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"LIGHTFAST: Intertwine" a genre–bending multi–disciplinary installation by an all–female quartet
NAPA, CA.- Intertwine is an immersive, site-specific sculptural environment responding to di Rosa’s unique Carneros landscape, who invites you to experience this radical, genre-bending installation fusing visual, sculptural, audio, and textual elements starting today through June 2, 2024. Intertwine is the collaborative work of LIGHTFAST, a quartet of artists including visual artists Danae Mattes and Christel Dillbohner, cellist Monica Scott, and author Sylvia Brownrigg. After decades of pursuing their crafts separately, these women united to push the boundaries of medium and genre while conducting deep explorations of time, light, and place. “This exciting project continues di Rosa’s soft residency program,” states Associate Curator Twyla Ruby. “LIGHTFAST spent months exploring our 217-acre property, collecting images and materials, ... More

From dark and dystopian to the light as Laure Prouvost oscillates between reality and fiction
TILBURG.- Starting today, De Pont Museum is presenting a compelling and immersive exhibition by Laure Prouvost (1978), in which the artist welcomes visitors into a surreal, absurdist and poetic world of her own making. In IN THE MIST OF IT ALL, ABOVE FRONT TEARS, social engagement and the limitless power of imagination find expression through video, sculpture, performance, textile and text. In an entirely unique manner, Prouvost conveys a hopeful and liberating message concerning themes such as ecology, the female body and migration. Prouvost’s artistic universe is full of contrasts: by turns humorous and serious, her work takes us from dark and dystopian to the light as the artist oscillates between reality and fiction. In a monumental video installation several metres high, ‘Grandma’ – one of the recurring characters ... More

The Ehlen Collection – Eine Rheinische Porzellansammlung auction at the Palais Oppenheim
COLOGNE .- Sotheby's is presenting a curated collection of particularly exquisite porcelain at the launch of the 2024 auction season in Cologne: The Ehlen Collection – Eine Rheinische Porzellansammlung. The collection, carefully assembled over several generations in the 19th and 20th centuries, is characterised by its artistic perfection. It is also characterised by its significant and far-reaching scientific breadth: The origin of the objects spans countries and continents and includes various materials, including porcelain, faience, stoneware and glass. Some of the lots have a prestigious aristocratic provenance, while others come from historical European collections. Dr Herbert van Mierlo, Senior Valuation Expert, Sotheby's Cologne: "According to oral tradition, the foundation of this collection was laid in the 19th ... More

Book launch celebrates Sunderland 73: The People's Visual History
SUNDERLAND.- Lifelong Black Cats fans can see their 1973 FA Cup memorabilia officially brought to life in a new book marking 50 years since Sunderland won the cup at Wembley. The University of Sunderland has teamed up with internationally renowned photographer and football artist Julian Germain, and the likes of A Love Supreme, Foundation of Light, Back on the Map and The Cultural Spring for Sunderland 73: The People’s Visual History. The project, which is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, celebrates one of the most significant events in the history of Sunderland – the 1973 FA Cup – reflecting upon the experiences of supporters during the Bob Stokoe era. Sunderland fans’ photos, memorabilia, scrapbooks and memories are at the heart of this project, and, over the last year, supporters have ... More

ING Australia and Powerhouse Parramatta's community and wellbeing partnership
SYDNEY.- Powerhouse has today announced a significant $4 million investment in the future of Powerhouse Parramatta by ING Australia. This remarkable partnership will establish ING as the museum’s Community and Wellbeing Partner, supporting Western Sydney communities through the formation of the ING Pavilion and the ING Community Wellbeing Program. Located within the rooftop garden at Powerhouse Parramatta, the ING Pavilion will seamlessly connect with the landscape and significantly contribute to the community’s experience of the museum. The ING Pavilion will support learning programs and workshops that connect communities with biodiversity, conservation and care for our diverse environments. The ING Pavilion will be complemented by the ING Community Wellbeing Program, an annual series of seasonal ... More

Smell the music: Inviting a perfumer into the concert hall
NEW YORK, NY.- It was time to smell Scriabin’s “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire.” This music, from 1910, has an element of synesthesia in its score, which calls for a color organ — a keyboard instrument that projects lights of a dozen hues — along with a full orchestra, a piano soloist and a choir. But in October at Davies Symphony Hall, the home of the San Francisco Symphony, the piece was being prepared with an additional sense in mind. A group had gathered in the auditorium to test an almost unheard-of idea: that a performance could be accompanied by something like an olfactory poem, a narrative series of perfumes released through diffusers between seats and a set of futuristic cannons, called vortexes, that were developed for this occasion to shoot out rings of scented smoke. Onstage, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet ... More

Where students can weigh light
NEW YORK, NY.- Even in the buffet of amenities that New York City private schools offer — state-of-the-art gyms and science labs, black box theaters and greenhouses, bespoke college guidance and dream teacher-to-student ratios — having a museum-caliber James Turrell Skyspace on your rooftop is in a class of its own. On the sixth floor of Friends Seminary, a Quaker school in Manhattan, Turrell, the internationally acclaimed artist who uses light to shape space, has created one of his perception-altering meeting rooms whose roof opens to the sky. Bathed in a spectrum of shifting radiant color, that slice of sky appears to float inside the installation, titled “Leading,” the only one of more than 85 Skyspaces by Turrell around the world attached to an active K-12 school. And it’s the first of his bold experiments in Manhattan that ... More

Rowdy, sensitive and ready to sing
NEW YORK, NY.- In denim and leather and newly acquired vintage snakeskin boots, the cast and creative team bringing “The Outsiders” to Broadway went on a trip across Tulsa, Oklahoma, last month — a granular, history-flecked tour of the place where, about 60 years earlier, S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age story was written and set. Hinton, 75 and still a beloved local, was a star attraction; the visit was a way of mapping out how the new musical version might fit into, or even build on, the durable legacy of “The Outsiders.” Bouncing along together in a van, singing bits of the show’s score, the company members let out a collective gasp as they caught sight of the enormous Admiral Twin Drive-In. Hinton watched double features there as a kid, and it figured prominently in her 1967 novel. The theater, whose midcentury-style signage remains, ... More

Robert Macbeth, founder of Harlem's new Lafayette Theater, dies at 89
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Macbeth, a rising Black actor in the New York theater scene, was sitting in a Greenwich Village bar in September 1963, getting a drink before going onstage for an off-Broadway improv show. The evening news played in the background. “I happened to look up and there was a flash, and the flash was about the four little girls getting killed in Birmingham,” he said in a 1967 interview, recalling the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. “And there I was, sitting in a Village bar, with a scotch in my hand.” He went onstage that night, and, rather than following the show’s loose routine, he began shouting, walking up and down the aisles, getting in the faces of the mostly white crowd. “I must have scared the audience half to death,” he recalled in the interview. But rather than absorb his ... More

Reports of Cabaret's death have been greatly exaggerated
NEW YORK, NY.- Cabaret has been integral to New York nightlife for more than a century, but every so often, reports of its death — however exaggerated — cause a stir. Singer and educator Natalie Douglas, who arrived from Los Angeles in 1988 and has performed steadily at the storied jazz club Birdland and other venues, figures that the premature mourning started “at least 70 years ago — as soon as people moved from the cities to the suburbs and had room to entertain at home.” Douglas (age: “Not as young as I look”) is noted for her tributes to Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone and the great Stevies of pop (Wonder and Nicks). Recently on a brisk afternoon, she arrived at a loft in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, for a confab with four other veterans of the cabaret scene. Tammy Lang, 57 — who has earned a devoted following through her titular comedic ... More

'The Ally,' a new play at the Public Theater, hashes out the headlines
NEW YORK, NY.- Before his audition for “The Ally,” a new play by Itamar Moses, actor Michael Khalid Karadsheh printed out the monologue that his character, Farid, a Palestinian student at an American university, would give in the second act. The speech cites the Mideast conflict’s specific history and Farid’s personal testimony of, he says, “the experience of moving through the world as the threat of violence incarnate.” Karadsheh — who booked the part — was bowled over. “I don’t think anyone has said these words about Palestine on a stage in New York in such a clear, concise, beautiful, poetic way,” said Karadsheh, whose parents are from Jordan and who has ancestors who were from Birzeit in the West Bank. Farid’s speech sits alongside others, though, in Moses’ play: one delivered by an observant Jew branding much criticism of Israel ... More

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