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François Ghebaly opens an exhibition of works by Neil Beloufa
LOS ANGELES, CA.- There’s an autumnal worry that deepens this newest series by French-Algerian artist Neïl Beloufa. The rich, creamy leather that skins these works undulates over shaped wood. The swathes of leather tell one story wrapping the surface, the wood beneath hints at another. Their colors puzzle into scenes of quiet anxiety. Deep ochres and pumpkin oranges, plums and grays and lavenders piece together moments of isolation, concern, simultaneous distance from and connection to a fraught world, screens winking out at us from the flicker of their light. A cord snakes out from each work and connects to a plug below, divulging the mechanism that allows the works to glow from within. The contoured wood beneath the leather reveals its form only when viewed at the right angle like a secret reflection in the magic glass of our touchscreen ... More

Mexico's indigenous weavers seek international recognition
ZINACANTÁN.- Indigenous weavers in Mexico's southern highlands are striving for rightful recognition from an international fashion industry that they say plunders their creations and tradition. The struggle has taken on added symbolism as Mexico this month celebrates the bicentenary of its independence with plaudits for indigenous peoples' resistance against Spanish colonization. Sitting on blankets on the ground in the courtyard of Julia Perez's house in the town of Zinacantan, weavers use traditional looms to produce fabric blending a multitude of bright colors. "There is a fusion of our ideas so that our tradition, our culture, our fabrics are not lost," the 39-year-old Tzotzil craftswoman said. "That's why we always use it in our designs," she said of the inspiration for the colors and patterns. The weavers' enthusiasm belies the laborious and complex nature ... More

VanDerBrink Auctions to offer collection of rare and classic cars, gas station signs and other petroliana
CHIPPEWA FALLS, WISC.- The Larry and Dawn Menard collection of rare and classic cars, gas station signs and other petroliana, fine pickup trucks, vintage motorcycles, antique tractors, over 300 pieces of memorabilia and more will be auctioned Saturday, October 2nd, in the Expo Building of the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds, at 225 Edwards Street in Chippewa Falls. The auction has a start time of 9 am Central. Gates will open at 7 am. “We hope everyone can come and bid on a chance to own one of these fabulous collector cars and more,” said Yvette VanDerBrink of VanDerBrink Auctions, the Minnesota auction house conducting the sale. The auction is a rare and vintage car collector’s dream, packed with rides like a fuel-injected 1957 Chevrolet convertible, a fuel-injected 1963 Corvette with the split rear window, a 1954 Chevrolet ... More

Denver Art Museum appoints two new Asian art curators ahead of Martin Building reopening
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum announced the appointment of two curatorial leaders in the museum's Asian art department. "The Denver Art Museum is committed to continuing to expand the range of perspectives we offer and to present multifaceted stories of artistic creation to our community and beyond highlighting our global collection," said Christoph Heinrich, Frederick and Jan Mayer Director of the DAM. In the culmination of an international search, Hyonjeong "HJ" Kim Han was selected as the museum's new Joseph de Heer Curator of Asian Art. Han will oversee the museum's Asian art collection-which includes objects from China, India, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia and the Himalayas-as well as continuing the museum's commitment to bringing world-class special exhibitions to Denver and showcasing ... More

Dancing among tombs on a moonlit New York night: 'It feels so alive'
NEW YORK, NY.- Nearly 600,000 people reside — permanently — in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, and Wednesday evening a crowd of about 800 joined them — temporarily — as revelers at a benefit gala held among the graves. In the moonlit dark amid the tombs, as serenading musicians wended among the headstones, the grief of a city where so many have died since the beginning of the pandemic felt both omnipresent and far away. “I don’t think about the death when I’m here, it feels so alive,” Gina Farcas, 52, an accountant from Fort Lee, New Jersey, said as she shimmied to a band playing Brazilian music beside a mausoleum. “We need this, for the city.” “Do you feel like you’re in a cemetery?” her boyfriend, Carmine Fischetti, 66, asked her. “No,” Farcas replied. “Except for the tombs.” The gala was a fundraiser for the 478-acre cemetery, ... More

A Black theater flourished in New York. 200 years ago.
NEW YORK, NY.- Shakespeare’s Richard III arrived on a New York City stage 200 years ago this month. This king stood in front of a Black audience. And he was played by a Black man. He was the star of a production by the African Theater, widely considered the first Black theater in the United States. The company’s life-span was short — only two or three years — but its founder, its performers and its legacy changed American drama. The African Theater’s history reflects many of the conversations still happening around race and the art form today. How can Black producers and artists get the support and resources they need to tell their stories? What does an exclusively Black space look like? How is it born? And how does it survive? The African Theater began with a ship steward — William Alexander Brown, a free Black man born in the West ... More

David Zwirner opens an exhibition of new works by Lisa Yuskavage
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of new works by Lisa Yuskavage. On view at 533 West 19th Street in New York, this is the artist’s seventh solo show with the gallery. For more than thirty years, Yuskavage’s highly original approach to figurative painting has challenged conventional understandings of the genre. Her simultaneously bold, eccentric, exhibitionist, and introspective characters assume dual roles of subject and object, complicating the position of viewership. At times playful and harmonious, and at other times rueful and conflicted, these characters are cast within fantastical compositions in which realistic and abstract elements coexist and color determines meaning. While the artist’s painterly techniques evoke art-historical precedents, her motifs are often inspired by popular culture, creating an underlying dichotomy between ... More

Finding redemption and rebirth on the road to Broadway
NEW YORK, NY.- “Your play makes ‘Waiting for Godot’ seem light,” I said, hesitantly, to playwright Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu, whose “Pass Over” was the first play to open on Broadway in more than a year. Without a second of doubt, Nwandu replied, “‘Godot’ is light.” So began our tête-à-tête, a lively exchange about our first encounters with that existential work by Beckett, Nwandu’s influence for her “Godot”-inspired play and her decision to change the play’s ending as it headed to Broadway. One of the challenges for me with “Godot” has always been its ambiguity. It can be a play about everything, including but not limited to death, religion or friendship. At best, it is potent political satire. But when viewed in our current political climate and the urgency of racism, sexism and climate change, its lack of clarity can also feel like a luxury. It’s ... More

Watching the films of Melvin Van Peebles
NEW YORK, NY.- Melvin Van Peebles was a lot of things — filmmaker, novelist, musician, playwright, painter, stock options trader, raconteur — but above all else, he was a showman, a masterful self-promoter and unapologetic huckster. When he died Tuesday at 89, he was a week from the release of the Criterion Collection’s new box set “Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films” (available on Blu-ray Sept. 28), and Van Peebles, who always displayed a sharp sense of humor about himself and the world around him, might have appreciated the timing — his passing also served as one last act of ballyhoo for the man and his work. “Essential Films” offers, as per usual for Criterion, a treasure trove of supplementary materials: audio commentaries, early short films, interviews, archival footage and the like. But the feature films collected in it — his first four, made in a remarkable ... More

Gira Sarabhai, designer who helped shape modern India, dies at 97
NEW YORK, NY.- Gira Sarabhai, an architect, designer, curator and historian who helped establish some of the most important design institutions in postcolonial India, giving her a hand in shaping generations of designers, artists and craftspeople, died July 15 at her home in Ahmedabad, in the western Indian state of Gujarat. She was 97. Her death was confirmed by her nephew Suhrid Sarabhai. As a young woman, Sarabhai was friends with a who’s who of the world’s top modernist designers and architects — Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, B.V. Doshi, Buckminster Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi and Alexander Calder. She and her brother Gautam Sarabhai trained under Wright at Taliesin, his estate in Wisconsin, and were part of the team that worked on Wright’s spiral design for the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan. ... More

Paranormal play in Denver from Meow Wolf
DENVER.- Meow Wolf trades on the dark side of American popular culture, in cults and conspiracies, in supernatural beings, extraterrestrials and unsolvable conundrums. The chain of oversize immersive art installations teases visitors who wander through its dimly lit environments by dropping hints about nefarious mysteries they could spend a lifetime — not to mention multiple $45 admission charges — trying to work out. That spooky stuff feels right at home in Meow Wolf’s first two locations, Santa Fe and Las Vegas, desert cities located in the paranormal heartland. If your goal is to create narratives about underground evildoers, each worthy of their own “X-Files” episode, it helps to set them in places where alien sightings are routine and where the government actually has established secret military test sites. Northern New Mexico and Southern ... More

To his surprise, his play about 2 dead U.K. politicians struck a chord
LONDON.- A play about two long-dead British politicians might not be an obvious winner in London’s West End. But this summer a brief run of “Maggie & Ted, the Birth of Brexit” attracted a sellout theater crowd, including a former prime minister, Theresa May, and its success seems to have surprised the playwright, Michael McManus, as much as anyone. “Talk to my 14-year-old self, or even to my 40-year-old self, and I would never have believed I could have got to that point,” said McManus, a 53-year-old Conservative Party member and former political aide, whose curriculum vitae is hardly typical of breakthrough writers. The plan now is to take the production outside London, hone it and, if a mainstream audience can be found for a documentary political drama, secure a full run in the West End. That would be an unusual success for someone who came to theater ... More

In Freeman's Books and Manuscripts Auction, pieces of American history exceed estimates
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freeman’s announced the results of its September 23 auction, a 140-lot sale that achieved a 95% sell-through rate and underscores Freeman’s strength in presenting material across a wide range of disciplines and time periods. Thursday’s auction saw strong results for documents of American history from the Revolutionary War to the 1960s counterculture. “American history is in our wheelhouse, and today was further evidence of that,” says Darren Winston, Head of the Books and Manuscripts department. “We had some very strong results and happy consignors—ultimately, great material sells itself.” Following a record-breaking $4.42M sale of a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence in July, Freeman’s Books and Manuscripts specialists continue to confirm their place as premier presenters of 18th-century ... More

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