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Jim Fiscus, All We Are, 2/8/22, 5:49 6:46 p.m., Old Hwy 10 ferry crossing, looking from Pointe Coupèe Parish towards East at West Feliciana Parish, 2022. Archival pigment print on canvas, 60 à 100 inches. Collection of the artist.
ATHENS, GA.- How did we find human connection during a pandemic that kept us apart from each other? Some people made art museums for their hamsters or hosted happy hour trivia on Zoom. The photographer Jim Fiscus lit out on a series of road trips in a camper with a friend. His usual bread and butter is commissioned work, but that had ground to a halt, so he left on a journey with no end point or itinerary, visiting unexpected places and getting to know strangers. The exhibition Where Shadows Cross, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia July 22 to October 8, 2023, shows the single-frame stories that resulted from those travels. Fiscus specialty, both in his commercial and his fine-art work, is storytelling, and the 13 photographs in the exhibition feature elaborately constructed scenes that suggest complex narratives. As he drove around the country, Fiscus found places that spoke to him. He then ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Werner Herzog - The Ecstatic Truth, 18 June - 1 October 2023, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam Fitzcarraldo, 1982 Wodaabe, 1989/ Photo: Studio Hans Wilschut.
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| Biden to name national monument for Emmett Till and his mother | | "Long Voyage" by Sumayyah Samaha opens at Leila Heller Gallery | | Buckle your (DeLorean) seat belt: 'Back to the Future' lands on Broadway | 
A statue of Emmett Till, not far from where he was kidnapped and killed, in Greenwood, Miss., on Feb. 17, 2023. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
by Anna Betts
NEW YORK, NY.- President Joe Biden will establish a national monument Tuesday honoring Emmett Till, a Black teenager who was brutally killed in 1955, and paying tribute to his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, according to White House officials. Tills murder and the subsequent activism of his mother helped propel the Civil Rights Movement, and Biden will memorialize both individuals when he signs a proclamation naming the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument. As defined by the National Park Service, a national monument is a protected area similar to a national park. There are more than 100 national monuments in the country. The new monument will consist of three protected sites in Illinois, where Till was from, and Mississippi, where he was killed. One site is the church where Tills funeral ... More | | 
Sumayyah Samaha, A Universe, 2019. Mixed Media on Paper, 55.88 x 76.2 cm. / 22 x 30 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Leila Heller is opening Long Voyage by Sumayyah Samaha, on view in New York from today. In recent paintings and works on paper, Sumayyah Samaha uses oil, charcoal, and watercolor to tell her visual story. With each image, her goal is always to find harmony between these different media and the varied abstract forms that emerge from her playful, gestural approach. Larger works, like My 2nd Voyage, 2020, may hang in Samahas live/work studio for months before they are complete. While sweeping, gestural lines in charcoal arc across canvases, Samaha paints, scrapes, erases and repaints the remaining surface with close attention as she develops an interplay between defined and undefined forms. Swaths of flat gradients are beside and behind free-form shapes, all floating upon a white background. Color, which abounds in Sahamas work, is determined by the type of light she seeks to realize. Samaha mo ... More | | 
A replica of the time-traveling DeLorean behind the scenes at Back to the Future at the Winter Garden Theater in Manhattan on July 18, 2023. In adapting a beloved movie franchise for the stage, the creative team sought to develop the story for new audiences while remaining true to the spirit of the films. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
by Dave Itzkoff
NEW YORK, NY.- If he could go back in time and do it again, Bob Gale probably wouldnt change much about Back to the Future. This 1985 science-fiction comedy, about a teenager taking a whirlwind trip to the year 1955 in a time-traveling DeLorean built by an eccentric inventor, became an endearing and endlessly quotable box-office smash. The film, which Gale wrote with its director, Robert Zemeckis, also turned into a cultural phenomenon. It bonded its stars, Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, to their quirky characters and spawned two hit sequels that its creators envisioned as a self-contained saga. When ... More |
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| The 2023 Yalingwa exhibition 'Between Waves' on view at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art | | 'Adam Pendleton: Blackness, White, and Light' on view until next year at the MUMOK | | Reynolda House Museum of American Art acquires Milton Avery's "Bow River" | 
Hayley Millar Baker, Entracte 2023, Between Waves, ACCA. Photo-Andrew Curtis.
MELBOURNE.- A major new exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art featuring ten ambitious commissions by emerging and established First Nations artists that embrace the intersection of material and immaterial realms of knowledge and knowing is now on view. Between Waves is the third edition of the Yalingwa exhibition series that supports the development of outstanding contemporary First Peoples art and curatorial practice in Southeast Australia. Curated by Jessica Clark, the exhibition features new works by Maree Clarke, Dean Cross, Brad Darkson, Matthew Harris, James Howard, Hayley Millar Baker, Jazz Money, Cassie Sullivan, this mob, and Mandy Quadrio. Through a range of multidisciplinary frameworks including video, installation, poetry, projection, sculpture and sound, each of the artists respond to concepts expressed by the word Yalingwa, a Woi Wurrung word which means light, time, vision, or shining a light on the t ... More | | 
Installation view. Adam Pendleton. Blackness, White, and Light (31. März 2023 bis 7. Jänner 2024 / March 31, 2023 to January 7, 2024) Photo: Klaus Pichler, © mumok.
VIENNA.- Adam Pendleton grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and moved to New York in 2002, staging his first solo show there in 2005. His art, developed across dozens of exhibitions, is a reflection of how we increasingly move through and experience the world on a sensorial level a form of abstraction that, in its painterly, psychic, and verbal expression, announces a new mode of visual composition for the twenty-first century. With Blackness, White, and Light, mumok presents Pendletons first comprehensive solo exhibition in Europe, and his largest presentation of new work anywhere. These works, almost all made specifically for the exhibition, offer a visual chorus of collective difference. Since 2008 Pendleton has articulated much of his work through the idea of Black Dada, an ever-evolving inquiry into the relationship between Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. The paintings, drawings, films, ... More | | 
Milton Avery (18851965), Bow River, 1947 (detail). Oil on canvas, 32 x 46 inches. Gift of Barbara B. Millhouse, 2022.4.1. © 2023 The Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- In honor of 50th anniversary of Reynolda House Museum of American Arts volunteer program, Reynoldas Founding President Barbara Babcock Millhouse generously contributed Bow River by Milton Avery to the Museums permanent collection. Bow River was painted by Avery in 1947. He was described by fellow painter Mark Rothko as a great poet-inventor who had invented sonorities never seen nor heard before . . . His is the poetry of sheer loveliness, of sheer beauty. Avery was born in 1885 in Altmar, NY as the son of a tanner. For most of his life, he sustained his immediate and extended family through manual labor while he and his wife, Sally Michel Avery, a painter and illustrator in her own right, created modernist works in near obscurity. Avery sold his first painting in 1929 to the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., which also gave him his first ... More |
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| A crisis in America's theaters leaves prestigious stages dark | | At Wagner's Festival, new technology reveals a leadership rift | | Depicting the Grenfell tragedy onstage, in the survivors' own words | 
The blue seating at the Kansas City Repertory Theater, which has lost half of its subscribers since the pandemic, in Kansas City, Mo., July 19, 2023. (Chase Castor/The New York Times)
by Michael Paulson
NEW YORK, NY.- There is less theater in America these days. Fewer venues. Fewer productions. Fewer performances. Cal Shakes, a San Francisco Bay Area favorite that staged Shakespeare in an outdoor amphitheater, is producing no shows this year. Chicagos Lookingglass Theater, where Mary Zimmermans Metamorphoses had its premiere before coming to Broadway, has halted programming until next spring. The Williamstown Theater Festival, known for its star-studded summer shows, has no fully staged productions at its western Massachusetts home this season. The coronavirus pandemic and its aftermath have left the industry in crisis. Interviews with 72 top-tier regional theaters located outside New York City reveal that they expect, in aggregate, to produce 20% fewer productions next season than they did in the last ... More | | 
Katharina Wagner, a great-granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner. (Enrico Nawrath via The New York Times)
by Thomas Rogers
BAYREUTH.- American director Jay Scheib was looking at a bank of monitors inside the Bayreuth Festival Theater here on a recent afternoon. He was rehearsing his new production of Richard Wagners Parsifal, which opens the storied Bayreuth Festival on Wednesday, and as performers circled a large metallic monolith onstage, the screens showed 3D flowers floating through blank space psychedelic animations that will come to life for audience members who see them with augmented-reality glasses. Through those glasses, Scheib said, the flowers, and other items during the performance, will appear to float through the auditorium. In keeping with the operas themes, he added, these moments are meant to provide the audience with sacred visions of a world where wonder still exists. Scheibs production is one of the most ambitious, and high-profile, attempts to incorporate augmented reality into o ... More | | 
Gillian Slovo, who wrote the play Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors, in London, July 19, 2023. (Tom Jamieson/The New York Times)
by Alex Marshall
LONDON.- I remember my knees giving way, thinking, This is it now, because I cannot take another breath. On July 17, actor Ash Hunter stood onstage at Londons National Theater portraying Nicholas Burton, one of almost 300 people who, six years ago, found themselves trapped inside a burning London apartment block. Hunter spoke Burtons own words. Every breath was just hot black smoke, the actor said, visibly sweating and breathing quickly. On June 14, 2017, a refrigerator caught fire in a 24-story London high rise called Grenfell Tower. That blaze should have been easily contained, and residents were advised to stay in their apartments. But within minutes, flames had engulfed the structure, which lax building regulations had allowed to be clad in a flammable material. It became Britains deadliest fire in more than a century. That night, Hunter said in the play, Burton fell asleep while watching a DVD, near his ... More |
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| Open through August 12th, 'The Wanderers' by Radu Oreian | | Bruneau & Co's Historic Arms & Militia Auction contains lots from museums and private collections | | Magazzino Italian Art announces the 2023 opening of The Robert Olnick Pavilion | 
Radu Oreian, Romanian, b. 1984. Basket with carnivorous fruits, 2023. Oil, impasto and tempera on canvas. 32 x 40 inches, 81.5 x 101.5 cm.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- albertz benda has opened Radu Oreians first solo presentation in Los Angeles, on view since July 14. Aptly titled The Wanderers, the exhibition refers to the various ways in which the works seem to wander through time and space. Literally, as they travel from the artists studio in France to the gallery in Los Angeles and figuratively, in their combination of multiple historical timelines, biological functions, and art images. On this brand new exhibition, Oreian shares, The Wanderers are collective portraits, figurative or abstract, of a humanity stuck in an idiosyncratic contemporary condition. This show presents a new body of work ranging in scale from abstract miniatures to large-scale figurative scenes. Within these pieces, elements drawn from the present collide with residues of historical imagery. Fragments of artworks, photog ... More | | 
Confederate uniform: Confederate uniform worn by Johnston De Lagnel, a captain in the 20th Virginia Artillery Battalion who fought in the Civil War but died of pneumonia in 1864 (est. $10,000-$15,000).
CRANSTON, RI.- A powder horn used by a Revolutionary War soldier at the Siege of Boston, a uniform worn by a Confederate captain during the Civil War, and a Civil War-era Missouri First National Confederate flag and sash are a few of the expected highlights in Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers Historic Arms & Militaria auction slated for Saturday, August 5th, live and online. The auction, starting at 10 am Eastern time, contains 350 lots. In addition to the items mentioned, the catalog also features an artillery officers coatee worn by Lt. Julius Adolphus De Lagnel in 1847, the Confederate artillery uniform of Juliuss brother Capt. Johnston De Lagnel, flintlock pistols and muskets, a large selection of percussion muskets, socket bayonets, and other objects. Much of the material in this ... More | | 
The Robert Olnick Pavilion, Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, NY. Photo by Marco Anelli.
COLD SPRING, NY.- Magazzino Italian Art has announce that the Robert Olnick Pavilionthe second building on the museums campuswill open on September 14, 2023. The pavilion was designed by the renowned Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo. This building will provide an additional 13,000 square feet of exhibition space, a multipurpose room with auditorium capabilities, a combined café and store on the mezzanine, and a gallery devoted to Italian decorative arts, Murano glass, ceramics, and jewelry. This expansion marks a milestone for Magazzino, allowing the museum to host more temporary exhibitions, expand educational initiatives for younger visitors, and continue to offer a wide range of indoor and outdoor events across both spaces on the Cold Spring campus. The pavilion has a humble layout that highlights industrial materials such as ... More |
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 Librairie des Colonnes now hosting solo exhibition 'Abdelkader Benchamma' inspired by book 'Third Mind'TANGIER.- Abdelkader Benchammas solo exhibition uvre Croisée opened on July 1st, 2023 at Librairie des Colonnes in Tanger, Morocco. Founded in 1949, Librairie des Colonnes is a historic and iconic place that welcomed famous writers such as Beckett, Genet, and Kerouac. In 2010, it was taken over by Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent. This unpublished series of drawings is inspired by the book Third Mind, a cult work of graphic and literary experiments carried out by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin in Paris in the 1960s. Translated into French as Le Tiers-Esprit in 1977. During these sessions, it would seem that voices other than those of the two protagonists appeared. Burroughs thought Gysin had such an idea, while Gysin was sure it came from Burroughs. Then they decided that these intuitions did not come from one or the other: ... More  PAST PRESENT, 'Fragments of memory: Bucharest-Pompeii-London' on view at BeaconsfieldLONDON.- Beaconsfield is now showing Past Present, a new exhibition from London-based Romanian artist Ioana Marinescu (b. Bucharest, 1973). Exploring the recuperation of cultural memory, the project works with the destruction of ancient Pompeii caused by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, alongside events in 1980s Bucharest, when a historic residential quarter of the city was razed to make way for Ceaușescu's Palace of the Parliament or Peoples Palace. Working with Bucharest-based choreographers Smaranda Găbudeanu and Iulia Mărăcine and using archival image, video, soundscape, testimony and live performance, Marinescu traces both events and finds parallels in the sudden displacement of both populations. Whilst the spaces left by the bodies in Pompeii were cast in plaster by archaeologists, the erasure of Uranus Hill in 1980s Bucharest ... More  'Liz Magor: The Rise and Fall' now on view at The Douglas Hyde GalleryDUBLIN.- The Douglas Hyde is hosting the first solo exhibition in Ireland by renowned Canadian artist Liz Magor. For over four decades Magors practice has primarily centred on sculpture, exploring our persistent and complicated relationship with things. Using various sculptural techniques Magor transforms ordinary objects into new forms which are located somewhere between still life and the uncanny. Things such as blankets, food containers, clothing and toys are found in unexpected relationships that generate a sense of care and meaning beyond their original use or function. Titled The Rise and The Fall, the exhibition presents a focused selection of works produced over the last five years that explore our relationship with the material world, inviting us to examine the tension between attraction and disinterest. Magor transforms muted, everyday objects into active, concerned protagonists. Wh ... More  'Andrea Geyer: Manifest' at Carnegie Museum of Art through winter 2023NEW YORK, NY.- Hales has announced that Andrea Geyer's site-specific commission Manifest, is now open at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh USA, through Winter 2023. Andrea Geyers Manifest actively acknowledges and embraces the idea that a museum is made of many people: from visitors and staff to artists, we make and remake the museum every single day. The eight banners with text facing inside and outside of the museum windows cast our voices beyond constructions of past and present and the impermeability of institutions while calling each of our imaginations into a shared space. Manifest stems from Geyers research on San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts (SFMOMA) founding director Grace McCann Morley and her belief in museums as integral to civil society and civic life. Geyer took Morleys mission to show the importance ... More  Travis Chamberlain named Director of Washington Project for the ArtsWASHINGTON, DC .- The Board of Directors of the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) in Washington, DC recently announced the appointment of Travis Chamberlain as its next Director. Chamberlaina curator and director with more than 20 years of experience in museum, non-profit, and for-profit contemporary arts spaces in New York Citywill begin his new role on September 1, 2023, becoming the 12th Director of one of the most influential and impactful contemporary arts organizations in the region and the U.S. Now in its 48th year, WPA is a trailblazer among the regions contemporary art institutions, with a dedicated project space, bookstore, and gallery located in the capitals lively U Street Corridor. WPA's mission supports the development of experimental projects that build community through collaborations between artists ... More  'New York, New York' will end its abbreviated run on BroadwayNEW YORK, NY.- New York, New York, a big-budget musical that tried to position itself as a nostalgic love letter to the city, will close July 30 after underwhelming critics and failing to find a sufficient audience to sustain a Broadway run. The musical was the costliest swing of the past theater season, with a $25 million capitalization, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission; that money has not been recouped. The shows budget was bigger than that of other musicals currently arriving on Broadway, although costs have been rising, and the musicals with the largest companies and the most stage spectacle are increasingly costing more than $20 million. New York, New York started off respectably at the box office, with weekly grosses initially hovering around $1 million. But the musical has been expensive to run, ... More  Review: 'Flex' hits the right rhythms on the court and offNEW YORK, NY.- Their knees are bent, palms outstretched, eyes darting and alert. The young women of Lady Train, a high school basketball team in rural Arkansas, are training for every possibility on the court which, in the beloved tradition of sports-powered coming-of-age stories, also means preparing for adult life. Perhaps it should be no surprise, then, that in the first scene of Flex, which opened at Lincoln Centers Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on Thursday, all of the players appear to be pregnant. As this tip-off to a slam-dunk New York debut makes clear, playwright Candrice Jones excels equally in sly, sitcom humor and in the swift-tongued rhythms of teenage and athletic talk. The lumpy bumps beneath Lady Trains various fly-casual printed tees (its 1997, and the spot-on costumes are by Mika Eubanks) are obviously fake, contraband ... More  Deadly Russian strikes hit Odesa Cathedral and apartment buildingsNEW YORK, NY.- The civilian toll is rising in Odesa, the Ukrainian port city that has been under relentless attack by Russian forces in the past week after the Kremlin pulled out of an agreement that allowed for the export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea. One person died and 22 others, including four children, were wounded in Russian missile strikes on Odesa overnight Sunday, according to Ukrainian officials. At least six residential buildings were damaged, as was an Orthodox cathedral where rescuers pulled an icon devoted to the patron saint of the city out of the rubble. At least 25 historic landmarks were damaged, Ukrainska Pravda reported. There can be no excuse for Russian evil, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said about the attacks in a Telegram posting Sunday, adding, There will definitely be a retaliation. With ... More  Review: The cocktail wit is watered down in a rickety new 'Cottage'NEW YORK, NY.- Farce is the emergency that keeps emerging. Thats why it depends so much on doors: to admit fresh trouble and lock it in. Alas, the door in The Cottage, a mild farce by Sandy Rustin, works only partway. It lets people enter, yet doesnt trap them; they can leave at any time and never do. Even when a killer is coming, the characters merely dawdle. Dawdling is the plays difficulty as well; everyone talks in pseudofancy circles. The stunts and capers likewise have no danger in them. And Jason Alexanders trick-filled production, which opened Monday at the Helen Hayes Theater, cannot hide that the stakes are too low. For Beau (Eric McCormack) and his sister-in-law, Sylvia (Laura Bell Bundy), those stakes are close to nonexistent. Theirs is, after all, a once-a-year tryst. And since each is already cheating merrily on a spouse, the ... More  Scientist's deep dive for alien life leaves his peers dubiousNEW YORK, NY.- On Jan. 8, 2014, a fireball from space blazed through Earths atmosphere and crashed into the sea, north of Manus Island off the northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea. Its location, velocity and brightness were recorded by U.S. government sensors and quietly tucked away in a database of similar events. That data sat for five years, a source of no contention until Avi Loeb, a theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard University, and Amir Siraj, then an undergraduate student at the university, stumbled across it in 2019. Based on its logged speed and direction, Siraj identified the fireball as an extreme outlier. Last month, Loeb led an expedition to retrieve fragments of the fireball off the western Pacific seafloor. On June 21, he claimed that he had. And such discoveries, he says to the chagrin of many of his colleagues, may be ... More  Reimagining 'Madame Butterfly,' with Asian creators at the helmCINCINNATI, OH.- The auditorium lights dimmed, and the cast and crew of Cincinnati Operas new production of Puccinis Madame Butterfly anxiously took their places. For months, the team, made up largely of Asian and Asian American artists, had worked to reimagine the classic opera, upending its stereotypes about women and Japanese culture. They had updated the look of the opera with costumes and sets partly inspired by anime, scrubbed the libretto of historical inaccuracies and recast much of the work as a video-game fantasy. They gathered at the Cincinnati Music Hall one evening last week to fine-tune their creation before its opening last Saturday. It feels a little like a grand experiment, said the productions director, Matthew Ozawa, whose father is Japanese and mother is white. Its very emotional. Madame ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Thomas Eakins was born July 25, 1844. Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 - June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. In this image: A person views Thomas Eakins' "The Gross Clinic," at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, on Jan. 5, 2007. To help finance a $68 million deal to keep the masterpiece in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts said Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007, that it has sold another Eakins painting, "The Cello Player."
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