmed not only by occidental painting theories, but also by oriental architecture. The view from a window has been a typical model of the Western gaze ever since Alberti introduced linear perspective[1] to the world in the 15th century. Moving along in art history, painting scenery reproduced and restricted by the window shows its contrast with the fluid landscape in Shan Shui (Chinese landscape painting). Li Qing's painting on windows certainly refers to this part of history, but it also embodies ideas within garden and landscape design. Instead of comparing paintings to windows, classical garden designers used windows as viewfinders ... More

'Andrew Grassie: Looking for something that doesn't exist' opens at Maureen Paley: Studio M
LONDON.- Maureen Paley is presenting the fourth exhibition at the gallery by Andrew Grassie and his first at Studio M. Grassies meticulously detailed egg tempera paintings shape the observers experience of looking and interpreting images. His latest group of paintings are informed by repeated visits to the Scottish Highlands over the last two years, specifically to the fabled area around Loch Ness and nocturnal walks within the area. His observations capture the placid waters, outbuildings and forests around the loch and are imbued with the intricacies of solitude found in city architecture as experienced under pools of artificial light. Working in a deceptively monochromatic palette, Grassie overlays thinly applied veils of complementary colours to achieve a close tonal range that floats between the sensation of day and night, inside and outside - illuminating ... More

Review: 'You Will Get Sick' tells the untellable, for a price
NEW YORK, NY.- Disease, dying and death are usually depicted as wretched or bloody onstage. Were meant to cry or recoil. As you might guess from its title, though, You Will Get Sick, which opened Sunday at the Laura Pels Theatre, is more matter-of-fact. It seems to promise a bald memento mori in the form of a fortune cookie. Yet the play, written by Noah Diaz, directed by Sam Pinkleton and starring the evergreen Linda Lavin, is far more than that. Neither prosaic nor clinical, it defies all expectations for a story in which the main character receives a fatal diagnosis, telling the tale in the most lively, surreal and surprising ways imaginable. For one thing, Lavin, who is 85, does not play the character whos ill. Turning the template upside down, she instead plays the caregiver, Callan if you can call someone a caregiver whose every act of care ... More

Dancing at Paul Taylor, a new generation finds its footing
NEW YORK, NY.- At this moment, the Paul Taylor Dance Company is both transformed and not. Its founder and choreographer, Taylor, died in 2018, but what remains, despite a new generation of dancers, is fundamental: the supple strength of the Taylor dancing body. There are the curving arms and the stretched spine, the powerful thighs and the deeply contracted torso that releases and spirals through a sinewy back. No two Taylor dancers are alike, but they all have something in common. Dancers, good ones, know how to make the most of their short shining times, Taylor wrote in Private Domain, his autobiography. When they are onstage, there is no waste, no moment of halfheartedness. In the first three programs of Taylor: A New Era, the companys current season at Lincoln Center featuring live music by Orchestra ... More