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Ghostwriters emerge from the shadows
NEW YORK, NY.- Ghostwriting is a secretive profession. Its long been maintained that a good ghost writer, like a well-behaved child in the old proverb, should be neither seen nor heard. So it was unusual for a group of around 140 ghostwriters to gather, as they did in Manhattan on Monday, to schmooze and celebrate their work with awards, panel discussions and keynote speeches. The one-day conference, called the Gathering of the Ghosts, took place at a moment when ghostwriting is in high demand and gaining recognition as an art form of its own, after years of operating largely in the shadows. Theres great value in building this community because of the nature of what we do, said Daniel Paisner, who hosts a podcast about ghostwriting called As Told To and has collaborated on 17 New York Times bestsellers. We do it in a vacuum, sitting ... More

'Local Ties' acquisition of contemporary works by Seattle artists announced
SEATTLE, WA.- The Frye Art Museum announced the acquisition initiative Local Ties, intended to underscore the museums identity as an artists art museum and a commitment to collecting work made by artists who live in or hold deep ties to the city of Seattle. Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions Amanda Donnan has selected six works for the museums permanent collection by artists not yet represented in the Fryes holdings: Gretchen Frances Bennett, Dawn Cerny, Marita Dingus, Wynne Greenwood, and Hanako OLeary. The works were purchased directly from the artists studios and from Seattles Traver Gallery; piloting support for this initiative is provided by Lucy and Stuart Williams, who is the new President of the Board of Trustees for the Frye. Im proud to mark the start of my first full year at the Frye with ... More

Edouard Sacaillan 'Les toits de Paris' is now having a solo at Kalfayan Galleries
ATHENS.- Kalfayan Galleries present the solo exhibition of Edouard Sacaillan titled Les Toits de Paris. The opening will take place today, Thursday, 25th January 2024, 19.00-22.00. Edouard Sacaillans paintings provoke with their honesty and poetry. With his characteristic artistic idiom that explores and constantly experiments with the limits of representation, the internationally renowned painter -based in Athens and Paris - invites the viewers to enter into his own unique dream world, a colorful parade of spectators, clowns, car drivers and swimmers. At the epicenter of the artist's interest lies, as always, the study of light, a fact that is vividly reflected in the new series titled "Les toits de Paris" (The rooftops of Paris) presented for the first time at Kalfayan Galleries. ... More

The 13th Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts goes to Junya Ishigami
VIENNA.- The Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation announced that Junya Ishigami has been awarded the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts, one of the most highly endowed international prizes in this field. Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1974, Junya Ishigami is one of the most exceptional talents on the international architecture scene. After spending many years in the office of the Pritzker Prize laureate Kazuyo Sejima, SANAA, he established his own firm, junya.ishigami+associates, in 2004. The uniqueness of his work and the unconventional way in which he approaches his projects led to swift recognition and the award of many prizes. In 2009, he became the youngest ever recipient of the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize; in 2010, he received the Golden Lion of the Architecture ... More

'Oppenheimer' leads the way with 13 Oscar nominations
NEW YORK, NY.- Oscar voters lined up behind a classic studio blockbuster Tuesday, giving 13 nominations to Christopher Nolans Oppenheimer, the most of any movie, and setting up the long-awaited coronation of Nolan as Hollywoods leading filmmaker. It was a shift from recent years, when the academy fixated on unconventional art films unseen by most Americans. No film by Nolan has ever been named best picture and, despite five previous nominations, he has never personally won an Oscar. Nolan received his second nomination for directing Tuesday, the first coming in 2018 for his complex Dunkirk. He was also nominated for his Oppenheimer screenplay. The recognition for Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures) had been expected. But the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences threw surprises into all of the other major categories. Barbie broke two heels, failing to sc ... More

Danielle Brooks on her Oscar nomination: 'Look What God Has Done'
NEW YORK, NY.- It was 3:30 a.m. in New Zealand, where actress Danielle Brooks was filming a Minecraft movie. But she was wide awake. Im alive and I am an Oscar nominee today, she said on a video call minutes after the nominations were announced. I dont think Ill be able to go back to sleep. Brooks, a past Emmy nominee, Tony nominee and Grammy winner who broke out in Orange Is the New Black, is nominated for her supporting actress work in the movie musical The Color Purple. Hers is the films sole nomination. She plays Sofia, an outspoken woman who knows her own worth and insists on her own autonomy, qualities that make her a target of racialized violence. She first played the part on Broadway in 2015, in a defiant, exuberant turn that The New York Times likened to a homemade steamroller. Her film work is perhaps ... More

Charles Osgood, lyrical newscaster on radio and TV, dies at 91
NEW YORK, NY.- Charles Osgood, a newscaster who told unconventional stories on the radio in unconventional ways sometimes with rhyme, sometimes with humor, often with both died Tuesday at his home in Saddle River, New Jersey. He was 91. The cause was dementia, CBS News reported, quoting his family. Osgood became a familiar face on television as the host of CBS Sunday Morning from 1994 to 2016. But his passion was the medium he had grown up listening to in the 1930s and 40s, so much so that he closed his TV broadcasts by saying, See you on the radio an oxymoron, to be sure, but one masked by the cleverness that his audiences had come to expect. He also used the phrase as the title of a book. On television, he was known for his trademark bow ties; on the radio, it was for his distinctive voice, most ... More

Artists who performed as the Soft Moon and Silent Servant die in Los Angeles
NEW YORK, NY.- Musician Jose (Luis) Vasquez of the post-punk band the Soft Moon, John (Juan) Mendez, the DJ known as Silent Servant, and a third person were found unresponsive at a loft apartment in downtown Los Angeles last week and were pronounced dead, according to their representatives and authorities in Los Angeles. Vasquezs death was announced in a post on the bands Facebook page on Friday. Records kept by the Los Angeles County coroner show that Jose Vasquez, 44, died at a residence the day before, Jan. 18. Triangle Agency, which represents Mendez, confirmed his death to the electronic music platform Resident Advisor. The Los Angeles County coroners office lists John Mendez, 46, as also having died on Jan. 18 at a residence. The coroners office said a third person, Simone Ling, 43, was also ... More

William Villalongo exhibition opens today at Grinnell College Museum of Art
GRINNELL, IOWA.- The exhibition William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations opens today at Grinnell College Museum of Art (GCMoA). Exhibition curator Daniel Strong will introduce the exhibition in a 4 pm gallery talk, followed by an opening reception. Both the talk and the reception are free and open to the public. Myths and Migrations will present more than 30 paintings, collages, and signature velour paper cut-outs by Villalongo, who was a 2021 recipient of the Rome Prize in the visual arts, awarded by the American Academy in Rome. Over the past 20 years, William Villalongo (b. 1975) has reconsidered history by examining who has been left out of the traditional canon of Western European art and history. According to Villalongo, we have a mythology of a kind of scarcity of Black Presence, a scarcity of Black power, ... More