A federal jury found Daniel Sikkema guilty for his role in a murder-for-hire plot targeting his estranged husband, art dealer Brent Sikkema. Brent Sikkema was stabbed 18 times in his Rio de Janeiro townhouse in the early hours of January 14, 2024. The killing shocked the art world and left his loved ones seeking answers. Alongside the crime news, attention turns to Columbia University MFA students and to Anni Albers’ life through a new biography. The biography covers her early years in Berlin, her escape from Nazi Germany in 1933, and later life in Connecticut. Karla Knight’s cosmic paintings also prompt questions about whether their signs map systems or universal substrates.
"A federal jury has found Daniel Sikkema guilty for his role in the murder-for-hire of his estranged husband, the New York art dealer Brent Sikkema. The 75-year-old gallerist was stabbed 18 times in his Rio de Janeiro townhouse in the early hours of January 14, 2024, in a brutal crime that shocked the art world and left Sikkema's loved ones searching for answers."
"You recognize Anni Albers from her revolutionary, abstract woven artworks, incisive essays, books, art prints, or fabric designs. But you might not know about the artist's obsession with white blouses, how much she delighted in English-language idioms, and her penchant for extra-crispy Kentucky Fried Chicken. Packed with lively detail and illuminating anecdotes, Nicholas Fox Weber's Anni Albers: A Life traces the historic sweep of the artist's biography and career, from her birth to a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin in 1899 to her 1933 escape from Nazi Germany to her later years in Connecticut."
"What to make of such half-familiar signs? Are they richly composed blueprints for mysterious systems connected to extraterrestrial lifeforms - schematics for advanced engines that could guide us toward wormholes to new coordinates of potential? Or attempts at mapping some underlying substrate of the universe"
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