What to do this weekend, from World Puppetry Day to the Pittsburgh New Works Festival
Friday, March 19: Spring Designer Days at Thriftique
10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Shop for a cause during the National Council of Jewish Women Pittsburgh Section’s signature event in Lawrenceville. The curated collection includes new and gently-worn clothing, shoes, accessories and jewelry and you can score great deals on top designer labels like Armani, Pucci, Michael Kors and many more. Proceeds from the four-day event will support community service projects benefiting local women, children and families.
Photo courtesy of Lorelei.
6 p.m.
Springtime vibes and sparkling wines make for a terrific pairing in Lorelei’s outdoor garden tent. Tonight’s happy hour session will explore the versatile and bubbly varieties of French Crèmant, Italian Prosecco and Pét-nat. Buy tickets.
March 6th, 2021 in Art and Featured. Closed
Starting March 25, Julie Mehretu’s paintings, drawings and prints will be on view in a midcareer retrospective at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, before moving to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. (PHOTO: JULIE MEHRETU)
Wall Street Journal
The abstract painter uses architectural drawings and photographs to create works on a grand scale
The artist Julie Mehretu, 51, likes to work on a grand scale. A silent short film by the British artist Tacita Dean shows Ms. Mehretu at work on her monumental painting “Mural” at the New York headquarters of Goldman Sachs in 2009, high up on a cherry picker as she grapples with a canvas 80 feet long and 23 feet high. “The scale of the Goldman Sachs painting was the reason why I decided to take that challenge on,” Ms Mehretu says. “It was scary, but exhilarating and wonderful to do.”
Morrison Heckscher, Curator Emeritus of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, writes for Apollo Magazine: "With the death of Christopher Monkhouse (b. 1947), after a brief illness, on 12 January 2021, the Anglo-American decorative arts and architecture world has lost one of its most highly accomplished and beloved members. Christopher was a perfect exemplar of the old-fashioned, object-obsessed curator. Over some 40 years Christopher led three of the most .
With the death of Christopher Monkhouse, after a brief illness, on 12 January 2021, the Anglo-American decorative arts and architecture world has lost one of its most highly accomplished and beloved members. Christopher was a perfect exemplar of the old-fashioned, object-obsessed curator. He was born into collecting, in fact – both his parents and both his brothers were collectors – and came armed with a formidable visual and anecdotal memory. In matters of dress and behaviour he was meticulous, impeccable and resolutely, unapologetically traditional. In matters technological, he was pre-digital: no cell phone, no email. He was his own man; but he also had a remarkable gift for making and keeping friends.