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Val Kilmer documentary charts Hollywood rise and fall
CANNES (AFP).- Val Kilmer has made an intriguing and bittersweet return to the big screen at the Cannes film festival in a new documentary charting his stratospheric rise and later fall in Hollywood through his own home recordings. The Amazon-produced documentary "Val" is a tender portrait of the actor, now 61, whose career has seen more ups and downs than the fighter jets in his breakout film "Top Gun". Most striking is Kilmer's voice, turned into a near-incomprehensible rasp by treatment for throat cancer. It has not quite ended his career -- he is due to reprise his iconic role as Iceman this autumn in the long-awaited sequel "Top Gun: Maverick". But the documentary shows him as as a shadow of his former self, reduced to a life of signing autographs at conventions -- as he puts it, "selling his old self". The film draws heavily from Kilmer's huge library ... More

Immersive exhibition with 10 distinct art experiences celebrates museum's tenth anniversary
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- On November 11, 2011, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened its doors for the first time. Over the course of a decade, the museum has greeted over five million visitors from around the world to enjoy world-class art, architecture, and nature. This year marks a decade since Crystal Bridges opened, and the museum is recognizing this milestone with a new exhibition celebrating its collection and community. Crystal Bridges at 10 is an immersive exhibition with 10 distinct art experiences celebrating the museums collection and the local community one decade into the museums lifetime. Primarily drawing from the museums collection, the exhibition features 130+ artworks, presenting crowd favorites in new ways, showcasing works never before on view at the museum, and lifting up artist voices. Step into Maxfield ... More

Theater is in the streets of New York, if you listen
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It is so easy to forget: that native footpaths predated avenues, that streams surged where subways now rattle, that deer and rabbits used to bound underfoot at every grimy crosswalk. And here is another thing we may have forgotten during this past strange year: what it feels like to constitute an audience. For those of us still dragging our heels on returning to indoor theater, even as antibodies now power walk through our veins, a handful of new audio and walking tours The Visitation, Current, Tour Noir: A Dame To Guide For and Bizarre Brooklyn provide a gentle, socially distanced return to spectatorship. (Another, Endure: Run Woman Show in Central Park, just began performances and continues through August.) They also reintroduce participants to the hidden stories and secret corners of New ... More

Danny Shanahan, cartoonist with an absurd touch, dies at 64
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Danny Shanahan, a mirthful cartoonist who had a stand-up comics gift for one-liners but whose long association with The New Yorker ended last year under a cloud, died Monday in a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. He was 64. The cause was multiple system organ failure, his wife, Janet Stetson, said. He had been living in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. From 1988 through last year, Shanahan published about 1,000 cartoons in The New Yorker. Drawn with a casual style and an absurdists eye, they were populated by a panoply of characters, including clowns, snowmen, praying mantises, cats, dogs, cavemen, elves, monkeys, athletes, businessmen, politicians, Santa Claus and Elvis. In one cartoon, a dog looks up from his menu in a restaurant and asks the server, Is the homework fresh? In another, ... More

Clare Peploe, film director who jumbled genres, dies at 79
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Clare Peploe, a director and screenwriter who liked to merge genres in her own films, and who also made significant contributions to some of the movies of her husband, celebrated filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, died June 24 in Rome. She was 79. The cause was cancer, said Alessandra Bracaglia, her assistant. As a director, Peploe made a quick impact with her first effort, a comic short called Couples and Robbers, about newlyweds who commit a robbery, which she wrote with Ernie Eban; it was nominated for the short-subject Oscar in 1981. In this comedy-thriller she has demonstrated that in her very first film she is a talent to be reckoned with, Richard Roud wrote in The Guardian Weekly when the film played at the Berlin Film Festival in 1982. The casting and direction of actors is superb. If someone doesnt ... More

Exhibition of work by some of the UK's leading potters of the 20th-century goes on display at Court Barn
CHIPPING CAMPDEN.- The renaissance of the British love of ceramics can arguably be traced back to 2003, when Grayson Perry won the Turner Prize with a selection of his Grecian urn-like pots from his show, Guerrilla Tactics the first time it was awarded to a ceramic artist. As Perrys fame grew to the status of National Treasure, in 2015 Channel 4 launched its hit show The Great Pottery Throw Down, doing for ceramics what Master Chef and Bake Off had done for cookery and baking respectively. With this ongoing and heightened interest in pottery as an artform in its own right, the announcement of a major survey of the work of Bernard Leach (1887-1979) alongside several of his contemporaries at Court Barn in Chipping Campden, is sure to draw visitors. Ceramic art flourished in Britain during the 20th-century, with pioneering potters ... More

Winterthur's "Caring for Your Collections" a practical guide to preserving cherished objects
WINTERTHUR, DE.- Whether its a personal letter or grandmothers jewelry, an antique wedding photo or a family quilt, Caring for Your Cherished Objects: The Winterthur Guide will help you to preserve your item for generations to come. Its easy to do an internet search to get information about taking care of the objects you own, but how reliable is that information? Will it help or harm the things you hold dear? says Joy Gardiner, director of conservation at Winterthur and co-editor, with Joan Irving, senior conservator of paper. This book will give you practical information to help you know what you should and shouldnt do to prolong the life of your objects. Youll also find advice about proper storage and display, plus a variety of resources. Caring for Your Cherished Objects: The Winterthur Guide will help you to assess your possessions, ... More

Hundreds of hard-to-find items in today's market will cross the auction block at Stevens Auction Company
ABERDEEN, MISS.- The lifelong antique collection of Bill and Betty Murphy, who traveled for years buying fine items to fill their 10,000-square-foot home situated on a high bluff overlooking the Ohio River in Madison, Indiana, will be sold on Saturday, July 31st, at 10 am Central time, by Stevens Auction Company, online and live in the Aberdeen gallery at 609 North Meridian Street. This auction contains the best lamp collections we have ever sold, plus rare and unusual antique furniture, Persian rugs, china, clocks, fine porcelains, mantel mirrors, collectibles and other fine home furnishings, said Dwight Stevens of Stevens Auction Company. We trucked everything in the Murphys beautiful mansion home in Indiana to our gallery to make this auction possible. The estate also contains items from the prolific furniture makers J. H. Belter, ... More

Collection amassed by Bart Kiser offered in Heritage Auctions' inaugural Trading Card Games Auction
DALLAS, TX.- PokÃ©mon was bigger than a game for Rad Dad Bart Kiser. It was as big as the love he had for his children. Kiser gifted a portion of his massive card game collection to his children Christmas morning 1999. Some of us were a little too young to know what was going on, says son Matt Kiser, watching home video of that holiday morning. But we see our family We see, especially our dad who loved us and was doing everything he can to share in that passion with us kids. The loving father, Bart Kiser earned the nickname Rad Dad from his career as a radiologist. He connected with his kids through the colorful cards depicting pocket monsters. Although Bart Kiser died in 2018, his family is once again reminded of his love and generosity in sharing the familys PokÃ©mon passion. This is by far one of the most extraordinary collections Ive ... More

Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia hires new chief curator from Smithsonian
SAVANNAH, GA.- Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia -- the oldest public art museum in the South and the first U.S. museum founded by a woman -- has hired an accomplished art-world veteran as its new chief curator and director of curatorial affairs. Crawford Alexander Mann III will join Telfair in November 2021 from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., where he has been curator of prints and drawings since 2017. At the Smithsonian, Mann has organized world-class exhibitions including the major upcoming survey Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano. Before the Smithsonian, he served as the Joan and Macon Brock Curator of American Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, and as the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum ... More

Crescent City Auction Gallery to hold a two-day Important Summer Estates Auction
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Itll be Christmas in July in New Orleans when Crescent City Auction Gallery holds a big, two-day Important Summer Estates Auction the weekend of July 17th and 18th. The sale is brimming with over 800 quality lots of fine French, English and American furniture, over mantel mirrors, original paintings by local and regional artists, fine jewelry and couture pieces, a piano, sterling silver, nativity sets, model boats and more. Start times both days will be 10 am Central time. Expected top lots include a large 20th century patinated bronze fountain figure of the Four Seasons, 87 inches tall by 53 inches wide (estimate: $5,000-$10,000); an oil on canvas painting by the French artist Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), titled Country Road, signed lower left, 17 Â½ inches by 20 Â¾ inches (estimate: $30,000-$50,000); and paintings ... More