I will arise and go now, for peace comes dropping slow, reads the male lead to his bed-bound partner and their dying, severely disabled newborn boy. These lines sing out in Guess How Much I Love You?, Luke Norris's new play about a couple navigating the premature loss of their child. Yeats's words capture the play's driving emotional forces: the possibility of finding peace after such profound trauma, the lifelong burn of unexpected bereavement and the temptation to end it all.
Dominique McDougal and Carro Sharkey's three-part performance, 'Did4luv'-a tragicomic dance solo performed by each of the dancers, alternating every night-debuted this month at the dual 30th anniversary of Sophiensaele's inauguration as a theater and its renowned dance festival, Tanztage. This year's Tanztage invites its audience to consider the (im)material conditions of artistic production: the body and self as sources for capitalist exchange, the extractive nature of our systems of work and its resulting consequences for marginalized bodies.
Sprouting from the roof of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, artist Rose B. Simpson's newly installed bronze sculpture "Behold" has its gaze fixed on the cityscape before it. The Tewa of Khaʼpʼoe Ówîngeh artist, herself a mother, crafted a tender portrait of an interconnected parent and child that "asks us to be human with each other, to change our narrative through wonder, witness and a foundation in the soft warmth of our humanity," she said in a statement.
For two centuries, from the mid-1600s to the mid-1800s, free and enslaved New Yorkers of African descent were buried at the Harlem African Burial Ground. Over time, the history of this site was lost - erased by the subsequent redevelopment of the land. Today, the Harlem African Burial Ground project is a community-driven vision to honor and memorialize this historic site with a new outdoor memorial and indoor cultural education center, while also addressing affordable housing and jobs needs in the East Harlem community.
Mornings are best for concentrated work. In the winter, I turn on the heat at 8am and get started around 10am. Summer, I start around 9am. I have two areas in the studio for projects. The large, heavy wood sculptures are carved in the front section of the studio, closest to the roll-up wide door. Smaller sculptures are placed on a hydraulic workbench. Before I start, I focus, connect with the Source, and ask for guidance.
The two multi-storey, site-specific murals that Chagall created for the Met, The Triumph of Music and The Sources of Music (both 1966), have been collectively appraised at $55m by Sotheby's. If they are offered for sale, it will be under the condition that the buyer leaves them in place. The new owner, in the event of a sale, would be identified by an adjacent donation plaque.
Naomi Campbell will offer a supermodel's perspective on the intimate relationship between artist and muse in an essay for an upcoming exhibition of Pablo Picasso paintings being staged by Nahmad Contemporary in Switzerland. The New York-headquartered gallery was founded in 2013 by Joseph Nahmad, a scion of the billionaire art-dealing family. Nahmad's father, David Nahmad, is believed to have the largest private collection of works by Picasso.
The about-face is a welcome surprise. Until now, the massive convention - which has become a melting pot of all kinds of pop entertainment beyond the comic medium, with everyone ranging from game developers to movie studios using it as a platform to tease new content - has allowed some AI art to be displayed, so long as it was labeled as such and wasn't for sale, as well as other stipulations that have been in place since at least 2024, according to 404.
Generally, you get two versions of England in art: it's either bucolic vistas, rolling hills, babbling brooks and gambolling sheep or it's downtrodden, browbeaten, grim poverty and misery. But Beryl Cook saw something else in all the drizzle and grey of this damp old country: she saw joy. The thing is, joy doesn't carry the same critical, conceptual heft in art circles as more serious subjects
Opened to the public in 1993, YBCA was founded as the cultural anchor of San Francisco's Yerba Buena Gardens neighborhood. Our work spans the realms of contemporary art, performance, film, civic engagement, and public life. Centering artists as essential to social and cultural movement, YBCA is reimagining the role an arts institution can play in the community it serves.
This isn't the circus you remember from childhood, though. After shuttering its tents in 2017 amid declining ticket sales and growing concerns about animal welfare, Ringling spent years rethinking what a modern circus could look like. When it returned three years ago, it did so with a fully animal-free format, leaning instead into global performance, music and arena-scale production. The current tour, overseen by Feld Entertainment, continues that approach, turning the circus into a live, high-energy cultural mashup rather than mere nostalgia.
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There were four or five events in Sydney for the first night of Hanukah. In 2024 we went to an event at Dover Heights, but parking was a nightmare. We decide on Bondi (where parking is also a nightmare). Five of us my mum, husband, son (3), daughter (one-and-a-half) and I pile into the car. We walk past the Christmas markets at Bondi beach, looking for the festival.
"Within the forum's mission, arts and culture play a vital role: they help ensure that progress is not defined solely by economic metrics or technological advances, but by our capacity to remain human, connected and reflective as we navigate an increasingly complex world," says Joseph Fowler, WEF's head of arts and culture. His programme is anchored around three guiding pillars, "Human Presence in the Digital Age", "Tradition and Innovation", and "Connection and Collaboration", Fowler adds. "Together they form a curatorial vision that pairs intellectual rigour with deeply immersive artistic experience."
The corporate neckwear is the everyday counterpart to the traditionally more luxurious cravat a voluminous neckscarf that conjures up images of opulent dinners aboard a yacht sailing through the Mediterranean. President Abraham Lincoln wore cravats, as did Hollywood actor Cary Grant and the extravagant entertainer Liberace. In more recent times, the garment has been popularized in the American mainstream by the likes of Madonna and the late Diane Keaton.
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is the world's oldest known rock art, in a cave off the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The hand stencil has been dated to at least 67,800 years ago, making it 1,100 years older than the earliest example of rock art that was known about before this, produced in Spain by Neanderthals. The Sulawesi work may, its finders say, provide insights into the migration of early humans to Australia.
One of the most unusual of the creative treasures to enter the public domain this month is King of Jazz. The plotless, experimental 1930 musical film shot in early Technicolor centers on influential bandleader Paul Whiteman, nicknamed "The King of Jazz." In one memorable scene, the portly, mustachioed Whiteman opens a small bag and winks at the camera as miniature musicians file out one after another like a colony of ants and take their places on an ornate, table-top bandstand.
Sure, those festive holiday lightshave officially burnt out, but that doesn't mean things have to be dark and dreary this winter: the Union Square Partnership (USP) is graciously adding some light and liveliness to the darkest time of the year with its new interactive art installation, "Patterned Behavior" by MASARY Studios, on view every evening (dusk to 10pm) from now through Tuesday, February 17.
On Saturday, January 10, approximately 10-15 protesters wearing inflated frog costumes performed a not-very-synchronized dance beneath the bright lights of the South Portland Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility. Heralded on a flyer as the "Original Frog Dance" the loose choreography-set to "We're the Frogs," an AI-created ballad by local lyricist Delanae Elle Eanaled-lasted just over three minutes. An organizer with the Frog Brigade, Will-also known as "Ribbit Wrangler"-told the Mercury that the costumed dancers had practiced only that day and for "not very long." The performance consisted of "moves someone could make in a frog costume."
Sally Tallant, the former boss of the Liverpool Biennial, has been announced as the new director of the Hayward Gallery and visual arts at London's Southbank Centre. Tallant, who is currently in charge of the Queens Museum in New York, will return to the UK to take over from Ralph Rugoff, who will step down after two decades in charge of the institution, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year.
The Mela comprises a series of themed and solo exhibitions, by international and Bangladeshi artists at venues across downtown Dhaka. Until 2024, Bangladeshi artists had to contend with the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina's authoritarian government, which monopolised access to funding and foreign collaboration. Many arts institutions were turned into propaganda machines, as Hasina's cultural officials 'just wanted to please the national leader,' one Bangladeshi artist told the Financial Times last year.
