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Members of a pro-Trump mob storm the Capitol building to disrupt the recording of Electoral College votes to confirm the victory of President-elect Joe Biden in Washington, Jan. 6, 2020. Not long after Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned his Republican colleagues that their efforts to overturn an election would send democracy into a death spiral, fear surged through the Senate chamber. Erin Schaff/The New York Times.
by Sarah Bahr
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Barbara A. Wolanin did not leave her TV much Wednesday afternoon, watching terrified, she said, as hundreds of Donald Trump rioters rushed into the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building where eight large, framed historical paintings hang. She once was curator for the Architect of the Capitol, the office that preserves and maintains the buildings art and architecture. She knew much better than most the horrific possibilities that were presenting themselves. What if rioters slashed John Tr
Berry Campbell Gallery opens the 2021 season with a solo exhibition of recent work by Jill Nathanson
Jill Nathanson, Light s Cover, 2019. Acrylic and polymers on panel, 38 1/4 x 74 in.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Berry Campbell Gallery started of the 2021 season with a solo exhibition of recent work by New York artist, Jill Nathanson. Nathansons new paintings continue her exploration of color theory. Combining this with her elaborate process of mixing and pouring paints on to wood panel, Nathanson stands apart from her contemporaries. In 2015, Nathanson was one of six artists in Confronting the Canvas: Women of Abstraction at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida, curated by Jaime DeSimone, an exhibition focused on new, experimental approaches to the process of painting. The other participants were Keltie Ferris, Maya Hayuk, Fran ONeill, Jackie Saccoccio, and Anke Weyer. This year, the Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, and the
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by Robin Pogrebin
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- One of the headliners of the New York Philharmonics fall gala last month was Leonard Bernstein, leading his old orchestra in the overture to Candide. Yes, Bernstein died three decades ago. But since the gala, like so much else, was forced to go remote, the Philharmonic had some fun with the format, filming its current players performing to historical footage of Bernstein wielding his baton. The virtual gala had some advantages: it cost less to produce, with no catering, linen rentals and flower arrangements for a black-tie audience, and it reached some 90,000 people, while the concert hall holds around 2,700. But when it came to the bottom line, the picture was less rosy. The virtual event raised less than a third of what the gala concert took in last year: $1.1 million, down from $3.6 million, a vivid illustration of the steep challenge of raising money for the arts during a global pandemic. With
Jackie Saccoccio, Painter of Explosive Abstraction, Dies at 56
She specialized in large canvases on which splashes of luminous color swirled and clashed. Her goal was to make her paintings seem as if they were moving.
Jackie Saccoccio in 2017 in a studio in Umbria, Italy. She made several trips to Italy to study art, sojourns that became essential to her work.Credit.Marco Giugliarelli/Civitella Ranieri Foundation
Published Dec. 28, 2020Updated Jan. 1, 2021
Jackie Saccoccio, a painter known for explosive yet delicately structured, almost atmospheric abstract paintings that exploited paint’s fluidity in the tradition of Jackson Pollock, Paul Jenkins and Helen Frankenthaler, died on Dec. 4 in Manhattan. She was 56.
The Joseph Hotel in Nashville by INC Architecture & Design Exemplifies the Power of Innovation and Art
December 24, 2020
By Ted Loos
A view through a rolled-steel sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas reveals the porte-cochere entrance to the Joseph, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Nashville, by INC Architecture and Design. Photography by Eric Laignel.
The art-in-hotels phenomenon has been percolating for a while now. Like all trends, however, it could use an update. At the Joseph, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Nashville, the concept has undergone a savvy refinement by INC Architecture & Design. “Sometimes, an art hotel can be like a gallery with rooms attached,” says INC partner and creative director Adam Rolston, who spent nearly five years conceiving the interiors for the Joseph alongside partners Drew Stuart and Gabriel Benroth. “Here, it’s intended for guests to feel like they’re