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A car accident couldn't halt the saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin's rise
NEW YORK, NY.- In mid-September 2021, saxophonist and bandleader Lakecia Benjamin was driving home from a performance in Cleveland when her car slid off the highway, careened through a wooded area and flipped into a drainage ditch. I woke up the first time to somebody pulling me out of the car, trying to break it open, Benjamin, a bright light on the New York scene since the early 2010s, said through two masks on a recent Saturday morning at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Then I woke up in the hospital on a surgical table and them telling me, Youre going to be OK. I didnt know what happened or what was going on. The accident left the Washington Heights native with three broken ribs, a fractured scapula, a perforated eardrum, a concussion, neurological damage and worst of all a broken jaw, a severe blow to any horn player, let alone one with her intensity ... More

Innovative mixed-use Nelson Glass House adds housing density, responsibly
PRINCETON, NJ.- In a neighborhood just outside the central business district a transition zone mixing residential and commercial properties the site of a former glass-and-aluminum fabrication shop now features six elegant new apartments, set atop a reimagined commercial space hosting a coffee counter and a cigar bar. Designed by globally known, locally focused firm Joshua Zinder Architecture + Design (JZA+D) Nelson Glass House is maybe most notable for bringing a modern aesthetic to a street dominated by traditional architecture. Not only are neighbors delighted by the new housing and retail options, developers are taking note of the innovative approach to increasing density in areas where approvals for innovation are notoriously hard to wrangle. According to Joshua Zinder, AIA, LEED AP, funder and managing partner of JZA+D ... More

Smith College Museum of Art announces 2023 Artist in Residence Abdessamad El Montassir
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.- Artist Abdessamad El Montassir will join the Smith College Museum of Art as an Artist in Residence (AIR) from March 6 April 21, 2023. El Montassir practices art at the crossroads of research and creation. He creates photos and videos to revive buried histories of North Africa. His collaborations with scientists, citizens, and activists will bring a viewpoint rarely seen in the United States. El Montassirs engagement with the Smith College community adds to knowledge of Saharan, North African, and Middle Eastern scholarship and research processes. His residency will include a presentation to the public in Spring 2023. Emma Chubb, PhD, Charlotte Feng Ford '83 Curator of Contemporary Art, situates this residency within Smith Colleges unique collections and resources. SCMAs residency brings artists who are at a pivotal point in their careers ... More

Exhibition at CHOI&CHOI Gallery features new works by Jae Ho Jung
SEOUL.- CHOI&CHOI Gallery presents Jae Ho Jungs solo exhibition How long have I been I here, on view from 13 January through 25 February 2023. This is Jung's first solo exhibition with the gallery following the three-person show Moment to Monument in Cologne, 2020, and the group exhibitions Berlin meets Seoul and FLOWER in Berlin and Seoul in 2022. The artist is known for his realistic depictions of Industrial-era buildings that remain as remnants of Koreas history of modernisation. This exhibition features new works from his series portraying the area of Eulji-ro, Seoul, which he has continued over the years. Eulji-ro was developed during Korea's rapid period of economic growth. It contains traces of its dynamic history but has since become an aging time capsule after decades of neglect. In todays era where skyscrapers built through vast capital and wealth dominate ... More

The Ukrainian Museum presenting Yelena Yemchuk's first large-scale exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- The Ukrainian Museum is pleased to present the first large-scale exhibition of work by artist Yelena Yemchuk, and the debut of a haunting new short film shot in the Carpathian Mountains of her native Ukraine. The exhibition brings the modalities of life in Ukraine into focus, and broadens our understanding of this vivid and complex part of the world. It opened on 20th January and will continue until 16th April 2023. From teenagers on the Black Sea to a pagan-rooted festival, Yemchuks individual stories are positioned as driving narratives within her compositions. At first glance, her works demonstrate specific decisive moments, with the surrounding stories remaining elusive to the viewer. Seen together, they weave a compelling and moving visual story. As a child growing up in Kyiv, Yelena Yemchuk was fascinated by the reputation of Odesa as a place of freedom ... More

Dana-Fiona Armour's "A Tale of Symbiogenesis" now on view in Stockholm
STOCKHOLM.- AndrÃ©hn-Schiptjenko opened this past January 12th "A Tale of Symbiogenesis", Dana-Fiona Armours second solo exhibition at their gallery and her very first in Stockholm. Symbiogenesis is the extremely rare, but permanent, merger of two organisms from phylogenetically distant lineages into one radically more complex organism - as stated - Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Symbiogenesis: Mechanisms, Evolutionary Consequences, and Systematic Implications, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, 2013. Is there still value in Darwins theory, stating that competition is the most certain way to survive, in the age of the Anthropocene? Or is cooperation between different species, potentially leading to hybridization and symbiogenesis, a shortcut to increase survival? Dana-Fiona Armours exhibition at AndrÃ©hn-Schiptjenko investigates these questions and aims to create ... More

Galerie Nathalie Obadia Brussels presents paintings and works on paper from 2015-2021 by Fiona Rae
BRUSSELS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting the first solo exhibition of Fiona Rae at its Brussels gallery, having exhibited the artist six times at its Paris gallery since the start of their collaboration in 1994. The British artist is recognised as one of the most important abstract painters of her generation on the international scene. Born in Hong Kong in 1963, Fiona Rae initially studied at Croydon College of Art in London before entering Goldsmiths College in 1984. This is where she first came into contact with Damien Hirst, Gary Hume and Sarah Lucas, with whom, among others, she became part of the Young British Artists (YBAs) group, the embodiment of the resurgence of the British art scene in the 1980s and 1990s. For over 30 years, Fiona Rae has been developing an oeuvre with a rich and complex vocabulary, one that both pays homage to the history of art ... More

Marion Meade, biographer of Dorothy Parker, dies at 88
NEW YORK, NY.- Marion Meade, who helped revive interest in Dorothy Parker, the celebrated writer and sardonic wit of the Algonquin Round Table, with her 1988 biography, died Dec. 29 at her home in Manhattan. She was 88. Her granddaughter Ashley Sprague confirmed the death. She said that Meade had recently had COVID-19, but that a cause had not been determined. Meades Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? detailed the vibrant if difficult life of a major figure on the literary scene of the 1920s and 30s. Parker joined Vanity Fair magazine as its drama critic at 24; coined well-known lines like Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses and You can lead a horticulture but you cant make her think; and was a founding member of the round table at the Algonquin Hotel in midtown Manhattan where she, writer Robert Benchley, critic Alexander Woollcott ... More

(So) Happy Together: "Ever since the Big Bang, it's ALL collage!", Todd Bartell
QUEENS, NY.- Finding common ground in Contemporary Art today is not necessarily about aesthetic or messaging commonality. The age of Isms, or schools of art are rare, largely due to the fact that labels are limiting and many artists are experimental or in new media. One of the things I have noticed over the years is how much new art looks multidimensional. How it is common to see dueling perspectives and timelines, think Neo Rauch; or accumulations as art or installation with works by Mike Kelly, Faith Ringgold or Nick Cave. The title of this exhibition, which refers to the 1967 song by The Turtles, was one of the first things I thought of when thinking about the art in this exhibition. That feeling that an artist reaches, at some point in the making of an art work, when the process and purpose of a work comes together and drives the artist to dig deep. For this exhibition ... More

Ginny Redington Dawes, composer of memorable ad jingles, dies at 77
NEW YORK, NY.- Ginny Redington Dawes, a songwriter whose compositions included memorable advertising jingles such as the chipper McDonalds declaration You, Youre the One and Coca-Colas boast that Coke Is It, died Dec. 31 in the New York City borough of Manhattan. She was 77. Her companion and only immediate survivor, James McCullar, said the cause was complications of hepatic cirrhosis. Dawes never became well known herself, but she helped maintain or boost the popularity of the products she promoted. And she insinuated infectious tunes into the nations repertoire that Americans whistled and hummed as much as the songs played on Top 40 radio. She hooked listeners with melodically and rhythmically catchy jingles that accompanied slogans for everything from Tide detergent to Hartzs tick- and flea-fighting pet collars ... More