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Exhibition revisits Alex Webb's pioneering work in color over the past four decades
PARIS.- Magnum Photos presents Alex Webb: The Suffering of Light, the latest exhibition at its new Paris Gallery on rue LÃ©on Frot in the 11th arrondissement. The show revisits the American photographers pioneering work in color over the past four decades, including images from his seminal monograph, The Suffering of Light. The Suffering of Light was originally published by Aperture in 2011, and was Webbs first comprehensive survey book, presenting 120 of his most iconic images from his travels in Southern America, Africa, India, Europe, and beyond. Webb began his career as a photographer in the 1970s, making pictures of the American social landscape in the streets of New England and New York, working exclusively in black and white. In the preface to The Suffering of Light, he describes having reached a kind of dead ... More

Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero appointed as Artistic Directors of the 24th Biennale of Sydney
SYDNEY.- The Biennale of Sydney is delighted to announce Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero as the Artistic Directors of the 24th Biennale of Sydney, which will take place 9 March 10 June 2024. Barbara Moore, Chief Executive Officer, Biennale of Sydney said: I am thrilled to be working with Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero - highly respected curators both together and independently with a deep understanding of the international and Australian creative landscapes. The Biennale of Sydney is a participatory platform designed to present the best in contemporary art from around the world, inviting discussion and shared learning about the joys and challenges of our time. I look forward to seeing their collaborative vision develop and sharing their Biennale with our global community in March 2024. Cosmin Costinaș is currently ... More

Hannah Traore Gallery presents 'Camila Falquez: Gods That Walk Among Us'
NEW YORK, NY.- Hannah Traore Gallery is presenting Gods That Walk Among Us, the first solo exhibition of New York-based photographer Camila Falquez, on view from June 2-July 9, 2022. Born in Mexico and raised in Spain, Colombian photographer Camila Falquez creates photographs that harness the traditions of fashion and portrait photography to honor a contemporary spectrum of social and gender diversity. Channeling the conventions of surrealism and a painterly color palette, she creates an empowering vision that ushers in the narratives of community, humanity, liberation and visibility. Falquez does nothing quietly. In Gods That Walk Among Us, rather than merely venture outside of preconceived notions of gender, power and beauty, her vibrant portraits forcibly push back against them. In her own words: "What if beauty ... More

Major exhibition of large-scale sculpture by Anthony Caro on view at Roche Court Sculpture Park
EAST WINTERSLOW.- The New Art Centre announced a major exhibition of large-scale sculpture by Anthony Caro, set within the landscape at Roche Court. Installed throughout the park, the show features seven works dating from the 1970s to the 2000s which together speak to Caros marriage of sculpture and architecture; to his interest in physical and emotional presence; and to how sculpture on a large scale can create a sense of place, both within itself and through interaction with its surroundings. These large outdoor works are complemented by a display of four painted steel sculptures from the 1960s and 70s the works through which Caro initially found his own unique voice and made his international reputation. These works have been installed in the award-winning glass-fronted gallery, which looks out onto ... More

Walter Abish, daring writer who pondered Germany, dies at 90
NEW YORK, NY.- Walter Abish, a widely admired if not widely read American author of experimental fiction whose early life drew a parabola of hasty escapes from hostile forces in Nazi-era Austria and revolutionary China, died Saturday in the New York City borough of Manhattan. He was 90. Amos Gelb, his nephew, on Tuesday confirmed the death, at Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital, but did not specify a cause. Though he has published relatively late and little, John Updike wrote in a review of Abishs memoir, Double Vision: A Self-Portrait, in The New Yorker in 2004, he projects a distinctive presence in contemporary letters. Abish was in his early 40s when his first novel, Alphabetical Africa (1974), was published, striking a provocative and iconoclastic tone. Its first and last chapters use only words beginning with the ... More

Becoming Johnny Rotten, when John Lydon would rather you didn't
LONDON.- Anson Boon gave playing Johnny Rotten everything he had, including a front tooth. Boon embodies the punk frontman in Pistol, a new limited series charting the meteoric rise and fall of Rottens band the Sex Pistols, and the tooth was lost re-creating one of Rottens most animated performances, the 22-year-old actor said. I slammed my face into the microphone by accident. Sitting in a north London park, a mile from where Rotten grew up, Boon reeled off a list of other injuries sustained over six months of filming: He fractured his coccyx when he fell over a drum kit; zealous singing dislocated his jaw; he spent several hours a day hunched over to emulate the musicians posture, and still has back pain from it today. This roll call is, in some ways, appropriate. Rotten who now goes by his real name, ... More

Eurovision winners auction off trophy to support Ukraine's army
NEW YORK, NY.- Ukraines victory at the Eurovision Song Contest brought national pride, joy and artistic prestige to the country amid the devastation of war. Now, it will also help supply drones to the Ukrainian army. Kalush Orchestra, a Ukrainian band that won Eurovision after sweeping the phone-in popular vote, put up for auction its trophy and the pink bucket hat worn by its lead singer during the contest, and the items netted more than $1.2 million, the bands spokesperson said in a statement Monday. We believe that this is only the first victory before our biggest victory over the Russian aggressor, lead singer Oleh Psiuk said in a Telegram message. The money is going to the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation, an organization founded by a Ukrainian TV presenter, and will be used to buy three drones that the army can ... More

Alan White, who drummed with Yes and ex-Beatles, dies at 72
NEW YORK, NY.- Alan White, a seasoned rock drummer who had worked with two former Beatles by the time he turned 21, but who was best known for his long tenure with the pioneering British progressive-rock band Yes, died Thursday at his home in the Seattle area. He was 72. His death was announced by his family. The announcement did not specify a cause, saying only that he died after a brief illness. News of Whites death came just days after Yes announced that he would not be taking part in the bands upcoming tour of Britain, which begins on June 13. He had been a member of Yes since 1972, but, the band noted in a statement, a number of health setbacks had restricted his time onstage since 2016, with Jay Schellen doing most of the drumming and White joining the band late in each set. Alan White was born ... More

In Los Angeles, a tree with stories to tell
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In 1920s Los Angeles, a young boy refined his talents in the backyard of his familys modest bungalow running and jumping, running and jumping. The hard work got him far, all the way to the Olympics twice, in fact: first to the Games in Los Angeles in 1932, and then four years later to Berlin. It was in Germany where the young man, Cornelius Johnson, had his greatest triumph, one that transcended sport, defined his short life and established him as an important figure in the pre-civil rights era. On the first day of competition in Berlin, Johnson became the U.S. first champion of the Games, winning gold in the high jump. In a photograph from the day, Johnson, a Black man, stands at the medal ceremony surrounded by Germans with outstretched arms, the familiar Nazi salute. In Johnsons hand was a gift from ... More

Chelsea F.C. player Alan Hudson to sell his 1970 F.A. cup final winners' medal at Noonans
LONDON.- The unique 1970 F.A. Cup Final Winners medal awarded to Alan Hudson, who made 145 first-team appearances for Chelsea F.C between 1969 and 1974, sang on the original Blue is the colour Chelsea anthem and later broke the English football transfer record when he joined Stoke City, will be offered for sale by Mayfair auctioneers Noonans, specialist auctioneers of coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery, on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 in a sale of Coins and Historic Medals. It is being sold by Mr Hudson and is estimated to fetch Â£20,000-30,000. The Cup Final replay, at Old Trafford on April 11 1970, is still considered the most brutal game in the history of English football. To this day it remains second only to the 1966 World Cup Final for viewing figures for a sports broadcast at 28 million, and is ranked among the ... More

The Polygon Gallery's Ghosts of the Machine dismantles binaries to unlock the true potential of the metaverse
VANCOUVER, BC.- The Polygon Gallery presents Ghosts of the Machine from June 3August 14, 2022, a new group exhibition by curator Elliott Ramsey that looks at the relationships between humans, technology, and ecology. Ghosts of the Machine features a new commission by Cease Wyss (SkwxwÃº7mesh), in addition to works by Ho Tzu Nyen, Juliana Huxtable, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Lu Yang, Skawennati, and Santiago Tamayo Soler. The term ghost in the machine refers to the mind-body duality: the idea of the mind as software inhabiting the body as hardware, says Ramsey, who curated Interior Infinite at The Polygon last summer. Such binaries arent real. The mind doesnt exist without ... More