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Polk Museum of Art explores the "meaning within" the work of celebrated New York photographer
LAKELAND, FLA.- The Polk Museum of Art welcomes the work of celebrated photographer John Pinderhughes into its galleries for an original, extraordinary retrospective exhibition entitled Finding Meaning Within: The Photography of John Pinderhughes, on view November 20, 2021 through February 24, 2022. Featuring four thought-provoking series of photographs, including his acclaimed Harlem Portraits and Pretty for a Black Girl, the exhibition showcases not only Pinderhughes broad reportorial eye but also his ability to find meaning and value in everything and every person he photographs. Through the years, Pinderhughes has gained a reputation as an award-winning commercial photographer. As one of the most in-demand African-American photographers today, Pinderhughes has worked with a number of major business clients that include Sony, BMW ... More

The novel that riveted France during lockdown arrives in the U.S.
PARIS.- An Air France flight from Paris to New York lands on March 10, 2021, after passing through a terrifying storm. One hundred and six days later, the same Boeing 787 flight with the same crew, the same passengers and the same damage from an identical storm approaches the east coast of the United States. Its impossible the passengers and crew must be doubles and yet. This is the crux of The Anomaly, a novel by HervÃ© Le Tellier that has become a French literary phenomenon, and is being released in translation in the United States by Other Press on Tuesday. France takes its books seriously. Author photographs advertising their latest works line the streets of Paris. Bookstores are everywhere. The Prix Goncourt, the countrys most prestigious literary prize, is a major annual event. Even so, The Anomaly is an outlier. Published in the late summer of 2020 ... More

"Displacement" by Rebecca Welz: A timely exhibition opens at the June Kelly Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- As sculptor Rebecca Welz was in the process of creating the Displacement series during the winter of 2020-2021, global crises continued to contribute to the displacement of thousands upon thousands of people. She wrote: My father was in the US Airforce and we moved a lot when I was growing up; 19 times in all. The houses changed but the objects inside stayed the same and were placed in different configurations. Observing the impact of pulling up roots and resettling so many times led me to consider, unlike my family, those who are forced to move. The Displacement series is a tribute to the millions of people who have been displaced from their homes due to political unrest, tyranny, genocide, economic hardship, famine and lack of resources in their native countries. Many people are forced to leave their homes as a last resort for survival without ... More

Revered filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki stars in Heritage Auctions' smash sequel to Art of Anime
DALLAS, TX.- Anime fans and collectors will find must-have treasures in Heritage Auctions' Art of Anime and Everything Cool II Animation Art SignatureÂ® Auction Dec. 10-13. The event will feature more than 700 anime lots, including items from legendary anime properties, among them Akira, Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon. The timing of this event could not be better: Just this week, The New York Times broke the news that Hayao Miyazaki will emerge from retirement at age 80 to direct one final film for Studio Ghibli, the animation company he founded in 1985 with filmmaker Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki. The announcement has been met online with nothing short of rapturous celebration. There are dozens of works from Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli in this auction, among them production cels from some of their masterpieces, among them 1988's My Neighbor Totoro ... More

Ammo belt once owned by outlaw Jesse James hits bullseye at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Collectors of Old West and its outlaws, arms and armor, and history will line up to take aim at a gun cartridge belt once owned by one of the nation's most infamous outlaws when it crosses the block in Heritage Auctions' Arms & Armor, Civil War & Militaria Signature Auction Dec. 12. This belt (estimate: $15,000-25,000) was well used by the legendary Jesse James, and it once belonged to Wilbur Zink, who spent the majority of his life collecting Western art and Missouri outlaw memorabilia; in 2008, Wilbur was awarded the Western Outlaw-Lawman Association Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the preservation of the history of the Wild West. Zink obtained it from Harry Hoffman, a lifelong friend and associate of Jesse James, Jr., and considered it one of his most prized possessions. Hoffman's lifelong collection included only a carefully curated ... More

Grinch's 55-year birthday to highlight 'Everything Cool Volume II' section of Heritage Animation Art Auction
DALLAS, TX.- No matter how shrewd and savvy a collector may be, there is no need to choose between quantity and quality when it comes to The Art of Anime and Everything Cool Volume II Animation Art SignatureÂ® Auction at Heritage Auctions Dec. 10-13. The Animation Art departments fourth Signature event of the year is the first to span four days a distinction made necessary by the deluge of outstanding offerings among the more than 1,500 lots that will cross the block. This is an incredible event, with choices as varied as the people who collect them, Heritage Auctions Vice President and Animation Art Director Jim Lentz said. The record prices in our Art of Disneyland/Art of the Disney Storybook Auction, the record prices in our inaugural Art of Anime and Everything Cool Auction and the Animation Art sale in August, which brought a record $4.5 million, all underscore the surging ... More

The Brooklyn Museum announces new curators of American art and modern and contemporary art
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum announced two new curatorial appointments. Stephanie Sparling Williams has been appointed the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art, and Kimberli Gant has been appointed the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Stephanie and Kimberli are exceptional additions to our curatorial team, and were thrilled to welcome them to the Museum. Their expertise and ambitions to bring new perspectives to the field will undoubtedly strengthen our work to engage in critical conversations and expand the stories we tell, says Anne Pasternak, Shelby White and Leon Levy Director, Brooklyn Museum. Sparling Williams will join the staff in December 2021. As the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art, Sparling Williams will oversee the interpretation and presentation of one of the Museums oldest and most celebrated collections ... More

The Met Opera's 'Eurydice' tries to raise the dead
NEW YORK, NY.- What does it sound like when youre dead? There are strange high-pitched noises, a character in Sarah Ruhls play Eurydice writes to his daughter, who is still in the land of the living, like a teakettle always boiling over. Slippery, curdling tones, as if you were hearing sour milk being poured, score our first visit to the underworld in Ruhl and composer Matthew Aucoins teeming, wearying adaptation of the 2003 play, which had its Metropolitan Opera premiere Tuesday. Ruhl and Aucoins ambition, to offer a contemporary vision of the story of Orpheus and his attempt to rescue his wife from oblivion, resonates to the very origins of this art form. Jacopo Peris Euridice, from 1600, is the earliest surviving opera, and Claudio Monteverdis Orfeo, written a few years later, is the earliest still regularly performed. Orpheus operas clutter the next four centuries ... More

Margo Guryan, whose album drew belated acclaim, dies at 84
NEW YORK, NY.- In the late 1990s, Margo Guryans husband, David Rosner, opened an envelope that had come in the mail from Japan, and the two of them were surprised by what it contained: a royalty check generated by sales of Guryans album Take a Picture. The surprise was that the record her only album at that point had been released about three decades earlier, in 1968. Guryan was still carrying the memory of seeing it, not long after its release, languishing in the discount bin at a New York record store. The album, full of Guryans rhythmically complex yet beguilingly melodic songs about love, had died a quick death because Guryan, an enthusiastic songwriter but a reluctant performer, had declined her record companys request to promote it by touring and making television appearances. Yet somehow decades later, with the digital age facilitating both word ... More

Slide Hampton, celebrated trombonist, composer and arranger, dies at 89
NEW YORK, NY.- Slide Hampton, a jazz trombonist, composer and arranger who arrived on the scene at the end of the bebop era and remained in demand for decades afterward, was found dead Saturday at his home in Orange, New Jersey. He was 89. His grandson Richard Hampton confirmed the death. Slide Hampton made his name in the late 1950s with bands led by Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson and others. He was considered a triple threat not just a virtuoso trombonist but also the creator of memorable compositions and arrangements. He won Grammy Awards for his arrangements in 1998 and in 2005, the same year the National Endowment for the Arts named him a Jazz Master. During the 1980s, he led a band called the World of Trombones that consisted of up to nine trombones and a rhythm section. Big, brassy jazz was out of favor at the time, but by then he had ... More

Rare 17th Century Celestial Globe at Museo Galileo in Florence restored thanks to Friends of Florence
FLORENCE.- The Museo Galileo in Florence unveiled its newly restored celestial globe of by Hondius Jr. and Adriaen Veen in 1613. The eight-month restoration of the wood and papier-mÃ¢chÃ© globeincluding research and scientific analysiswas made possible by Friends of Florence thanks to a generous gift from Catharin Dalpino who dedicated it to her father, Lt. Col. Milton DalPino. The project was conducted by the Officina del Restauro under the scientific direction of the Museo Galileo and under the supervision of the Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la CittÃ Metropolitana di Firenze e le Province di Pistoia e Prato. The project was presented in 2020 at the 5th edition of the Friends of Florence Restoration Prize Salone dellArte e del Restauro. The restoration has resulted in the recovery of perfect legibility of the constellations, their identifications ... More