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Finest known Hupeh 5 Yuan heads to Heritage HKINF World Paper Money Auction
DALLAS, TX.- One of the most important criteria for any collectible is rarity. That alone makes a 5 Yuan banknote that will be offered in Heritage Auctions' June 20 HKINF World Paper Money SignatureÂ® Auction - Hong Kong event a must-have for any serious collector of Asian currency. The China Hupeh Government Cash Bank 5 Yuan / Kuping Sycee 3 Taels 6 Mace 1904 Pick S2091r S/M#H171-11 Remainder PMG Choice Uncirculated 63 EPQoffered in this auction is from the initial denomination in this short series from 1904. "This is the kind of note some collectors spend a lifetime chasing," says Dustin Johnston, Vice President of Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. "This note is the first and only example in the PMG Population Report. Heritage is the world's top numismatic auctioneer, and even we have not offered this type in the past. There ... More

Simon and Kirby's early Captain America art joins pristine copy of the first Avenger's debut comic book
DALLAS, TX.- The eye wanders, and the mind reels at the breadth and depth of history, virtuosity and delights offered in Heritage's June 22-25 Comics & Comic Art SignatureÂ® Auction. Where to begin among the nearly 1,500 works and wonders available? With a Frank Frazetta painting so momentous it graced both beloved book and acclaimed album covers? With very-best Golden Age Batmans? Or pages documenting the birth of Bane, revolutionary work from an underground trailblazer, original Calvin and Hobbes strips, the first meeting of MAD's "Spy vs. Spy"? The list is boundless. And endlessly entertaining. Better to begin at the beginning, or close enough, with a centerpiece as striking as it is historic: a Jack Kirby-Joe Simon splash page from just the fifth issue of Captain America Comics to hit newsstands, a work so early in the Sentinel of Liberty's ... More

Kaija Saariaho, pathbreaking composer of singular colors, is dead at 70
NEW YORK, NY.- Kaija Saariaho, a Finnish composer brought up in the male-dominated world of high modernism who forged an artistic identity wholly her own and rose to the top ranks of contemporary classical music, died Friday at her home in Paris. She was 70. The cause was brain cancer, said her publisher, Chester Music. Her final piece, a trumpet concerto, will premiere in August with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Susanna MÃ¤lkki, a leading interpreter of Saariahos music. Saariaho was always upset by being called a female composer, director Peter Sellars said, but her work has such deep meaning for so many people who did not hear their voices in classical music. Sellars, a longtime collaborator who is staging her 2006 opera Adriana Mater at the San Francisco Symphony next week, added: Its a feminine ... More

Cynthia Weil, who put words to That 'Lovin' Feelin',' dies at 82
NEW YORK, NY.- Cynthia Weil, who with her writing partner and husband, Barry Mann, formed one of the most potent songwriting teams of the 1960s and beyond, churning out enduring hits such as The Drifters On Broadway and The Righteous Brothers Youve Lost That Lovin Feelin, signature tunes of the baby boomer era, died Thursday at her home in Beverly Hills, California. She was 82. Her death was confirmed Friday by her daughter, Jenn Mann, who did not specify a cause. We lost the beautiful, brilliant lyricist Cynthia Weil Mann, chart-topping singer and songwriter Carole King wrote in a statement posted on social media. King, recounting the friendship and rivalry that she and her former husband and songwriting partner, Gerry Goffin, shared with Weil and Mann (a friendship memorialized in Broadways Beautiful: The Carole King Musical ... More

Broadway Theater to be renamed for Todd Haimes
NEW YORK, NY.- Roundabout Theater Company, the nonprofit with the biggest footprint on Broadway, has decided to rename its flagship theater, which currently bears the name American Airlines, in honor of its recently deceased and transformational leader, Todd Haimes. The theater, on West 42nd Street, is a 740-seat house that opened in 1918 as the Selwyn. It was renamed for American Airlines in 2000 when Roundabout assumed operations and raised money by making a sponsorship agreement with the airline. The airlines naming rights expire in early 2024, according to a Roundabout spokesperson, and the nonprofits board decided to rename the building for Haimes, who had an extraordinary impact on the company: He joined Roundabout as managing director in 1983 and reversed its flagging fortunes; he held a variety of titles over the ... More

For her new play, Tori Sampson revisited her 'Black Power Household'
NEW YORK, NY.- The narrator of This Land Was Made, playwright Tori Sampsons speculative account of the Black Panther Partys powder-keg origins, is an aspiring writer named Sassy. Consider me your time-traveling griot, she tells the audience with wry buoyancy, evoking the West African tradition of storytellers who propagated endangered legacies. The play, which opens Sunday at the Vineyard Theater in Manhattan, is an act of oral history rooted in Sampsons personal connection to the political awakening at its center. (Sassy is not me, Sampson made clear during a recent interview off the courtyard of the Marlton Hotel, a short walk from the theater.) The Black Panthers were like family to her, Sampson said of her mother, who was orphaned at the age of 3 and raised by an aunt who was a member of the Black Panther Party in the 1970s. She ... More

Lincoln Center names conductor for reimagined mostly Mozart orchestra
NEW YORK, NY.- Jonathon Heyward, the rising young conductor who this fall will become the first Black music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, has been tapped to lead Lincoln Centers summer ensemble, a reimagined version of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the center announced Wednesday. Heyward, 30, will start a three-year contract with Lincoln Center next year. His appointment is part of the centers changes to the revered Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra: giving it a new name, embracing a wider variety of genres and bringing more racial, ethnic and gender diversity to the stage. If a 10-year-old boy from Charleston can fall in love with this music, then anyone can, Heyward said in an interview. It has everything to do with accessibility and presentation. Heyward succeeds the orchestras longtime music director, ... More

Christian Petzold may be the best German filmmaker you've never heard of
BERLIN.- In the past decade, German filmmaker Christian Petzold has made a Hitchcockian thriller set in postwar Germany, a time-tripping literary adaptation about exiles in occupied France and a magical realist fable about a water sprite in contemporary Berlin. In his latest film, Afire, showing at the Tribeca Festival, which runs Wednesday through June 18 in New York City, a young writer struggles to finish a novel at a summer home he is sharing with a beautiful stranger, while forest fires tear through the surrounding landscape. Afire, which will be released in theaters in the United States on July 14, won the Silver Bear grand jury prize at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. It was Petzolds sixth time competing at the Berlinale, as the event is known here, where he has been a fixture since 2005 and where he won the best director trophy in 2012 ... More

At this Staten Island garden, the plants are all queer
NEW YORK, NY.- The Alice Austen House on Staten Island celebrates the life of trailblazing photographer Alice Austen, who lived there in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. The stately house by the bay, now a National Historic Landmark, has stunning views of Brooklyn and lower Manhattan, and features a selection of some 7,000 photographs taken by Austen of New York City in the Victorian era. Amid its rolling, verdant grounds and vine-covered porch, theres also a new initiative in the works: the Queer Ecologies Garden Project. Its something of a misnomer, since many plants and flowers, to use human terms, are transgender or bisexual, in that they can change sex or have both reproductive organs and can self-pollinate, said Marisa Prefer, a Brooklyn-based horticulturist who identifies as nonbinary and who consulted on creating the garden. With ... More

Can New Jersey's new festival top Coachella or SXSW? It thinks so.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, along with first lady Tammy Murphy, had a vision: A new performance festival in their home state that could rival South by Southwest in Texas or Bonnaroo in Tennessee. And they had a plan to distinguish it. Austin and Nashville are great towns, the governor said, referring to two famous arts hubs that are connected to notable festivals. But if you stop to consider the cultural priorities of the states that govern them, you say, Wait a minute. Youre hoodwinked if you get taken by the coolness. A festival in New Jersey, they argued, would be produced in a state whose values align with issues such as gun safety and reproductive rights, a bragging right difficult to come by in the South. But what organizers are really touting with the event, which is being produced for the first time this month, is the mix of homegrown talent ... More

Alteronce Gumby announces feature documentary 'Color' and recently released 'Dark Matter'
NEW YORK, NY.- Alteronce Gumby, the contemporary abstract painter and emerging filmmaker, has announced the opening of COLOR, a feature documentary produced in partnership with director John Campbell. COLOR explores the many facets to its abundant spectrum anchored by Gumbys artistic practice, which is grounded in the exploration of color. The films announcement and trailer release coincide with the publication of Gumbys debut museum catalog, Dark Matter, a limited edition of 200 that is accompanied by a print by the artist that was on May 31, 2023, which was celebrated with a book signing and performance in New York City. Im thrilled to announce my debut feature film COLOR and first ever catalog both are expressions of my unending fascination with how we experience color as both a visual property, ... More