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Well-made, and massively weird: A new theater season in Berlin
BERLIN.- It may be less polished and more rough-hewed than in New York, London or Paris, but Berlins theater scene is uniquely diverse, unpredictable and boundary-pushing. Buoyed by lavish public subsidies and boasting a fleet of remarkable actors and daring directors, it is also uncommonly accessible, thanks to low ticket prices and the growing popularity of English surtitles. This season, Berlins five main repertory theaters will present a total of 87 premieres, 29 of them at the Deutsches Theater, a storied playhouse that opened in 1883. Its new artistic director, Iris Laufenberg, opened her tenure by programing the German-language premiere of Suzie Millers Prima Facie, a recent hit on Broadway and the West End that won Tony and Olivier Awards, including for its star, Jodie Comer. Hungarian director Andras Domotor stages ... More

Group exhibition 'ORIGIN OF THE STONE' features artists from Central Europe now at Gandy Gallery
PRAGUE.- Gandy Gallery has now opened the important group exhibition, entitled ORIGIN OF THE STONE, featuring artists from Central Europe. It opened on October 10th and will be on view until December 8th, 2023. The curators of the exhibition are Jana PÃSAŘÃKOVÃ, Ondřej CHROBÃK, and Nadine GANDY. Could the stone be the author of the exhibition? Okay, weird question, let's try asking it another way: Could the stone be a co-author of the work? What is the role of stone in contemporary art anyway? When did it cease to be a mere material to be worked and become an entity in itself with its own meaning, symbolism, or perhaps even an artistic partner for conversation or wandering? The exhibition The Beginning of Stone tells the story of stones through the work of contemporary artists. It presents an interdisciplinary theme of ontological, ... More

Artistic and scientific perspectives presented in exhibition illustrating paths for ecosystemic recovery
FRANKFURT.- Without biodiversity, human existence on planet Earth would not be possible. However, this biodiversity has been declining for far too long, and at an alarming rate. This realisation unites the curatorial team of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, which has invited the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre and Frankfurt Zoo to collaborate in the form of an interdisciplinary partnership. The result is the new exhibition titled Bending the Curve Knowledge, Action, Caring for Biodiversity, which alludes to the concept of 'Bending the Curve of Biodiversity Loss'. The exhibition explores how the negative trend can be halted or even reversed. This issue is also the focus of the artistic and scientific perspectives presented in the exhibition, which illustrate paths and ideas for ecosystemic recovery and aim to catalyse ... More

Arizona Artist debuts 'Entangled Beauty' in solo exhibit at Jen Tough Gallery
SANTA FE, NM.- Jen Tough Gallery in Santa Fe, is presenting a new solo exhibit by abstract artist, Joan Maureen Collins. The exhibit, titled Entangled Beauty, is a new body of work by this masterful artist. The exhibit opened last week and runs through November 5. The Opening reception is on October 14. Throughout her twenty-eight year art career, Joan Maureen Collins observations of the natural world and the inspiration she receives from spending time in nature, have been a driving force behind her creativity. Her powerful and soulful abstract interpretations of these impressions of the land remind us of the fragility of our natural world. In her new series, Entangled Beauty, the artist hones in on the contrasts she has observed. Part of the exhibit includes works that were painted in the sea in Ireland. The artist ... More

GRIMM and Hales now showing 'Double Spar', dual solo exhibition by Anthony Cudahy
LONDON.- GRIMM and Hales opened 'Double Spar', a dual solo exhibition by Anthony Cudahy, this past 9 October 2023. Marking the artists first solo project in the UK, a new body of work will be on view at both GRIMMs Mayfair location and Hales Gallerys Shoreditch space.The exhibitions coincide with Frieze London and follow on from 'Conversation', Cudahys solo institutional debut at MusÃ©e des Beaux-Arts Dole (FR) and precedes his first US museum solo at Ogunquit Museum of American Art,MA (US). Cudahy is a painter whose tender scenes reveal the nuanced complexities of life. His work speaks to the legacy of figurative painting and portraiture, deftly combining historic references with contemporary life and human connection. Looking to allegorical paintings with multiple readings, motifs become a part of his visual lexicon, ... More

Review: 'Merrily We Roll Along,' finally found in the dark
NEW YORK, NY.- To be a fan of the work of Stephen Sondheim, as Frank Rich wrote in The New York Times, is to have ones heart broken at regular intervals. He meant not only that Sondheims songs are so often crushingly poignant but that the experience of loving them can feel unrequited. The shows they are in he was reviewing the original production of Merrily We Roll Along dont always love you back. That was in 1981, when Merrily, with a problematic book by George Furth, suffered an ignominious Broadway debut of just 16 performances after 44 previews. No matter that Sondheim, responding to the story of a songwriter, had written his most conspicuously tuneful score to date, prompting pop recordings by Frank Sinatra (Good Thing Going) and Barbra Streisand (Not a Day Goes By). It was universally ... More

Move over, Machu Picchu: There's more to see in Peru
NEW YORK, NY.- Elvis Lexin La Torre UÃ±accori knows quite well that a wonder of the world often creates a less-wondrous world of waste he is the mayor of Machu Picchu Pueblo, the gateway village to the bucket-list destination in Peru that draws millions of visitors (and their trash) each year. He shared this expertise in waste and waste management in February, at a two-day summit he organized about environmental and infrastructural advances at the Inca citadel. To 99 mayors and other municipal leaders from across Peru, La Torre spoke about a plastic bottle compactor, a glass bottle pulverizer and a processor his village developed for hotel and restaurant food scraps. But the main goal of the summit was larger than recycling and food waste initiatives; it was about disseminating effective practices for sustainable tourism across Peru, ... More

Breakers grapple with hip-hop's big Olympic moment
NEW YORK, NY.- The thumping music died to a whisper upon Alien Ness request. As the veteran breaker never break dancer stalked and snaked around the room, his many rings caught the spotlight that illuminated the dance floor. Alien Ness coached a few dozen amateurs men, women, Black, white, Asian during his footwork class before Red Bull BC Ones USA National Final, one of Americas biggest breaking competitions, held in August at the Fillmore Philadelphia. They say dance is a vocabulary, Alien Ness said, exhorting the dancers to contort and pretzel their bodies to spell their names. He added, If it feels like the letter, if it moves like the letter, then it is the letter. Alien Ness, a pioneering B-boy born Luis Martinez, joined the Mighty Zulu Kingz in the early 1980s when breaking, along with lyricism, turntablism ... More

Balanchine blue: A clean field for dance that says 'City Ballet'
NEW YORK, NY.- Its a numinous blue that suggests the sky, the sea, the infinite. Its a field poetic and abstract that sets off the eloquence of dancing bodies. The cerulean backdrop associated with the ballets of George Balanchine and New York City Ballet has come to seem so natural a setting for plotless ballet that we barely notice it. But at sunset on Wednesday its importance will be broadcast across New York City, Balanchines adopted home: The Empire State Building will light up with Balanchine Blue to celebrate the 75th anniversary of City Ballets first performance, on Oct. 11, 1948, at the City Center of Music and Drama. And at Lincoln Center, the companys home since 1964, the company, founded by Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein, will perform the program that it danced on that first night: Concerto Barocco, Orpheus ... More

'The Confessions' review: A mother's tale, told with empathy and care
NEW YORK, NY.- Minutes into The Confessions, a new production by British playwright and director Alexander Zeldin, the main character, Alice, says demurely, See, Im not interesting. I have nothing of interest to tell. How many women have said as much before sharing piercing experiences? Thankfully, Zeldin didnt take the woman on whom Alice is based his mother at her word. Instead, in The Confessions, which runs through Oct. 14 at the OdÃ©on-ThÃ©Ã¢tre de lEurope, in Paris, he re-creates her winding, painful path to a life of her own. (The show transfers to the National Theater, in London, and to the ComÃ©die de GÃ¨neve, in Geneva, later this fall.) While Zeldin is best known for his Inequalities trilogy, which explored the damage that government austerity policies have inflicted on ordinary British people, he has increasingly ... More

Watch that reached deepest place in world ocean surfaces at Heritage Watches & Fine Timepieces Auction
DALLAS, TX.- "It did its job." That seems like a modest standard for any piece of equipment, but the job of a watch wrapped around the wrist of Don Walsh was no ordinary day at the office. Walsh, a retired naval officer, spent the majority of his career exploring deep oceans and the polar regions as an oceanographer and ocean engineer. In January 1960, he and Swiss oceanographer and engineer Jacques Piccard piloted a deep submersible vessel, the bathyscaph Trieste, to the deepest place in the World Ocean: the Challenger Deep in Marianas Trench, some 200 miles (322 kilometers) southwest off the island of Guam. The mission reached an ultimate depth of 35,813 feet (10,916 meters) greater than the height of Mount Everest. During the expedition, which earned the cover of the February 15, 1960, ... More