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Art Gallery of New South Wales exhibits a collection of historically significant works from Western Desert artists
SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales is presenting The Purple House, a new exhibition celebrating leading Pintupi artists and their enduring legacy. Opening today, the exhibition brings together a group of eight historically significant works by Pintupi artists to acknowledge the 21-year anniversary of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal, which was held at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2000 and raised more than $1 million through the auction of paintings by Papunya Tula artists. Presented alongside the major exhibition Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius in 2000, the Art Gallery worked with several organisations to realise the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal. Leading Pintupi artists were the driving force behind the appeal, creating and donating ... More

The City in Masks: Photographs by Francesca Magnani on view at the Consulate General of Italy in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- The City in Masks (La cittÃ in maschera), an exhibition of 25 images by street photographer Francesca Magnani, is on view by appointment from October 7 through November 11, 2021 at the Consulate General of Italy, a landmarked 1917 mansion at 690 Park Avenue. Early on in the pandemic, many New Yorkers started coordinating their face coverings with their outfits and sometimes this new mandatory and concealing accessory became a statement in itself. Though the mask was needed for a basic protective function, it gradually transformed into a more complex object with multiple functions: communicating a message; expressing ones mood, personality, ethnicity, or community; signifying mutual respect or belonging; or indicating a political stance. With a background in classics and anthropology, Magnani has long been interested in issues of ... More

North Carolina Museum of Art commissions campaign inspired by Alphonse Mucha exhibition
RALEIGH, NC.- To celebrate the upcoming Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Visionary exhibition opening at the North Carolina Museum of Art October 23, 2021, the NCMA tapped three North Carolinabased artists to reinterpret Muchas iconic art nouveau works from the turn of the 20th century. These reinterpretations explore contemporary definitions of beauty and widened cultural representation. The juxtaposition of the new designs and well-known Mucha images are intended to spark conversation about the art historical canon. The three commissions are by Lumbee artist Alisha Locklear Monroe, an art teacher and former employee of the Museum of the Southeast American Indian at UNC Pembroke; painter and muralist Tori "FNoRD" Carpenter, who has shown her work statewide and is a disabled artist working with Arts Access, a group the NCMA collaborates with to make the ... More

Woody Auction to offer the lifetime collection of Dr. Peter and Grace Jochimsen
DOUGLASS, KAN.- The outstanding private collection of Dr. Peter and Grace Jochimsen a bountiful selection of some of the best Wave Crest and French cameo pieces available, plus other fine items will be sold without reserve on Saturday, October 23rd by Woody Auction, online and live in the Woody Auction auction hall located at 130 East Third Street in Douglass, Kan., starting at 9 am Central time. The Wave Crest features plaques, jardinieres, bells, boxes and vases, while the collection also boasts French cameo, plated Amberina, pink agata, slot machines, a Pairpoint lamp, Thomas Webb & Sons English cameo and more. There are over 2,000 photos featured for this amazing auction so plan to view them online or join us in person, said Jason Woody of Woody Auction. Signed Galle French cameo art glass vases are always a hit with collectors. Up for bid will be a rare blown ... More

The ICA presents Channel B by Nine Nights, an audiovisual exploration of Black futurism
LONDON.- The ICA this autumn presents Channel B, an exhibition by the black-owned art, music and creative education initiative Nine Nights. Channel B is an audio-visual exploration of Black futurism, featuring five interactive sound and video installations that each act as a stage for live performance and broadcast. Traversing music, performance and art, the installations are created by multidisciplinary artists Gaika, GLOR1A and Shannen SP, whose work is rooted in the electronically mutated rhythms of the diaspora that pulse through every city on every night. Nine Nights says: We are building an ecosystem that educates, platforms and promotes alternative Black art and supports black-focused charities at home and overseas. The global music industry is worth over $50 billion, with 50% of that made from live music. The global pandemic has caused a crisis for all live artists and ... More

Gauri Gill's first solo exhibition with James Cohan opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting A Time to Play: New Scenes from Acts of Appearance, an exhibition by Gauri Gill. This is Gills first solo exhibition with James Cohan and inaugurates the gallerys new Tribeca space. A central tenet in Delhi-based Gauri Gills practice is her exploration of collaborative partnerships as a means to blur the line between photographer and subject. This exhibition brings together new works from two of Gills collaborative series Acts of Appearance and Fields of Sight. Since 2013, Gill and renowned Warli painter Rajesh Vangad have worked together on Fields of Sight, a series of photographs taken by Gill and then hand-inscribed in black paint by Vangad, co-creating new imagery of life in Ganjad, a small farming village. These fantastical works combine the contemporary language of photography with that of ancient Warli drawing, a genre of folk art ... More

The 15-Minute City wins £100,000 OBEL Award for architecture
LONDON.- A truly liveable and sustainable urban future that places each global citizen at the heart of their own city. This is the goal of the 15-minute city, an urban model, which was chosen by the jury to win the third ever OBEL Award. The idea behind the 15-minute city is that cities should be (re)designed, so that all residents are able to access their daily needs (housing, work, food, health, education, and culture and leisure) within the distance of a 15-minute walk or bike ride. This greatly reduces car traffic and CO2 emissions and increases the health and well-being of residents. The model, which can be adjusted to local culture, conditions, and needs, has already been implemented with great success in cities like Paris, Chengdu, and Melbourne, generating a global movement. According to the jury, the 15-minute city is a beautiful and intuitive vision that has the potential to vastly ... More

Underground Museum looks to Philadelphia curator
NEW YORK, NY.- Meg Onli will join the Underground Museum in Los Angeles as director and curator, co-leading the museum with director and COO Cristina Pacheco. Onli joins the museum from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, where she was a curator. Pacheco has been co-interim director and COO since 2020, and has served on the board of the Underground Museum since 2015. The co-leader model feels like the future, Onli said in a recent phone interview. The U.M. has always been a collective, so working collaboratively is natural. In 2012, artists Noah and Karon Davis founded the Underground Museum in four converted storefronts in the Arlington Heights neighborhood of central Los Angeles. Three years later, Noah Davis died. Throughout its existence, the museum has been a gathering place for people in the neighborhood and a destination ... More

Bernard Tapie, French tycoon, actor and politician, dies at 78
PARIS.- Bernard Tapie, a swaggering French businessman who lurched throughout his life from wild success to humiliation, knowing everything from high political office to the prison cell, died Oct. 3 in Paris. He was 78. The cause was cancer, according to a statement by his wife, Dominique Tapie. The announcement appeared in La Provence, a newspaper Tapie owned in the southern French port city of Marseille, where he was beloved due to the extraordinary success he brought its soccer team, Olympique de Marseille, after he bought it in 1986. He led a thousand lives, President Emmanuel Macron said in a message of condolence to the Tapie family, adding that Tapies ambition, energy and enthusiasm were an inspiration for generations of French people. Macrons praise of a man who was embroiled in legal problems for several decades and went to jail for five months in 1997 ... More

Superman comes out, as DC Comics ushers in a new man of steel
NEW YORK, NY.- The new Superman, Jonathan Kent who is the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane will soon begin a romantic relationship with a male friend, DC Comics announced Monday. That same-sex relationship is just one of the ways that Jonathan Kent, who goes by Jon, is proving to be a different Superman than his famous father. Since his new series, "Superman: Son of Kal-El," began in July, Jon has combated wildfires caused by climate change, thwarted a high school shooting and protested the deportation of refugees in Metropolis. The idea of replacing Clark Kent with another straight white savior felt like a missed opportunity, Tom Taylor, who writes the series, said in an interview. He said that a new Superman had to have new fights real world problems that he could stand up to as one of the most powerful people in the world. The coming out of ... More

Dottie Dodgion, a standout drummer in more ways than one, dies at 91
NEW YORK, NY.- Dottie Dodgion, one of the very few high-profile female drummers in the male-dominated jazz world of the 1950s and 60s, died Sept. 17 in a hospice center in Pacific Grove, California. She was 91. The cause was a stroke, said her daughter and only immediate survivor, Deborah Dodgion. Dodgion, who was known for her steady and swinging but unobtrusive approach to the drums, worked for more than 60 years with some of the biggest names in jazz, including Benny Goodman, Marian McPartland and Ruby Braff. She also led her own combos. But she rarely recorded. She didnt get the exposure that she might have gotten through recording because of her gender, said Wayne Enstice, who collaborated with her on her autobiography, The Lady Swings: Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer (2021). She wasnt taken as seriously as she should have been not ... More