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Exhibition of new and recent work by Amy Sillman opens at Gladstone
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone presents To Be Other-Wise, an exhibition of new and recent paintings, works on paper, and a video by Amy Sillman. Depicting both recognizable and reimagined forms, Sillman's paintings push and pull between overt abstraction and ciphered figuration. In To Be Other-Wise, Sillman lays bare the time and space in which abstraction is made through a sequential unfolding of thought and process. Her serial works on paper reveal an analog animation process, unfurling the various stages of mark-making that in paintings are compressed into buried layers. Sillman embraces an artistic process that champions improvisation and challenges conventional notions of form and representation. Sillman’s work in painting and drawing has been shaped by her basic notion of artmaking as a conduit for change. Rather than working toward ... More

Good Morning, Beautiful! Rachel Libeskind exhibits at signs and symbols
NEW YORK, NY.- signs and symbols is presenting Good Morning, Beautiful!, Rachel Libeskind’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. “I’m not a philosopher, but some of my best friends are. Sometimes they like to talk about what exists, and in what way. If a bowl exists, does the empty space inside it exist too? If the space isn’t an existing thing, what makes the bowl, which is defined by this space, what it is? Empty spaces are interesting subjects in that way. They’re absences that are never really quite absent. They are unheimlich—uncanny. They can be haunting. Is a haunting a real thing? Or is it just another absence, a hole in reality? Rachel Libeskind seems to be haunted by a certain absence or emptiness, and so is her work. That absence has a name—well, many names: DDR, for Deutsche Demokratische Republik; GDR, for German ... More

National Museum of Asian Art presents "Do Ho Suh: Public Figures"
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art presents “Do Ho Suh: Public Figures,” a sculpture by contemporary Korean artist Do Ho Suh commissioned to celebrate the museum’s 100th anniversary. The monumental plinth was unveiled April 27 and installed on the museum’s Freer Plaza for five years, facing the National Mall in Washington, D.C. First presented as part of Public Art Fund’s 1998 exhibition “Beyond the Monument” (Brooklyn, New York), “Public Figures” challenges the notion of heroic individualism and the stability of national narratives. For the work, Suh created a plinth for a monument; however, its imposing form is not a base to support a heroic figure or to mark a particular historic event, but rather a massive weight held aloft by many small, individualized figures caught in mid-stride. Prominently ... More

Galerie Guido W. Baudach opens an exhibition of works by Markus Selg
BERLIN.- Gallery spaces are generally neutral in their appearance and create a zone of calm around their exhibits. Galerie Guido W. Baudach is also such a white cube, but in Markus Selg's exhibition TWIN ZONE, the ban mile around the works dissolves, as does the closed box of the exhibition space itself. At first glance, TWIN ZONE looks like a traditional exhibition of large-format computer prints and sculptures. However, thanks to the augmented reality app that Markus Selg developed for this project, the virtual twins of these sculptures and paintings as well as earlier works that are not physically present, such as Teerhof from 1999, can also be experienced in the gallery. They appear unexpectedly on the audience's smartphone displays and float gently through the room or appear as additional exhibits on the walls. The presence of digital artworks ... More

The Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art welcomes three new exhibitions
SAN DIEGO, CALIF.- The Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art welcomes three new photography exhibitions this spring: Picture This: Recent Acquisitions, Storyteller: Work by Holly Roberts, and The Artist Speaks: Cara Romero. The works on view have been selected from over a thousand photographs received as gifts to the Museum of Photographic Arts and The San Diego Museum of Art collections in the last three years, culminating with the merger of the Museum of Photographic Arts and The San Diego Museum of Art. The combined photographic art collection now contains over fifteen thousand works spanning mediums such as photography, video, and new media. This exhibition showcases a variety of important themes and genres, including Portraiture, Abstraction/Manipulation, and Modernism. Guests ... More

Cheyney McKnight debuts solo exhibition presenting the Black experience through an Afrofuturist lens
NEW YORK, NY.- The Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance presents The Ancestor's Future: An Afrofuturist's Journey Through Time, artist and historian Cheyney McKnight's first solo exhibition featuring her performance pieces, photographs, and clothing designs that are transformed into modern textiles while highlighting the Black experience in America with 18th and 19th-century silhouettes. The exhibition, exploring themes of community bonds, health, climate change, and adaptation, will be on view from May 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024, and is free and open to the public. An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, April 30, from 6 pm to 8 pm at The Dyckman Farmhouse Museum. The Ancestor's Future is a significant exploration of Black America's past, viewed through the lens of Afrofuturism. McKnight's work delves into a distant future ... More

Cooke Latham Gallery presents 'Fani Parali: Children of the Future'
LONDON.- In her ambitious new exhibition for Cooke Latham, Fani Parali invites viewers into an alternate realm, a space designed for and inhabited solely by children. Through this inversion of our own reality Parali, like all truly great purveyors of science fiction, not only looks ahead reflecting upon the challenges facing the next generation but also invites critical analysis of our societal status quo. Parali has crafted a new soundscape by channelling multiple voices, using recordings of both professional singers and children to create a call-and-response between the 'machine' of the gallery and the 'children' who inhabit it. A raw look into the increasingly symbiotic relationship between humans and machines, Children of the Future addresses the ramifications of unbridled technological progress on future generations. Though an implicit sense of terror ... More

Tony nominations snubs and surprises: Steve Carell and 'The Wiz' miss out
NEW YORK, NY.- The day of the Tony Award nominations is like college acceptance day a bit earlier in the spring, but on the scarcity model: Of the dozens of artists eligible in each category, only five or so are “admitted.” That means some great work gets left by the wayside — but also, because the number of nominators is small enough to be idiosyncratic, that plenty of outcomes defy all prediction. Here are our thoughts on this season’s inadvertent (and possibly advertent) snubs, delightful (or mystifying) surprises and other notable anomalies. Television stars are considered good box office but not always good Tony bait. This year’s crop, including Sarah Paulson, Jeremy Strong, Steve Carell and William Jackson Harper, complicates that wisdom. Paulson is a likely winner but the men are already canceling each other out. Although Carell, in his Broadway ... More

'Hell's Kitchen' and 'Stereophonic' tie for most Tony nominations
NEW YORK, NY.- A semi-autobiographical Alicia Keys musical and a play about a group of musicians struggling to record an album each got 13 Tony nominations Tuesday, tying for the most nods in a packed Broadway season when shows need all the help they can get. The musical, “Hell’s Kitchen,” features some of Keys’ biggest hits as well as new songs by her. The play, “Stereophonic,” David Adjmi’s exploration of creativity and conflict inside a recording studio, is now the most-nominated play in Tony Awards history, besting a record set in 2021 by “Slave Play,” which had 12 nominations. A star-studded production of “Merrily We Roll Along” that turned a storied Stephen Sondheim flop into one of the season’s biggest hits is favored to win the musical revival category. But it faces several other big revivals, including a lavish production of “Cabaret” starring ... More

Killer asteroid hunters spot 27,500 overlooked space rocks
NEW YORK, NY.- A couple of years ago, a team of researchers dedicated to finding killer asteroids before they kill us came up with a neat trick. Instead of scanning the skies with telescopes for asteroids, the scientists wrote an algorithm that sifts through old pictures of the night sky, discovering about 100 asteroids that had been overlooked in those images. On Tuesday, those scientists, with the Asteroid Institute and the University of Washington, revealed an even bigger bounty: 27,500 newly identified solar system bodies. That is more than were discovered by all of the world’s telescopes last year. “This is a sea change” in how astronomical research will be conducted, said Ed Lu, executive director of the institute, which is part of the B612 Foundation, a nonprofit group that Lu helped found. The finds include about 100 near- ... More

Daniel Radcliffe on breaking the spell with his first Tony nomination
NEW YORK, NY.- Daniel Radcliffe caught the first batch of Tony nominations during the announcement at 8:30 a.m. He texted congratulations to his “Merrily We Roll Along” co-star Jonathan Groff, who was nominated for best actor in a musical. But then dad duty called before his own category, featured actor in a musical, was announced at 9:00. “I was in the middle of doing breakfast and trying to put my son down for his morning nap, so I got a text from a member of the cast letting me know I was nominated,” said the actor, 34, who stars as the lyricist and playwright Charley Kringas in the acclaimed revival of the 1981 Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical, “Merrily We Roll Along.” Radcliffe’s Tony nomination — for his fifth Broadway role since his 2008 debut in “Equus” — is the first of his career. And it’s extra special, he said in a phone ... More