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Joyride Bookshop to open at The New Children's Museum
SAN DIEGO, CALIF.- Young book lovers might be familiar with the colorful Joyride mobile bookshop that pops up at community fairs, parks, schools and other kid-focused nonprofit organizations and businesses. Now, founders Katie Turner and Susie Horn will have a new home at The New Childrens Museum downtown. We believe that all children need to see themselves and others in a book, said Turner, who explained that the original concept was hatched during the pandemic. Friends through their children, Turner and Horn turned to their youngsters for feedback and input as they crafted a mission to provide a space for all children to discover the wonder, humanity, and capacity of books created and curated just for them. They also were determined to focus on community partnerships, like the one with NCM. The Joyride Truck was a hit at the recent ... More

Max Hooper Schneider exhibits at François Ghebaly Los Angeles in 'Falling Angels'
LOS ANGELES, CA.- FranÃ§ois Ghebaly Los Angeles recently opened the exhibition 'Falling Angeles' by artist Max Hooper Schneider which will end on June 10th. Angels of immanence are not the pink-hued and bewinged putti of the Italian Renaissance. They are Breughels rebel angels, fallen angels who wear no halos, know no gods, and consider transcendence and the supernatural dangerous inventions. They are terrifying and demonic as well as sublime. They can be summoned but they are fickle and may not come. They promote contact with bodies you would rather avoid and prohibit contacts you desire. They allow you to believe you are an independent thinker but in the manner of autonomic judgments sourced in inherited taxonomies and classificatory regimes, will, according to whim, exercise their dictatorial powers, ... More

Celebrities are instantly recognizable - or are they?
NEW YORK, NY.- In this exhibition, now open at Staley Wise Gallery since May 5th and ending on June 24th, 2023, the viewer is challenged to identify who the celebrity is in the photograph. Some are readily known by hair, hands, clothing, and posture. Some others are not so easy. Perhaps thats where the fun comes in, and perhaps the real person emerges. Sometimes, the element of disguise or concealment is a collaboration between artist and subject and reveals just as much as it hides. Ellen von Unwerths photograph of Lady Gaga illustrates this. Elvis Presleys gait, Roy Lichtensteins paintbrush, and Michael Jordans heroic stature are also represented in images by Alfred Wertheimer, Abe Frajndlich, and Herb Ritts. Each image tells us something about its subject while being far from the traditional portrait. ... More

The Armory Show announces 2023 exhibitors
NEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show is pleased to announce over 225 leading international galleries exhibiting in the 2023 edition, representing more than 35 countries and showcasing over 800 artists. New Yorks Art Fair will return for its third year at the Javits Center September 810, with a VIP Preview on September 7. More than 140 exhibitors from the previous edition are returning to The Armory Show in 2023, including 303 Gallery (New York), Ben Brown Fine Arts (London, Hong Kong, Palm Beach), James Cohan (New York), Instituto de VisiÃ³n (BogotÃ¡, New York), Kasmin (New York), Sean Kelly (New York, Los Angeles), Simon Lee Gallery (London, Hong Kong), Josh Lilley (London), Victoria Miro (London, Venice), Almine Rech (New York, Paris, Brussels, London, Shanghai), Larkin Erdmann (Zurich), Nara Roesler (SÃ£o Paulo, ... More

NWO grant for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen research into gifts and bequests from women
ROTTERDAM.- Art historian Bram Donders, who works as a researcher at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, has received a Dutch Research Council (NWO) grant for his research project, Bequeathed, into women who have gifted or bequeathed artworks to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen since 1849. The significance of female donors and legators has never previously been the subject of study despite the fact that women have played an important role in shaping the museums collection: approximately one in five donors have been women. Kandinskys painting Lyrical (1911), for example, part of the Highlights Presentation in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, was bequeathed to the museum by Marie Tak van Poortvliet (1871-1936), an important collector of modern art. It is just one of many examples in the history of a museum ... More

Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens awarded $650 K from the Leadership in Art Museums Initiative
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.- The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens announced today that it has been awarded a $650,000 grant from the Leadership in Art Museums (LAM) initiative, a partnership between the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Pilot House Philanthropy and Alice L. Walton Foundation. The funding provided by LAM enables the Cummer Museum to establish the Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole Curator, a new position named in honor of the Jacksonville native and internationally regarded educator, scholar and transformational leader. More than 60 years ago, Ninah Cummer created the Cummer Museum to serve as an educational and civic resource for the people of Jacksonville. The Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole Curator will work collaboratively with museum leadership and colleagues on the development of exhibitions, ... More

Artworks revealed for Vivid Sydney Lighting of the Sails: Life Enlivened 2023 by John Olsen and Curiious
SYDNEY.- Acclaimed Australian artist John Olsens vibrant paintings of life and energy within the natural world will illuminate the Sydney Opera Houses sails in the annual Lighting of the Sails for Vivid Sydney from 26 May 17 June 2023. Lighting of the Sails 2023 fittingly honours the legendary artist in the 50th anniversary year of the Opera House, home to Olsens captivating mural Salute to Slessors 5 Bells. Prior to his passing, Olsen worked closely with Destination NSW, the Sydney Opera House, curator Dr. Deborah Hart and creative technologists Curiious on the concept for Life Enlivened (2023). Distilling the essence of Olsens esteemed sixty-year career, the animated artwork traces an arc through his enduring fascination with the Australian natural environment, aligned with the festivals 2023 creative direction, Vivid Sydney, Naturally. ... More

Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels win the Pulitzer Prize for Music
NEW YORK, NY.- I mean, look: Im bowled over right now, the polymathic musician Rhiannon Giddens said from her home in Ireland on Monday, shortly after winning the Pulitzer Prize for music. She was speaking in a phone interview with composer Michael Abels, who joined separately by phone from the United States. Together, they wrote the Pulitzer-winner, Omar, an opera about Omar Ibn Said, a Muslim scholar who was captured in Africa in the early 1800s and sold into slavery in Charleston, South Carolina. It was there that the work premiered last May, at Spoleto Festival USA. Giddens wrote the libretto based on Saids autobiography, and recorded self-accompanied demos that Abels then responded to with a fleshed-out score. The result was a multigenre, multicultural swirl a tour through the sound worlds of Islam, bluegrass, ... More

Comedy is in their (identical) DNA
NEW YORK, NY.- The twins took the stage in matching red cowboy boots. On a recent Wednesday night in Brooklyn the kind of chilly, misty night made for staying in about 200 people had come out to see them. The audience at Littlefield, a performance space in Gowanus, sipped cocktails through Twizzlers and ate tacos in folding chairs, hugging and laughing as they settled in for a night of comedy. The occasion was the New York premiere of Pennies From Heaven, a short film starring the 26-year-old identical twin comedians Annabel and Sabina Meschke. In the film, the sisters play convenience store clerks who stumble on a pickup truck full of pennies in the desert, leading them on an adventure through a supremely silly, surreal world. Brimming with goofball tomfoolery in every frame, Pennies conjures a vibrant twinematic universe ... More

Long Play rises to the top of New York classical music festivals
NEW YORK, NY.- Long Play has been around only since last year, but it is already the most important classical music festival in New York City. And, based on the 15 concerts I attended during its second edition, which unfolded and overlapped in spaces around Brooklyn from Friday through Sunday, this festival by the Bang on a Can collective could even stand to get a little bigger. Capacity crowds amassed at Pioneer Works to hear Meredith Monks ensemble collaborate with the Bang on a Can All-Stars; at Roulette to hear the Philip Glass Ensemble; at the Mark Morris Dance Center to hear a new repertory group investigate music from the early 1990s by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill. These in-demand sets couldnt fit everyone who wanted to hear them, but with two or three other events always close by, nobody ... More