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Nina C. Pelaez appointed Associate Director of Learning and Interpretation at SCMA
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.- The Smith College Museum of Art announced the appointment of Nina C. Pelaezcurator, educator and leader in the museum field as Associate Director of Learning and Interpretation at SCMA. Nina brings deep experience in public programming and interpretation, most recently through her work as Curator of Programs and Interpretation at the Williams College Museum of Art where she has served since 2015. She joins the SCMA staff on March 7, 2022. As a member of SCMAs Senior Leadership Team, Nina will contribute to the development of educational, artistic and engagement goals for the museum, lead the team responsible for interdisciplinary teaching, learning and engagement, and oversee all aspects of academic engagement, public and student programming, K12 activities and museum interpretation. ... More

Museum Voorlinden presents a large dose of sparkling, socially engaged and funny artworks
WASSENAAR.- Lockdowns, hardening and division? Art is the antidote! Museum Voorlinden proves this with its new exhibition Art is the Antidote. With a large dose of sparkling, socially engaged and funny artworks from its own collection, the museum acts as a charging station, a place where you can build up your resistance. The exhibition is on display now. The past two years of lockdowns and restrictions have weighed heavily on our society. A hardening is taking place, divisions are increasing and the flood of disinformation is growing. Personal beliefs seem to be the only truth, while hard science is seen as questionable and thorough journalism as unreliable. Amidst all the corona measures and escalating debates, the average person becomes exhausted, underexcited and under-stimulated. Museum Voorlinden offers the ultimate antidote ... More

Brookgreen Gardens displays retrospective of works by founder Anna Hyatt Huntington
MURRELLS INLET, SC.- Brookgreen Gardens opened a special exhibition of sculptures by its founder, Anna Hyatt Huntington, as part of the sculpture gardens continuing 90th anniversary celebration. American Animalier: The Life and Art of Anna Hyatt Huntington includes over 70 objects, including sculptures, portrait paintings, historic objects, and photographic enlargements of outdoor sculptures spanning the scope of her prolific career throughout the 20th century. The exhibition, including pieces from Brookgreens collection and works on loan, is on view from Jan. 29 April 24, 2022, in the Brenda and Dick Rosen Galleries. We are committed to continuing the legacy of Anna Hyatt Huntington, the visionary of Brookgreen Gardens, says Page Kiniry, president of Brookgreen Gardens. Brookgreen is uniquely positioned to present this retrospective, ... More

Behind Neil Young vs. Spotify, a fraught relationship with musicians
NEW YORK, NY.- Spotify arrived more than a decade ago with an appealing proposition: Listeners could leave their CDs and downloads behind and stream virtually every song ever released. It made the platform a top power in the music business and ushered in competitors like Apple Music, Amazon Music and Tidal, helping reverse the industrys nosedive. Spotify remains the biggest music streaming service. But a few years ago it pivoted to add a buzzy format to its portfolio: podcasts. The move made the service a smorgasbord of audio entertainment part music service, part news outlet, part always-on gabfest. It may have also set the company on a collision course with artists and left listeners with a less-than-complete library of songs. Last week, Neil Young kicked off a storm in the music business and on social media when he demanded ... More

Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami appoints Adeze Wilford as Curator
NORTH MIAMI, FLA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami announced the appointment of Adeze Wilford as curator. With support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Wilford joins MOCA North Miamis senior leadership team during an exciting time in the museums growth. Wilford most recently served as assistant curator at The Shed, New York where she curated the New York Times acclaimed exhibition Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water in 2020. She assumes her role at the museum on Feb. 14. Inspired by its surrounding communities, MOCA connects diverse audiences and cultures by providing a welcoming place to encounter new ideas and voices, while nurturing a lifelong love of the arts. In her new role, Wilford will lead the curatorial departments dynamic program of exhibitions that highlight historically under- ... More

Alexander Berggruen opens group show "The Natural World: Part I"
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting The Natural World: Part I. This exhibition will open Wednesday, February 2 with a reception from 5-7 pm at the gallery (1018 Madison Avenue, Floor 3, New York, NY [unceded Canarsie/Lenape lands]). This group show, presented in two parts, explores how the natural environment and the flora of domestic settings have evolved in contemporary painting, drawing, and sculpture. Certain works explore more traditional depictions of landscape and plant life, while others verge on surrealist adaptations of our known world. Part I explores historical works over the last six decades to generate rich context for the contemporary works that will be shown in Part II. For some artists, All becomes subject matter. As valid and just as ridiculous as painting a tree, as Alex Katz stated. (1) Exploring landscape as a subject, ... More

Cardi Gallery opens its first solo show dedicated to Italian artist Emilio Isgrò
LONDON.- Cardi Gallery is presenting its first solo show dedicated to Italian artist Emilio IsgrÃ², in an intimate display occupying the first floor of its Mayfair townhouse. Born in 1937 in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, IsgrÃ² lives and works in Milan, where he moved in 1956 after a stint as an actor in Sicily. With a background in classical studies and no formal artistic training, the Sicilian artist approached the visual arts after years spent writing poetry and news reports. Through a practice focused on the encounter between word and image, this pioneering artist shook and profoundly reshaped visual language in post-war Italy. In the early 1960s, his experience as a journalist at Il Gazzettino spilt over into his first artworks, Titoli di Giornale (Newspaper Headlines), 196264, visual commentaries on the media treatment of information that highlighted the deceptive ... More

International orchestras are finally back at Carnegie
NEW YORK, NY.- What sets a cultural capital apart is not just the quality of its music-making, but also the quantity and variety. No American symphonic ensemble, for example, is better than the Cleveland Orchestra, but it stands largely alone at home. Few big groups travel to Cleveland the way they do to New York. Or did. The citys performing arts landscape has blossomed again following long pandemic closures, but virus surges, visa issues, quarantine requirements and financial concerns have meant that orchestral tours usually the meat of Carnegie Halls season are still slumbering, almost two years later. But tours, too, are slowly reawakening. The marquee offering comes later this month, when the mighty Vienna Philharmonic comes to Carnegie for a three-night stand. A landmark arrived Monday evening, however, when the Royal Philharmonic ... More

In 'Intimate Apparel,' letting the seamstress sing
NEW YORK, NY.- We begin with joyful ragtime, that musical theater fallback for telling Black stories of the early 20th century. But the sound is muffled, distorted. The party is elsewhere in the boardinghouse where our heroine, Esther, a shy, plain woman of 35, sits in her room sewing corsets and camisoles for socialites and streetwalkers. She is too serious and too ambitious to descend to the parlor and cakewalk with the revelers. So is Intimate Apparel. In musicalizing Lynn Nottages play of the same title, Ricky Ian Gordon, working with a text by Nottage herself, wants more for Esther than a quick dance and a slick tune. A woman so bent on betterment in an age that makes it almost impossible deserves the most serious and ambitious musical treatment available and gets it in the knockout Lincoln Center Theater production, directed by Bartlett Sher, ... More

An opera sings of a world on the verge of ending
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the many things that came to an end in the conflagration of World War II was the great Italian opera tradition. Giacomo Puccini, its apotheosis, had died in 1924; in the conflicts wake, modernism ruled European music, and a certain strand of lyric theater was over. Which adds a bit of poignancy to the fact that Ricky Ian Gordons paean to that tradition, his new opera The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, is set in Ferrara, Italy, on the cusp of the war, amid members of the citys Jewish community who are largely blind to the tragedy that awaits them. Their coming destruction is mirrored by that of the emotive, melodic form being used to tell their story. Emotive and melodic, yes, but here also overdone and overlong. Based on Giorgio Bassanis 1962 novel of the same name, which Vittorio De Sica adapted into a 1970 ... More