Philadelphia’s historic Old City neighborhood, on Oct. 9, 2023. An architect said he could preserve a 7,000-square-foot mural if Old City allowed his new building to exceed height limits. After neighbors objected, a court ruled against him. (Michelle Gustafson/The New York Time s.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On an otherwise drab street in Philadelphia’s historic Old City, a multicolored mosaic made up of thousands of tiles and mirrored fragments creates swirling patterns, inscriptions and forms that honor the particular and invoke the mysterious. The mosaic, which covers three sides of the former headquarters of the nonprofit Painted Bride Art Center, is the handiwork of Isaiah Zagar, who has created more than 200 works around the city since the late 1960s. He spent most of the 1990s on this mosaic, called “Skin of the Bride.” Now the 20-foot building and the 7,000-square-foot mosaic at 230 Vine St., blocks away from the Delaware River, are scheduled for demolition early next year to make way for a tower that will accommodate 85 short-term rental units or residential apartments. A six-year legal battle over the mosaic’s fate illuminates the complicated decision-making facing cities that are anxious to ease housing crises and bolster tax bases with tall, modern buildings ... More
Maggi Hambling, Victim XXXIX, 2015. Oil on canvas, 12 × 10 in | 30.5 × 25.5 cm.
LONDON.- Thirty years on from the famed charity exhibition ‘Little Pieces from Big Stars’, War Child UK and Flowers Gallery announce an important autumn exhibition and fundraiser. Opened on 10 October, coinciding with the UN International Day of the Girl Child, the exhibition Lost Girls boldly addresses the profound challenges faced by girls affected by war. Presented by War Child UK and created and curated by Intersectional Feminist Art Collective InFems, Lost Girls aims to empower with a focus on survival rather than victimhood. The exhibition aims to raise funds for War Child UK’s crucial work, providing support to children and their families in 15 countries worldwide. The selection of artists and curators is purposeful, including individuals who have deep and personal connections with refugee communities, PTSD, or come from territories where War Child provides urgent care and support. InFems Artist- ... More
LOS ANGELES, CA.-Getty introduces a two-part physical and digital exhibition developed in collaboration with Frank Gehry and the LA Phil. Together, Modeling Sound, Sculpting Harmony celebrates the design and realization of this iconic landmark of Los Angeles art and architecture and offers a momentous public debut of the Frank O. Gehry papers held at the Getty Research Institute (GRI). Sculpting Harmony, the digital exhibition, presents sweeping views of over 150 models, sketches, and photographs from the Frank O. Gehry papers, augmenting the display with new interviews with Frank Gehry, interactive 3D media and novel scholarship. These efforts culminate into a captivating glimpse into the immense work that went into design of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. On view at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the in- ... More
A dwelling once inhabited by enslaved people which will be among the exhibitions in a woodland setting at the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Ala., on Oct. 9, 2023, a national monument opening in 2024 that includes works by artists. (Wulf Bradley/The New York Times)
by Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK, NY.- When the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park opens in Montgomery, Alabama, in early 2024, on a bluff flanked by railroad tracks overlooking the Alabama River, visitors will be able to arrive by boat — retracing the footsteps of tens of thousands of Africans horrifically shipped, sold, then transported by rail in the 19th century. The park is intended to take viewers on an unflinching and moving journey through the story of slavery, at a time when what can be taught in schools about Black history is being debated in many states across the country — including Alabama. The centerpiece will be a new national monument ... More
Talia Chetrit, Self-portrait (Corey Tippin make-up #1), 2017. Courtesy of the artist, Kaufmann Repetto, Sies and Hoke, and Hannah Hoffman.
HARTFORD, CONN.- Photographer Talia Chetrit presents recent work alongside images from her personal archive in her first solo museum exhibition in the United States. Chetrit’s work is the 193rd in the nearly 50-year-old MATRIX series at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Talia Chetrit / MATRIX 193 will be on view until January 7, 2024. In an age of image excess, Talia Chetrit uses analog photography to probe the relationship between photographer, camera, and subject. She includes family, friends, and even her equipment in investigations which emphasize the connection between performance and image-making. Shooting on film and using no post-production, Chetrit embraces cropping and graininess in her compositions which span formats and genres including portraiture, self- ... More
Steinbeck's first novel inscribed to his little sister, Mary. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- On October 25 in New York, Bonhams will offer a treasure trove of literary history in an exciting single-owner auction – John Steinbeck: The Mary Steinbeck Dekker Family Collection. Featuring a vast collection of letters, manuscripts, diaries, presentation copy novels, and personal ephemera of John Steinbeck (1902-1968), the material in the sale comes directly from the family of the author’s youngest and most beloved sister, Mary Steinbeck Dekker. With most of Steinbeck’s manuscripts and family letters held by institutions including Stanford, the Morgan Library, and UCSJ, this remarkable assemblage provides a rare opportunity for collectors to own written material from one of America's most celebrated authors. A literary giant, John Steinbeck’s prolific oeuvre tackled the social and economic issues of the early 20th century. His experiences ... More
LONDON.- Today, Young V&A reveals a first look inside Japan: Myths to Manga, the first in a series of new exhibitions dedicated to inspiring young minds and families through art, design, and performance, opening this Saturday. Japan: Myths to Manga takes visitors on a journey through Japan, exploring how popular stories have shaped art, design, and technology across the centuries. Divided into four sections – Sky, Sea, Forest, and City – the exhibition brings together over 150 historic and contemporary objects. From visual art, animation and origami to curious creatures, robots, fashion, film, and photography, Japan: Myths to Manga celebrates the spirit of playfulness and imagination ... More
Agostino Bonalumi in his studio, 1970. Credits Archivio Agostino Bonalumi. Courtesy Mazzoleni, London - Torino. The Paradox of Proximity: Agostino Bonalumi and Lee Seung Jio, Mazzoleni, London. Photos by Todd-White Art Photography, London. Courtesy of Mazzoleni, London - Torino.
LONDON.-Mazzoleni is hosting the exhibition The Paradox of Proximity: Agostino Bonalumi and Lee Seung Jio, in collaboration with Kukje Gallery at Mazzoleni London. The show is curated by esteemed Italian writer, art critic and curator Marco Scotini, in conjunction with Archivio Agostino Bonalumi, Milan and the Estate of Lee Seung Jio, Seoul. This intimate display will showcase pioneering abstractionist Lee Seung Jio’s works, specifically his Nucleus series, where cylindrical “pipe” forms challenge the notion of opticality and played a pivotal role in defining Korean Modernism. These works will be exhibited alongside Agostino Bonalumi’s “extroflexions”, which seek a new dimension of space through monochromatic shaped canvases, each named ... More
EVOLVER, Marshmallow Laser Feast, BMW ArtClub Evolver (08/2023).
WARSAW.- This year’s edition of BMW Art Club. The Future is Art will see the first Polish presentation of the VR experience EVOLVER. The immersive, multimedia work of art, created by London-based art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast, uses an innovative fusion of art, science and modern technology to drop audiences deep inside the landscape of the body, following the flow of oxygen through our branching ecosystem, to a single “breathing” cell. The project was created in collaboration with various prominent cultural figures, with narration by Cate Blanchett, and a score featuring music from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, amongst others. Artistic dimension of science... Science and art give expression to the same human need – the need to understand and describe the world. EVOLVER is a free-roaming, immersive deep dive that takes viewers through the processes that sustain all life. The all- ... More
Fine Silver Kusshin Jizai Okimono. Estimate: £30,000-40,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A rare, early 20th century table decoration of a fine silver carp will lead the Japanese Art Sale on Thursday 2 November at Bonhams New Bond Street. The life-sized carp, beautifully articulated and realistically rendered, is constructed of extremely smooth moving parts. The carp’s body can be curved, twisted and stretched, and the fins, mouth, and tail are all intricately detailed. It is being offered with an estimate of £30,000-40,000. Suzannah Yip, Bonhams Department Director, Japanese Art commented, “This is an exceptional and very rare piece, the expertise and craftsmanship at play here are unsurpassed. Japan is admired as much for its design flair as it is for its skill in decorative techniques, and we are delighted to bring another strong selection to the market that illustrates the vibrancy and diversity of Japanese Art.” The sale will feature an exceptional private collection of Netsuke including a wood Netsuk ... More
Seung-taek Lee, "Tied White Porcelain", 2017. Lacquer spray paint on porcelain, 12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm).
LONDON.- As part of Frieze London’s West End Gallery Night, Michael Werner Gallery, London invites you to an exhibition walkthrough of Invisible Questions That Fill the Air: James Lee Byars and Seung-taek Lee with curator of the exhibition, Allegra Pesenti. This exhibition, organised in collaboration with Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, presents works by American artist James Lee Byars (b. 1932, d. 1997) and Korean artist Seung-taek Lee (b. 1932) and marks the first time the works of these two artists are brought into dialogue, highlighting a like-mindedness of vision and spirit. The event takes place at the gallery on Thursday 12 October with a reception from 6:00 PM and an exhibition walkthrough from 6:45 PM through to 7:15 PM. James Lee Byars has been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions worldwide, including The Palace of Good Luck, Castello di Rivoli / Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin (1989); The Perfect ... More
DALLAS, TX.- One of the most elite collections of physical cryptocurrency ever assembled is poised to make numismatic auction history when The Otoh Collection of Physical Cryptocurrency, Part I Platinum Session Signature® Auction is held November 3 at Heritage Auctions. This represents the most significant offering of physical cryptocurrency to ever come to market, with a redeemable value at the time of publication upward of $5.5 million. The Otoh Collection, or "On The Other Hand" — named after the online handle of the consignor — features 250 tangible, physical cryptocurrency coins of two different denominations. Of the lots offered in the auction, 150 are "1 Bitcoin" while the other 100 are "0.5 Bitcoin" lots. Each is unpeeled and unredeemed, and was sent by Heritage to NGC for grading; they had previously been stored in their original rolls for the last decade. Currency, whether coins or paper, historically has been a tactile entity, som ... More
The novelist Ann Patchett at Parnassus, the bookstore she co-owns with Karen Hayes, in Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 4, 2019. (Eric Ryan Anderson/The New York Times)
by Chris Kornelis
NEW YORK, NY.- Ann Patchett’s new book is called “Tom Lake” for some of the same reasons her previous novel was called “The Dutch House”: She thought it was clear, memorable and would sell well in bookstores like the one she owns in Nashville, Tennessee. It’s the kind of calculation that may have helped both books become bestsellers but that Patchett once considered a concession. “For just about anybody who has had a career as long as mine, you make friends with the reader. Whereas back in graduate school, there was disdain for the reader, because you were making such true art that the reader could never possibly understand you,” she said in a phone interview while on tour for “Tom Lake,” a novel about a mother unpacking ... More
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Well-made, and massively weird: A new theater season in Berlin BERLIN.- It may be less polished and more rough-hewed than in New York, London or Paris, but Berlin’s theater scene is uniquely diverse, unpredictable and boundary-pushing. Buoyed by lavish public subsidies and boasting a fleet of remarkable actors and daring directors, it is also uncommonly accessible, thanks to low ticket prices and the growing popularity of English surtitles. This season, Berlin’s five main repertory theaters will present a total of 87 premieres, 29 of them at the Deutsches Theater, a storied playhouse that opened in 1883. Its new artistic director, Iris Laufenberg, opened her tenure by programing the German-language premiere of Suzie Miller’s “Prima Facie,” a recent hit on Broadway and the West End that won Tony and Olivier Awards, including for its star, Jodie Comer. Hungarian director Andras Domotor stages ... More
Group exhibition 'ORIGIN OF THE STONE' features artists from Central Europe now at Gandy Gallery PRAGUE.-Gandy Gallery has now opened the important group exhibition, entitled ORIGIN OF THE STONE, featuring artists from Central Europe. It opened on October 10th and will be on view until December 8th, 2023. The curators of the exhibition are Jana PÍSAŘÍKOVÁ, Ondřej CHROBÁK, and Nadine GANDY. Could the stone be the author of the exhibition? Okay, weird question, let's try asking it another way: Could the stone be a co-author of the work? What is the role of stone in contemporary art anyway? When did it cease to be a mere material to be worked and become an entity in itself with its own meaning, symbolism, or perhaps even an artistic partner for conversation or wandering? The exhibition The Beginning of Stone tells the story of stones through the work of contemporary artists. It presents an interdisciplinary theme of ontological, ... More
Artistic and scientific perspectives presented in exhibition illustrating paths for ecosystemic recovery FRANKFURT.- Without biodiversity, human existence on planet Earth would not be possible. However, this biodiversity has been declining for far too long, and at an alarming rate. This realisation unites the curatorial team of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, which has invited the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre and Frankfurt Zoo to collaborate in the form of an interdisciplinary partnership. The result is the new exhibition titled Bending the Curve – Knowledge, Action, Caring for Biodiversity, which alludes to the concept of 'Bending the Curve of Biodiversity Loss'. The exhibition explores how the negative trend can be halted – or even reversed. This issue is also the focus of the artistic and scientific perspectives presented in the exhibition, which illustrate paths and ideas for ecosystemic recovery and aim to catalyse ... More
Arizona Artist debuts 'Entangled Beauty' in solo exhibit at Jen Tough Gallery SANTA FE, NM.-Jen Tough Gallery in Santa Fe, is presenting a new solo exhibit by abstract artist, Joan Maureen Collins. The exhibit, titled Entangled Beauty, is a new body of work by this masterful artist. The exhibit opened last week and runs through November 5. The Opening reception is on October 14. Throughout her twenty-eight year art career, Joan Maureen Collins’ observations of the natural world and the inspiration she receives from spending time in nature, have been a driving force behind her creativity. Her powerful and soulful abstract interpretations of these impressions of the land remind us of the fragility of our natural world. In her new series, Entangled Beauty, the artist hones in on the contrasts she has observed. Part of the exhibit includes works that were “painted” in the sea in Ireland. The artist ... More
GRIMM and Hales now showing 'Double Spar', dual solo exhibition by Anthony Cudahy LONDON.-GRIMM and Hales opened 'Double Spar', a dual solo exhibition by Anthony Cudahy, this past 9 October 2023. Marking the artist’s first solo project in the UK, a new body of work will be on view at both GRIMM’s Mayfair location and Hales Gallery’s Shoreditch space.The exhibitions coincide with Frieze London and follow on from 'Conversation', Cudahy’s solo institutional debut at Musée des Beaux-Arts Dole (FR) and precedes his first US museum solo at Ogunquit Museum of American Art,MA (US). Cudahy is a painter whose tender scenes reveal the nuanced complexities of life. His work speaks to the legacy of figurative painting and portraiture, deftly combining historic references with contemporary life and human connection. Looking to allegorical paintings with multiple readings, motifs become a part of his visual lexicon, ... More
Review: 'Merrily We Roll Along,' finally found in the dark NEW YORK, NY.- To be a fan of the work of Stephen Sondheim, as Frank Rich wrote in The New York Times, is “to have one’s heart broken at regular intervals.” He meant not only that Sondheim’s songs are so often crushingly poignant but that the experience of loving them can feel unrequited. The shows they are in — he was reviewing the original production of “Merrily We Roll Along” — don’t always love you back. That was in 1981, when “Merrily,” with a problematic book by George Furth, suffered an ignominious Broadway debut of just 16 performances after 44 previews. No matter that Sondheim, responding to the story of a songwriter, had written his most conspicuously tuneful score to date, prompting pop recordings by Frank Sinatra (“Good Thing Going”) and Barbra Streisand (“Not a Day Goes By”). It was universally ... More
Move over, Machu Picchu: There's more to see in Peru NEW YORK, NY.- Elvis Lexin La Torre Uñaccori knows quite well that a wonder of the world often creates a less-wondrous world of waste — he is the mayor of Machu Picchu Pueblo, the gateway village to the bucket-list destination in Peru that draws millions of visitors (and their trash) each year. He shared this expertise in waste and waste management in February, at a two-day summit he organized about environmental and infrastructural advances at the Inca citadel. To 99 mayors and other municipal leaders from across Peru, La Torre spoke about a plastic bottle compactor, a glass bottle pulverizer and a processor his village developed for hotel and restaurant food scraps. But the main goal of the summit was larger than recycling and food waste initiatives; it was about disseminating effective practices for sustainable tourism across Peru, ... More
Breakers grapple with hip-hop's big Olympic moment NEW YORK, NY.- The thumping music died to a whisper upon Alien Ness’ request. As the veteran breaker — never “break dancer” — stalked and snaked around the room, his many rings caught the spotlight that illuminated the dance floor. Alien Ness coached a few dozen amateurs — men, women, Black, white, Asian — during his footwork class before Red Bull BC One’s USA National Final, one of America’s biggest breaking competitions, held in August at the Fillmore Philadelphia. “They say dance is a vocabulary,” Alien Ness said, exhorting the dancers to contort and pretzel their bodies to spell their names. He added, “If it feels like the letter, if it moves like the letter, then it is the letter.” Alien Ness, a pioneering B-boy born Luis Martinez, joined the Mighty Zulu Kingz in the early 1980s when breaking, along with lyricism, turntablism ... More
Balanchine blue: A clean field for dance that says 'City Ballet' NEW YORK, NY.- It’s a numinous blue that suggests the sky, the sea, the infinite. It’s a field — poetic and abstract — that sets off the eloquence of dancing bodies. The cerulean backdrop associated with the ballets of George Balanchine and New York City Ballet has come to seem so natural a setting for plotless ballet that we barely notice it. But at sunset on Wednesday its importance will be broadcast across New York City, Balanchine’s adopted home: The Empire State Building will light up with “Balanchine Blue” to celebrate the 75th anniversary of City Ballet’s first performance, on Oct. 11, 1948, at the City Center of Music and Drama. And at Lincoln Center, the company’s home since 1964, the company, founded by Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein, will perform the program that it danced on that first night: “Concerto Barocco,” “Orpheus” ... More
'The Confessions' review: A mother's tale, told with empathy and care NEW YORK, NY.- Minutes into “The Confessions,” a new production by British playwright and director Alexander Zeldin, the main character, Alice, says demurely, “See, I’m not interesting. I have nothing of interest to tell.” How many women have said as much before sharing piercing experiences? Thankfully, Zeldin didn’t take the woman on whom Alice is based — his mother — at her word. Instead, in “The Confessions,” which runs through Oct. 14 at the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, in Paris, he re-creates her winding, painful path to a life of her own. (The show transfers to the National Theater, in London, and to the Comédie de Gèneve, in Geneva, later this fall.) While Zeldin is best known for his “Inequalities” trilogy, which explored the damage that government austerity policies have inflicted on ordinary British people, he has increasingly ... More
Watch that reached deepest place in world ocean surfaces at Heritage Watches & Fine Timepieces Auction DALLAS, TX.- "It did its job." That seems like a modest standard for any piece of equipment, but the job of a watch wrapped around the wrist of Don Walsh was no ordinary day at the office. Walsh, a retired naval officer, spent the majority of his career exploring deep oceans and the polar regions as an oceanographer and ocean engineer. In January 1960, he and Swiss oceanographer and engineer Jacques Piccard piloted a deep submersible vessel, the bathyscaph Trieste, to the deepest place in the World Ocean: the Challenger Deep in Marianas Trench, some 200 miles (322 kilometers) southwest off the island of Guam. The mission reached an ultimate depth of 35,813 feet (10,916 meters) — greater than the height of Mount Everest. During the expedition, which earned the cover of the February 15, 1960, ... More
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November 12, 1934. Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American architect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white. In this image: Architect Richard Meier speaks as he honored at the Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards on Ellis Island on Thursday, April 19, 2012.
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