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Bronx Museum reveals schematic design for renovation of its Grand Concourse entrance
BRONX, NY.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the citys only free contemporary art museum, is pleased to reveal schematic designs for the renovation of its new multi-story entrance and lobby on the corner of Grand Concourse and 165th Street by Marvel, an award-winning architecture, landscape architecture, interiors and urban planning practice. Marking the Museums 50th anniversary, the $26 million renovation is supported by city fundswith additional support from the stateand is overseen by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) on behalf of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) and The Bronx Museum, and is slated for completion in 2025. Coinciding with this announcement, the Museum is pleased to share a refresh of its brand identity and website by New York based strategy and design studio Team. ... More

Exhibition "PiÃ±atas-The High Alert of Celebration" opens at Mingei International Museum
SAN DIEGO, CALIF.- On October 28, 2022, Mingei International Museum opened PIÃATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION, one of the first-ever exhibitions to spotlight piÃ±atas as a traditional craft and vibrant contemporary art form. This groundbreaking show includes more than 80 works made by Latinx artists and makers from across the U.S. Work by traditional piÃ±ateros will be featured alongside the creations of artists who reinvent and reinterpret the piÃ±ata to form a burgeoning, expressive medium. This exhibition is guest curated by Emily Zaiden, Curator of the Craft in America Center, and is a reimagining of an exhibition featured at the Craft in America gallery in 2021. Works in this exhibition will explore how piÃ±atas are designed, constructed and executed, along with the role they play in modern material culture and in artistic practices. ... More

Music, science and healing intersect in an AI opera
NEW YORK, NY.- This is what your brain was doing! a Lincoln Center staffer said to Shanta Thake, the performing arts complexs artistic director, while swiping through some freshly taken photos. It was the end of a recent rehearsal at Alice Tully Hall for Song of the Ambassadors, a work-in-progress that fuses elements of traditional opera with artificial intelligence and neuroscience, and the photos did appear to show Thakes brain doing something remarkable: generating images of flowers. Bright, colorful, fantastical flowers of no known species or genus, morphing continuously in size, color and shape, as if botany and fluid dynamics had somehow merged. Song of the Ambassadors, which was presented to the public at Tully on Tuesday evening, was created by K Allado-McDowell, who leads the Artists and Machine Intelligence ... More

Rare complete shrine of Buddha Shakyamuni to lead Bonhams Images of Devotion sale in November
HONG KONG.- The Qing court had a long-standing respect for Tibetan Buddhism. This is clearly seen in the imperial collection of Buddhist figures, which show traces of both the Tibetan and the Imperial aesthetics. A Gilt Copper Alloy Triad of Shakyamuni Buddha from 18th Century Mongolia, to be offered as a star lot at Bonhams Images of Devotion sale in Hong Kong on 30 November 2022, is a rare surviving example. It bears the hallmarks of the top Zanabazar craftsmanship of its time: wide shoulders and a strong torso on the signature round lotus seat to form a complete set as a shrine. Measuring more than 43cm in height, the lot carries an estimate of HK$4,000,000-6,000,000, with a comparable example currently on display at the Hong Kong Palace Museum. Also rare is an extremely vibrant Thangka of Shakyamuni Buddha from the 18th century Eastern ... More

One more project for David Geffen: Building his legacy
NEW YORK, NY.- In Los Angeles, you can wander through Judy Baca murals at the cavernous Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, view Beetlejuice at the spherelike David Geffen Theater at the Academy Museum, watch The Inheritance at the Geffen Playhouse and follow the progress of the new David Geffen Galleries, a striking work of architecture that will span Wilshire Boulevard, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York City now has not one but two David Geffen Halls: an academic building at Columbia Business School and the remake of the Lincoln Center home of the New York Philharmonic, which reopened this month after a $550 million renovation that he jump-started with a $100 million gift. At 79, Geffen, the entertainment magnate, has planted himself into the pantheon of leading American philanthropists. ... More

Denver Art Museum announces Jill D'Alessandro as Director and Curator of the Avenir Institute of Textile Art and Fashion
DENVER.- The Denver Art Museum has announced the appointment of Jill DAlessandro as Director and Curator of the Avenir Institute of Textile Art and Fashion. DAlessandro will officially join the museum staff in January 2023. Prior to her appointment to the Denver Art Museums curatorial team, DAlessandro served as curator-in-charge of costume and textile arts for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF). During her 21-year career at FAMSF, she worked with the institutions extensive fiber collections, as well as its fashion holdings. The Denver Art Museum is delighted to welcome Jill to its team of collaborative curatorial leaders, said Christoph Heinrich, the Frederick and Jan Mayer Director of the DAM. In recent years, the DAM ... More

Robert Gordon, punk rocker turned rockabilly revivalist, dies at 75
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Gordon, a 1950s-influenced rocker with a silky baritone and towering pompadour who emerged from the New York punk underground of the 1970s to help stoke a rockabilly revival, died Oct. 18 in a hospice in Manhattan. He was 75. His sister Melissa Gordon Uram said the cause was acute myeloid leukemia. Gordon had been the frontman for the buzzy CBGB-era band Tuff Darts when he traded his punk attitude for a tin of Nu Nile pomade and released his first album, a collaboration with the fuzz-guitar pioneer Link Wray, in 1977. At the time, 1950s signifiers like ducktail haircuts and pink pegged slacks had scarcely been glimpsed for years outside the set of Happy Days or the Broadway production of Grease. But, turning his back on both the pomp of 70s stadium rock and the rock n roll arsonist ethos of punk, ... More

Bonhams to offer Fine Chinese art from the esteemed gallery J.J. Lally & Co.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams will present fine Chinese works of art, including ancient Chinese jades, silver, bronzes, and ceramics, from premier Chinese art gallery J.J. Lally & Co. during Asia Week New York in March 2023. An active participant in the Chinese art market for more than 50 years, James J. Lally is recognized for his expert connoisseurship and considerate presentation of the finest Chinese art. His distinguished reputation among scholars, educators, and collectors is a result of his meticulous cataloguing and research that he brought to the 35-year run of the J.J. Lally & Co. gallery in New York. A discerning eye for quality pieces with both aesthetic value and authenticity, Mr. Lally found cherished works for every collector at every price-point. Lally is known for his dedication to the objects and the relationships he fostered with collectors, ... More

A new biography of George Balanchine, ballet's colossus
NEW YORK, NY.- Opera is all about saying goodbye, Virgil Thomson is reputed to have said, and ballet is all about saying hello. In Mr. B, a sensitive, stately and often thrilling new biography of Russian-born choreographer George Balanchine, Jennifer Homans finds a bittersweet tone to capture Balanchines many leave-takings the way he was chased, as if he were Charlie Chaplins Tramp, across the first half of the 20th century. When World War I arrived, Balanchine was a young dance student in czarist Russia. Three years later, at 13, he was forced to scavenge for food when the revolution disrupted his life. He spent the interwar years shuffling between Weimar Berlin, before Hitler put an end to that decadent and creative intellectual milieu, and Paris, London and Monte Carlo, Monaco. He fled for the United States before World War II. ... More