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P·P·O·W to represent Astrid Terrazas
NEW YORK, NY.- PÂ·PÂ·OÂ·W announced representation of Mexican American artist Astrid Terrazas (b. 1996). Taking the form of mixed media painting and illustrated ceramic vessels, Terrazas symbolic work re-writes worlds. With unflinching vulnerability, Terrazas conveys stories that push personal and communal trauma towards tangible healing. Working in an illustrative, highly detailed style, Terrazas multimedia paintings resemble a visual dream diary full of transient figures, archaic symbols, and illogical narratives. Merging dreamscapes, Mexican ancestral folklore, lived experiences, and unearthly transfigurations, Terrazas personal range of recurring motifs function as artifacts of protection and evoke universal metaphors of transformation. Symbols such as snakes, stairs, braids, and windows speak to themes of metamorphosis and passage. ... More

WSU Fine Arts Dean Rodney Miller named Ulrich Museum Interim Director
WICHITA, KS.- Dr. Rodney Miller, dean of the College of Fine Arts at Wichita State University, has been named the Ulrich Museum of Arts interim director as the university begins a formal search to fill the position. In accepting this role, Dean Miller noted, The Ulrich Museum is one of the most valuable and valued institutions at Wichita State University. I am thrilled and privileged to play a small part in this transition to a new chapter. Current Ulrich Director Leslie Brothers recently accepted a position as director of Museum Campus in her hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin. As dean of WSUs College of Fine Arts for the last 18 years, Miller has worked closely with the Ulrich Museum as well as the local arts community, making him an excellent choice to lead the museum during this transitionary period. He will continue in his role as Dean of the College ... More

"A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence" opens at The Block Museum of Art
EVANSTON, IL.- How can art history help inform our understanding of the deep roots of racial violence? asks curator Janet Dees. A new exhibition debuting this month at The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University seeks to address this and related questions as it considers the long history of American artistic engagement with anti-Black violence. From the anti-lynching campaigns of the 1890s to the founding of Black Lives Matter in 2013 and up to today, A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence evokes the unbroken history of violence against African Americans in the United States and highlights African Americans as active shapers of visual discourse. Organized by The Block, the exhibition includes approximately 65 works of art and ephemera on loan from private and public ... More

Winter exhibitions at Herron Galleries showcase John Buck, American abstract artists
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- On Jan. 26, the Galleries at the Herron School of Art and Design at IUPUI will open two exhibitions featuring more than 30 works of art by Montana-based printmaker and sculptor John Buck, as well as 48 prints from the American Abstract Artists' 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio and 25 monoprints created by members of the organization in 2019. More than 30 works of art by John Buck, a nationally renowned Montana-based printmaker and sculptor, will be on display in Herron's Berkshire, Reese, and Paul Galleries through April 26 in "John Buck: Prints and Sculpture from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation." Buck's carving mastery and unconventional printmaking techniques, such as drawing on the surface of the wood with a variety of tools, are highlighted, as is his distinct visual language, which he has ... More

Global Positioning: New artworks by 20 international artists on view in NYC, Chicago & Boston
NEW YORK, NY.- Public Art Fund opened Global Positioning, an exhibition of new artworks by 20 international artists that reveals our fundamental shared humanity across the boundaries of geography, culture, language, history, and politics. Coming together from 17 countries across six continents, these creative voices span disparate regions including the Amazon rainforest in Colombia; the desert lands of the Indulkana Community in Central Australia; Yangon, Myanmar, where the military has seized control through a coup; and the West African port city of Accra, Ghana. The exhibition debuts on January 26 on 320 JCDecaux bus shelters throughout New York City, Chicago, and Boston. Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has united the world through mutual vulnerability, while also revealing and sharpening many divisions. Global ... More

Justin Peck and collaborators combine gravitational universes
NEW YORK, NY.- A few months ago, Justin Peck, the resident choreographer of New York City Ballet, was entertaining his baby daughter with a set of building blocks as he listened to the first movement of Caroline Shaws a cappella Partita for 8 Voices. He was thinking about how to approach the densely packed music, layered with speech, vocal effects and wordless harmonies, when he noticed that his daughters toy set contained eight shapes. Together, they began to move the shapes around to the music. We came up with the structural pattern that starts the ballet! Peck said, referring to Partita, his new work for New York City Ballet, which will have its premiere Thursday, the opening night of the companys delayed winter season at Lincoln Center. Set to Shaws Pulitzer Prize-winning composition and performed by eight dancers in sneakers, the ballet ... More

Touring through omicron: Broadway shows hit bumps on the road
NEW YORK, NY.- The Mean Girls tour made it to Oklahoma before it was knocked out by the coronavirus. At first, the production had been able to keep going by flying in alumni from its Broadway run, but ultimately the number of company members testing positive was just too high, so earlier this month the show decided to cancel its remaining shows in Tulsa, and then postponed the runs that would have followed in two Wisconsin cities, Madison and Appleton. When the show hit the pause button, Jonalyn Saxer, the actress playing Karen Smith, found herself with two weeks off and no home of her own like many actors, she gave up her New York apartment and put her stuff in storage when she signed on to tour. The show offered to fly her wherever she wanted to go, and she chose her parents house in Los Angeles. I was home over Christmas, ... More

Art Fund announces Queer Britain as new tenants at 2 Granary Square
LONDON.- Art Fund, the national charity for art, announced today that Queer Britain will be opening the UKs first national LGBTQ+ museum at its building in Kings Cross, London. Established in 2018, Queer Britain is a registered charity and aims for the new museum to be a fully inclusive space that celebrates the stories, people and places that are so intrinsic to the queer community in the UK, and beyond. The museum is an inclusive place that promises to welcome everyone regardless of sexuality or gender identity allowing visitors to explore and learn about the past, present and future stories that the queer community is steeped in. The museum will be housed on the ground floor of 2 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, NC1 4BH, part of the building owned by Art Fund. The lease starts in January 2022 and Queer Britain hopes to be able ... More

A day of divas
NEW YORK, NY.- A little imperiousness? A lot of extravagance? A touch of the supernatural? You could try to come up with the recipe for a diva, but you just know one when you see it. Or hear it: In an appraisal of AndrÃ© Leon Talley this past weekend, New York Times fashion critic Vanessa Friedman described his words as those of a diva, uttered at a time when divas were going out of style. Out of style, perhaps, but not out of existence. In fact, I read that appraisal Sunday as I was getting ready for a day of rare diva alignment, with two star sopranos holding court in two of New Yorks grandest venues: RenÃ©e Fleming at Carnegie Hall in the afternoon, and Sonya Yoncheva at the Metropolitan Opera in the evening. If you were looking for evidence of the demise of the diva at least of the stereotypical variety its true, neither of these seemingly genial, ... More

'The Books of Jacob,' a Nobel Prize winner's sophisticated and overwhelming novel
NEW YORK, NY.- Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk was, in 2019, a youthful winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. She was 57, dreadlocked, mischievous of politics, a vegetarian. Her novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead had recently been turned, by Agnieszka Holland, into the film Spoor, a slice of existential and ecology-minded dread. Tokarczuk was not among those laureates the Swedish Academy sometimes seems to prop up in the crypt for a final viewing. Her career was, and is, in full gallop. Her novels they are often both pensive and mythic in tone are slowly making their way into English. In addition to Drive Your Plow, these include the philosophical and often dazzling Flights, about travel and being between stations. It won the 2018 Man Booker International prize. Tokarczuks most ambitious novel the Swedish ... More

Centro de Artes Gallery reopens to the public with internationally inspired exhibit
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- After being closed to the public for over a year and a half due to COVID-19, the City of San Antonios Department of Arts & Culture is opening the doors to an integral space for the arts community. The Centro de Artes Gallery in Historic Market Square is officially reopening to the public on January 26, 2022. The gallery, which is free to the public, will open with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Exhibition Round 2. This exhibit is inspired by the NYFAs Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, which pairs emerging foreign-born or first-generation artists with experienced artists for mentorship, development, and encouragement. The multi-disciplinary exhibition explores the unique and lived experiences of 34 San Antonio-based artists connected to the program and includes partnership with ... More