It was reimagined by director Lesl Padrick Carmen For the dramatic setting of the abandoned industrial infrastructure on Sydney’s Cockatoo Island. She takes the titular character’s spirited, seductive cigarette factory worker, and reinterprets it. “It’s the story of a woman who wants to be free to live her life without shackles, and a man who […]

catalog for The making of modernity The opening opened with an admission by Rebecca Salter, the first female president of the Royal Academy, that in the past she had condoned women artists. To compensate, I’ve combined seven—four major headliners and three of their lesser-known contemporaries—into this one show. Excluded from formal art schools and reliant […]

IIn the early 1990s, Prince He began appearing in public with the word “slave” written on his cheek. The face-painting was a protest against Warner Music, which signed Prince when he was just 18 and had the power to dictate the pace of his creative output as well as own the rights to it. Prince […]

A secret convoy of two trucks containing 51 rare works of art slipped out of Kyiv early Tuesday, hours before waves of Russian missiles began raining down on the capital and other cities. Ukraine. The task of moving the works west to Lviv, across the border into Poland and then 3,000 kilometers later across Europe […]

A slender wooden canopy will appear in Kensington Gardens next summer in London, its radial ribs supporting a wide, low canopy hanging under the trees. It’s the elegant vision of Lina Katmathe Lebanese-born Paris-based architect who has been announced as the pavilion designer of the 22nd Annual Serpentine Exhibition. “I wanted to create an open […]

Ken Done, the artist known for his riotously colorful Australian paintings and prints, is named after Australian fashion 2022 Laureate The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes individuals for their significant contribution to the Australian fashion industry. “I’m not humble, damn it,” Done said upon receiving the award at a ceremony in Sydney on Tuesday. “I’m 82 […]

wWhen Sigmund Freud visited the Parthenon as a young man, he found that it disturbed his sense of reality. Something about its sunlit columns and delicate geometry seems unreal. Despite its sheer size, perched above Athens, it was a site of intimacy and play. The good doctor can sense her many ghosts, from the corpses […]

CBR can exclusively reveal five new titles from Tim Seeley, Michael Morrissey, George Cambadais, and more that Vault Comics will release in early 2023. CBR can exclusively reveal five new series Comics vault It will be launched in 2023. Vault Comics has announced the titles and creative teams for five new series launching in early […]

George Horsfall never met the painter Paul Madonna, and he doesn’t know if Madonna painted Horsfall’s home, which happens to be 712 Steiner Street, a pale blue Queen Anne Victorian, in a row of sultry homes known as the Painted Ladies of Alamo Square. But once Horsvall learned that Madonna was in the intensive care […]