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Lawrence Turman, producer who spotted a winner in 'The Graduate,' dies at 96
NEW YORK, NY.- Lawrence Turman, who as a novice movie producer in 1963 read about a novel by a largely unknown writer named Charles Webb, took a $1,000 option on it and thus set in motion the making of The Graduate, a landmark film that helped define the 1960s and the antihero genre, died Saturday at his home in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles. He was 96. His son John confirmed the death. Turman had producing or executive producing credits on more than 40 feature films and television movies, including the boxing film The Great White Hope (1970), with James Earl Jones; The Drowning Pool (1975), a drama that starred Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward; the thriller The Mean Season (1985), with Kurt Russell and Mariel Hemingway; the family comedies Short Circuit (1986) and Short Circuit 2 (1988); and the drama ... More

When the street moves to the opera house (and subverts it)
PARIS.- In 2019, Bintou DembÃ©lÃ©, a hip-hop pioneer in France, became the first Black female choreographer to be hired by the Paris Opera. Two years later, during a residency in Chicago, she discovered an English word that has no equivalent in French: tokenism. It helped her articulate what she sensed but couldnt yet grasp, she said in an interview in Bagnolet, a suburb of Paris. Outwardly, all was well during and after her work at the Paris Opera on Les Indes Galantes: Her group of fierce dancers, performing a range of street and club styles like krump, electro and voguing, became a symbol of diversity at the heart of a venerable opera house. DembÃ©lÃ©s profile rose too. Invitations to contribute to screen and stage projects poured in, and this week, she opened the dance portion of the Avignon Festival, the most prestigious event on the French ... More

Ravi Zupa Typewriter Gun installation on view at Shepard Fairey's art gallery
LOS ANGELES, CA.- These Five Kings, by Denver-based artist Ravi Zupa, is now on view through July 22nd at Subliminal Projects. For his second solo exhibition with the gallery, Zupa has taken over the entirety of the space presenting four different bodies of work that highlight his multidisciplinary practice, featuring a site-specific gun store installation, sculptures, print-based originals, drawings, and paintings. At the entry of the gallery, viewers step foot into a retrofitted traditional American-style gun store featuring Zupas ongoing series Mightier Than, which originally debuted at Subliminal Projects in 2015. With intricate craftsmanship, Zupa welds vintage typewriter parts together to create realistic-looking modern assault-style guns. We invite viewers to reflect on this thought-provoking series that challenges ideas of violence and communication, ... More

'Uncle Vanya' review: Confidences by candlelight
NEW YORK, NY.- Leaning close in the flickering candlelight, Sonya and the man who makes her stomach flutter share a sneaky midnight snack. He is Astrov, her houseguest, and he is frankly a bit of a mess drinks too much, is in fact drunk at the moment. He is also endearingly odd and smart and sweet, an eco-nerd physician whos sending her some incredibly mixed signals. Were all alone here, he says, sotto voce. We can be honest with each other. It is a scene so beguiling, so full of crushy hope on one side and obliviousness (or is it?) on the other, that its like watching Laura and the Gentleman Caller in The Glass Menagerie. But this is Uncle Vanya, and if Anton Chekhov has never before made you want to match-make a couple of his characters on Tinder, this version directed by Jack Serio in a loft in the Flatiron District of Manhattan ... More

Director of new Women's History Museum withdraws, citing family issues
NEW YORK, NY.- The Smithsonians choice for the founding director of its developing American Womens History Museum has withdrawn from the role, the institution said Wednesday. A Smithsonian spokesperson, Linda St. Thomas, said that the new director, Nancy Yao, had cited family issues that require her attention in deciding to withdraw. The announcement came after the completion of an investigation into how Yao had handled sexual harassment claims in her previous role as the leader of the Museum of Chinese in America, in New York Citys Chinatown neighborhood, for eight years. The Smithsonian declined to elaborate on the findings of the outside firm hired to investigate the sexual harassment issue and it did not detail the family issues Yao cited. But in a post on LinkedIn, Yao said that her father is in hospice care, her two teenage ... More

ROTATIONS featuring a variety of works in glass now on view at Heller Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Heller Gallery is now presenting ROTATIONS, a series of exhibits showcasing new and recent works from gallery artists including Pamela Sabroso + Alison Siegel, Morten Klitgaard, Anja Isphording, and Tobias MÃ¸hl. Since July 7th through September 22nd, four consecutive exhibitions will feature the diverse voices of these artists, designers and makers in the gallery program. Pamela Sabroso and Alison Siegels exuberant, vessel-based forms take on the shape and surface structure of plants, fruits and vegetables, which they use to make their molds. While their pieces imprint as colorful, fresh and unconventional, and their sophisticated, labor-intensive process and skill level date-stamps their work, the two artists also channel a more essential creative freedom that recalls the early American Studio Glass practitioners exploration ... More

When Animals Become Art: Leiko Ikemura at The Feuerle Collection
BERLIN.- The Feuerle Collection has now opened When Animals Become Art. Leiko Ikemura at The Feuerle Collection. Curated by DÃ©sirÃ© Feuerle, this represents the second exhibition to be shown in the Silk Room and is on view since 7 July 2023 until 7 January 2024. The show presents a selection of works realized between 1990 and 2022 by artist Leiko Ikemura. The works are juxtaposed with personal plush toys collected by the artist and immersed in a refined, dreamlike scenography, designed by DÃ©sirÃ© Feuerle especially for the installation. When Animals Become Art. Leiko Ikemura at The Feuerle Collection symbolically brings into being an intimate and colorful nest, where precious animal sculptures, made of cast glass, glazed terracotta, patinated bronze, and papier-mÃ¢chÃ©, will interact with small plush creatures from a domestic environment. ... More

Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham announces site-specific exhibition with new works by Phoebe Boswell
TWICKENHAM.- In this immersive new work, the artist Phoebe Boswell inhabits Orleans House Gallery and its surrounding woodlands, engaging the audience in an intergenerational call and response, where trees become repositories of enquiry. Boswell creates a sanctuary for us to raise our questions and listen to the voices of our elders as they endeavour to articulate life. What are the questions you have always wanted to ask? What advice do you need right now? What do you still need to know? Taking inspiration from Hermann Hesses Trees are Sanctuaries, the artist gathered questions through an open call which became the basis of her interviews with a vast and global group of nominated elders: from a freedom-loving feminist activist from GorÃ©e; to an Irish ex-nun turned actor; to a Greek scientist with a passion for plants; to a psychologist ... More

'The Verbal Visual' abstractions of language now on view at Shin Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Shin Gallery is currently holding "The Verbal Visual," an exceptional exhibition that delves into the intricate applications and captivating abstractions of language through the rich heritage of alphabets and numeral systems. This thought-provoking showcase unveils the genealogy of the English alphabet, tracing its origins back to the ancient Egyptian writing systems of Hieroglyphics and Hieratics. These remarkable systems comprised approximately 1000 characters, meticulously carved, inscribed, or written across Egyptian artifacts, serving as radiant beacons illuminating our understanding of the past. As time progressed, a Semitic ethnic group simplified this elaborate system during the transition from the Copper to Bronze Age. The Hyksos reduced the Egyptian writing system from around 1000 characters to roughly 22 during the transition ... More

'Twenty-Five Treasures' is now on view at Paul Thiebaud Gallery
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Paul Thiebaud Gallery opened the exhibition Twenty-Five Treasures yesterday. This signature series, originated in 1990 by gallery founder Paul LeBaron Thiebaud (1960-2010), brings together works by 25 artists and makers from a wide range of backgrounds. The 14th edition mixes together paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by 20th century masters; contemporary American artists; African, pre-Columbian, and 19th century Mexican folk art; and 21st century industrial design. The exhibition will be on view through August 19, 2023. While not curated around a specific theme, the show unites 25 works of art and cultural objects that can be qualitatively viewed as exceptional or extraordinary. The works on view span over a thousand years of history, diverse civilizations on three continents, and give viewers the feeling ... More

What's the story with Colleen Hoover?
NEW YORK, NY.- There are the novels the literary world acclaims, and there are the novels people actually read. Occasionally perhaps with decreasing frequency they are one and the same. But apart from momentary blips when bestseller and critical darling align (Colson Whitehead, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong), they usually diverge. Every era has its authors whose novels are at best overlooked and at worst disparaged by the literary cognoscenti and still dominate bestseller lists. These books succeed not only despite the critics but almost as if to spite them. Thus E.L. James, whose gray-shaded erotica in the 2010s gave readers edgy princess narratives. James books emerged out of fan fiction she wrote based on the Twilight saga, Stephenie Meyers romance successes from a few years before. Meyer, in turn, offered a chaste ... More