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When a seat in the theater means a seat in the salon
NEW YORK, NY.- In a scene in Jocelyn Biohs Jajas African Hair Braiding, a man rolls in a cart of items to sell to the clients and stylists at the titular salon. I recognized the character immediately and sat up, anticipating the joke. I wasnt the only one: A small contingency of the audience at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater started snickering and laughing before he had even fully stepped onstage. Those of us who have spent hours in salon chairs, amid the scent of coconut oil and the acrid aroma of bleach, moving in a circuit between stylists chair, sink and sweltering-hot dryer, know this vendor. In Biohs play, he sells socks, and later, another shows up selling jewelry. In the salons I went to as a child, I remember men peddling bootlegged movies and fashions to the clients with their hair wrapped or freshly sheened as they dug for cash in ... More

Hysteria or healing? Examining the power of the shaking body
NEW YORK, NY.- As choreographer and dancer Wendy Osserman, 81, began to contort her body at a recent performance in Queens, her hands shook. Her fingers flapped back and forth. She threw one arm away from the other tossing and releasing, flailing and returning and hopped into one-leg kicks before sticking her tongue out and coiling it into a tunnel. She was trying to shake something off, it seemed. But what? Animals, according to somatic therapists, tremble and quiver to discharge stress. The shudder is a trauma response, a kind of biological palate cleanser that allows a return to a sense of normalcy after duress. Human bodies, on the other hand, tend to store up rage and grief and panic like a pressure cooker. As a dancer, Osserman lets her intuition guide her movements to release some of that pressure. Ossermans ... More

Kevin Wynn, choreographer of complex movement, dies at 67
NEW YORK, NY.- Kevin Wynn, a choreographer of complex maelstroms that moved at lightning speed and an uncommonly dedicated teacher who influenced generations of dancers, died Oct. 12 at his home in the New York City borough of Manhattan. He was 67. His mother and only immediate survivor, Edith, said the cause was a heart attack. Before he was a choreographer and a teacher, Wynn was a dancer. He was a soloist in the early 1980s with the JosÃ© LimÃ³n Dance Company and Dianne McIntyres Sounds in Motion. He was one of the most brilliant, magnificent dance figures I have ever seen, McIntyre said in an interview. He had a lushness, reaching all sides of the space, and, at the same time, the ability to give all the little articulated details. He could give you the delicacy of a feather and the roar of fire. You could hear ... More

'A Living Collection' now on display at The Dorsky Museum
NEW PALTZ, NY.- The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz is pleased to announce the opening of the reimagined "A Living Collection" exhibition, which features the Museum's permanent collection on display in the Corridor Gallery and the Sarah Bedrick Gallery. Curated by Katie Hood Morgan with community members and Museum staff, the newly updated display of the Museums collection tells the story of The Dorsky from various perspectives, making space for traditionally marginalized voices. "A Living Collection" proposes an alternative to the notion of a static permanent collection. Like a living organism, a museums art collection is ever-changing, its meaning shifting along with contemporary viewpoints and visitor interpretations. "Stewarding our shared cultural heritage on behalf of our community and society is a major ... More

Solo exhibition by Richard Prince at Galerie Max Hetzler's Potsdamer Straße, Berlin
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is currently showing a solo exhibition by Richard Prince at Potsdamer StraÃe 77-87, in Berlin. This is the artists second solo presentation with the gallery. Cropped, pasted, painted and scanned, the exhibited works testify to Princes longstanding preoccupation with collecting and repurposing images while placing a renewed emphasis on the importance of the corporeal in his oeuvre. In these compositions, Prince splinters and reassembles photographic fragments of the female figure with varying degrees of legibility. The resulting collages assemble a new body, complicating notions of authorship and building on the tradition of figure painting. Since the late 1970s, Prince has chronicled a wealth of images that haunt the American psyche from cowboys and biker chicks to cars, nurses, and gag cartoons. In ... More

'Harmony' review: Barry Manilow writes the (Broadway) songs
NEW YORK, NY.- How strange and, in the end, how ironic that a German singing group, founded in the chaotic last years of the Weimar Republic and forcibly disbanded less than 10 years later, should call itself the Comedian Harmonists. Yet on the evidence of the Barry Manilow musical Harmony for which, yes, he wrote the songs (along with his longtime lyricist, Bruce Sussman) the internationally famous all-male group had the harmonist part of their name just right. As rendered by Manilow in an often skillful, surprisingly theatrical score, the mens tightly spaced six-part singing, sometimes reminiscent of barbershop, sometimes jazz, sometimes operetta on LSD, is so dense as to seem geological, its pitches heaving and twisting toward some new stratum of sound. But comedians? No. Neither the guys nor the grim and eventually ... More

Ukrainian and Japanese women artists unite to honor Vincent Van Gogh on 133rd anniversary of his passing
TOKYO .- As the world eagerly awaits the much-anticipated Van Gogh exhibition at Sampo Museum in Tokyo this October and currently visits the ongoing exhibition "Van Gogh in Auvers" at his museum in Amsterdam (scheduled until mid-September), the enigmatic departure of Vincent Van Gogh from Auvers-sur-Oise continues to intrigue, 133 years after his passing. Amidst the historical ambiguity surrounding his untimely demise, art historians and enthusiasts alike grapple with the mystery of whether it was suicide or something darker that led to his fateful departure. Yet, Van Gogh's legacy persists through his mesmerizing artworks, poignant letters, and the captivating stories that continue to captivate audiences worldwide. It is no secret that Van Gogh drew inspiration from several artists of the past, and one of them was the British woman ... More

Sebastian Lloyd Rees has first solo exhibition in London for six years at Vardaxoglou Gallery
LONDON.- Vardaxoglou Gallery is presenting Eternity and a Day, an exhibition of five new large-scale paintings by Athens-based artist Sebastian Lloyd Rees (b. 1986, Stavanger, Norway). This is Sebastian Lloyd Reess first exhibition with Vardaxoglou Gallery, and the artists first solo exhibition in London for 6 years. The exhibition comprises five paintings made between 2021 to 2023 in the artists Athens studio. Each painting measures eight foot tall by eight foot wide and is composed according to what at first seems to be a consistent formula, but quickly and vividly reveals its particularityand, in that particularity, a poignant lyricism. To capture the essence of intimacy each painting holds, and expanding on the artists interest in time and memory, the viewer will experience five acts throughout the exhibition and on visiting will be confronted with ... More

Exhibition at Scandinavia House presents multi-media artwork by Nordic artists
NEW YORK, NY.- On view now at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America, Narrative Threads: Works by Eight Nordic Artists presents multi-media artwork by Nordic artists, each distinguished by their innovative use of natural, synthetic, and digital materials. Exploring Nordic craft traditions through a contemporary lens, the works in the exhibition engage with material experimentation, and digital technology, with textile design, ceramics, stitching, painting, audio recording, and assemblage offering diverse narrative expressions and perspectives. The exhibition opened October 14 with the work of eight internationally celebrated artists: Margrethe Aanestad (Norway), Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter (Iceland), Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson (Iceland), Hildur Bjarnadóttir (Iceland), Astrid Krogh (Denmark), Heidi Hankaniemi ... More

Bonhams to present The Helen and David Milling Collection of Arts and Crafts Ceramics and Glass
LONDON.- The best of British and American art pottery and glass from the late 19th and early 20th centuries will be presented in the Helen and David Milling Collection at Bonhams this December. Helen and David Milling amassed an exceptional collection over half a century from some of the most prominent and influential potters, designers, and artists of the period. More than 350 lots will be offered from the Michigan couples collection across three sales this December: 20th Century Decorative Arts and Ceramics on December 5 in London, Modern Decorative Art & Design on December 12 in New York and the dedicated Helen and David Milling Online auction from December 818 at Bonhams Skinner. Helen and David, both with backgrounds in the arts and architecture, were interested in Arts and Crafts ceramics, Art Nouveau tiles and American ... More