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28 Korean artists shine a spotlight on the vibrancy and complexities of their country
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Through the lens of 28 Korean artists, all born between 1960 and 1986, The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989 focuses on South Koreas growing influence on the world stage and how the country continues to grapple with its past. The late 1980s was a time of great political change for South Korea. Its long-standing military dictatorship transitioned to a legitimate democracy, and an international travel ban was lifted, creating opportunities for global engagement, powerful economic growth, and cultural exchange. This marked an important turning point for South Korean artists as they began to connect in earnest to the global art scene. Using a variety of mediums, including ceramics, painting, fiber, photography, lacquer, installation, metalwork, mixed media, embroidery, video, and performance, these artists explore themes ... More

Adapting 'All the Light We Cannot See' for TV, and the blind
BUDAPEST.- On a set on the outskirts of Budapest, as the crew reset cameras for the next take, Nell Sutton, 7, sat up in bed and asked her director, Shawn Levy, a question: How will you make it look like night? Levy explained that the blue lights, set up around the room, would convey nighttime on-screen. Sutton was satisfied, and settled back into position, headphones on, to start a scene in which her character, Marie-Laure, is listening to the radio way past her bedtime. Her father, played by Mark Ruffalo, comes in and catches her. She tells him that she is learning about the magic of radio waves. The most important light is the light you cannot see, she says. Sutton, cast as the young Marie-Laure in All the Light We Cannot See, Netflixs four-episode adaptation of Anthony Doerrs Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is blind. The actress playing ... More

'In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now' features more than 160 works of art
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- This October, the Minneapolis Institute of Art presents In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now, a major exhibition builds upon the work of Native artists, scholars, and knowledge-sharers to trace the intersecting histories of photography and First Nations, MÃ©tis, Inuit, and Native American cultures, from the Rio Grande to the Arctic Circle. Developed in partnership with a curatorial council comprised primarily of Native advisors, In Our Hands centers the work of Native photographers with a diverse array of photographic objects that illuminate the ways in which Native people have advanced the medium of photography for over a century. The exhibition opened on October 21, 2023 and will be on view at Mia through January 14, 2024. In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now was collaboratively organized ... More

Seeds of Native knowledge grow in North Carolina
CHEROKEE, NC.- There is a mushroom whose beige caps grow wild in the mountains of western North Carolina. When plucked, their broken stems well up with milky droplets. To untrained eyes, the edible fungi can be tough to spot. But Amy Walker and Tyson Sampson have years of experience. One sunny fall afternoon, Walker spotted a few in the forest underbrush. We call them milkies, she said. Tyson can tell you the scientific stuff. Thats not important to me. Walker, 82, and Sampson, 49, who uses they pronouns and identifies as a two-spirit person, are among about 16,000 members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, many of whom call this mountainous corner of North Carolina home. And milkies, which are good breaded and fried, are one of the foods that they have learned to prepare in generous batches. The mottled beans that ar ... More

Danny DeVito, his daughter and a lot of baggage (onstage)
NEW YORK, NY.- The first time Lucy DeVito acted onstage an electrifying turn as an ant in a second-grade play about insects her father, Danny DeVito, watched proudly from the back of the room. (DeVito, who had already starred in the television series Taxi and appeared in films like Terms of Endearment and Throw Momma From the Train, didnt want to pose a distraction.) Now, as Lucy makes her Broadway debut, he has the best seat in the house: right onstage with her. Starring together in Theresa Rebecks new comedy, I Need That, they are playing the roles they know best: father and daughter. Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, the play, in previews at the American Airlines Theater, centers on the widower Sam, a recluse and hoarder facing eviction. His daughter, Amelia, and his best friend, Foster (played ... More

'The Persian Version' director has always lived in the in-between
NEW YORK, NY.- When Leila, the central character in the new comedy-drama The Persian Version, sashays across the Brooklyn Bridge and into a Halloween party carrying a surfboard and wearing a burkini niqab on top, bikini on the bottom while Wet Legs cheeky anthem Chaise Longue plays, its clear that whats to come will be a boundary-pushing take on straddling cultures that are at odds in the real world. Maryam Keshavarz wore a similar burkini costume once upon a time, and her semi-autobiographical film which spans decades and moves between Iran and the United States won an audience award and a screenwriting prize at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where it had its world premiere. The film, written and directed by Keshavarz, opened in a limited theatrical release in the United States ... More

Exhibition at Arnolfini focuses on work from the past six years by Elias Sime
BRISTOL.- Arnolfini opens its autumn season for 2023 with Eregata እርጋታ, the first major solo European museum exhibition of one of Ethiopias leading contemporary artists, Elias Sime, introducing audiences to a man and maker of extraordinary craftsmanship and collaborative spirit. Recently the subject of a major touring exhibition in North America, and a prominent artist in the Venice Biennale 59th international exhibition with The Milk of Dreams (2022), Simes approach to both life and art feels vital in the present moment. Eregata እርጋታ will primarily focus on work from the past six years, including Simes monumental Venice Biennale commission Veiled Whispers (2022), alongside intricately woven abstract topographies from the landmark series Tightrope (2009 present), key works from his ethnographically inspired stitch, yarn and button series, and the tactile fragility of ... More

Bobby Charlton, a soccer great, dies at 86
NEW YORK, NY.- Bobby Charlton, one of soccers greatest players, who won the World Cup with England in 1966 in a dazzling career that was tinged by the tragedy of losing eight of his Manchester United teammates in a plane crash at the start of his playing days, died Saturday. He was 86. His death was confirmed in a statement from Manchester United, which called him one of the clubs greatest and most beloved players. The statement did not say where he died or cite a cause. It was revealed in November 2020 that Charlton had dementia. Charlton was famed for his bullet shot and his relentless goal scoring, even though he did not play as a traditional striker. He was Englands top scorer, with 49 goals, for 45 years until Wayne Rooney beat the mark in September 2015. Charlton was also Manchester Uniteds top scorer for decades, with 249 ... More

Women testify that fashion mogul lured them to 'Sordid' bedroom
TORONTO.- The five women testifying that Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard sexually assaulted them described for jurors over the past four weeks how they ended up in the hidden bedroom suite at his office. Decades ago, they said, they each accepted Nygards invitation to visit the stylish Toronto headquarters of his fashion kingdom, Nygard International. He was an eager tour guide, they testified, showing off a high-end car in the garage as well as a glistening showroom. But, they said, he was most excited about bringing guests upstairs to the wood-paneled bedroom suite, fitted with a fireplace, a stone Jacuzzi, a stocked bar and a large bed. It was behind the sliding doors of that room, which Nygard could operate and lock from a keypad on the nightstand, that each of the women said he sexually assaulted them. I was a prisoner ... More

92NY pulls event with acclaimed writer who criticized Israel
NEW YORK, NY.- 92NY, one of New York Citys premier cultural venues, decided Friday to abruptly pull an event that evening featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen after he signed an open letter critical of Israel, drawing criticism that the organization was stifling dissenting voices. The event at 92NY, formerly known as the 92nd Street Y, was to have featured Nguyen in conversation with novelist Min Jin Lee about his new memoir, A Man of Two Faces, in an auditorium on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that seats roughly 900. But on Friday afternoon, after the Y said it would no longer go ahead with the event, the talks organizer, Bernard Schwartz, who leads the Ys poetry center, moved it to a bookstore in lower Manhattan where it drew a standing-room crowd of about 100. In a statement on Saturday, 92NY said the event ... More

Reframing the American landscape
EASTON, PA.- As a painter of the natural world for more than five decades, Kay WalkingStick says it is impossible not to be influenced by the 19th-century Hudson River Schools majestic depictions of the American landscape. But she finds these sublime, monumental scenes of pristine wilderness by artists like Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt and Asher B. Durand to be as problematic as they are inspirational. They were selling the American landscape as empty and of course it was not empty; it was populated, said WalkingStick, who in her bold, pared-down painting style revisits similar vistas on which she overlays geometric patterns used by the Native tribe connected to that specific land. I think of it as a reminder that were all living on Indian Territory. The exhibition Kay WalkingStick/Hudson River School opened Friday at the New- ... More