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Birmingham Museums Trust acquires new photographic works by Arpita Shah, exploring South Asian female identity
BIRMINGHAM.- Birmingham Museums Trust has acquired a series of ten new photographic works by the internationally-recognised artist Arpita Shah for the citys collection. The Modern Muse series depict young South Asian women who live in Birmingham and the West Midlands, and was originally commissioned by Birmingham-based arts organisation GRAIN Projects. The Modern Muse portraits draw on the tradition of Mughal and Indian miniature paintings from ancient to pre-colonial times, but with the narrative reframed. In these traditional images, women tend to be seen as passive, muse-type figures, often facing away from the viewer and depicted in sensual and subservient terms. The male Mughal ... More

"Into the Light: The Awakening" first solo show from photography duo The Masons
LONDON.- Boogie-Wall is now presenting Into the Light The Awakening, the first solo exhibition from the photographic duo, Donna-Marie and Maruska Mason, who are known professionally as The Masons. The show explores the dissociation from nature felt by black people that Donna-Marie, a child of Caribbean parents who grew up in London, sees as a legacy of slavery. The event began on November 24th and will end on January 21st, 2023. Into the light features eleven medium-scale portraits of Donna-Marie taken by Maruska at a variety of locations around the world, including Slovenia, the islands of the Caribbean and the Italian Dolomites. Together, they examine the interrelationships between culture, history, the body and nature, providing a compelling visual record of a personal journey taken by Maruska with Donna- Marie. Maruska ... More

Jean-Marie Straub, uncompromising filmmaker, is dead at 89
NEW YORK, NY.- Jean-Marie Straub, a celebrated filmmaker aligned with the French New Wave who sparked critical debate with films he made with his wife, DaniÃ¨le Huillet, that were known for their aggressively cerebral subject matter, Marxist leanings and anti-commercial sensibility, died on Sunday at his home in Rolle, Switzerland. He was 89. The Swiss National Film Archive announced his death. The Straubs, as they were often called (although they preferred Straub-Huillet as a professional moniker) emerged in the 1950s from the same circle of revolutionary French filmmakers as Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, a friend over the years who lived nearby in Rolle until his death in September. The New Wave directors upended moviemaking conventions by channeling their cinephilic theories into auteur-driven works that reflected the anti-authoritarian ... More

Che Lovelace now represented by Nicola Vassell Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Nicola Vassell Gallery announced the representation of Che Lovelace, an unabashed painter of the flora, fauna, figures, landscapes and rituals of the Caribbean. His depictions of the rhythms of Trinidadian life are informed by his rootedness there, having established his studio practice on the rural outskirts of Port-of-Spain. His solo exhibition with the gallery will be presented in March 2023 and his work will be on view at Art Basel Miami Beach 2022. Lovelaces fascination with Caribbean iconography is a metaphorical expedition through postcolonialism, resistance, freedom, mythology and nature. The result is a complex and nuanced expression of his own sense of identity, politics, place, and community. Lovelace likens his material and formal interventionssuch as cleaving the canvas into quadrants and dissecting ... More

Newspaper legend Sir Ray Tindle's vast silver collection comes to auction at Ewbank's on December 8
LONDON.- Sir Ray Tindle CBE DL (1926-2022) was one of the great entrepreneurial newspaper publishers of the past 60 years. At the same time as building a company that stretched across Southern England and Wales, the man who became known as Mr Farnham in the Surrey town from where he directed his business interests also built an outstanding collection of silver, which will go on sale at Ewbanks Auctioneers on December 8. It is expected to fetch up to Â£100,000. The collection one of the largest Ewbanks have ever offered reflects Sir Rays dedication to his beloved 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment, as well as his appreciation of the fine craftsmanship of 18th century, George III and later silversmiths. He had a fine eye for quality that matched his head for business and passion for the newspaper industry, especially ... More

Phillips' highlights from London New Now Auction showcasing Contemporary Artists
LONDON.- Phillips announces highlights ahead of the New Now sale in London on 8 December. The sale is led by GÃ¼nther FÃ¶rg and features a selection of works by contemporary artists including Caroline Walker, Sarah Ball, Kristy M Chan and Michaela Yearwood-Dan. Artists making their auction debut in this sale include Francesca Mollett, Pam Evelyn and Olivia Sterling. A series of works by German and German-speaking artists include an exemplary painting by GÃ¼nther FÃ¶rg, a work by auction newcomer Andi Fisher, as well as works by Gerhard Richter and Kiki Kogelnik. Further highlights include works by Theaster Gates and MichaÃ«l Borremans, among others. On view online and in Phillips London galleries alongside the New Now highlights viewing from 1 to 8 December is The Sovereign Art Foundation ... More

"Sunset: A Celebration of the Sinking Sun" on view at the Kunsthalle Bremen
BREMEN.- It occurs every day. And despite this, we find ourselves again and again under the spell of the setting sun. It is impossible to imagine art without this motif. But for all that, sunsets risk being branded as kitsch. In the exhibition Sunset (26 November 2022 to 2 April 2023), the Kunsthalle Bremen is presenting around 120 prestigious works from the Romantic Period to the twenty-first century. The exhibition not only examines the motifs proximity to kitsch but also the subjects potential to address fundamental questions of humanity. As a result, the objects on display are diverse: Works by Caspar David Friedrich, J.M.W. Turner, Claude Monet, FÃ©lix Vallotton, Max Ernst, Dieter Roth and Tacita Dean are moving, humorous and apocalyptic at times abstract and at times breathtakingly beautiful. The term sunset is actually a misnomer since the sun never truly sets. The English word sunset is deceptive ... More

They were ahead of the curve on diversity in classical music
NEW YORK, NY.- It was the late 1990s, and Afa Sadykhly Dworkin saw a woman crying backstage at a concert hall in Michigan. Dworkin was there helping to run a competition for young artists started by the Sphinx Organization, a newly founded group devoted to fostering diversity in classical music. When she spied the woman in tears, she assumed that a bow or string had broken. But when she tried to help, the woman waved her off, saying that although her child had lost the competition, her tears were happy ones. Im crying because we thought my daughter was the best, Dworkin recently recalled the woman telling her. Theres no one who lives near us who plays at her level, so we came assuming we were going to win. And we didnt win anything, but she has a family now. She has all these sisters and brothers now. Sphinx, which turns ... More

The visions of Octavia Butler
NEW YORK, NY.- Octavia Estelle Butler was the daughter of a shoeshine man, who died when she was a baby, and a maid. A self-described loner, Butler always stood apart: far from the loud tangle of children at recess; standing in the shade of the generous sycamore and oak trees of Pasadena, California; or secreted inside her bedroom in the after-school hours, lost within some exotic elsewhere of storybooks. Some of the books were her own, saved up for, while others were castoffs rescued by her mother, who scrubbed, dusted and ironed in houses in the majority-white and wealthy Pasadena neighborhoods that were adjacent, yet worlds apart, from her own. Butlers mother walked her to the library, where they signed up for a card. That small slip of paper became her passport to travel widely. Boundlessly curious and a keen observer, Butler lived ... More

A trail of tradition in the foothills of northwest Argentina
NEW YORK, NY.- Nestled in the rugged CalchaquÃ Valleys of northwest Argentina, in the province of Salta, is a generations-old community of weavers producing some of the best examples of the ponchos and other woven goods that are emblematic of the country. In the pocket-size town of El Colte, tucked in the municipality of SeclantÃ¡s, craft lovers will find El Camino de los Artesanos (the Path of the Artisans), a recently upgraded shopping trail where more than 20 families and 70 loom artisans live and sell handwoven textiles from adobe stalls in front of low-slung ranch homes. An icon of the Argentine gaucho, the poncho has its origins in Indigenous Andean culture, when it was used for protection against the cold and rain and served as a blanket to sleep on. Its style has evolved over centuries to possess characteristic motifs and techniques pertaining ... More

Pablo MilanÃ©s, troubadour of the Cuban Revolution, dies at 79
NEW YORK, NY.- Pablo MilanÃ©s, a Cuban musician whose blend of folk idioms, pop influences and themes of love both personal and patriotic earned him a reputation as the Bob Dylan of Latin America, died Tuesday in Madrid. He was 79. His son Fabien Pisani confirmed the death, in a hospital, and said the cause was myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood disorder. MilanÃ©s, known to fans as Pablito, was a founding member of nueva trova, a musical movement that emerged in the late 1960s and infused traditional Cuban arrangements with social and political themes. He wrote songs to accompany the dramatic changes sweeping across Cuba in the wake of the 1959 revolution, making him and the two other founders of nueva trova, Silvio RodrÃguez and Noel Nicola, its unofficial troubadours. The success of Silvio and Pablo is the success of the revolution, ... More