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Bonington Gallery presents Stephen Willats' 'Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs (1971/72)'
NOTTINGHAM.- For six decades, Stephen Willats (born in London in 1943) has concentrated on ideas that today are ever-present in contemporary art: communication, social engagement, active spectatorship and self-organisation, and has initiated many seminal multi-media art projects. He has situated his pioneering practice at the intersection between art and other disciplines such as cybernetics the hybrid post-war science of communication advertising, systems research, learning theory, communications theory and computer technology. In so doing, he has constructed and developed a collaborative, interactive and participatory practice grounded in the variables of social relationships, settings and physical realities. Rather than presenting visitors with icons of certainty he creates a random, complex environment which stimulates visitors to engage ... More

Robilant+Voena exhibiting sculpture and jewellery by artist Harumi Klossowska de Rola: Hayawan
LONDON.- Harumi Klossowska de Rola is an artist and designer who creates powerful sculptural works and delicately crafted luxury jewellery inspired by the flora and fauna of the natural world. The exhibition of her work that began on October 6th will continue through to November 20th at the London Gallery of Robilant+Voena. Her first encounter with a collection of precious gems at the age of seven captivated her imagination and inspired a lasting fascination with jewels and the splendour of nature. Over the years she has developed a unique and sensitive rendering of creatures great and small, often fusing the aesthetic with the functional and creating, in her words, something that you can wear, or you can exhibit on a shelf. The exhibition brings together recent works inspired by ancient cultures and by the majesty of the wild ... More

"Here or Somewhere Like Here" by Melbourne/Naarm based artist Dane Lovett at Sullivan+Strumpf
SYDNEY.- Melbourne/Naarm-based artist Dane Lovett is well-loved for his beguiling, delicate and meticulous approach to mark making. This has been seen throughout the continuity and breadth of his practice to date. His new exhibition, Here or Somewhere Like Here at Sullivan+Strumpf is no exception to this. Lovett builds upon the basis of what his admirers love about his practice, in addition to measured, exciting and compelling forms of growth and development in his approach and methodology. At once nostalgic and contemporary, Lovett is known for his refined and controlled, yet teetering-on-pseudo-grungy approach to painting. He produces swarming monotone palettes which focus on timeless memento mori motifs such as still-life flowers, pollen and grass. However, dont be fooled, the work is not as straightforward as a photorealistic ... More

Coco Chanel furniture from Rosehall House at Bonhams Scottish Home Sale
EDINBURGH.- Rosehall House in Sutherland had, until recently, lain abandoned for more than 50 years, but in the 1920s it was full of life. It was there that the owner of the 700-acre estate, Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, and one of the wealthiest men in the world, whiled away the summers with his lover, the great French couturiÃ¨re Coco Chanel. Finding the house too gloomy for her tastes, Chanel set about a major refurbishment. Among other changes completely re-wallpapering the house, for example she commissioned new, lighter, furniture, some of which features in this years Scottish Home sale at Bonhams Edinburgh on Thursday 20 October. One of the pieces, a limed oak Tuscan table estimated at Â£800-1,200 was modelled on Sir Robert Lorimers designs for furniture at Balmenno Castle in Perthshire. Other Rosehall House ... More

Andipa stages Shane Magowan's first exhibition
LONDON.- Andipa is delighted to present The Eternal Buzz and the Crock of Gold, an exhibition by the acclaimed singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan. His work, which has been described by the art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, as possessing a demented, wild, fascinating, scabrous kind of energy, will be represented by twenty-one small scale drawings mostly dating from the 1980s. Dubbed by Januszczak as the Jackson Pollock of the biro, this survey, which has been curated by the artists wife Victoria Mary Clarke, is drawn from a body of work that has never been shown in public before. Executed in a variety of media, predominantly coloured felt tip and biro, these highly idiosyncratic and sometimes disturbing drawings are scrawled and scribbled onto sheets of paper torn from foolscap jotter pads, hotel stationery and aeroplane ... More

If Heritage's first VHS Horror Auction doesn't thrill you, you're already dead
DALLAS.- VHS is dead. Long live VHS. Especially when it reaches from the grave. Heritages Oct. 31 VHS Horror Showcase Auction will no doubt thrill and chill cinephiles and popcorn addicts still haunted by the first time they could watch their favorite scary movies under blankets in the dark. After all, watching John Carpenters Halloween, George A. Romeros Dawn of the Dead, Steven Spielbergs Jaws or Wes Cravens A Nightmare on Elm Street in a theater was one thing. Strangers in the dark provide some measure of small communal comfort when zombies arrive at the front door or the slasher pops out of the closet. But in the late 70s and early 80s, there was nothing quite so terrifying as wondering if the call was coming from inside the house while the video player whirred into the pitch black. This Halloween auction, which features more ... More

Shoair Mavlian appointed new Director of The Photographers' Gallery
LONDON.- The Photographers Gallery announced that Shoair Mavlian has been appointed as its new Director. Currently Director at Photoworks, Shoair will take up the post in January 2023. As Director of Photoworks Shoair leads the strategic vision and artistic direction of the organisation including exhibitions, biennial festival, commissions, learning and engagement, publishing and digital content. From 2011-2018 Shoair was Assistant Curator, Photography and International Art at Tate Modern, London, where she curated exhibitions including Don McCullin (2019) Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art (2018), The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection (2016), Conflict, Time, Photography (2014). While at Tate Modern she helped build the photography collection and curated collection displays enjoyed by over 5 million visitors per ye ... More

How Colleen Hoover rose to rule the bestseller list
NEW YORK, NY.- Colleen Hoover has sold more books this year than Dr. Seuss. She has sold more books than James Patterson and John Grisham combined. To say shes currently the bestselling novelist in the United States, to even compare her to other successful authors who have landed several books on the bestseller lists, fails to capture the size and loyalty of her audience. She holds six of the top 10 spots on The New York Times paperback fiction bestseller list, a stunning number of simultaneous bestsellers from a single author. She has sold 8.6 million print books this year alone more copies than the Bible, according to NPD BookScan. And her success a shock that shes still processing, she said has upended the publishing industrys most entrenched assumptions about what sells books. When she self-published ... More

Review: In a new 'Salesman,' the Lomans look like all of us
NEW YORK, NY.- A deeply original work that is also deeply influential may yet in time be trite. What once opened eyes comes to seem preloaded behind them, as if part of the general human inheritance. Such has been the ironic trajectory of Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman. When it premiered on Broadway in 1949, with its depiction of the false hopes of capitalism and the family dysfunction left in its wake, there were fathers for whom the doctor had to be called because they couldnt stop crying, said director Mike Nichols, who saw it then. It was like an explosion. As Salesman spread into the culture with astonishing speed, it helped introduce the seismic reevaluations of the ensuing decades. But now that we take those shocks to be self-evident, the job of making the play feel as new as it once did is a difficult one for those who would ... More