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The Contemporary Austin presents Mexico City artist Duo Celeste in 'Host'
AUSTIN, TEXAS.- The Contemporary Austin is currently showcasing work by Mexico City-based artist duo Celeste, on view at the Jones Center March 3August 20, 2023. This is the inaugural exhibition in The Contemporarys new exhibition series, HOST. Celeste is formed by MarÃa Fernanda Camarena (b. Guadalajara, 1988) and Gabriel Rosas AlemÃ¡n (b. Mexico City, 1983). The artists' collaborative practice centers on explorations of archetypal images and the creation of physical spaces that inspire social interactions. Their largescale, dyed, and painted fabric installations employ a distinctive warm color palette and respond to architectural environments while incorporating abstracted images, such as extended hands and empty vessels, that speak to the personal and collective unconscious. ... More

'Yvonne Pickering Carter: Linear Variation Series' at Berry Campbell ends April 15th
NEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell opened its first exhibition of Washington, D.C. based, multi-media artist, Yvonne Pickering Carter (b. 1939). In 2022, the story of Carters comeback was featured in an article in the New Yorker, after she was included in a group exhibition of women abstract artists at Hunter Dunbar Projects, New York.[i] While Carter has been creating and exhibiting for over six decades, Berry Campbell is pleased to present this re-examination of Yvonne Pickering Carters work with her first solo exhibition in New York City. Berry Campbells exhibition examines part of Carters Linear Variation series, a group of paintings from the 1970s. In this group of paintings, Carter creates painterly white backdrops with brightly colored lines and veils rhythmically echoing her bodys cadence through the paintings surface. While the works ... More

Powerhouse Arts welcomes Megan Skidmore as Development Director
BROOKLYN, NY.- Powerhouse Arts has announced the appointment of Megan Skidmore to the role of Development Director. Powerhouse is a not-for-profit organization committed to creative expression. Located in a purpose-built facility in Gowanus, the organization hosts an extended network of art and fabrication professionals and educators who work together to co-create and share artistic practices vital to the wellbeing of artists and the communities to which they belong. In her role at Powerhouse, Skidmore will collaborate with organization President, Eric Shiner, in developing fundraising strategies and cultivating a community of values-aligned stewards and benefactors who enthusiastically support art fabrication, are invested in community engagement and partnerships, and commit to furthering the organizations mission. ... More

Poster Auctions International sees continued passion for posters with $1.8 million sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Poster Auctions Internationals first sale of the year, on March 26, finished at $1,841,160. Rare Posters Auction LXXXIX evidenced the continued passion for collecting vintage posters, especially rare and seldom seen lithographs. Jack Rennert, President of PAI, said, We are once again humbled by the enthusiasm displayed by our clients at auction. Despite the recent banking insecurity felt around the world, poster lovers were eager to bid on their favorite lots and grow their collections. Alphonse Mucha was a major draw for collectors. His 1902 The Stars decorative panels were the top lot of the sale, with a winning bid of $114,000 (est. $70,000-$90,000). Several works by the Belle Ãpoque master hit new record sales, including his 1896 Zodiac, which achieved $28,800 (est. $17,000-$20,000); the 1897 La Trappistine went for ... More

Elizabeth de Cuevas, sculptor with a flair for the monumental, dies at 94
NEW YORK, NY.- Elizabeth de Cuevas, a sculptor known for monumental creations in steel and bronze as well as for her role in a much-publicized estate battle in the 1980s died March 19 at her home in Manhattan, New York. She was 94. Her death was confirmed by her daughter, Deborah Carmichael. An elegant patrician fluent in four languages, French-born de Cuevas was the daughter of Margaret Strong de Cuevas, who was said to be the favorite grandchild of John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil founder and Gilded Age tycoon. Inspired as a child by the soaring cathedrals and palaces of Europe, she later let her imagination take flight, summoning ancient civilizations, Indian mysticism and interstellar musings in exuberant work that was often rendered on a grand scale. I like to be awed, as at the pyramids in Egypt, she ... More

Review: Laughing, and crying, in the face of 'grief'
NEW YORK, NY.- Death is often described as a loss, but for Colin Campbell and his wife, it was a theft. On June 12, 2019, the couples children, Ruby and Hart, were killed by an inebriated driver in a horrific crash. Ruby was 17 and loved anime; Hart was 14 and worshipped hip-hop. A photograph of them even younger bright-eyed and golden-haired rests on a table like a shrine, one of the few props in Campbells brusque tragicomedy, Grief: A One Man ShitShow. In Grief, directed by Michael Schlitt, Campbell recounts his relationship with the emotion. In front of the bleak canvas of a back wall, Campbell, a writer and director of theater and film, begins his solo show with a warning of the semi-macabre journey to come: Tonight, you are going to get taken to some uncomfortable places. Seconds later, the lights dim and Campbell begins detailing that fatal night. Campbell ... More

'Showing Up' review: Making art in all its everyday glory
NEW YORK, NY.- Stubbornly independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt makes small-scale movies rooted in specific worlds, both inner and outer; nearly all take place in Oregon, where she has long lived and worked. She traveled back in time for her last movie, First Cow, a moving chronicle of love, land and capitalism set in the Oregon Territory in the 19th century. Reichardt is back on more familiar ground in her latest, Showing Up, a wonderful slice of life that is set in present-day Portland and is about something that she knows intimately: making art. The movies love tortured artists, inflamed geniuses who thunder against the establishment, aesthetic conventions, their historical epochs, God or just the nearest warm body. No one rages or slashes a canvas in Showing Up, although a few characters do raise their voices. At one point, the films ... More

Keeping an old Italian tradition alive in Australia: 'Passata Day'
NEW YORK, NY.- In the years after World War II, as a new wave of migration scattered Italians abroad, tens of thousands made the long journey to Australia to escape the poverty and devastation in their defeated nation. Even as they built a new life in a new land, many held tight to the habits and customs of the old country. Thus a tradition was born in cities and towns across Australia: passata day, an often-raucous annual gathering when families would labor to make an entire years supply of tomato passata, a rich, bright-red purÃ©e that is a staple in Italian cuisine. Today, the tradition is dying among the 1.1 million Australians with Italian ancestry. Most in the second and third generations deem making passata to be too hard, too messy and too expensive. Many lack the required equipment, skills and patience. Why bother, they argue, when ... More

Coin commemorating the assassination of Julius Caesar leads Heritage's World & Ancient Coins Auction
DALLAS, TX.- One of the elite coins from the prestigious Hunt Collection, a coin considered the most historically important of all ancient coins, will find a new home when it is sold in Heritage Auctions' CSNS World Coins Platinum and Signature Â® Auction May 3-5. The Marcus Junius Brutus, Assassin of Caesar and Imperator (44-42 BC), with L. Plaetorius Cestianus, as Magistrate. AR denarius (19mm, 3.72 gm, 12h). NGC XF 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style(estimate: $450,000+) is the only certified example ever to come to auction that has received a Fine Style designation from NGC. "The significance of this coin is impossible to overstate," says Cris Bierrenbach, Executive Vice President of International Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. "It is the only Roman coin to mention a specific date and the only Roman coin to openly celebrate an act of murder. "In addition, this magnificent coin ... More