Shaquille Heath February 22, 2021Updated: February 22, 2021, 8:41 pm
Artist Woody De Othello Photo: Smeeta Mahanti
Long before the pandemic forced everyone to stay indoors, where many found themselves making friends with lampshades or that old wooden stool, Woody De Othello had made household objects his muse.
The Oakland artist has spent about a decade working with clay, creating ceramic vessels that subtly speak his personal truths. Though Othello is known for breathing new life into the ordinary, the metaphor becomes intentional. Ears materialize out of clay so naturally, you might wonder whether they are listening.
“Thinking Green” by Woody De Othello. Photo: Jessica Silverman
Nothing predestined Chantal Crousel to become one of the most successful gallerists in Paris.
Born in Belgium as the daughter of a bank manager, Crousel was working in Brussels as a secretary for a forklift truck company when, one day, she spotted a drawing by Man Ray in a storefront window. This serendipitous acquisition propelled Crousel to move to Paris, study art history, and become a gallerist. She inaugurated her eponymous gallery near the Centre Pompidou in 1980, where early exhibitions on artists from Alighiero Boetti to Cindy Sherman revealed Crousel’s international outlook and intellectual curiosity.
In 2005, five years after her son Niklas Svennung joined the gallery, Crousel relocated to the Marais, which is the city’s main gallery district today. The gallery continues to represent a broad stable of artists, including Gabriel Orozco, Mona Hatoum, Glenn Ligon, Haegue Yang, Jean-Luc Moulène, and Mimosa Echard.
Principal Investigator
CHRISTINE FERGUSON is a Professor in English Literature at the University of Stirling, where her research focuses on the entwined histories of the literary gothic and the British occult revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Her publications include the books Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity, and Racial Regeneration in Angl0-American Spiritualist Writing 1848-1930 (2012) and Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (2006); she is the editor of Spiritualism, Health, Race, and Human Variation (2014), a volume in Routledge’s Spiritualism 1840-1930 facsimile edition series, and, with Andrew Radford, The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (forthcoming 2018). She is currently at work on a new project on the popular fiction networks and periodical culture of the Victorian occult revival.
Palm Beach Daily News
Bucking a global trend of canceled major art shows, The Palm Beach Show will take place this weekend, starting today at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach.
The event, which runs through Tuesday, has been held on Presidents Day weekend every year for the past 18 years.
But given the still-raging global coronavirus pandemic, expect major changes to the show, which features art, antiques and jewelry.
One change this year will be fewer exhibitors and limits on guest attendance.
In addition, opening night, where champagne and hors d oeuvres traditionally are served all at once, will be different. The welcome will be a staggered affair, with ticketed guests allotted two-hour time periods in which to celebrate, in a seated and socially-distant manner.
SoftBank is just the latest validation for Miami’s booming startup scene
Miami has long been a refuge for those escaping the cold or Latin American countries in political and economic turmoil. But, in 2020, it welcomed investors, founders and others in tech leaving San Francisco and New York City, partly propelled by the pandemic, seeking a welcoming government, lower taxes, a decent climate, less expensive housing, a dynamic lifestyle and the type of diversity that’s proven to help companies thrive.
Investors are bullish on Miami, TechCrunch found. In a survey with eight local investors, they point out the strengths and opportunities of the growing market.