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They combine 3D elements with 2D painted planes which are almost billboard-like presentations intermixed in the work in a novel way. How do you approach such a thing? One of the great things about making art is discovering something that sprang from seemingly nowhere. In retrospect it looks logical but in the moment it's an epiphany and suddenly it's exciting to explore it.

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Sadly, despite belief the internet, technology, and evolved morality would open up global conversations in which every voice is heard and all people respected, real life threw up stop signs. In particular, within almost every sector and industry, the history, voices, and stories of marginalized people and communities continued to be largely overlooked, distorted, suppressed, erased, or most tragically, simply forgotten and faced with extinction.

Acocella's essay deals with the improbable five-year affair between the Left Bank philosopher Simone de Beauvoir and the tough-guy Chicago writer Nelson Algren-its title comes from their pet names for each other-and was occasioned by the posthumous publication of Beauvoir's love letters. Acocella begins with a block quote from one of the letters, a rarely attempted flex that may be the critic's equivalent of opening a song with the bridge.

In a corner of the new Museum of West African Art, visitors can marvel at a sample display of the cultural treasures that adorned the royal palace that once stood in its place: a proud cockerel, a plaque with three mighty warriors, a bust of a king with a glorious beaded collar. The artefacts, collectively known as the Benin bronzes, were looted by British colonial forces who went on to burn down the palace in a punitive expedition in 1897.

Zhiyong Jing is a painter living and working in Beijing, China, well known for his surreal dreamlike artworks that explore themes of hope, isolation, and absurdity. He earned a BFA in oil painting from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2005 and credits his education with shaping his signature style, which combines childlike simplicity with adult complexity and wit. Jing's paintings often feature cinematic scenes filled with haunting figures, ghost-like shapes, and paradoxical imagery, drawing heavily from personal dreams, memories, and emotional experiences.

The Office of Arts and Culture oversees the administration of the Portland Arts Access Fund, which is funded by the $35 Arts Tax Portlanders pay each year. A portion of the tax, which was approved by voters in 2012, pays for the salary for at least one full-time arts teacher to work in every elementary school in Portland.

"It's always puzzling to visit the homes of extremely sophisticated contemporary artists (or collectors), and discover that their taste in music consists of uninformed wank," wrote Neel Brown in Frieze in 1998. He was reviewing Blizzard Seventy-Seven, Peter Doig 's first institutional survey at London's Whitechapel Gallery, for which curator Matthew Higgs had appended a catalogue of the artist's record collection for the show's publication.

The Frick Collection reopened in April 2025 after a four-year renovation. Today, it is home to the Frick Collection, which reopened in April 2025 after a four-year renovation that restored its Beaux-Arts splendor and allowed visitors to check out the second floor for the first time. I toured the museum to see how it continues to uphold the jaw-dropping estate's beauty and dedication to art.

Masquerade is one of the most coveted and expensive tickets in New York theater right now. It re-envisions The Phantom of the Opera as an immersive, romantic experience in a random building in midtown - with a secret password required to enter the venue to thwart interlopers. You're ushered from room to room as the performance unfolds, and, if you're lucky enough to avoid a rainy day, you also get a showstopper of a number on the roof.

First, a confession: I have not read Jennifer L Armentrout's latest novel, The Primal of Blood and Bone. Nor have I sniffed it, or licked it. Which might be an odd thing to do, but for the fact that a special edition of the romantasy book has been released with garlic-infused ink. Armentrout is a hugely-successful hybrid author, both self- and traditionally published, and has made the New York Times bestseller list on numerous occasions.

Paytas will be appearing in Beetlejuicefrom November 4 to November 23. Paytas is playing Maxine Dean, one of the party guests in the big, spooky dinner party. Maxine is the wife of Maxie Dean, Charles Deetz's boss who is trying to turn the neighborhood into a gated community. The actor playing Maxine usually also plays Juno, Beetlejuice's mother. While Paytas is embodying Maxine, Sharone Sayegh will continue to play Juno in Act II.

It's hard to think of a more iconic exchange in the history of theater than the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet. Those legendary lines. That stolen kiss. It's been performed countless times the world over. And it was for that reason that Andrew Moerdyk, Kimie Nishikawa, and Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, founders of the Brooklyn-based scenic design studio dots, hoped to reinvent it, when tapped by director Sam Gold for the Circle in the Square Theatre's recent Broadway adaptation. Together, the creative team conceived a bed of flowers-revealed by the opening of a circular panel-and, suspended above it, a mattress.

Owens is on stage for the entire 95-minute run time of Primary Trust, guiding us into Kenneth's perspective on his world. Kenneth is an unobtrusive bit player in his small town, a fictional suburb of Rochester, New York - but in this play, he is the protagonist. All of the action revolves around him. It's quite a shift in focus for an unobtrusive Black man in a small town dominated by white people to be the focal point of the story.

Spanning over 10,000 square meters, teamLab Biovortex Kyoto is now the collective's largest exhibition in Japan, and perhaps its most conceptually daring. Designed as part of the Kyoto Station Southeast Area Project, this new museum isn't just an addition to the city's cultural landscape - it's a living, breathing ecosystem of light, sound, and movement. Located in Kyoto's Minami-ku district, this permanent museum marks a monumental chapter in teamLab's creative evolution, blending technology, environment, and human experience in one breathtaking, ever-changing space.

I n a certain sense, I have been an employee of the Canadian government for the roughly eighteen months during which I wrote my book, How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists. Not in the sense of having job security or benefits or a pension contribution or a direct supervisor or a specific place to be or a title,

Easy to fool the eye, then, but is it equally easy to keep it alert and interested? That's what I asked myself as I sat in a sadly half-empty Sadler's Wells East, fighting a wave of somnolence partly induced by Elon Höglund's music, a monotonous, repetitive combination of muffled beats and gurgling. Much of what was happening before my eyes, if not exactly breakin' or street dance as we know it, was ingenious enough: