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Helene Appel's exhibition 'Letters' on view at the Drawing Room, Hamburg
HAMBURG.- Things lying on the floor. Or on the table, perhaps. Objects or loose substances resting horizontally on the surface, entirely at the mercy of gravity. Or so it seems. But here, the thing is a picture. The flat ground is tilted by 90Â°, together with the subject, and hangs on the wall as a painting. This gesture, simple as well as literally ground-breaking, enables Helene Appel to bring the (illusionary) space of representation into her painting, into the classic panel painting while at the same time revealing the illusion. In her veristic depiction of mostly everyday objects, the artist, who studied with Olav Christopher Jenssen at the HfbK Hamburg, has been pursuing a form of painterly realism for almost two decades now, simulating her subjects both blatantly and effectively. Withdrawing all perspective the images are frontal, the horizon ... More

The man who wrote everything
NEW YORK, NY.- Gay Talese has a tic. I want to get this out of the way because in general I have such tremendous admiration for the man: that debonair eminence of ye olde New Journalism who is both a living landmark of Manhattan and his own best character. Its a writerly tic, the retro habit of referring to women by the color of their hair, but as noun rather than adjective. A slender and attractive brunette. A slender and stylish honey blonde in a ponytail. A gregarious young brunette. A perky and heavily perfumed brunette in a red cocktail dress. At least silver foxes, of which the natty Talese, 91, is a prime example, get the courtesy of being compared to a clever animal. If occasionally feeling as if youre trapped in a Peter Arno cartoon is the price of admission to a new work by Talese, sign me up. But only one chunk ... More

Hollywood strikes send a chill through Britain's film industry
LONDON.- What do Barbie, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny have in common? Besides being the summers big-budget movies, they were made in Britain, filmed in part at some of the countrys most esteemed studios. Big Hollywood productions are a critical part of Britains film and television industry. For years, they have brought in money, jobs and prestige, and helped make the sector a bright spot in Britains economy. But now, that special relationship has brought difficulty. The strikes by actors and screenwriters in the United States, which have ground much of Hollywood to a standstill, are also being strongly felt in Britain, where productions including Deadpool 3, Wicked and Part 2 of Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning stopped filming. Throughout the late summer months, when ... More

Mosaic artwork by Glendalys Medina enlivens Grand Street Station in Brooklyn
NEW YORK, NY.- MTA Arts & Design announces a dynamic new mosaic artwork commission by artist Glendalys Medina for the Grand Street station in Brooklyn. Two panels, one on each platform mezzanine, comprise Gratitudes off Grand. The installation totals around 340 square feet of glass mosaic fabricated and installed by Miotto Mosaic Art Studios, including a 40- foot-wide panel on the Brooklyn-bound side. The Grand Street station is receiving ADA accessibility upgrades, including new elevators, completed this month, and other improvements. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Medina began a practice of taking 15-minute walks to get outside and cultivate gratitude. Upon returning to the studio, the artist documented colors that were observed to create a series of studies. The resulting works extend the artists practice inspired by TaÃno ... More

'Swing State' review: All is not well in Wisconsin
NEW YORK, NY.- Its immediately clear what kind of flinty, progressive woman lives in the converted farmhouse depicted onstage in Swing State, the play by Rebecca Gilman that opened Sunday at the Minetta Lane Theater. Well, not so much depicted as duplicated. You can just about sense the recycling bins beneath the working sink and the Obama memoirs in the book-filled sitting room of Todd Rosenthals cozy set, a throwback to the hyper-naturalistic style that has for decades dominated American social drama. Indeed, as the play begins, Peg Smith, whose name alone lets you know shes plain and real, stands cracking eggs at her kitchen island to make the homeliest food ever devised: zucchini bread. But all is not well among the baskets, birdhouses and earthenware bowls. For one thing, theres a container of human ashes ... More

'Un·Tuning Together: Practicing Listening with Pauline Oliveros' at Bétonsalon
PARIS.- This group exhibition is inspired by a unique concept of listening that the American experimental composer Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) refers to as Deep Listening, which, in her words, "involves going beneath the surface of what is heard." At the heart of this practice is an acute awareness of the fact that there is always more to hear "beneath the surface" of the audible, in the recesses of the acoustic environment. The Deep Listening experience is open to new forms of sensoriality and represents a commitment to continue developing our listening skills through scores that, rather than guiding the interpretation of music, suggest attentional strategies and ways of listening to ourselves, others and the environment. In Oliveros work, the practice of attention is most often conducted in a collective setting. In most of her compositions, ... More

Watercolour landscapes by Turner and Bonington in new Wallace Collection exhibition
LONDON.- The Wallace Collection invites visitors to embark on a journey from the rugged Yorkshire Dales to the grandeur of Venice, pausing en route to enjoy the bucolic delights of crab fishing on Scarboroughs beach and to marvel at the gothic splendour of Rouen cathedral from the dockside. This odyssey is undertaken through a one-room display of watercolour landscapes by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828), the first time the works have been on display in 17 years. The display brings together ten works by the two artists: with four views of Yorkshire by Turner and five scenes of Normandy and Venice by Bonington. Turner was, of course, a British artist, while Bonington was born in Britain but was brought up and received his artistic training in France and is considered Anglo-French. In a manner that was ... More

'The Absence of Mark Manders' in Woning Van Wassenhove
SINT-MARTENS-LATEM.- The Absence of Mark Manders unfolds in the Woning Van Wassenhove. This is a post-Brutalist house for a bachelor designed by Juliaan Lampens in 1974. In jarring contrast to prevailing depictions of clean and mostly empty Brutalist interiors, the original occupant, Albert Van Wassenhove, who lived there until his passing in 2012, stuffed the house to hoarder-like proportions. The Absence of Mark Manders treats Lampenss architecture with the dignity of the permanent sculpture that it is, while also putting forth Van Wassenhoves logic of accumulation. Although Manders has hardly touched some spaces, he treats the bed, office, and kitchen as stages for aggregation in line with the original occupants mindset: drawings, architectural proposals, photographs, artworks, paint pots, and seemingly wet clay are piled ... More

Ikon Gallery presents major solo exhibition by British artist Mali Morris
BIRMINGHAM.- Ikon Gallery welcomes the major solo exhibition by British artist Mali Morris 'Calling' which includes nearly 30 works from the last 25 years and documents a notable change in Morris artistic practice from the late 1990s when she considered new painterly directions. Morriss first solo exhibition was held at Ikon Gallery, John Bright Street, in 1979 and she now returns to Ikon, Brindleyplace, in 2023 to transform the gallerys spaces into fields of colour and light. Mali Morris has been exploring the possibilities of abstract painting for over 50 years. Her recent paintings create visual arenas, where colour moves through space and space moves through colour. Glowing circles call to each other through painted structures that are both fluid and geometric. Opacity and translucency are important, as are the ways the touch ... More

'Luca Locatelli: The Circle' opening at Gallerie d'Italia, Turin
TORINO.- Intesa Sanpaolo Gallerie dItalia will be presenting 'Luca Locatelli: The Circle', the world premiere of a new series of photographs by the 2020 World Press Photo Contest winner and internationally renowned reporter Luca Locatelli. For the last years, Locatelli has been travelling around many different countries Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Spain and Switzerland to cite a few to document practices and stories that could shed light on that model of production and consumption known as the Circular Economy. This exhibition at Gallerie dItalia in Turin presents more than 100 photographs made by Locatelli in the last two years of his research journey around Europe, along with new video works and infographics, offering insights into contemporary, experimental sustainable practices and initiatives: from the world's ... More