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Songwriter or star? The-Dream, Muni Long and two paths to the Grammys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Although Adele, BeyoncÃ© and Harry Styles may soak up the most attention at Sundays Grammy Awards, other musicians often relegated to the fine print of superstar albums will celebrate one extra chance at recognition this year. For the first time, the Recording Academy will present an award for songwriter of the year, nonclassical, making background figures the focus, at least for a moment. But although the five nominees in the inaugural category may be best understood as collaborators toiling in the studio shadows, each has performed and released their own music, too, pointing to an enduring industry reality: The line between headliner and behind-the-scenes hand is porous and ever fluctuating, especially in a social media era that has demystified much of the pop-music machine, casting the spotlight in unlikely places ... More

Yossi Milo Gallery opens Navot Miller's first solo exhibition with the gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo Gallery is presenting Eurovision, Navot Millers first solo exhibition with the gallery. The show opened with an artists reception on Thursday, February 2, 2023 from 68 PM, and will be on view through Saturday, March 11, 2023. With his distinctively vibrant palette, Navot Miller (b. 1991; Israel) draws from the flow of moments and memories in his own life, presenting the landscapes, architecture, and people he sees with fresh, inquisitive eyes. Growing up in a rural Israeli village, Miller found it difficult to express himself and his identity as a young gay person. Upon relocating to Berlin as an adult, he found a community of creatives who opened up new possibilities for self-expression. Among them were curator Joel Mu, who introduced Miller to Berlins alternative art scene, and instructors Michael von Erlenbach and Kathrin Ruhlig ... More

Nancy Toomey Fine Art opens an exhibition of works by Jud Bergeron
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Nancy Toomey Fine Art opened an exhibition of works by Jud Bergeron titled Subspace Biographies, on view from February 2 to March 25, 2023. There is nothing worse than / An undetermined person is the refrain sung by Robert Pollard in the song Subspace Biographies from which Jud Bergeron gets inspiration for his exhibitions title. These lyrics have been Bergerons mantra for years and words to live by. The artist is determined to create, and this determination culminates in a desire to take an idea from conception to conclusion. I am interested in all the steps and iterations along the way, says Bergeron, and how the process influences the outcome. Bergerons art practice is focused mainly on iteration, scale, and material. He uses iteration to expand and mine ideas, scale to take those ideas and realize them from maquette to monument ... More

Linda Pastan, poet who plumbed the ordinary, dies at 90
NEW YORK, NY.- Linda Pastan, whose elegantly simple poems found beauty and, sometimes, pain in the ordinary sights and moments of life, died Jan. 30 at her home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She was 90. Her daughter, novelist Rachel Pastan, said the cause was complications after cancer surgery. Pastan published 15 volumes of poetry, beginning in 1971 with A Perfect Circle of Sun. They have a fine feeling of mood and setting, The Wilmington News-Journal of Ohio wrote of the poems in that volume, and express a womans view of things with a simplicity. That womans view characterized many of her poems, especially ones about family. Jean Naggar first encountered Pastans work in the early 1970s, when she was an editor at Liveright (which in 1975 published Pastans second book, Aspects of Eve), and she became her agent ... More

Carol Sloane, jazz singer who found success early and late, dies at 85
NEW YORK, NY.- The crowd had thinned by the time Carol Sloane, then 24, took the festival stage in Newport, Rhode Island, in July 1961. The Saturday afternoon slot was a showcase for new talent, hence the sparse attendance. Sloane had chosen to sing Little Girl Blue. The pianist knew the tune but not the rarely performed introduction, so she sang it a cappella, hitting every ravishing note. When I was very young / The world was younger than I / As merry as a carousel. The audience was transfixed. Though the crowd was small, it included a group of influential music critics and some suits from Columbia Records, who mobbed her after her performance. Within a few weeks she was offered a Columbia contract. Sloane, the honey-voiced jazz singer who was once considered an heir to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Carmen McRae but who struggled for decades ... More

Patrick Jackson opens an exhibition at François Ghebaly Hollywood
LOS ANGELES, CA.- FranÃ§ois Ghebaly presents Liquid Clay, a sculptural installation by Patrick Jackson. The exhibition is made up of two visually opposing bodies of work: a series of custom-designed crystal- clear shelving units stocked with commercial products, and a series of hand sculpted wall reliefs. The shelves, cold and processed, differ starkly from the reliefs, which are raw, intimate, and show evidence of human touch. Liquid Clay is the culmination of these two bodies of work, which have been developed over the years. Upon entering the gallery, seven freestanding shelving units are installed throughout the space, each built using clear acrylic columns that are shaped like a soft pyramid. These hollow pyramids were produced through an injection molding process. They are set between horizontal sheets of glass and alternately flipped up and down ... More

Review: From Lil Buck, history and a chance to flash some brilliance
NEW YORK, NY.- This is going to be very educational for a lot of yall, Lil Buck said at Lincoln Centers Rose Theater on Thursday. He was speaking before the New York premiere of Memphis Jookin: The Show, which he conceived, produced, helped choreograph and stars in. Buck, also known as Charles Riley, is the biggest star of jookin, the Memphis, Tennessee, born street dance. Hes probably the only jookin specialist that most people have heard of. And because of how Buck became famous dancing to classical music, collaborating with Yo-Yo Ma and ballet companies many of those people might have misconceptions about the dance. Hence this show, which seeks, in Bucks words, to present jookin in the world it comes from. And to do so in the form of a 90-minute, touring theatrical production, with a plot and dialogue ... More

Review: At 95, a conductor is still showing new facets
NEW YORK, NY.- At 95, conductor Herbert Blomstedt is still showing new sides of himself to the New York Philharmonic. New sides that are also old ones. On Thursday at David Geffen Hall, he introduced the orchestra to Ingvar Lidholms Poesis, a work whose premiere he led 59 years ago as a rising maestro in Stockholm. Lidholm (1921-2017) was part of the European avant-garde that sought a fresh start for music in the rubble-strewn wake of World War II, advancing Schoenbergs 12-tone theories as a way to decisively sweep aside Romanticism and the rest of a fraught cultural past. But, ever curious, Lidholm didnt stay a doctrinaire serialist for long, and the 18-minute Poesis is an exploration of elemental sound and stark drama without reliance on stylistic rules. From an indelible, primordial start pieces of rough sandpaper rubbed together in an unpredictable ... More