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The Henry Art Gallery presents an exhibition of Diana Al-Hadid's work
SEATTLE, WA.- The Henry Art Gallery announces Diana Al-Hadid: Archive of Longings, on view alongside Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas. Al-Hadids work explores the interplay between the female body and the European art canon; Syrian, Muslim, and immigrant histories and mythologies; and architectural icons and the natural world. Born in 1981 in Aleppo, Syria, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Al-Hadid creates artworks that speak to her interest in the melding of cultures and the translation of disparate narratives. This monographic exhibition will consist of a selection of 13 sculptural works made between 2010 and 2021 brought into interpretive grouping for the first time. Together the sculptures identify the artists investigation of historical, mythological, and biblical narratives of women as a fundamental through-line of her practice. ... More

Major survey of Midwestern artists premieres at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI, OH.- This winter, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kemper Museum) in Kansas City, MO premiered a major exhibition dedicated to artists living and working throughout Midwestern America. The Regional is the first major multi-museum survey dedicated to contemporary artists based in the Midwest and features new and recent work, including several site-responsive commissions, by more than 20 artists working across painting, photography, installation, and performance. Showcasing artists that represent a wide variety of backgrounds, concerns, and approaches-including Conrad Egyir, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Gisela McDaniel, Devan Shimoyama, Alice Tippit, and Jordan WeberThe Regional celebrates the artistic and cultural complexity of the Midwest, offering ... More

Californians remember Joan Didion
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Shortly after Joan Didions death late last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed that she had been the best living writer in California. A fifth-generation Californian, Didion was raised in Sacramento, earned an English degree at U.C. Berkeley and lived for years in Los Angeles. Her career took off in New York, but it was her keen observations of her home state that often struck a chord with readers. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears, Didion wrote in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, her 1968 collection of essays. California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension. After Didions death, New York Times readers shared how her 60-year career affected their understanding of their own lives and the world around them. ... More

J.D. Crowe, banjo virtuoso and bluegrass innovator, dies at 84
NEW YORK, NY.- J.D. Crowe, a master banjo player and bandleader who expanded the sound of bluegrass while attracting some of the genres most prodigiously gifted musicians into his groups, died Friday at his home in Nicholasville, Kentucky. He was 84. The death was confirmed by his friend Frank Godbey, who said Crowe had recently been hospitalized for pneumonia. Godbeys wife, Marty Godbey, who died in 2010, was the author of Crowe on the Banjo: The Music Life of J.D. Crowe (2011). As the leader of the Kentucky Mountain Boys in the 1960s and J.D. Crowe & the New South in the 70s, Crowe was among the first musicians to adapt rock and R&B to a bluegrass setting. Built around his impeccable tone and timing as a banjoist, the resulting hybrid was a harbinger of both the freewheeling newgrass movement of the 70s and the bluegrass-aligned ... More

Keri Hulme, New Zealand's first Booker Prize winner, dies at 74
NEW YORK, NY.- Keri Hulme, the Maori writer who became the first New Zealander to win the prestigious Booker Prize with her luminous debut novel, The Bone People, securing her place in the countrys literary canon, died Monday at a residential care home in Waimate, New Zealand. She was 74. The cause of death was complications from dementia, said Bruce Harding, her friend and literary biographer. When a British literary critic phoned her about her prize in 1985 from the award ceremony in London, which she did not attend, Hulme responded over a crackly connection. You are pulling my leg, arent you? she said. Then she concluded, Oh bloody hell. Published in 1984, The Bone People is the brutal, lyrical story of the friendship among a mute child, his abusive foster father, and the Maori hermit and lapsed painter Kerewin Holmes, ... More

Juliette Lewis, an 'Imagination Freak Fairy,' knows her worth
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Lately, Juliette Lewis has been thinking about being invincible. Shes not, of course witness the soft knee brace encircling her right, faux-leather-clad leg. Coming off a challenging shoot for the breakout Showtime psychological thriller Yellowjackets amid COVID isolation in Canada, Lewis made a beeline for a sunny getaway and promptly overdid it physically. She tore her ACL and meniscus, injuries common in athletes but in her case stemming from the years she spent doing exuberant stage dives and high kicks with her rock band, Juliette and the Licks. Invincibility was one of the theme words she gave to Cubs the Poet, a family member serving as the artist-in-residence at the Ace Hotel here; he writes poems on the spot. Too much vigor and enthusiasm, she told him, describing why she was now limping around New ... More

An interview with a man described as a modern-day Darwin
NEW YORK, NY.- Edward Osborne Wilson was one of the great biologists of the 20th century, a classical naturalist drawn to wild places. He was the worlds foremost specialist in the biology of ants. But his mind and talent ranged far beyond insects. He was a profound thinker who developed major theories in ecology and evolution. He became an unlikely celebrity, taking center stage in two controversies of 20th-century science. Over the course of his career, he won nearly every major award in science and two Pulitzer Prizes. The New York Times sat down with him in his office at Harvard in March 2008 for an interview to discuss his life and how his love of science grew out of his love of the natural world. Wilson: Future generations are going to forgive us our horrible genocidal wars, because itll pass too ... More

Kehrer Verlag publishes Jeffrey A. Wolin's 'Faces of Homelessness'
NEW YORK, NY.- Homelessness takes many forms beyond living on the streets. Factors besides mental illness and addiction contribute to the problem.There are homeless veterans;families who were evicted when their residences were foreclosed on; people with sudden medical expenses that insurance didnt cover. Job loss, divorce, death of a spouse or parent, domestic violence, discrimination based on sexual orientation, lack of affordable housing, etc., all drive homelessness. There are working poor who live in vehicles or tents and work full-time jobs. Most people experiencing homelessness are invisible, living doubled up with friends or family, in shelters, hospitals or Single Room Occupancy hotels. Jeffrey A. Wolin photographs and interviews a wide swath of this vulnerable population and includes their ownwords directly on their portraits to dispel ... More

The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents a new body of work created by Ahmed Alsoudani
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Fabric Workshop and Museum is presenting Ahmed Alsoudani: Bitter Fruit, on view from November 12, 2021 through May 1, 2022. The culmination of the artists two-year residency, the exhibition debuts a new body of sculptural works created in collaboration with FWM. Known for his vibrant, expressionistic paintings that allude to both shared and specific lived experiences, including the sustained exposure to violence society endures, Alsoudani collaborated with The Fabric Workshop and Museum's team of studio artists to translate the organic forms from his drawings into an array of large-scale sculptures. Created between FWM and the artists studio, and then hand painted by Alsoudani, these forms are placed throughout the gallery as though growing directly from the space itself. Alsoudanis interest in experimentation ... More

Centre Pompidou presents an exhibition of works by Pierre Bismuth
PARIS.- This exhibition by Pierre Bismuth, who was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1963 and lives and works in Brussels, opens with a title in the form of a paradox, subverting a famous declaration by German artist Joseph Beuys (Â«Everyone is an artistÂ»). It combines emblematic works by the French artist with others specially designed for the occasion, and offers an original approach to his work, one of the most singular artistic enterprises of the contemporary scene. Pierre Bismuth has no favourite domain of intervention, but gladly uses film extracts as well as works by other artists and found images. He is the only French artist to have been distinguished by Hollywood with an Oscar (awarded jointly in 2005 to Bismuth, Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman for the scenario of Gondrys film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Pierre Bismuth has used various ... More

David Wagoner, prolific poet of the Northwest, is dead at 96
NEW YORK, NY.- David Wagoner, a leading figure in poetry circles, especially in the Pacific Northwest, who turned a keen eye on nature, his childhood and numerous other subjects in more than 20 volumes published across half a century, died Dec. 18 at a nursing home in Edmonds, Washington. He was 96. His wife, Robin Seyfried, confirmed the death. Wagoner, who taught for decades at the University of Washington, also wrote novels, one of which, The Escape Artist (1965), about a teenage magician, was turned into a 1982 movie starring Griffin ONeal. But he was best known for poetry. In 1991 he won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious in the field. In 1991, poet Rita Dove, one of the judges in the Lilly competition, told The Seattle Post-Intelligencer why she thought Wagoner deserved that prize. He has never imitated himself, she ... More