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The Montclair State University Galleries announces 'Nothing Under Heaven' by Joseph Liatela
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- The Montclair State University Galleries present the exhibition Nothing Under Heaven by Joseph Liatela from September 13 through December 9, 2022. The exhibition is on view at the University Galleries newly reconfigured flagship exhibition space, the George Segal Gallery. The artists first solo museum exhibition brings together new commissions and recent works that explore the need for connection, pleasure, and agency within oppressive systems. Exhibited alongside photography by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and religious art by Carlo Dolci (1616-1686) from the University Galleries collection, Liatela invokes a range of stories to assess what it means to move together, remember together, and repair together. In Nothing Under Heaven, Liatela correlates spaces of communal experience churches, medical institutions, ... More

Ramsey Lewis, jazz pianist who became a pop star, dies at 87
NEW YORK, NY.- Ramsey Lewis, a jazz pianist who unexpectedly became a pop star when his recording of The In Crowd reached the Top 10 in 1965 and who remained musically active, and continued to defy categorization, for more than a half century after that died on Monday at his home in Chicago. He was 87. His death was announced on his website. No cause was given. Lewis, who had been leading his own group since 1956, had recorded with the revered drummer Max Roach and was well known in jazz circles but little known elsewhere when he and his trio (Eldee Young on bass and Redd Holt on drums) recorded a live album at the Bohemian Caverns in Washington in May 1965. The album included a version of The In Crowd, which had been a hit for the R&B singer Dobie Gray just a few months earlier, and which was released ... More

Pangolin London opens an exhibition of works by Jon Buck
LONDON.- For as long as Jon Buck can remember he has been interested in the natural world and its magnificent diversity of form and colour. Unlike many artists however, Bucks inspiration to create art that celebrates this diversity is not purely focused on visual representation but richly informed by our scientific and cultural evolution. Jon Bucks own evolution as an artist has seen his work develop over the past four and a half decades from his first hyperreal highly-coloured resin sculptures to pared back forms cast in bronze. At first, the surfaces of the bronzes were inscribed with repeating patterns or simple lines which Buck discovered could convey a clearer expression and illicit a more powerful response. In recent years, the lines Buck inscribed into the surface have transitioned into shapes or glyphs that protrude from it, initiating a personal ... More

In a final homecoming, the Queen's coffin arrives in London
LONDON.- Crowds of Londoners lined the streets as Queen Elizabeth IIs coffin arrived at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday night, standing by to catch a glimpse of the royal hearse as it was driven from the Royal Air Force base in the citys west to the queens official residence. It was a homecoming of sorts. The queen spent most of her time living at Buckingham Palace after her coronation in 1953, although in recent years she increasingly spent time at Windsor Castle and Balmoral Castle in Scotland. That Scottish home is where she spent her final days, and where she died Thursday. Over the weekend, the queens coffin was moved from Balmoral to Scotlands capital, Edinburgh, where visitors paid their respects. The queens daughter, Princess Anne, accompanied the coffin back to London. Since early Tuesday, people had flocked to the Mall, ... More

King Charles inherits untold riches and passes off his own empire
LONDON.- King Charles III built his own empire long before he inherited his mothers. Charles, who formally acceded to the British throne Saturday, spent half a century turning his royal estate into a billion-dollar portfolio and one of the most lucrative moneymakers in the royal family business. While his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, largely delegated responsibility for her portfolio, Charles was far more deeply involved in developing the private estate known as the Duchy of Cornwall. Over the past decade, he has assembled a large team of professional managers who increased his portfolios value and profits by about 50%. Today, the Duchy of Cornwall owns the landmark cricket ground known as The Oval, lush farmland in the south of England, seaside vacation rentals, office space in London and a suburban supermarket depot. (A duchy is a territory ... More

Napa Valley College presents From This Moment On...Painting as Response to Wildfire
NAPA, CA.- Artist Nancy Willis paints moments of everyday life from domestic and exterior scenes. Her own garden has been the backdrop of many eventful dinner parties, lit by candles and strings of lights hanging from the redwoods. Moments from these events became motifs and recurring themes in her paintings. Willis connection to her surroundings became much more acute with the wildfires of 2020. She was evacuated three times that fall and during the Glass Fire lived in a Napa hotel for 30 days. Her front yard in Deer Park hosted fire engines and first responders, working tirelessly to save the forested neighborhood and her house was sparred. The artist turned to painting with a sense of urgency, going back into some completed paintings and modifying them with the smoke and orange glow that she saw the night she left. When she returned, ... More

Ishara Art Foundation presents Pattern, the first solo exhibition of artist Navjot Altaf in the Arabian Peninsula
DUBAI.- Navjot Altafs practice stands at the intersection of art and activism. With a career spanning over five decades, she is among the leading voices of her generation to regard art as a medium of social change. Formerly based in Bombay, Navjot relocated to Bastar in the rural districts of Central India during the late 1990s to work with indigenous artists and communities that have borne witness to the enormous scale of deforestation, mining, pollution and displacement. Through collaborations with artists, activists, workers and organisations, her projects trace the complex connections between human exploitation and environmental crises that lie at the heart of climate change today. Pattern presents works ... More

Woody Auction to offer the Karen and Van Turner Collection
DOUGLASS, KAN.- The lifetime collection of Karen and Van Turner of Oklahoma a remarkable assemblage that features a strong showing of French cameo glass but is also well-rounded with art glass, Belleek, Peachblow, Royal Doulton, Pickard, Loetz, Royal Bayreuth and more will come up for bid on Saturday, September 24th, by Woody Auction, online and live at the Woody Auction hall. Most of the pieces in the 472-lot auction are antique, turn-of-the-century and highly collectible, in excellent condition. The Turners only sought out the very best when adding to their collection. Every item will be sold to the highest bidder, without reserve, starting promptly at 9:30 am Central time, in Woody Auctions modern, 5,000-square-foot auction hall, located at 130 East 3rd Street in Douglass. There are multiple candidates for top lot of the auction, ... More

Asya Geisberg Gallery opens second solo show with Rodrigo Valenzuela
NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting Afterwork, the second exhibition at the gallery by Los Angeles-based Rodrigo Valenzuela. Recently the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a research fellowship at the Smithsonian Museum, Valenzuela has completed a photographic series based on the ghostly absence of workers in an indeterminate time and place, at once futuristic and harking back to a century ago. In staged sets suggesting abandoned factories, Valenzuela wishfully foments a revolution, enabling workers powerless in the face of relentless international movement of capital to flee or perhaps overrun their workplaces. As in a science-fiction universe where we feel a potential reality just out of reach of our present, Valenzuelas scenes meld mechanical objects with steam or smoke, suggestive of steel manufacturing, ... More

Studio glass by Dale Chihuly, ceramics by Lucie Rie and Jennifer Lee headline Heritage's September Design Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Rare is the contemporary art movement that evolves and innovates as nimbly as studio glass. Given the mediums roots in historic Venetian practices, todays glass artists in America and beyond continue to forge breathtaking new methods and aesthetics in this dynamic material. This month, in its Sept. 29 Design SignatureÂ® Auction, Heritage offers a rich collection of contemporary studio glass works by more than 140 artists. These are emergent superstars and the industrys most celebrated artists who mentored them. Other high points of this auction are contemporary ceramics by distinguished artists from America, Europe and Japan. Here, too, are select works of American streamline ... More

Javier MarÃas, to many the greatest living Spanish novelist, dies at 70
NEW YORK, NY.- Javier MarÃas, a Spanish novelist whose elegant style and intricate plots centered on espionage, murder and betrayal won him comparisons to Marcel Proust and Ian Fleming, died Sunday at his home in Madrid. He was 70. His publisher, Alfaguara, said the cause was pneumonia. Although he was not particularly well known in the United States, MarÃas was among the few writers to combine critical praise with a bestseller readership: He sold about 8 million copies of his 14 novels, four books of short stories and dozens of essay collections. His books were translated into 46 languages; his 1992 novel Un CorazÃ³n Tan Blanco, published in English in 1995 as A Heart So White, sold 1.3 million copies in Germany alone. MarÃas occupied a reputational perch in Spanish culture that would be almost inconceivable for an American author. His ... More