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'Natia Lemay: Nineteen Eighty-Five' opening at Yossi Millo
NEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo is presenting Nineteen Eighty-Five, Natia Lemays debut solo exhibition in New York and first with the gallery. Opening on Thursday, May 11 and on view through Saturday, June 17, the exhibition will present new works exploring psychological, metaphysical, and material spaces of home. Natia Lemay engages her practice as a means of building new notions of home. Hailing from Tkaronto (Toronto), Canada, the artist navigated much of her childhood through insecure housing and environments of drug use, impeding a firm sense of home from ever fully forming. This precarious and formative period of the artists life exists only in the realm of memory, as she possesses almost no photographs from those years. Revisiting and processing these memories as an adult, Lemay paints images and visions of herself ... More

Counterpublic in St. Louis pushes the public-art envelope
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Counterpublic, the innovative public art exhibition in this city that is holding its second edition this spring, cultivates its distinctiveness. Its first iteration, in 2019, was a hyperlocal concept: a triennial at storefront scale, bringing projects by St. Louis and national artists to parks, bakeries and taquerias on Cherokee Street, on the citys south side. This year it follows again a geographic method. But its footprint is much bigger, with 37 commissions along a 6-mile axis. They range from monumental to barely-there. Some are made to stay. Damon Davis, who earned notice for his art around the 2014 Ferguson, Missouri, protests, has built a tribute to Mill Creek Valley, the bustling hub of Black St. Louis that the city abruptly razed in 1959. It is a major public sculpture with eight pillars that embed names and memories of residents. They ... More

Asked to delete references to racism from her book, an author refused
NEW YORK, NY.- It was the most personal story that Maggie Tokuda-Hall had ever written: the tale of how her grandparents met and fell in love at an incarceration camp in Idaho that held Japanese Americans during World War II. The book, called Love in the Library, is aimed at 6- to 9-year-olds. Published last year by a small childrens publisher, Candlewick Press, it drew glowing reviews, but sales were modest. So Tokuda-Hall was thrilled when Scholastic, a publishing giant that distributes books and resources in 90% of schools, said last month it wanted to license her book for use in classrooms. When Tokuda-Hall read the details of the offer, she felt deflated then outraged. Scholastic wanted her to delete references to racism in America from her authors note, in which she addresses readers directly. The decision was wrenching, Tokuda- ... More

A 19-year-old pianist electrifies audiences. But he's unimpressed.
NEW YORK, NY.- After six hours of sleep and a breakfast of milk and curry rice, Yunchan Lim, the South Korean pianist, was in a rehearsal studio at Lincoln Center on Tuesday morning working through a treacherous passage of Rachmaninoff. A little bit faster, Lim, in a black sweatshirt and sneakers, said casually to the conductor, James Gaffigan, as they prepared for Lims New York Philharmonic debut this week. Gaffigan laughed. Usually pianists want the opposite! the conductor said. Lim shy, soft-spoken and bookish stunned the music world last year when, at 18, he became the youngest winner in the history of the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Texas. His victory made him an immediate sensation; a video of his performance of Sergei Rachmaninoffs Piano Concerto No. 3 in the finals has been viewed ... More

Museum of the City of New York names Angel (Monxo) Santiago-LÃ³pez as Curator of Community Histories
NEW YORK, NY.- Museum of the City of New Yorkthe citys storyteller for 100 yearsannounced the appointment of Angel (Monxo) Santiago-LÃ³pez as Curator of Community Histories. In this newly created role funded by a recent Leadership in Art Museums grant through the Mellon Foundation Dr. LÃ³pez will be responsible for projects illuminating the history of the diverse neighborhoods, communities, and cultures of New York, working in active collaboration with community members to shape the priorities, content, and interpretation of their histories. He shifts into this new position from his most recent as Associate Curator at the Museum, notably becoming the institutions first Latinx permanent curator. An urban thinker, educator, and cartographer based in the South Bronx, Monxo first came to MCNY as a Mellon Fellow, ... More

The Art Assembly appoints Craig Brown as Director of Gallery Relations (US & Europe)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Assembly announced that Craig Brown has been appointed to the newly created position of Gallery Relations (US & Europe). The Art Assembly is an affiliation of major international art fairs with a particular focus on the Asia Pacific region comprising Taipei Dangdai, India Art Fair, Sydney Contemporary, PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, ART SG and the forthcoming Tokyo Gendai. Reporting to Magnus Renfrew, Co-Chairman & Global Director of The Art Assembly, Brown will work closely with the Founders and Fair Directors to further strengthen the participation of European and American galleries across The Art Assemblys portfolio of fairs. Brown brings extensive art fair experience, most recently as Fair Director for Masterpiece. Brown has experience working in Asia having served as Director of Galleries & Programming ... More

Setting the stage for Africa at the Venice Architecture Biennale
NEW YORK, NY.- For most of her life, Ghanaian Scottish architect and educator Lesley Lokko, curator of the forthcoming Venice Architecture Biennale, has moved between worlds. She grew up in both Accra, the capital, with its two seasons and hot steady climate, and cool coastal Dundee. Scotland was shiver, she recalled. Ghana was sweat. Her ability to inhabit and interpret multiple worlds is a talent that Lokko, 59, the Architecture Biennales first curator of African descent, is bringing to The Laboratory of the Future, an ambitious exploration of Africas impact on the globe and vice versa. More than half the Biennales 89 participants are from Africa or the African diaspora many of them shape-shifters, as Lokko calls them, whose work transcends traditional definitions of architecture as well as geography. Among ... More

A senior tradition you might not know about
NEW YORK, NY.- Fashion designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla bought her first pair of senior corduroy pants from a vintage-clothing seller in 2013 when she was a senior at the New School. The pants style had by then been around for more than a century. Senior cords seem to have first appeared at Purdue University in Indiana in the early 1900s, according to an archivist at the university, and evolved to become a sort of wearable yearbook for college and high school seniors in the state. The students would use corduroy clothes typically pants and skirts in cream or yellow as canvases that were illustrated with favorite activities, sweethearts initials and other personal details. The practice continued for decades before it started to die out in the 1970s. In 2018, about two years after Bode Aujla started her ready-to-wear brand ... More