#retrospective

#retrospective

This article is also a weekly newsletter.Sign up for Race/Related here.As the editors for Special Sections plan our large and popular Museums and Fine Arts & Exhibits sections in the spring and fall each year, we think about themes that will help us assign the most meaningful articles.Art institutions are reacting creatively to the challenges they face in attracting new audiences and remaining relevant to existing ones.

HONG KONG It's hungry business, walking around art fairs and gallery hopping.But the locals know where to find the tastiest morsels and where to kick back and relax.The chef Olivier Elzer, the Young Soy Gallery founder Shivang Jhunjhnuwala and the artist Tang Kwok Hin are all longtime Hong Kongers; here are their top spots for R and R. The Chef In 14 years of living in Hong Kong, Olivier Elzer, the 43-year-old culinary director of the two-Michelin star French restaurant L'Envol, has yet to run out of new places to try, but there are a tried-and-tested few that he keeps going back to and would recommend.

FILE - Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell pose for photographers upon arrival for the premiere of the film 'If These Walls Could Sing' in London, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022.A trove of previously unseen photos taken by Paul McCartney as The Beatles shot to global stardom will go on display in London this year.

Adrienne Mancia, who scoured the world for significant films and brought them to New York as a longtime curator at the Museum of Modern Art and later at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, died on Sunday in Teaneck, N.J.She was 95.Her niece Francine Pozner Ehrenberg confirmed the death, in a care center.

The French abstract painter Pierre Soulages, who has died aged 102, turned black into an obsession, transforming it from the absence of light into a colour in its own right.On the floor of his Left Bank studio in Paris, he produced large, shiny canvases flooded with black  or what he described as outrenoir or beyond black.

June
11-30 In honor of Pride Month (June 2023), History Fort Lauderdale presents "Take PRIDE!A Retrospective of LGBTQ Life in South Florida," an exhibit chronicling the gay rights movement and the migration of LGBTQ community members to South Florida.The event includes historical photographs, media stories, videos and costumes, all to help visitors learn about the rise of PRIDE and the growth of the LGBTQ community in South Florida.

Happy Thursday, everyone!Celebrate the special women in your life for Mother's Day at a number of concerts and arts festivals this weekend; there's a community spring book fair to explore, too.Best Things to Do This Weekend


Jewish Film and Music Festival.The Jewish Film and Music Festival returns with more than 50 films, concerts, and conversations highlighting international voices and stories.

Born in Inverness in 1962, Ali Smith has published 12 novels, including How to Be Both, which won the Women's prize for fiction, the Goldsmiths prize and the Costa novel of the year award, and her seasonal quartet, starting with Autumn in 2016.She has been shortlisted twice for both the Booker prize and the Orange prize with Hotel World and The Accidental, and has also published several short story collections, plays and nonfiction.

Pearl Jam are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their 1998 album Yield with a couple of new gems for fans of the record, including a 2xLP collaboration with Vinyl Me, Please and a live album from the era.The band's latest releases come in two categories: Stuff for the audiophiles, and stuff for the collectors.

President Emmanuel Macron has condemned an attack on a painting displayed at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris on 7 May.According to Le Monde, a man spray painted Fuck abstraction!by the Swiss artist Miriam Cahn, a work which has sparked fierce debate in France about the limits on artistic freedom.Cahn's work shows a small figure, whose hands are bound, performing a sex act on a larger faceless individual.

I have had a few of Mel Bochner's slogans stuck in my head ever since I visited Peter Freeman Gallery to see a exhibition of his work, Seldom or Never Seen 2004-2022.Bochner-a conceptual artist known for his colorful, text-based paintings-first rose to prominence with a 1966 show called Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art.

A retrospective of artworks by the legendary Abraham Palatnik was on view at the Nara Roesler Gallery in New York back in January.Curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas, the exhibition was visually electric and perfectly selected - every single work worth a pause."Abraham Palatnik: Seismograph of Color" was a must-see for newcomers and long-time fans alike.

Border X Brewing could be in trouble without a major cash infusion, reports L.A. Taco.The Latino-owned craft beer operation, "is in danger of closing its Southeast Los Angeles location in Bell without outside investment," writes reporter Beth Demmon.The plan, owner David Favela says, is for a financial partner to take up to a 40 percent ownership stake in the company in order to keep the brewery afloat, after years of pandemic slowdowns and flagging sales.

LOS ANGELES The photography of Uta Barth unites the conceptual rigor that is characteristic of Germany, where she was born, with the fascination with light and space of California, where she has lived for the last 40 years.Countering the instantaneous shutter click of the camera, Barth, who is 65, frequently works in series to explore how shifts in light alter our perception of a scene.

There seems to be something in the water in Los Angeles these days, because pizza spots just keep sprouting up across the city.First up is a new iteration of the popular Pitfire Pizza, which opens another outlet in Woodland Hills tomorrow serving what seems like a bigger, more ambitious menu of pasta and salads.

Estrada is part of the surrealist art collective Mail Order Brides.His students included Obama portraitist Kehinde Wiley and Mission School art pioneer Barry McGee."I came into visual arts through graffiti art and have kind of carried that pride because of Carlos to this project," Arcega said.He said his mentor worked to increase the visibility of artists of color in the white-dominated art world by organizing a slew of landmark conferences starting in the 1970s.Arcega said this use of art as literally a vehicle for increasing Filipino visibility was inspired by Villa, who thought street life should be an inspiration for art.

Wright Auctions, a leading venue for the sales of contemporary design goods, has fetched five-figure deals for a Hans Wegner desk, a George Nakashima settee and a chair designed by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen.For an auction that is set to take place on Thursday, there's a new item at the top of the list: a first-generation Apple iPhone in its original packaging.

It's a strange time right now, isn't it?Winter is over and spring is not yet here.Or, to put it another way, it's too mild not to leave the house and too cold to stay out in the fresh air for long.So if you just want to get outside without freezing, you should head for the nearest museum.Because some of Berlin's art houses are offering us not only a change of scenery and heated rooms right now, but also really good exhibitions.

Six years ago, the internet was blessed with arguably one of the best dad moments ever to hit the world wide web.On March 10, 2017, Robert Kelly, an associate professor of political science at Pusan National University in South Korea, was interviewed live on BBC News to discuss the ouster of South Korean president Park Geun-Hye.

Among the wave of excellent rock bands of the early 2000s, The Strokes reign supreme.Although it's been twenty-two years since their first album - Is This It - dropped in 2001, the vast majority of The Strokes' discography feels relatively timeless today.Now, with the release of a retrospective set of singles - aptly titled The Singles: Vol 1- The Strokes are taking a moment to look back on their glory years.

On a Sunday afternoon in January, high-pitched shrieks and deep howls could be heard emanating from an elegant Art Deco building in Berlin's Charlottenburg neighborhood.Their source was the third-floor office of Blau International, a large-format art magazine whose contributors include the French interiors photographer Francois Halard, the French fashion stylist Marie Chaix and the German astrologer Alexander von Schlieffen.

Luxury brand Louis Vuitton has transformed its stores across the world for the launch of its anticipated capsule collection with Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama.The launch of the collaboration has seen a number of key stores across the world redecorated with Kusama's signature polka-dots, life-like animatronics of Kusama painting in the windows of the stores and an inflatable replica of Kusama peering over the roof of Louis Vuitton's Champs-Élysées store.

Tom Karen, the man behind some of the UK's most recognisable designs, has died aged 96.Mr Karen died peacefully on New Year's Eve surrounded by his family.He was managing director of Letchworth's OGLE Design from 1962 until 1999.During his tenure, he designed several famous British products  including the Raleigh Chopper bicycle, the three-wheeled Bond Bug vehicle, and the children's game Marble Run.

Sir Grayson Perry said his knighthood is extra special as him being named in the New Year's Honours List is about his achievements, not class.The 62-year-old artist, writer and broadcaster  known for his tapestries, ceramic works and cross-dressing  has been made a Knight Bachelor for services to the arts.

Sir Grayson Perry has said he never considered turning down his knighthood because it's more interesting to be inside the tent and you can have more fun.The 62-year-old artist, writer and broadcaster  known for his tapestries, ceramic works and cross-dressing  has been made a Knight Bachelor for services to the arts.

Solutions do not travel as the eagle flies
A longstanding question (and conspiracy theory) in the LOTR series concerns the eagles.Over the years, many have wondered why Frodo and the rest of the Fellowship simply didn't fly straight from Rivendel to Mount Doom and toss in the ring.Moreover, conspiracy-minded fans say this was precisely what Gandalf intended, as evidenced during his fight with the Balrog when he shouted, "Fly, fools!" to the rest of the group.

So 2022 is over and it's time for a retrospective.Bayern Munich had a very mediocre 2022 which saw a dearth of success domestically and internationally.While the club won a 10th consecutive Bundesliga title, an early exit in the Champions League and poor showing by Bayern players at the World Cup mean that 2022 leaves a very bad taste in the mouth.

Designer Stephen Burks has unveiled five lockdown prototypes, including podiums for digital devices and a chair that screens you from your surroundings, in a retrospective exhibition in Atlanta, Georgia.Developed by  Burks at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the Shelter in Place Project is a series of designs that explore new ways of interacting with the home at times of global crises.

The recent shopping spree had us looking at great deals for microSD cards and with that came the sad realization that many of us no longer have a phone with a memory expansion slot.This sent us on a walk down memory lane to revisit the history of the microSD.A few years ago we did a retrospective of the memory card, covering MMC, SD, Memory Stick and the like.

Richard Long never carries water with him when he walks.The legendary British land artist, who famously turned walking into an art form, has tramped for days, sometimes weeks, through terrains as barren as the South African Karoo desert, India's tribal lands and the Hoggar mountains of southern Algeria without once taking so much as a canteen, a flask or  God forbid  a plastic bottle with him.

Hip-hop and classical music don't cross paths too often, but when they do, their alchemy is powerful.The rising tension of a string section or a timpani's thunderclap can lend a larger-than-life gravitas to a rapper's storytelling about struggle and triumph.Just take Rick Ross' emotional performance with Orchestra Noir in Atlanta this past weekend, or Nas' landmark National Symphony Orchestra concert celebrating the 20th anniversary of Illmatic.

French painter Pierre Soulages, an icon of post-World War II European abstract art famed for his use of black, has died, according to the Soulages Museum in his hometown of Rodez.He was 102.Soulages became highly influential for his reflections of black, which he called noir-lumiere, or black-light.