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Theatre debut 'perilous', says French star Vanessa Paradis
PARIS.- She's been in front of cameras since she was a little girl, but Vanessa Paradis admits that treading the boards for the first time on Tuesday is a "perilous" undertaking. Speaking to AFP ahead of the opening night of "Maman" at the Edouard VII theatre in Paris, the singer and actress said she had been "inhabited" by the script, written by her husband Samuel Benchetrit, who also directs the play. "In several weeks, in several months, I will relax, but for now, it's all I'm thinking about," she said. The 48-year-old has been in the limelight for decades: a teen pop idol, appearances in some 20 films, a high-profile relationship with Johnny Depp. But theatre is finally introducing Paradis to stage-fright. "I already had a lot of admiration for theatre actors, but now that I've tried it, I admire them even more," she told AFP. "It's very perilous trying to do justice to the story while projecting your voice loudly." ... More

JFK diary, Anne Revere's Academy Award among remarkable rarities up for auction
BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction presents Remarkable Raritiesa live auction hosted in Boston, MA on September 25th. The premier annual auction event features only the best of the besta small, curated selection of the most elite items we will offer for sale all year. Highlights include; JFK's diary from the summer of 1945. Towards the close of the war in 1945, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy arranged for his 28-year-old son, Jack, to work for Hearst newspapers. This allowed the young veteran to attend the opening session of the United Nations in San Francisco in May and then travel abroad to cover post-war Europe during the Summer of 1945. JFK followed Prime Minister Churchill throughout England during his reelection campaign. He traveled to Ireland, France, then to the Potsdam Conference in Germany with Navy Secretary James Forrestal. ... More

The Eyes Have It: New exhibition reopens Lehman College Art Gallery
BRONX, NY.- Lehman College Art Gallery opens its Edith Altschul Lehman and Robert Lehman wings from August 31 through November 13 to the work of artists from Pakistan and Guatemala, from Greece, Italy, and Spain, the Bahamas, Canada, and London, and across the United States, from Maryland to California. Their works, created in the last decade, truly bring the eyes of the world to the Gallery and exemplify the need to see and be seen ― the central pillar of the visual arts. In the Gallerys Rotunda, Sima I. Schloss dazzling 30-foot, site-specific installation The Eyes Have It, allows for a wide breath of interconnectivity among all the exhibitions works. Artists include: Humaira Abid, Rodolfo Abularach, Derrick Adams, Carlos Aires, Janine Antoni, Firelei BÃ¡ez, Gina Beavers, Angelica Bergamini, ... More

Exhibition of new work by Martha Tuttle opens at Tilton Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Tilton Gallery announced the opening on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 of Wild irises grow in the mountains, an exhibition of new work by Martha Tuttle. In her third solo exhibition with Tilton Gallery, the artist will present a group of ten large paintings and a video. An interplay between malleability and permanence, fragility and strength permeate the exhibition, ranging from perceptions about the vulnerability of traditional dyes and textile practices to the grief and mourning that strive to encounter the magnitude of climate change. I think that the question of how to care throughout changeeven if that change is distressfulis one that can be seen as symbolized by the object and extending into the realms of the body and the earth, the artist writes. How do we learn to create a culture of care that moves with the needs ... More

Asya Geisberg Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Icelandic artist Guðmundur Thoroddsen
NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting "Howling Hills" by Icelandic artist GuÃ°mundur Thoroddsen, the artist's fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. Thoroddsen continues to employ his painterly trope of anthropomorphized cartoonish dogs, as they traverse implied landscapes or occupy transient spaces. In Thoroddsen's previous exhibition "Earth to Earth", the canine heads seemed frozen, as if broken open and unwilling to reassemble appropriately. Now, his subjects have transformed into fully-fledged human surrogates, a more contained mechanism for the artist to further explore the pressing formal concerns that have engendered this body of work. Thoroddsen deftly weaves a painterly tapestry that effortlessly ping pongs between simplification and obfuscation. Like a lucid dream, obvious "things" cleave into questionable entities, ... More

Kaycee Moore, actress in Black directors' seminal films, dies at 77
NEW YORK, NY.- Kaycee Moore, whose nuanced acting documented Black American life in movies by a group of young, Black independent directors in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 80s, died Aug. 13 at her home in Kansas City, Kansas. She was 77. The death was confirmed by the Watkins Heritage Funeral home. No cause was given. Moore made only a handful of movies, but they had an outsize impact on American cinema. Her portrayals defied the traditional roles for Black women of her era, in action-packed or trauma-filled blockbusters, and instead laid bare the interior lives of her characters. Her debut came in Killer of Sheep (1978), director Charles Burnetts first feature. (It was his thesis for the film program at UCLA.) Burnett was a member of the community of independent filmmakers that would later become known as the L.A. Rebellion. ... More

Classical music looks ahead to a fall in flux
NEW YORK, NY.- Normally, when I look ahead to a new season, I have a pretty good idea of what the performances will be like. But it goes without saying that this is not a normal time. So even with usually sure bets a new piece by a composer who has excited me in the past; recitals by performers I cherish; great casts in operas old and recent its hard to know what the performances this fall will feel like. The very experience of gathering in concert halls is in flux with the lingering challenges of the pandemic. It looks as if vaccine mandates for audience members will be routine. Im with those who see this move as the only way to make performances feel safe. But will masks be required or optional? Will there be full capacity, or some spacing in the audience? Will children be allowed, even if theyre still unvaccinated? And even with precautions, ... More

George Wein, jazz festival trailblazer, dies at 95
NEW YORK, NY.- George Wein, the impresario who almost single-handedly turned the jazz festival into a worldwide phenomenon, died Monday at his apartment in Manhattan. He was 95. His death was announced by a spokesperson, Carolyn McClair. Jazz festivals were not an entirely new idea when Wein was approached about presenting a weekend of jazz in the open air in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1954. There had been sporadic attempts at such events, notably in both Paris and Nice, France, in 1948. But there had been nothing as ambitious as the festival Wein staged that July on the grounds of the Newport Casino, an athletic complex near the historic mansions of Bellevue Avenue. With a lineup including Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald and other stars, the inaugural Newport Jazz Festival drew thousands ... More

The trumpeter Adam O'Farrill's art of avoiding the obvious
NEW YORK, NY.- If you pay close enough attention to jazz, Adam OFarrill might have landed on your radar about a decade ago, when he was still an adolescent. His last name is immediately recognizable his father and grandfather are Latin jazz royalty but he stood apart even then, mostly by hanging back and letting his trumpet speak for itself. Since his teens, OFarrill has prioritized restraint, so that his huge range of inspirations Olivier Messiaens compositions, Miles Davis 1970s work, the films of Alfonso CuarÃ³n, the novels of D.H. Lawrence, the contemporary American-Swedish composer Kali Malone could emulsify into something personal, and devilishly tough to pin down. I dont really feel the need to pastiche too heavily, he said in a phone interview last month, while visiting family in Southern California. The point is really how you digest ... More

A climate opera arrives in New York, with 21 tons of sand
NEW YORK, NY.- On a rainy morning this past week, a beach arrived at the front door of a theater in Brooklyn. Or at least the raw ingredients for one: 21 tons of sand, packaged in 50-pound bags, 840 of them. Wheeled into the BAM Fisher on pushcart dollies, they were unceremoniously dropped onto the theaters tarp-covered floor with a dull thud. Once opened and spread around, the sand would form the foundation of Sun and Sea, an installation-like opera that won the top prize at the Venice Biennale in 2019 and has emerged as a masterpiece for the era of climate change. Neither didactic nor abstract, it is an insidiously enjoyable mosaic of consumption, globalization and ecological crisis. And its next stop is the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where it opens Wednesday and runs through Sept. 26. The way it delivers its ideas, its totally ... More