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Shakespeare or Bieber? This Canadian city draws devotees of both
STRATFORD.- Its a small city that practically shouts Shakespeare! Majestic white swans float in the Avon River, not far from Falstaff Street and Anne Hathaway Park, named for the playwrights wife. Some residents live in Romeo Ward, while young students attend Hamlet elementary. And the schools namesake play is often performed as part of a renowned theater festival that draws legions of Shakespeare fans from around the world, every April to October. Stratford, Ontario, steeped in references to and reverence for the Bard, has counted on its association with Shakespeare for decades to dependably bring in millions of tourist dollars to a city that would otherwise have little appeal to travelers. My dad always said we have a world-class theater stuck in a farm community, said Frank Herr, the second-generation owner of a boat tour and rental ... More

Hand-me-downs and discards from design history's treasure chest
NEW YORK, NY.- The landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, in laying out thousands of 19th-century parkland acres, specified fine points down to the rock textures. The serendipities of age keep improving his designs. Olmsted Trees (Hirmer/University of Chicago Press, $40, 160 pp.), by the photographer Stanley Greenberg, celebrates bark that resembles barnacles, lizard skin or cooled lava. (The book includes essays by Tom Avermaete, an urban design professor; Kevin Baker, a writer; and Mindy Thompson Fullilove, a social psychiatrist.) Torqued trunks have knobs and cavities that evoke human eyes and animal snouts, while roots bulge like giant paws kneading the earth. The trees shrug off signs of human intervention, dwarfing fencing and playground equipment, and appearing unfazed by carvings of lovers ... More

From Ralph Lauren to Louis Vuitton, who dressed your living room?
NEW YORK, NY.- Ralph Lauren Home. Fendi Casa. Louis Vuittons Art of Living. Fashion companies cannot seem to resist the lure of household objects. Why? A single bedsheet can produce more revenue than an entire seasons ready-to-wear collection, said Warren Shoulberg, who edited two of the industrys most influential magazines: Home Furnishings News and Home Textiles Today. Home goods also have a longer shelf life than clothes. Some 30-year-old designs are still selling, Shoulberg said. And there is gold beyond those bed linens. The fashion industrys reach into housewares extends to tableware and furniture, train and plane interiors, and hotels and condominiums. For fashion designers, a love for the home has grown from an occasional flirtation to a full-blown affair. Here are some of the highlights of the movement. ... More

Polish artist Krzysztof Strzelecki opens an exhibition at Taymour Grahne Projects
LONDON.- Taymour Grahne Projects will present Summer Scenes, a solo exhibition by London-based Polish artist Krzysztof Strzelecki, opening on September 10 between 4-7pm at the Artist Room space (52 Lonsdale Road) as part of a joint opening across our 3 spaces. In his first solo show in London, Krzysztof Strzelecki investigates the depiction of homoerotic desire in art and the acceptance of the male figure and its sexuality through a series of glazed ceramic vases decorated with exuberant summer scenes. The viewers are taken on a queer erotic journey where riversides are populated by handsome young men spending their holidays carefree in idyllic locations. Some of the athletic figures are seen getting undressed just before they jump in the warm water for a swim, while others simply recline observing the sculpted bodies around them. ... More

Artangel presents five short films directed by individuals in recovery from psychosis
LONDON.- The Directors comprises five short films by artist Marcus Coates, commissioned and produced by Artangel in collaboration with individuals in recovery from lived experience of psychosis. From 4 September to 30 October 2022, the films will be screened at five separate locations in and around the Churchill Gardens Estate in Pimlico, Westminster. Following extensive one-to-one meetings with Coates, each director chose a location of personal significance in which to film Coates embodying and performing particular aspects of their own experience. During the filming, Coates received instructions from each director leading to a dialogue which remains a key element in each film. Through The Directors, Coates intention is to find ways in which people can relate to the breadth and complexity of psychotic experiences and to help reduce ... More

Jude Broughan's third solo exhibition with Benrubi Gallery opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Benrubi Gallery is presenting Soap and Stones, Jude Broughans third solo exhibition with the gallery, at their new space at 529 West 20th Street, floor 8, in Chelsea, NYC. The photographs and photo-based assemblages in this exhibition draw from two series that reflect the pandemic era Pandemic Cemetery Walks and Personal Care referencing solitary activities, repetitive hand washing, and self care rituals. The Pandemic Cemetery Walks series began April 2020 in the early days of the pandemic, when Broughan started walking in a large cemetery near her home in Brooklyn, the closest green space where she could exercise. Shes more philosophical than religious, and these walks became meditations on the rolling seasons, on grief and healing, and some social ideological questions. These photographs could maybe ... More

Lighter Than Air: A photo exhibit by Harald Schrader in collaboration with the dancers of American Repertory Ballet
PRINCETON, NJ.- Join American Repertory Ballet on September 17-18, 2022 in Princeton, New Jersey for Lighter Than Air: a photographic series by renowned photographer Harald Schrader. This exhibit will feature images of American Repertory Ballet company members and artistic leadership, including Artistic Director Ethan Stiefel and Artistic Associate Gillian Murphy. Harald Schrader, a formally trained photographer and long-time Princeton resident, studied in Berlin and Hannover in Germany. He has collaborated with performing and visual artists in Italy, Germany, the U.S.A. and Canada. Schrader honed his craft in portrait photography, acting as first assistant to Mary Ellen Mark in New York City ... More

Javier Zamora carried a heavy load. He laid it to rest on the page.
NEW YORK, NY.- Javier Zamora had a lot going for him in 2019: He had won poetry prizes, an Ivy League fellowship and an extraordinary ability visa that finally gave him certainty about his status as an immigrant in the United States. But 20 years after he had walked across the border as a 9-year-old, without his parents, on his way to a new life, the immigration journey that almost killed him was still taking an emotional toll. On the surface I was fine, Zamora said, but inside he was struggling. He had trouble working, he said, and his closest relationships were suffering: My personal life was falling apart. When, in a chance encounter at a local bar, a couple of therapists asked him why he was drinking alone one weekday afternoon, it was the right question at the right time and a turning point for Zamora. The couple introduced him to a student ... More

At the Telluride Film Festival, 'women talking' and other topics of conversation
TELLURIDE, COLO.- At the Telluride Film Festival, the ringmasters who introduce screenings in venues that include two school auditoriums, a hockey rink, an old opera house and a classic single-screen movie theater like to invoke the pure love of cinema as the sole organizing principle. The conceit of this annual Labor Day weekend event, which lures a few thousand travelers high into the Rockies to sit in dark rooms amid spectacular scenery, is that it rises above the hype and hustle that animate other major festivals. Its a bit of a myth. Really, theres nothing pure about either cinema a hybrid art form stamped from birth with the mark of commerce or cinephilia, which combines lofty aestheticism with more visceral, less respectable forms of delight. Telluride, which in recent years has presented an impressive number of future best ... More

To mask, or not to mask: Theaters and concert halls face a dilemma
NEW YORK, NY.- The new masking policy at The Kite Runner on Broadway was devised at the doctors office. Tracey McFarland, one of the shows producers, was taking her son to his pediatrician, a theater buff. The pediatrician told her that while he would have liked to see the play, he would not attend if masks were optional, as they are at most Broadway shows these days. That got McFarland thinking: Why couldnt they put on some performances at which masks are required, and others where masks are optional? She brought up the idea with colleagues. Everybody on the phone was like, You know, Ive had friends who have been asking for that, McFarland said, recalling one of the conversations that led to the shows decision to start requiring masks on Fridays. We just realized that there really is an audience out there that is not ... More

National Gallery of Art acquires 44 photographs by Wayne Miller and Vik Muniz photographs given by Tony Podesta
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has been given 44 gelatin silver prints by the esteemed documentary photographer Wayne Miller (19182013). Given on behalf of his family and the artists estate, the group of photographs comprise a rich variety of themes central to his career. These are the first works by the artist to enter the collection and they deepen our holdings of documentary photography from the 1940s with compelling pictures that convey the horrific experience of war as well as the fullness of Black life in post-war Chicago. Born in Chicago, Miller pursued studies in banking and business at the University of Illinois but turned his attention to photography in the early 1940s. He enlisted in the navy after the start of World War II as was assigned to the Naval Aviation Unit led by the famed photographer Edward Steichen (18791973). Miller documented the war mainly in the Pacific and was among the first Americans to take ... More