ArtTara Anne DalbowAya Takano, the spirit of all plants on earth, 2025 ©2025 AYA TAKANO/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy Perrotin.Aya Takano has visions: colorful, crystal-clear images that appear suddenly before her eyes. They began in high school, when the captivating but distracting scenes posed a challenge to her schoolwork and social life. Now, at 48, she still sees them, but much less frequently. “I really have to concentrate, and I have to sketch it on paper very quickly before I lose it,” she said on the morning of her solo exhibition, “how deep how far can we…
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Artist Sarah Osorio, center, connects and creates with fellow artists during High Contrast’s weekly drawing sessions hosted at eyedrum gallery. (Photographs by Dustin Timbrook) On July 15, more than two dozen visual artists gathered in Atlanta’s eyedrum gallery, working from sundown into the early hours of the morning. Huddled around tables stacked high with pens, brushes, tablets and books, some were busy sketching while others put finishing touches on their paintings. For many creatives, this kind of all-nighter is the anxious symptom of a looming deadline, but, for the participants of High Contrast, this was just another casual Tuesday night. …
Television is the perfect medium for longform storytelling, mainly because a multi-season TV show gives its audience plenty of time to connect and bond with its characters over the course of many years. Characters have whole seasons in which to establish their personalities and then evolve beyond them as they learn more about their friends or their world or whatever mysteries drive the plot forward. The fans grow accustomed to seeing their faves again and again every week, which can make things slightly difficult when, due to one hardship or another, a major character has to be recast.Shows deal with…
17th-century coin found in GermanyImage Source: Credit: Stefan Dalitz via Arkeonews The Thirty Years’ War began in 1618, and artifacts from the war are still being found today. Recently, three 17th-century silver coins were discovered inside a copper cauldron in Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany, according to Arkeonews. The coins were found as work was completed on a construction project for a youth art gallery. The coins come from Switzerland and Germany. One of the coins is a “Dicken” from Zug, Switzerland, produced in 1610. It features an image of Saint Oswald, the Christian king of Northumbria. The other two…
While yesterday’s dispatch also included a host of young women seeking solace in the supernatural, it’s a journey rife for exploration here at Fantasia: Witches, curses, folkloric tapestries woven through all the hormones, pain, and uncertainty of adolescence. So here we are, with another trio of tales designed to manifest the conjoined pains of lust, loss, and belonging. First, we take a detour to the Catskills with one of Fantasia’s favorite families, the Adamses, who’ve been making quite a career out of their particular brand of family-band DIY filmmaking over the last few years. Parents John Adams and Toby Poser,…
MJF does not like my curtains.Within eight seconds of connecting on Zoom for our conversation about his role in Happy Gilmore 2, Maxwell Jacob Friedman — best known to fans of All Elite Wrestling as the supremely arrogant heel MJF — is already taking shots at me, or at least at the curtains hanging over my bedroom window. (They were picked out by my wife!)“Those are, for sure, shower curtains,” he immediately declared. When I insisted they were not (they’re not!) he replied, “Those are a million percent shower curtains. If I took a photo of that and I reverse Google Imaged that, they’d…
For five full days, the Cinema Femme Short Film Festival gathered audiences to celebrate and support female, trans, and non-binary filmmakers. In its seventh edition of exhibiting short films, Cinema Femme reached new spaces, nourished new and existing communities, and curated programming both on and off the screen. Although anchored in Chicago, Cinema Femme showcases films from across the globe. The diverse selection of films was evident not only with the stories on the screen, but with the filmmakers present to discuss their artistry. Under the stewardship of newly appointed festival director Emily Broderick—with the support from fellow RogerEbert.com contributor Peyton…
Unbounded by conventional concepts of art-making, Donald Locke’s art is hard to pin down. His unrestrained creations have the restless intensity of an artist who seamlessly moved between mediums, choosing what best suited his artistic aims. Locke’s prolific output across fivedecades is now the subject of a survey at Spike Island in Bristol, England. Organized in collaboration with Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and the Camden Art Centre in London, this expansive exhibition, titled “Resistant Forms,” looks at the breadth of Locke’s career, with special attention to his time in the UK. For much of the much of the 1950s through…
Waddington Custot has announced it will open a new gallery in Paris this October. The London-based gallery will open a permanent space in the city’s 6th arrondissement, coinciding with Art Basel Paris 2025, which runs from October 22nd to 26th. The new gallery will be located at 36 rue de Seine, in the former home of Galerie Lansberg in the neighborhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The 200-square-meter space features natural light and sits in the heart of a neighborhood long-associated with Paris’s contemporary art scene. It will be led by Isaure de Roquefeuil, who has worked at Waddington Custot in London for…
The Young and the Restless fans are curious to know whether Nick Newman, played by Joshua Marrow, is dead or alive. In the recent episodes, he has been fighting for his and Sharon Newman’s freedom from Cane’s estate. However, things have now taken a terrifying turn for the character, with many concerned for his fate. Here is everything you need to know about the latest events on the soap opera. Is Joshua Morrow’s Nick dead or alive in The Young and the Restless? It is yet to be seen whether Joshua Morrow’s Nick comes out dead or alive in The…
