SWMRS To Support All Time Low on US Tour
Bay Area quartet SWMRS today announced that they will support Fueled By Ramen label mates All Time Low on their US tour, which kicks off July 3 in Phoenix, AZ and wraps August 6 in Orlando, FL. Tickets for the tour go on sale on March 3 at 10:00am local time.
Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia to Feature Work of Philip Guston, May 10
Beginning 10 May 2017, Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia will present the work of the pre-eminent American painter Philip Guston (1913 - 1980) in a major exhibition exploring the artist's oeuvre in relation to critical literary interpretation. In a spirit reflective of how Guston himself cultivated the sources of his inspiration, 'Philip Guston and The Poets' considers the ideas and writings of major 20th century poets as catalysts for his enigmatic pictures and visions. Featuring works that span a fifty-year period in Guston's artistic career, the exhibition includes 50 major paintings and 25 prominent drawings dating from 1930 until his death in 1980. The exhibition draws parallels between the essential humanist themes reflected in these works, and the language and prose of five poets: D. H. Lawrence (British, 1885 - 1930), W. B. Yeats (Irish, 1865 - 1939), Wallace Stevens (American, 1879 - 1955), Eugenio Montale (Italian, 1896 - 1981) and T. S. Eliot (American-born, British, 1888 - 1965).
The Metropolitan Museum of Arts Presents 2016-2017 METLIVEARTS
Throughout the 2016-17 season, the sound artist and master storyteller Nate DiMeo-whose popular podcast, The Memory Palace, a finalist for the 2016 Peabody Awards, paints vivid, poetic pictures of episodes in American history-will animate The Met by interrogating the collection to draw out the revealing secrets and stories of the art.
Iggy Pop Life Class Opens November 4, 2016 at the Brooklyn Museum
In Iggy Pop Life Class, Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller uses the traditional life-model drawing class to stage a performative event with Iggy Pop as model and subject. The resulting drawings, created by twenty-two participating artists, will be shown at the Brooklyn Museum from November 4, 2016, to March 26, 2017. Along with works depicting the male body selected from the Museum's historical collections, the exhibition examines shifting cultural representations of masculinity across history.
The Met Presents MAX BECKMANN IN NEW YORK
Opening October 19, 2016, the exhibition Max Beckmann in New York at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will put a spotlight on the artist's special connection with New York City. It will feature 14 paintings that Beckmann created while living in New York from 1949 to 1950, as well as 25 works, dating from 1920 to 1948, from New York collections. The exhibition assembles several groups of iconic works, including self-portraits; mythical, expressionist interiors; robust, colorful portraits of women and performers; landscapes; and triptychs.
The Orchestra Now Announces 2016-17 Season
The Orchestra Now (TON), the visionary master's degree program and pre-professional training orchestra founded in 2015 by Bard College and conductor, educator, and music historian Leon Botstein, will open its impressive second season, comprising five series, at Bard College on September 24.
Davis Museum at Wellesley College to Celebrate Shakespeare's Influence on Art
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College presents That Right Promethean Fire: Shakespeare Illustrated, an exhibition that celebrates the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death with works of art that explore Shakespeare's plays. Featuring works of art from the 17th to the 21st centuries, the exhibition will include masterpieces from John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, a project began in 1786 that included a collection of paintings by various artists, then translated into a large-format print series, and finally into an illustrated edition of Shakespeare's plays. The exhibition will be on view from February 10 through June 5, 2016.
Hunter College Art Galleries to Host BETWEEN IMAGE AND SOUND Symposium, 10/18
In conjunction with William Anastasi: Sound Work, 1963-2013 the Hunter College Art Galleries will present an evening devoted to sound-based art. The evening's program will feature a panel discussion dedicated to an engagement with the broad theories and practice of sound based art. The panelists include curator and critic Robert Storr, Barbara London, former Associate Curator in the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art, artist Robert Barry, and artist Stephen Vitiello and will be moderated by Max Weintraub, exhibition curator and Assistant Visiting Professor at Hunter College. The evening will close with a conversation between William Anastasi and art historian Charles Stuckey.
German Expressionism Exhibition Opens 10/19 at the Frist Center
Opening October 19, 2012, German Expressionism from the Detroit Institute of Arts will be on view in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Upper-Level Galleries through February 10, 2013. Featuring paintings, sculpture and works on paper from the Detroit Institute of Arts' distinguished collection of German Expressionist art, the exhibition explores the full breadth of this artistic movement from 1905 to 1950 and includes works by Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kathe Kollwitz, Franz Marc and other major masters.
LA's Apart Projects Presents Michael Lindsay-Hogg's Exhibition TIME ALTERS ALL, Now thru 6/22
Apart Projects presents Michael Lindsay-Hogg's inaugural solo exhibition, 'Time Alters All: A Retrospective of an Emerging Artist' curated by Price Latimer Agah. The artist, along with Town & Country Magazine, will celebrate the opening of the exhibit with a reception hosted by Shane Guffogg, Julian Sands, Jason Schwartzman, Nona Summers, Tara Summers, and Gloria Vanderbilt. Located at 8618 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, Calif., the exhibition will be open to the public today, June 13th through June 22nd, Weds-Fri 11am to 4pm and Sat 12-5pm and by appointment.
LA's Apart Projects Presents Michael Lindsay-Hogg's Exhibition TIME ALTERS ALL, 6/13-22
Apart Projects presents Michael Lindsay-Hogg's inaugural solo exhibition, 'Time Alters All: A Retrospective of an Emerging Artist' curated by Price Latimer Agah. The artist, along with Town & Country Magazine, will celebrate the opening of the exhibit with a reception hosted by Shane Guffogg, Julian Sands, Jason Schwartzman, Nona Summers, Tara Summers, and Gloria Vanderbilt. Located at 8618 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, Calif., the exhibition will be open to the public June 13th through June 22nd, Weds-Fri 11am to 4pm and Sat 12-5pm and by appointment.
Review - The Blue Flower
Three years ago I posted a review emphatically praising the Prospect Theatre Company's developmental production of Jim and Ruth Bauer's The Blue Flower, calling it, 'a unique, intelligent and wondrously creative evening of musical theatre' that 'skillfully tackles the tricky business of mixing the art of musical theatre with the anti-art movement of Dada.' A German creation born amidst the rubble of the First World War, Dada was an artistic, literary and theatrical movement that attacked the sensibilities of a culture that could send millions of young men to slaughter by celebrating anarchy and irrationality.
