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Payne, Laurence, and Gamble lead Moran's California & American Fine Art auction results
LOS ANGELES, CA.- John Moran Auctioneers presented their Spring California & American Fine Art auction on Tuesday, May 9th, 2023. The selection featured fresh-to-market artworks from private and public collections throughout California, the Southwest, as well as a group of important early California works deaccessioned by the Jonathan Art Foundation of Los Angeles, CA. Leading the sale were works by Edgar Alwin Payne, Sydney Mortimer Laurence, John Marshall Gamble, Marion Wachtel, Carl Oscar Borg, and Charles Reiffel. A favorite among collectors, Edgar Alwin Payne proved once again that his early American works are timeless. First to come up was lot 42, Fishing Boats West Coast of France. This painting was originally valued at $30,000-40,000 but the winning bidder blew that estimate right out of the water with a $59,375 (including ... More

Harrowdown Hill: A photographic investigation of how places remember events
LONDON.- Harrowdown Hill is a new publication by British photographer John Spinks, featuring landscape photographs made over the period of a year. Spinks re-deploys the conventions of English landscape painting to produce a series of photographs that at first appear to be an atmospheric, often melancholic visual document of the English countryside. Beneath the surface however is a complex story of competing political narratives set against the backdrop of the war in Iraq. Harrowdown Hill is the site where at approximately 9.20am on the 18th of July 2003 the body of Dr David Kelly was discovered in woodland, not far from the Oxfordshire village of Longworth. A public enquiry found that he had died by suicide. From 1991 up until the time of his death, Dr Kelly had been a lead member of the scientific teams tasked by the United Nations with monitoring ... More

Young Hong Kong painter with surreal and vivid landscapes Hilarie HON: Sunlight Murmur at EXIT
HONG KONG.- Gallery EXIT will soon be terminating on June 3rd Sunlight Murmur by Hilarie Hon, which has been on show since 6 May. Developing from the creative direction of her previous exhibition, Hons new exhibition showcases multifarious surreal landscapes. Unpredictable and constantly changing, the landscapes depicted in Hons paintings exude a strong sense of alienation and melancholy, another world severed from that of the exhibition space. The unspecified characters and events in the paintings constitute recurring scenes on the pictorial surface which are at once familiar and strange; some repeated motifs include the various states of sunrise and sunset, a smothering house, a man in a hat, a sailing boat in the sea, misty rain and rose-tinted clouds. With strong colour contrasts, Hons works place more emphasis on the overall ... More

In this Swiss town, Tina Turner was a neighbor, not a star
NEW YORK, NY.- Around the world Tina Turner, who died Wednesday at 83, was known for her music, her powerful stage presence and her barrier-smashing career. But in the Swiss town where she lived for nearly three decades, she was known for living a low-key life doing her own shopping, standing in line at the post office and exercising outdoors. In front of the house where the rock star lived with her husband, Erwin Bach, and where Wednesday night neighbors gathered to light candles and tell stories, a polished bronze sign asks (in English and in German) that visitors not ring the doorbell before noon. After a lifetime in the public eye, Turner moved to the sleepy town of KÃ¼snacht, Switzerland, with Bach, a German music executive whom she started dating in the 1980s. In 1995, Bach got a job running the Swiss offices of EMI Music in Zurich, and ... More

Living the golden life: DanceAfrica welcomes Ghana to Brooklyn
NEW YORK, NY.- Before Abdel R. Salaam traveled to Ghana last fall, he didnt have deep knowledge of its music and dance traditions. But the country held a special association for him dating back to when Chuck Davis celebrated it at DanceAfrica, the festival he founded. It was 1978, the festivals second year, and Davis opening words were a call and response in the Twi language: Ago! Ame! Those words refer to the willingness to listen, to pay attention. Its a memory that stuck with Salaam, now the festivals artistic director who this week brings Ghana back to the DanceAfrica stage. After immersing himself in the countrys culture and holding auditions for 21 companies in different regions he landed on a title: Golden Ghana: Adinkra, Ananse and Abusua. Before its independence, in 1957, Ghana was known as the Gold Coast. But ... More

Tyler Joseph Krasowski elevates the sketch in new solo exhibition at Missoula Art Museum
MISSOULA, MONT.- Missoula Art Museum presents Tyler Joseph Krasowskis drawings and prints in Everything Becomes Something, opening Saturday, May 27. This exhibition demonstrates Krasowskis full range, from an installation of desk doodles to a sublime woodcut print of waves on open water. Via obsessive, ecstatically neat mark-making, Krasowski elevates his influences and interestsand at the same time elevates typically lowlier or incomplete artforms, such as the sketch. While Krasowski has earned a reputation as a printmaker, his preferred tool is the pencil. Krasowski says desk doodles manifest his creative impulse. A single slip of paper may host a tattoo-style snake, a cartoon cloud, and a fully rendered figure that recalls German Renaissance master, Albrecht DÃ¼rer. To Krasowski, the sketches are artworks unto themselves because they are unfiltered. Some become refined drawin ... More

Predawn picket lines help writers disrupt studio productions
LOS ANGELES, CA.- At 5 a.m. on a recent weekday, a lone figure paced back and forth outside the main entrance to the Fox Studios lot in Los Angeles. Peter Chiarelli, a screenwriter, was walking the picket line. He held a sign reading Thank You 399, a message to the local branch of the Teamsters union, whose members he hoped would turn their trucks around instead of crossing his personal picket line to enter the lot, where Hulu was filming the series Interior Chinatown. Its passive-aggressive, Chiarelli, who wrote the films Crazy Rich Asians and The Proposal, said of his sentiment sincere if the Teamsters turned back and sarcastic if they entered. Since the Hollywood writers strike began May 2, Chiarelli and others like him have been waking before dawn to try to disrupt productions whose scripts had already been finished. We need to shut down ... More

'Primary Trust' Review: Sipping Mai Tais, until bitter reality knocks
NEW YORK, NY.- Maybe youve seen him tucked into the corner of a dive bar, muttering to himself now and then, empty glasses multiplying on his table. And perhaps youve thought although its just as likely you havent Whats up with that guy? In Primary Trust, playwright Eboni Booth zooms in on one such man: He lives in a fictional suburb of Rochester, New York, where mai tais are his drink of choice at an unlikely tiki bar named Wallys. He is alone and adrift in this tender, delicately detailed portrait, although surely he has not always been. Listen, and hell tell you about the moment he almost drowned and how he learned to keep his head above water. Primary Trust, which opened at the Laura Pels Theater in Manhattan on Thursday, finds Kenneth (William Jackson Harper, of The Good Place) approaching 40 when the bookstore where hes worked ... More

An opera composer of intimate spareness returns to myth
CITTÃ DI CASTELLO.- When baritone Evan Hughes agreed to sing the part of the wild boar in Salvatore Sciarrinos Venere e Adone, premiering at the Hamburg State Opera on Saturday, he didnt expect to become the star of the show. In most opera versions of the Venus and Adonis myth, like John Blows Venus and Adonis (1683) and Hans Werner Henzes Venus und Adonis (1997), the boar is silent or eliminated. But in Venere e Adone, with a libretto by Sciarrino and Fabio Casadei Turroni, the boar, or the Monster, is not just a singing role he is the moral core of the story. In this version of the myth, the Monster, who has five solo scenes, doesnt mean Adonis harm. The creature has been hit by one of Cupids arrows, and instantly falls in love with the boy hunting him. I said yes to the project before I even really understood that the Monster was a sympathetic character, Hughes said in ... More

Tornado. Treasure. There was nobody like Tina Turner.
NEW YORK, NY.- My paperback of I, Tina is falling apart. Anytime I open it, a new page goes fluttering out. Last night, it was page 37. Tina Turners talking about the songs that grabbed her as a little kid. LaVern Bakers Tweedle Dee got her because it was quick. I always liked the fast ones, Turner writes, liked that energy, even then. You can call this thing a memoir she spoke it, in 1986, to Kurt Loder, who interpolated it as literature. But its always read like a recipe book to me. The ingredients include force, power, will, sex, might. Hence the shock at her death. Theyre saying she was 83? Nobodys buying that. The ingredients made her seem immortal. For seven decades of making music, it all sizzled in her. That energy. It shot from her from her feet, thighs, hands, arms, shoulders, out of her hair, out of her mouth. Anytime she and a trio of Ikettes ... More

A pianist's rare visit to New York reveals his personality
NEW YORK, NY.- Few pieces in the piano repertoire are as revealing of a performer as Johann Sebastian Bachs Goldberg Variations. With few indications of tempo or articulation, they force constant interpretation. Its hard to think of a better personality test. Except, perhaps, programming. A pianists choice of what to play can be more illuminating than the performance itself. A recital might focus on a single composer or group together a few sonatas; but theres also another route, more conceptual, of compiling something more akin to a playlist. Over two evenings at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan this week, pianist Pavel Kolesnikov shared his artistry with both routes, with one concert devoted to the Goldbergs and the other a moodily nocturnal collage inspired by Joseph Cornells assemblage Celestial Navigation. Kolesnikov, a Russian-born ... More