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Solo exhibition of new artworks by Nathaniel Price opens at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery
BOSTON, MASS.- On March 13, 2020 the world as we knew it changed businesses closed, doors were locked and sheltering in place became the new normal as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. On that same day, Nathaniel Price had a new exhibition opening at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery in Boston, MA. The installation was impeccable, the show was documented beautifullybut no one would ever experience it in person. The work stayed up in the gallery with the hope to be able to re-open to the public at some juncture. Then, on April 14, 2020, a major water main broke nearby under Harrison Avenue. The street buckled, cars were swallowed, and water flowed throughout the South End neighborhood. It was as though the floodwaters were a physical manifestation of the fear that had begun to swallow the world. 18 months later, Abigail ... More

Solar powered light poem calls on leaders at COP26 to invest in renewables
GLASGOW.- Little Sun, the clean energy nonprofit, announces Grace of the Sun - a solar powered light poem urging commitment to renewable energy at the UN climate conference (COP26). Created by Scottish artist Robert Montgomery, the artwork has been constructed using 1,000 solar powered Little Sun lights and stands 11 metres wide and 5 metres tall. The giant solar light poem illuminates every day at sunset as a poetic beacon of hope for Glasgow. After the artworks installation in Glasgow (dates 29th October to 12th November) the work will be dismantled and the lights will join Little Suns wider efforts to provide clean, affordable solar power to the 600 million people living without electricity in Sub Saharan Africa, where the nonprofit has brought solar light and power to over 3 million people to date. Located at arts and climate justice pop-up The ... More

Colonial Williamsburg and William & Mary announce future location of Williamsburg Bray School
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- What is likely the oldest extant building in the northern hemisphere used for the purpose of educating enslaved and free Black children is relocating to Colonial Williamsburgs historic campus. Eight months after researchers from Colonial Williamsburg and William & Mary announced they had identified the original Williamsburg Bray School and four months after the researchers conclusively verified its identity the two organizations today announced the site of the buildings future home on the living-history museums historic campus where it will become a central point of interpretive focus in the foundations ongoing efforts to tell a more complete story of 18th-century America. During a ceremony held today inside Colonial Williamsburgs Hennage Auditorium, the two educational institutions also announced the creation of a joint ... More

Choreographic skeletons from a lost pandemic time
NEW YORK, NY.- Spanning seven lanes of an empty pool on the Lower East Side were dancers, 24 in all, swimming their way through movement. Some forged together in duos and trios, while others were lost in solitary space. It was a cacophony of bodies performing disparate choreography, yet the bigger picture revealed a collective harmony. You watched their physical forms twisting, contracting, arms reaching up to points unknown but what you sensed was the deep internal awareness of their minds. It was hypnotic. In Review, artist and choreographer Madeline Hollander has brought together New York City dancers, from big and small companies and from Broadway shows, and given them a task: to perform choreography that was canceled or postponed during the pandemic. But in her exploration of months (and months) of canceled ... More

Daylight Books to publish 'Devil's Pool' by Sarah Kaufman
NEW YORK, NY.- Philadelphia photographer Sarah Kaufman loves the local Wissahickon Park, and this affection is reflected throughout the photographs representing seven years of documenting fellow residents engaging with a park swimming hole, Devil's Pool. The medium format color photographs reveal people of all ages, demographics, and body types intersecting with nature. Whether alone or in a group, they appear at ease, relaxed, and engaged with themselves and the landscape. She catches their gestures, expressions, quiet contemplative moments sitting among the trees, and reckless joyful abandon flinging themselves from rocks. Kaufman writes, "People from all over are drawn to this urban swimming hole as a place to play and revel in physicality and nature. The images depict moments of coherence among our bodies and the world ... More

'Different way of fighting': Lyrics are the weapons of all-women Roma band
BELGRADE.- The members of Pretty Loud, possibly the worlds first all-Roma female hip-hop group, do not write saccharine love songs. Their lyrics focus instead on the pains Roma women experience: marrying and having children too young, feeling like second-class citizens and not finishing high school. Dont force me, Dad, Im too young for marriage, the six members, who hail from Serbia and are in their midteens to late 20s, sing in one song. Please understand me, or should I be quiet? they rap in another. No one hears when I use my Roma girls voice. Persecuted for centuries, many Roma people in Europe the continents largest ethnic minority live in segregated communities with limited access to amenities and health care. Women and girls also face gender expectations like being wives and mothers at a young age, which ... More

Rose Lee Maphis, early star of Country music TV, dies at 98
NASHVILLE, TENN.- Rose Lee Maphis, a singer and guitarist who, with her husband, Joe, was a mainstay of the early years of live country music television, died Tuesday at her home here. She was 98. Her son Jody said the cause was kidney failure. Billed as Mr. and Mrs. Country Music, the Maphises rose to prominence in the 1950s as members of the cast of Town Hall Party, a pioneering TV barn dance seen on KTTV in Los Angeles. On the strength of Maphis exuberant stage presence and her husbands dazzling guitar work, the couple often in matching Western-wear suits helped give birth to the unfettered West Coast country music scene later associated with Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. The Maphises achieved early acclaim with Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music), a twanging barroom lament released by Okeh Records ... More

An autographed card sold for $4.6 million. Did Luka Doncic really sign it?
NEW YORK, NY.- Luka Doncic can appear to lack no superpower on the basketball court, where the 22-year-old Slovenian star regularly treats NBA fans to long-distance floaters, nutmeg passes and playoff fireworks. But cyber sleuths have been flummoxed by the inconsistency he displays during a more pedestrian task: writing his name. Many collectors believe that an elegant signature of Doncics name on the lone copy of a basketball card that sold for $4.6 million this year was written not by him but by his mother. Like the signature seen on many of his other highly coveted trading cards, the blue script is not the tilting scribble Doncic used during his teenage years. Although player autographs evolve and handwriting analysis is subjective, the conjecture has become a powder keg for the sports card industry, which has thrived during the coronavirus pandemic. ... More

Collecting treasures from weddings past
NEW YORK, NY.- Marilynn Gelfman Karp owns more than 125 wedding cake toppers, including a rare decoration from 1915 that is made of wax. She acquired her first one more than four decades ago. I was at a flea market in New York, she said. I found a bride and groom cake topper for $15. It had vitality and vibrated in my hand. It spoke to me. A sculptor and the author of In Flagrante Collecto: Caught in the Art of Collecting, Gelfman Karp said that hunting for vintage wedding artifacts offers thrills beyond the sense of achievement when you find something youve been searching for. As keepsakes from the day two people begin their new life together, these objects tell a story, they have a voice and represent a commitment a couple have made to one another, she said. These items are cultural artifacts and curiosities. They ... More

The Magnum Gallery opens an exhibition of photographs by Bruce Davidson and Khalik Allah
PARIS.- The Magnum Gallery is presenting Bruce Davidson and Khalik Allah: NEW YORK from 21 October to 18 December 2021. The exhibition inaugurates Paris new gallery located in the 11th district and for the first time, brings together the work of two Magnum photographers who, generations apart, explored New York Citys energy through their lenses. Bruce Davidson and Khalik Allah offer two visions of urban life, above and underground, captured at different time periods, through two distinctive yet parallel viewpoints. The exhibition, which predominantly features Davidsons vintage prints, explores themes of humanity, street life and perception, while highlighting the effects of transmission. In 1980, Davidson found a new source of inspiration in the New York subway. It was a challenging and dangerous location, but the photographer managed ... More

Brooklyn Public Library first in the nation to host Museum of Care
BROOKLYN, NY.- Brooklyn Public Library is the first in the nation to host the Museum of Care, a tiny museum created by MICRO and exploring the past, present and future of care giving. Visitors can learn how peoples ability to care for each other drove human evolution; find about the skills required to provide care today through the life stories of care workers across the globe; and advocate for health equity. Located inside Central Librarys Civic Commons at 10 Grand Army Plaza, the exhibition, which is free and open to the public, is one part of the Librarys ongoing public health initiative and follows special programming related to Health Literacy Month. Built by MICRO, an organization whose fleet of tiny museums engage communities in conversations about the natural world and supported by Johnson & Johnsons Center for Health Worker Innovation, ... More