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Almine Rech Brussels presents Ted Pim's first solo exhibition with the gallery
BRUSSELS.- Ted Pim once watched a nature documentary where a tree fell in a forest. In the film, he saw the repercussions, how the fauna and flora on the forest floor struggled, climbing over each other in an attempt to get to the light. That is how I see my flower paintings, he explains: that underneath or as part of the beauty of the paintings, is this dark overtone. Of course, Pims paintings are inspired by the old masters. In his studio, printed images of Dutch seventeenth century and Italian Renaissance paintings, among others, are tacked to the walls next to the canvases he is working on. Each painting can have a number of sources, so a floral work could be inspired by a Dutch Golden Age canvas and a dress from a contemporary fashion shoot can end up as the garb of one of Pims figures, looking contemporary and Renaissance at once ... More

Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers announces online-only Historic Arms & Militaria auction
CRANSTON, RI.- Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers online-only Historic Arms & Militaria auction scheduled for Wednesday, February 22nd, starting at 6 pm Eastern time, is a well-rounded sale, with objects that are affordable for the beginning collector as well as the most advanced. Areas of focus include the Civil War, World Wars I and II and modern firearms, for a total of 300 lots. This auction contains everything from single and grouped bayonet lots to magazines, holsters, WWI and WWII militaria, revolvers, bolt-action rifles and martial arms of all types and from many countries, said Joel Bohy, Bruneau & Co.s Director of Arms & Militaria. There are also groupings of hard-to-find parts for a variety of military arms. Four items could end up vying for tot lot honors. The first is a circa 1919 Colt model 1902 military pistol a famous .38 special serial number 40010 ... More

A trailblazing Black cartoonist's work: 'It's unapologetic, and it's the truth'
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1989, cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft wrote to the countrys biggest newspaper syndicates urging them to publish her comic Where Im Coming From, which had just premiered in The Detroit Free Press. The integration of the comic pages was long in coming, delayed by a sort of limited thinking that refused to recognize the Black experience, she wrote. It was time for them to carry a weekly comic strip featuring Black women and created by a Black woman. There had been strips by Black cartoonists before, she continued, from Morrie Turners Wee Pals to her own fathers Luther, but these works featured small children and nearly all of them were written by men. Out of the mouths of babes seemed the most palatable way to introduce Blacks to the funny pages, she wrote. Refusing her comic strip, she not so subtly implied ... More

Marianne Mantell, who helped pave the way for audiobooks, dies at 93
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Mantell, who in her early 20s helped start the audiobook revolution by co-founding a record company that turned recordings of countless literary giants, including Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and Dylan Thomas, into mass-market entertainment, died Jan. 22 at her home in Princeton, New Jersey. She was 93. The cause was complications of a recent fall, her son Michael Mantell said. Mantell (then Marianne Roney) was a struggling 22-year-old freelance writer in 1952 when she and Barbara Holdridge (then Barbara Cohen), a former classmate at Hunter College in New York City, founded Caedmon Records, a pioneering spoken-word label specializing in great literature. Success came quickly. Caedmons first release, an album by Dylan Thomas whose centerpiece was his short story A Childs Christmas in Wales ... More

How Uta Barth's art illuminates
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The photography of Uta Barth unites the conceptual rigor that is characteristic of Germany, where she was born, with the fascination with light and space of California, where she has lived for the past 40 years. Countering the instantaneous shutter click of the camera, Barth, who is 65, frequently works in series to explore how shifts in light alter our perception of a scene. It is not the scene that she takes as her subject, but the act of perception. Indeed, she intentionally turns her camera on unremarkable rooms and landscapes, as if to demonstrate that if you look closely and slowly, anything can become fascinating. And, at least in Barths images, beautiful. Photographers typically depict figures set in a background. Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision, a retrospective at the Getty Center in Los Angeles organized by Arpad Kovacs ... More

The art world refashions the cowboy
NEW YORK, NY.- Id always wanted a pair of cowboy boots, theyre such an American staple, Antwaun Sargent said in a phone interview. The Western look may or may not be on the cusp of a comeback, but for Sargent, that rough-and-ready wrangler style never lost its charm. He once set his sights on a metal-tipped pair that he spotted on a New York City fashion runway. I had no idea what I would wear them with, he said, but I knew I had to have them. Sargent, a writer, curator and director at Gagosian galleries, has hung on to those boots and, with them, an enduring fascination with cowboy lore and gear. For me, it has always been about exploring how we deal with those symbols in our culture and a way of expanding our notion of what they represent. And now he has a vehicle. As curator of Helmut Lang Seen by Antwaun Sargent ... More

Ron Labinski, who designed a cozier future for stadiums, dies at 85
NEW YORK, NY.- Ron Labinski, a visionary architect who a half-century ago foresaw a market for modern single-sport stadiums and then helped design them, replacing look-alike concrete bowls that had often inelegantly housed both baseball and football teams, died Jan. 1 in Prairie Village, Kansas. He was 85. His wife, Lee (Beougher) Labinski, said the cause was frontotemporal dementia. Labinski, who was believed to be the first architect in the United States to specialize in sports facilities, helped transform stadium design over 30 years, creating cozy, fan-friendly venues such as Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore and Oracle Park in San Francisco. At the same time, his designs brought a critical source of new revenue to team owners with club seats, built as exclusive sections with access to climate-controlled private lounges and restaurants ... More

Frye Art Museum opens the first museum survey of the work of Katherine Bradford
SEATTLE, WA.- Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford is the first museum survey of the East Coast painter known for her vibrant palette, eccentric compositions, and personal, unpredictable approach to figurative painting. Organized by the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, this presentation features Bradfords semitransparent figures, which often defy societys expectations of women and all genders and serve as surrogates for a mother, painter, and lesbian coming of age at the turn of the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically from 1999 to 2021, the exhibition highlights the artists ongoing commitment to abstraction, figuration, and color, through the bathers, swimmers, superheroes, friends, and strangers that collectively chronicle Bradfords life. The presentation begins with oil paintings of single figures and androgynous characters who occupy monochromatic ... More