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"Suro: Moments of Encounter" now on view at 4 Zhukovsky Street, curated by Yulia Chmelenko
MOSCOW.- Yulia Chmelenko, the curator, recently opened the exhibition, Suro: Moments of Encounter on the ground floor of 4 Zhukovsky Street. Describing her curatorial philosophy, Yulia Chmelenko said, Like writing and reading, I see curating as another means to converse, discern, and inspiration. Suros works call forth feelings and awaken parallel worlds which to some extent exist withing each one of us. They evoke shapes and images from a thousand years of history, through a fabulous alphabet which speaks to the child withing us all while at the same time appealing to our more adult and cultivated selves. Paintings, chosen with rare sensitivity by Yulia, speak a language at once both close to us and distant, both contemporary and remote, both open and concealed. The silence of the figures and the enigmas of the scenes speak without speaking. ... More

François Ghebaly announces the representation of Willa Wasserman
LOS ANGELES.- FranÃ§ois Ghebaly has announced the representation of Willa Wasserman. From convex still lifes and gauzy, vaporific self-portraits to impressive mise-en-scÃ¨nes in polished brass and fine linen, American artist Willa Wassermans practice in painting and figuration is readily aligned with the world of dreams. Her images are loose and spectralimpressions plucked from the hazy essences of her sitters and various subjects, and at the same time cast in the pensive, indeterminate ambiance with which Wasserman embraces vital questions of intimacy, gender, and, above all, becoming. The latter is both the lodestar and returning place in her work. In figure and process, Wasserman deftly interrelates histories of classical painting and material culture with contemporary portrayals of queerness. Brass and copper sheet, silver plate, precious metalpoint, and stretched linen comprise ... More

When the finely tuned spotlight falls on the lighting designer
NEW YORK, NY.- Lighting designers live in the dark, shining light on others. Jennifer Tipton, who works in dance and theater, has received more attention than most in her profession. At the top of it for the past 50 years or so, she has earned Tony Awards, Bessie awards, an Obie for lifetime achievement and a MacArthur fellowship, among other accolades and prizes. Still, shes spent her career being mostly invisible, intentionally without an identifiable style, always in service to the vision of choreographers, playwrights and directors often famous ones, like Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor and Robert Wilson. Which is why Im a nervous wreck, she said, smiling calmly, at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in Manhattan in early November. It was her first day in a theater there, designing Our Days and Night, a work with no choreographer, no playwright, no ... More

Frist Art Museum presents career survey and new works by renowned transmedia artist Matthew Ritchie
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Matthew Ritchie: A Garden in the Flood, a thematic survey of the artists work since 2000, comprising paintings, drawings, sculpture, and video. Organized by the Frist Art Museum, the exhibition is on view in the Upper-Level Galleries from November 11, 2022 through March 5, 2023. Matthew Ritchie is an internationally recognized artist who has exhibited at major museums around the world including the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art; his works were also featured in the 2018 Frist Art Museum exhibition Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century. A pioneer in integrating disciplines and combining mediums, Ritchie has created deeply symbolic and dynamic installations that often involve architects, dancers, musicians, and other creatives. This exhibition is ideal ... More

Parrasch Heijnen opens the gallery's first solo exhibition with Alonzo Davis
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen is presenting the gallerys first solo exhibition with Maryland-based artist and seminal gallerist Alonzo Davis (b. 1942, Tuskegee, AL). Davis six-decade-long career has explored a wide range of media and methods, from mural to print, painting, sculpture, performance, and installation. As co-founder of the Brockman Gallery, the first major Black-owned contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles (1967 - 1990), Alonzo Davis sought to champion Black artists including David Hammons, Suzanne Jackson, Betye Saar, Senga Nengudi, Noah Purifoy, and John Outterbridge, among many others, in a time when white, male art was prevalent. Davis appreciation and promotion of Black artists and cultural references collected on trips all over the world are often referenced in his own work. The Blanket Series (c. 1970s - 1990s) follows ... More

"Paul Pfeiffer: Red Green Blue" now on view at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Following the critically acclaimed live performance Amazing Grace / RGB at the Apollo Theater in 2019, Paul Pfeiffer and the University of Georgia Redcoat Band return to New York for the premiere of a new audio-visual installation at Paula Cooper Gallery. Titled Red Green Blue after the image display system based on the human perception of color, the film considers how multiple channels of sensory information are brought into alignment by presenting the Georgia Bulldogs stadium as a broadcast studio. This film is the first chapter of a forthcoming three-part installation. The sports stadium is a site imbued with the potential to fortify national, regional, or community-based models of identity. Bombarded with carefully orchestrated stimuli, the spectator is immersed in a multi-sensory experience intended to incite an emotional response. In Red Green Blue, Pfeiffer ... More

Nation's largest collection of presidential Christmas memorabilia to be offered by Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TEXAS.- December auction includes signed Christmas cards, gifts and other holiday-related artifacts from Truman, Kennedy, Reagan and more to be offered by Heritage Auctions. Every day is Christmas for Mary and Ron Seeley. As owners of America's most extensive collection of presidential Christmas memorabilia, the Seeleys have seen pieces from their assemblage displayed at the White House on two occasions and exhibited at 10 presidential libraries. Including Christmas cards and gifts, as well as other holiday-themed artifacts, the couple's collection was decades in the making and features Christmas memorabilia dating back to the presidency of James Madison. "The Seeley Family Presidential Christmas Collection has given both of us a platform to share our love for Christmas," says Mary, who has authored two books about Christmas in the White ... More

'Dancin'' revival to boogie onto Broadway in March
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1978, Bob Fosse staged a tribute to his favorite art form with a largely plotless show called Dancin that wound up running for more than four years. The show, with a mix of dance forms and musical styles, was famously demanding, and has not returned to Broadway since, despite an effort to do so 15 years ago. But now a new group of artists, led by a member of the shows original cast and with the support of Fosses daughter, is reimagining the show and bringing it back to Broadway early next year. Bob Fosses Dancin is scheduled to begin performances March 2 and to open March 19 at the Music Box Theatre. The revival is directed by Wayne Cilento, who was a performer in the original cast. The show, Fosse said in 1978, is about the sheer joy of dancing. After all, you go to the ballet, you dont expect one ballet to have anything to do with the next, do you? ... More

'Where We Belong' review: A performer wonders, what's in a name?
NEW YORK, NY.- If language is how we tell people who we are, what happens when a language is lost to history? Or, more accurately, when its violently erased? In Where We Belong, which opened at the Public Theater on Wednesday, writer and performer Madeline Sayet tells the audience that she is named for Jeets Bodernasha (or Flying Bird), the last fluent speaker of Mohegan, a language once widely spoken by Indigenous people in the Northeast. Sayet considers the legacy of her name an immense responsibility: one that moves her to grapple not only with how words can be used to preserve her ancestry but how they might also help others imagine a world where Indigenous people whove been systemically displaced for centuries actually belong. Ya, no pressure, she says. This autobiographical solo show, a co-production with Woolly Mammoth ... More