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Sam McKinniss joins David Kordansky Gallery
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery announced their representation of Sam McKinniss. The artist will be included in the upcoming group presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach in December. In February 2024, the gallery will show a solo presentation of McKinnisss work at Frieze Los Angeles. The images, figures, and environments that appear in the paintings of Sam McKinniss (b. 1985, Northfield, Minnesota) speak to the uncanny, unsettling atmospheres of the internet and popular culture. Though these images often emerge from a digital sphere characterized by extremes of spectacle and flatness, McKinniss transposes them into the vivid, humanist vocabulary of his chosen materials, which include not only the pigments and mediums with which he renders his compositions, but the emotion, desire, pathos, humor, and paradox he locates within them. The familiarity that characterizes many of his subjectswhich are drawn from the celebr ... More

Solo exhibition of work by German artist Josepha Gasch-Muche opens at Heller Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Heller Gallery is presenting Dangerous Beauty, the gallery's second solo exhibition of work by German artist Josepha Gasch-Muche. The exhibition includes eleven works by the award-winning artist dating from 2006-2021. Josepha Gasch-Muche explores essential geometric forms and patterns using densely layered glass shards and light. Originally trained as a painter, Gasch-Muche studied with Boris Kleint, a former Bauhaus member and an assistant to the Weimar schools core teacher and theorist, Johannes Itten. Kleint inculcated Gasch-Muche with the Bauhaus credos of essential materiality of substances and economy of means. In 1998, when she started experimenting with very thin, industrial liquid crystal display glass, the then-new material allowed her to fully realize them. She breaks sheets of clear glass into shards and arranges them, by the thousands, into simple geometric shapes. The resulting wall pieces expand beyond ... More

Fall 2023 Resident Artists explore the complexities of land in new exhibitions
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace announced the opening of their Fall 2023 International Artist-in-Residence exhibitions. The Fall 2033 residents, Sandra Brewster (Toronto, Canada), Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas (Detroit, Michigan), and Alexandra Robinson (Austin, Texas), were selected by independent curator, writer, and cultural producer Missla Libsekal. The four artists have been living at Artpace since September, creating new work that was unveiled at a public opening reception on Thursday, November 9. Sandra Brewster's Artpace exhibition, Lullaby of Birdland, artfully unites people and places. The installation features five striking panels featuring four individuals from San Antonio in everyday, unscripted moments using a gel transfer technique that imparts a nostalgic feel. Additionally, a panel depicting Eagle Pass, the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe's home, adds historical depth. A seawall replica from Guyana, the artist's parents' homeland, offers ... More

Yuri Temirkanov, conductor who celebrated Russia's music, dies at 84
NEW YORK, NY.- Yuri Temirkanov, a well-traveled Russian conductor steeped in his countrys bygone musical culture, died on Nov. 2 in St. Petersburg, the city where he held sway for over 30 years. He was 84. His death was announced by both the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, where he was music director from 1988 to 2022 his tenure began when it was still the Leningrad Philharmonic and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, where he was music director from 2000 to 2006. A close associate in Baltimore said Temirkanov had had heart trouble and had died in a care facility. When he was a boy, Prokofiev had held his hand; in his prime, he was artistic director of one of the worlds great opera companies, the Kirov, in what was then Leningrad, taking that post before he was 40; and in his later years, he consulted with composer Dmitri Shostakovich, conducted some of the worlds major orchestras, and was the object of almost cultlike adoration in his native land. At a glittering memorial ... More

It is not dead yet! 'Spamalot' returns to Broadway. (Cue the coconuts.)
NEW YORK, NY.- The terrifying knights still say Ni! The dead? Well, they are not quite dead yet. And King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table (not dawn, not dusk, not late afternoon, but knights) still trot around to the sounds of coconuts banging together. All that is to say: Spamalot is back on Broadway, and it is still quite silly. The silliness was on display last month during a rehearsal at the Gibney Studios in Manhattan. David Josefsberg, one of the shows standby actors, was having difficulty staying in character as the incompetent warlock Tim the Enchanter. The scene required him to adopt an outrageous accent to warn the knights about a scary beast, which ends up being a rabbit. (And the rabbit ends up being quite homicidal!) But he couldnt keep it together as members of the cast and crew giggled while watching from the sides of the room. The giggles were contagious, filling the room throughout the rehearsal, including when the knights had to vary the ... More

'Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey' review: Mikel Murfi's trilogy has ittersweet end
NEW YORK, NY.- Falling in love came as a surprise to Pat Farnon a late-life development he hadnt been looking for any more than hed been looking for the marriage proposal that set that romance in motion. When a whirlwind of a woman named Kitsy Rainey asked him to marry her even though theyd never so much as dated, he acquiesced. The most beautiful woman that ever water washed, Pat called her, and Kitsy cherished him right back. But how well did she allow her husband to know her? In The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey, the bittersweet final installment of Mikel Murfis trilogy of solo plays about the cobbler Pat and his eccentric beloved, it is 1987 and Kitsy has been dead two years. Holed up at home in their small Irish town, avoiding company, Pat gathers his courage to open a suitcase that Kitsy had forbidden him to look inside while she was alive. What he finds changes his understanding of her, and not just from the newspaper clipping suggesting ... More

Review: Kyle Marshall's History Lessons, in Fragments
NEW YORK, NY.- Kyle Marshalls dance Onyx has a historical subject: the Black roots of rock n roll. But dont expect the work one of the three New York premieres that make up his companys debut program at the Joyce Theater this week to be a straightforward parade of Black artists and their jukebox hits. Marshalls approach is exploratory and questioning. The work features music from the likes of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, but it comes largely in fragments, as from a radio signal barely in range. We first hear bits of James Brown (The Payback, nice choice), and then as part of that track plays like a radio fully tuned in, Marshall and his terrific dancers slip into some deliciously funky grooving. Not for long, though. Soon, the music cuts out, setting up a pattern of pleasure flashed and denied. We hear static and the sound of trains. Theres a physical motif of hands quivering with the spirit. Charismatic dancer Nik Owens, weari ... More

Inside Shary Boyle's head-spinning Palace of Wonders
NEW YORK, NY.- Like many people, I have a love-hate relationship with social media: Sometimes, Im thrilled by the genuine sense of connection it provides; other times, I feel pressured to perform for a distant audience. Its that second feeling I thought about while visiting Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), an exhibition that considers how we create our identities and present them to others and, in turn, how those performances feed back into who we are. To visit the show is to step into Boyles palace, or at least one wing of it. After passing through a curtained entryway, youre greeted by a dazzling textile baluster mounted on a coin-operated pottery wheel, a life-size wax puppeteer with a twitching hand; an array of mythological porcelain and terra cotta figurines and a towering sculpture of a woman with an animatronic spinning head. Outside the Palace of Me is a contemporary art fun house only ... More

When a dancer's moves include a wheelchair
NEW YORK, NY.- When Chelsie Hill dances in her wheelchair, her face tells you everything. She is absorbed in the moment beyond the stage, in the emotions shes conveying, in her power to hold the audience. Her wheelchair is an intrinsic part of her silhouette, one she manipulates with power. Hill, 27, is the founder of the Rollettes, a dance team for women who use wheelchairs that formed in 2012. They perform all over the country and host an annual empowerment weekend in Los Angeles for women with disabilities called the Rollettes Experience. In late July, the event attracted 250 women and children from 14 countries to Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Hotel for dance classes, showcases and seminars. More than a decade after she started the Rollettes, Hills story has spread far beyond the group to include mentorship and education for anyone with a disability who is seeking community. She changed my life, said Ali Stroker, the actress who made Broadway history in 2019 when she becam ... More