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Africa Fashion: Showstopping exhibition of fashion from the V&A features 50+ designers from more than 20 countries
MELBOURNE.- Africa Fashion – the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of fashion from the African continent ever mounted in Australia – presents a dynamic survey of historical and contemporary designs from some of the most influential fashion designers in the region. Coming to Melbourne from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and on display from 31 May 2024, the Australian premiere of Africa Fashion features nearly 200 works, including couture, bespoke and ready-to-wear fashions, and body adornments, from over 50 designers from more than 20 countries and regions on the African continent. With works drawn from the collection of the V&A, NGV Collection as well as the personal archives ... More

The V&A and Art Jameel announce shortlisted projects for the 7th edition of the Jameel Prize
LONDON.- The V&A and Art Jameel announce the shortlisted projects for the 7th edition of the Jameel Prize, the V&A’s international award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition. The triennial competition, founded in 2009 and worth £25,000, focuses this year on moving image and digital media. The shortlisted artists for Jameel Prize: Moving Images are: Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, Jawa El Khash, Alia Farid, Zahra Malkani, Khandakar Ohida, Marrim Akashi Sani, and Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian (as a collective). Their works engage with aspects of Islamic culture, society and ideas, and their relevance to contemporary life, covering a wide range of themes – from domesticity and spirituality to ecology and revolution. Applicants were sought through an open call in 2023, which invited artists ... More

Kate MacGarry opens Renee So's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- The exhibition includes a new body of ceramic works from So’s 'Woman' stoneware series that draw upon early fertility idols and Venus figures celebrating the female form, alongside new Snuff bottle sculptures including a lemon, a nose, a poppy and a Pekingese dog. Inspired by the use of ceramics and glass in architecture and public spaces, she presents wall-based tiled works and has introduced stained-glass as a medium into her practice. Renee So was born in Hong Kong in 1974 and grew up in Melbourne, Australia. So lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions include Provenance, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia and UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia (2023); Effigies and Elginisms, Cample Line, Thornhill, Scotland, UK (2022); Ancient and Modern, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, ... More

Chinese coins celebrating invention of seismograph and compass shake up Heritage's HKINF World & Ancient Coins Auction
DALLAS, TX.- A gold Chinese coin celebrating one of the most significant inventions in the study of natural history could send shockwaves through Heritage’s HKINF World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction - Hong Kong June 19-21. A People’s Republic gold Proof “Seismography” 2000 Yuan (1 Kilo) 1992 PR68 Ultra Cameo NGC, from the Shenyang Mint, is from the Scientific Inventions and Discoveries of Ancient China Series. The certificate indicates that it hails from a tiny mintage of just 10 pieces, although Chan suggests the mintage actually included 16; a record has been found of just one other example being offered at public auction, in 2003. It was issued in recognition of the seismoscope, ... More

Latvian National Museum of Art opens an exhibition of Sigita Daugule's paintings
RIGA.- An exhibition of Sigita Daugule’s paintings under the title Walls is presented in the 4th Floor Exhibition Halls of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1) from 1 June to 4 August 2024. As a painter, Sigita Daugule is inspired by the urban environment with everything that humans have created there. In the city she gathers impressions, paying particular attention to walls, their textures and colours brought by the ravages of time and human hands. Anything can serve as an impulse for a painting – boards with layers of peeling paint, damp stains and their rough texture on the wall of a building, a writing or drawing on a facade that has not been painted for years, and other everyday details that many do not notice. The artist preserves it all in memory and later uses ... More

When the stage harnesses the power of the movies
NEW YORK, NY.- A passing glance at this year’s Tony nominations might trick the viewer into thinking the wrong artistic medium has crept onto the list. Among the nominees are “The Notebook,” “The Outsiders” and “Days of Wine and Roses,” based on three movies: a 2004 Nicholas Sparks romance, a 1983 coming-of-age crime drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola and a 1962 Blake Edwards melodrama about alcoholism. (They were, in turn, based on bestselling novels and a TV play.) It’s not that movie adaptations are uncommon in theater; a number of mega-budget shows have been driven by silver-screen nostalgia, whether it’s “Back to the Future” and “Aladdin” or that stalwart of the Broadway economy, “The Lion King.” Splashy musicals, in particular, often come from recognizable cinematic sources: There’s “Mean ... More

PinchukArtCentre opens the exhibition 'Insubordinate'
KYIV.- The PinchukArtCentre presents the Insubordinate exhibition, which showcases the practice of two Odesa-based venues: the NOCH gallery and the art community located at the SRZ-2. The exhibition is a part of the Research Platform and PAC UA programme. Insubordinate highlights a historical process in the unofficial art movement that avoided power ties in the cultural field. Running parallel to the exhibition ‘Oleksandr Roitburd: Power Theory,’ it offers an insightful view into the Odesa art scene. Like the Research Platform, these exhibitions are aimed to show the connections within the art community. "Insubordinate" archives phenomena that have recently ceased to exist due to the full-scale war. Insubordinate is an exhibition about the possibility of thinking separately and uncoordinated in moments of powerful social ... More

Sarah McLachlan is resurfacing
VANCOUVER.- Sarah McLachlan was just 30 hours from beginning her first full-band tour in a decade, and she could not sing. She was in the final heave of preparation for eight weeks of shows stretching through late November that commemorate “Fumbling Towards Ecstasy,” the sophisticated 1993 album that turned her into an avatar for the sensitive, mysterious singer-songwriters of ’90s radio. But three days into a string of seven-hour rehearsals, her voice collapsed, the high notes so long her hallmark dissolving into a pitchy wheeze. So onstage in a decommissioned Vancouver, British Columbia, hockey arena, a day before a sold-out benefit for her three nonprofit music schools, McLachlan only mouthed along to her songs, shaking her head but smiling whenever she reached for a note and missed. “It only goes away when I project, push ... More

What if the disabled characters were just going about their day?
NEW YORK, NY.- A bizarre thing happens when actors Madison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez are out and about in public together, using mobility aids to get around: she a scooter, he a wheelchair. Inevitably, she said, strangers approach, presuming that the two are somehow in distress. “People will be like, ‘Are you OK? What’s going on?,’” Ferris said the other afternoon at the Pershing Square Signature Center in Manhattan, where they are starring in the New Group’s off-Broadway production of Laura Winters’ romantic comedy, “All of Me.” And if several wheelchair users should roll down the street together, Gomez said, “then it’s like the circus is in town.” Such as the night a few friends of his from the Los Angeles dance team the Rollettes came to the play, and he and Ferris left with them afterward. “Everywhere we went,” he said, “just stares, left and right.” ... More

Collection of Apollo astronaut Fred Haise touches down in Heritage's Space Exploration Auction June 14-15
DALLAS, TX.- A nearly catastrophic explosion derailed the Apollo 13 mission on its way to a planned lunar landing is the only reason its crew members’ names were not added to the list of 24 who have walked on the moon. When the seventh crewed mission of the Apollo space program was launched April 11, 1970, from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the plan was that it would be the third to land on the lunar surface, putting crew members Fred W. Haise, Jr., James A. Lovell, Jr., and John L. Swigert, Jr., on the same tier of universal identification as the likes of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. But about 56 hours after launch, and more than 200,000 miles from Earth, Haise was completing the shutdown of the lunar module when the crew members heard an explosion. Communication back to Earth was lost ... More

Jac Venza, who delivered culture to public television, dies at 97
NEW YORK, NY.- Jac Venza, a shoemaker’s son who almost single-handedly delivered to the proverbial “vast wasteland” that was American television in the 1960s and ’70s an oasis of cultural programming, including “Great Performances,” “Masterpiece Theater” and “Live From Lincoln Center,” died on Tuesday at his home in Lyme, Connecticut. He was 97. His death was confirmed by his spouse, Daniel D. Routhier. Venza never attended college. As an actor, he pronounced himself “dreadful.” As an aspiring artist, he began his career in Chicago by designing scenery for the Goodman Theater and window displays for the Mandel Bros. department store. But while still in his 30s, he began playing a vital role in bringing art to public television. He was working as a television producer when he was asked to collaborate with other ... More