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Broadway and West End Theater owners agree to join forces
NEW YORK, NY.- Jujamcyn Theaters, the smallest of the three big Broadway landlords, is combining its operations with a large British company, the Ambassador Theater Group, or ATG. The transaction, confirmed Tuesday by Jujamcyn and International Entertainment Holdings Limited, which is ATGs parent company, would give ATG, which already operates two of the 41 Broadway houses, a more sizable foothold in the heart of Americas theater industry, and would give Jujamcyn President Jordan Roth more resources for showcasing his creative ambitions. Jujamcyn operates five Broadway houses; ATG has 58 venues in Britain, Germany and the United States. The companies said that the transaction is subject to regulatory approval, but did not say by what entity and in which country. No financial terms were specified. Roth, one of the most colorful characters on Broadway ... More

Hugh Hudson, director of 'Chariots of Fire,' dies at 86
NEW YORK, NY.- Hugh Hudson, a director whose first feature film, Chariots of Fire, won four Oscars in 1982, including for best picture, died Friday in London. He was 86. His family announced the death to the British news media but did not cite a cause. Chariots of Fire, based on the true story of two British sprinters who competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, was nominated for seven Oscars and won four, including for composer Vangelis musical score and for the screenplay by Colin Welland, as well as for costume design. Hudson was nominated for best director but lost to Warren Beatty, the director of Reds. Hugh Hudson was the fulcrum around which Chariots of Fire was built, David Puttnam, the films producer, wrote on Twitter after Hudsons death. Hudson had an affinity for the leading characters of his film: Eric Liddell ... More

"Printing the Revolution: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now" opens at the Hood Museum of Art
HANOVER, NH.- The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College presents the Smithsonian American Art Museums (SAAM) traveling exhibition Â¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now, on view from February 4 through June 17, 2023. Drawn from SAAMs permanent collection, this exhibition features 119 artworks by more than 74 artists of Mexican descent and allied artists active in Chicanx networks. Originally organized by E. Carmen Ramos, former acting chief curator and curator of Latinx art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, with Claudia Zapata, former curatorial assistant for Latinx art, the exhibition is presented at the Hood Museum by Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate ... More

New Conservation Director announced for Old Royal Naval College
GREENWICH.- The Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College announced the appointment of Mark Hosea as Director of Estates and Conservation. Mark will provide strategic leadership for the Old Royal Naval Colleges conservation programme, ensuring excellence in the care and presentation of the historically significant buildings including the Painted Hall, its grounds and collections. Along with Chief Executive Matthew Mees, and the senior management team, he will plan and progress the next series of major development projects at the UNESCO World Heritage site. This includes unlocking hidden under-utilised assets and bringing more of them into meaningful use, as well as developing inspiring and engaging experiences for a broad range of audiences. The Old Royal Naval College site in 17 acres of public space in the heart of Greenwich, with Grade I and Grade II ... More

'Cornelia Street' review: A musical with local ambitions
NEW YORK, NY.- Midcentury novelist Dawn Powell, Greenwich Villages great chronicler, wrote that there are three stages a person goes through when negotiating its twisty streets first enthusiasm (Bohemia oh thrills!), then cynicism (Bah! Village theatricals!), then resigned acceptance (After all the Village is the Village when alls said and done). Cornelia Street, a fidgety, aimless new musical, is set on one of the Villages quainter lanes. It goes through every stage, all at once. Written by Simon Stephens with music and lyrics by Mark Eitzel and directed by Neil Pepe for the Atlantic Theaters subterranean space, the show is simultaneously celebration, deflation and a neighborhood elegy in a minor key. It plays out amid and atop the rickety tables and sturdier bar of Martys CafÃ©, a struggling Village restaurant. The show has deep affection for this (mostly) ... More

albertz benda opens a group exhibition bringing together seven artists
LOS ANGELES, CA.- albertz benda Los Angeles is presenting, Do You See Me?, a group exhibition bringing together seven artists ongoing explorations of identity through their respective mediums of painting, collage, and sculpture. Engaging with figuration to explore their own subjectivities, these artists embrace representation to further social, political, and theoretical dialogues. Oklahoma-based painter Robert Peterson focuses on capturing the quiet heroism of daily life within Black communities. Peterson paints skin with a striking emphasis on bold color and strong contrasts. The result is a polychromatic, joyous, and exuberant expression of love for Blackness itself. Similarly entranced by the beauty of Black bodies and the prismatic quality of light, Lanise Howard integrates her female protagonists within fantastical, idyllic nature scenes ... More

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale announces new exhibition: Picturing Fame
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.- NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is presenting Picturing Fame, comprised of four concurrent exhibitions which ruminate on the subject of fame and celebrity. Exhibitions include Toulouse-Lautrec and the Follies of Fame, with original drawings, etchings and posters by post-impressionist French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; Emilio Martinez: Van Gogh, Lautrec and Me, the first solo museum show for Honduras-born, Miami-based artist Emilio Martinez; Hooray for Hollywood, which features a Frida Kahlo self-portrait and works by Andy Warhol, Catherine Opie, Enoc Perez, among others; and The Swans, comprised of imaginative vignettes that mix Karen Kilimniks romantic paintings featuring movie stars and fashion models with selections from Stephanie Seymours collection of vintage haute couture pieces ... More

A performance artist pushes the boundaries of drag
NEW YORK, NY.- The Market Hotel, a gritty music club in Brooklyn that shakes every time the subway rumbles overhead, gets its share of rowdy performances. But even its hardened patrons were not prepared for the spectacle of Christeene, a self-described drag terrorist who held an album release party on a recent Wednesday night. As discordant jazz notes erupted, Christeene waltzed through the dark graffiti-splattered room wearing a leotard made of ripped pantyhose, a stringy black wig, makeup resembling zombie war paint and aquamarine contacts that gave her eyes a radioactive glow. All of us are dealing with something, she said, before singing ballads about self-destruction and venereal diseases. Whatever youre dealing with, throw it to me on this stage. Christeene is the drag alter ego of Paul Soileau, 46 ... More

Exhibition brings together a selection of Martin Creed's Step Paintings from the past 12 years
ST. MORITZ.- Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz is presenting Step Paintings by Martin Creed, Turner Prize-winning artist, performer, composer and Punk poet. Colors can help you feel better says Creed, paintings are the arrangement of colors for pleasure. In Creeds Step Paintings, colors build up like a staircase to heaven, like a wedding cake, like favorite socks in a drawer, like a house on an island in the middle of the sea. Creed has become known for hugely varied work, which is by turns uncompromising, entertaining, shocking and beautiful. The exhibition brings together a selection of Creeds Step Paintings from the past 12 years, alongside four neon works. Music, talks and theatrical presentations are an important element of Creeds work. These include Life is Soft and Words And Music, both improvised one-person shows which ran at the Edinburgh Festival in 20 ... More

'Ingrid Wiener, Martin Roth: From far away you see more' opens at Kunsthaus Graz
GRAZ.- Two artists, two generations. And two first major institutional retrospectives that complement each other in their conceptual approaches and shake up the central perspective on humans. The centre no longer exists, says Rosi Braidotti, the great philosopher of the posthuman. Instead, there is the factor of time and a pressing question of the responsibility and solidarity of the individual. The exhibition juxtaposes two positions that see the environment, the world around us, as a growing symbiosis. Disciplines are questioned, expanded and interwoven. One artist weaves what she sees, she draws and writes what she dreams, takes photos from a plane and is famous for her cooking. The other, almost two generations younger, begins with painting, expands it, builds landscapes and devotes himself to conceptual art and minimal art from the perspective of all living things ... More

Florida College cancels concert over gay singer, drawing backlash
NEW YORK, NY.- The Kings Singers, a renowned British a cappella ensemble, looked forward to its appearance last week at Pensacola Christian College in Florida, the final stop on the groups four-city tour of the United States. Instead, the college informed the ensemble two hours before the concert was to begin Saturday that it was being canceled because of concerns about what it called the lifestyle of a singer, who is gay. Students, parents and staff members had complained to the administration, saying that hosting the group would run counter to the colleges Baptist values. The schools decision has drawn backlash, with artists, gay rights activists and the ensembles fans denouncing the college for homophobia and discrimination. The Kings Singers issued a statement Monday expressing hope that any conversations that follow might encourage a greater sense of love ... More