Underexamined, women-led pattern and decoration movement explored in expansive exhibition
Installation image of With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985, June 26 November 28, 2021. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-onHudson, NY. Photo: Olympia Shannon.
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY
.-The Hessel Museum of Art is presenting With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 19721985, the first full-scale scholarly North American survey of the groundbreaking yet understudied Pattern and Decoration art movement, originally on view at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), from October 2019 to March 2020.
Spanning the years 1972 to 1985 and featuring 45 artists from across the United States, With Pleasure examines the Pattern and Decoration movements defiant embrace of forms traditionally coded as feminine, domestic, ornamental, or craft-based and thought to be categorically inferior to fine art. On v
Sweet Charity - First time on CD reissue of SAGA Records' 1967 London studio cast recording of Cy Coleman/Dorothy Fields score. Mary Preston, June Hunt, Canna Kendall, Valentine Palmer, Craig Hunter, John Parker and David Weldon Williams. Westminster Sinfonia and Theatre Chorus directed by Frank Raymond. This is the only recorded version to feature an additional cut verse in Charity's song You Should See Yourself. Also included on the CD release is an extended version of the Rich Man's Frug which was recorded during the album sessions but went unreleased. Digitally remastered from the original studio master tapes. Limited edition of 500 units only.
A Perfect Little Death by SUF/SOND - GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS will release the new album A Perfect Little Death by SUF/SOND the brainchild of New York singer/songwriter Eleri Ward in streaming and digital formats on Friday, June 4. SUF/SOND is a whirling combination of Ward s two deep loves: the expansive one-of-a-kind canon of Stephen Sondheim, and the ethereal, melancholic sounds of Sufjan Stevens. Blossoming from a spontaneous Instagram cover of Every Day a Little Death captioned Sufjan on Sondheim in 2019, Eleri has now crafted SUF/SOND to be her own niche at the crossroads of musical theater and indie folk music, embodied by swirling harmonies and her original point of view. The album features 13 songs varying from The Ballad of Sweeney Todd to Loving You to Take Me to the World, leading you through an acoustical Sondheim journey the evokes golden hour. A Perfect Little Death is produced by Eleri Ward. Eleri recorded all of the songs in the closet of her apartment during lockdown, follo
Chip Deffaa's Say It with Music: The Irving Berlin Saga - Cast album of biographical show with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Written and arranged by Chip Deffaa. Cast includes Michael Townsend Wright, Jed Peterson, Santa Claire Hirsch, Katherine Paulsen, Keith Anderson, Danielle Tolep, Dee Julien, Caroline McFee, Jon Peterson, Ryan Muska, Analise Scarpaci as soloist , Chip Deffaa as Eddie Cantor, Jacqueline Parker. Musical director/pianist: Richard Danley.
Barbara Barrie, 89, is today officially releasing Blinded by Love, a new podcast hosted by the actress (Company, California Suite, The Killdeer, I Remember Mama, Significant Other), and her longtime friend, poet, business executive and community organizer, Margot Zucker Mindich, 85. Blinded by Love aims to share the rarely heard, honest, and often hysterical stories and experiences of people in their 70 s, 80 s and 90 s in their own words.
In the most recent episode, Get Rid of the Change, Barbara and Margot sat down with acting legend John Cullum, 91 (Shenandoah, On the Twentieth Century, Urinetown). The result is a heartfelt and very funny conversation about what it takes to become a successful actor and keep at it over the decades. Cullum was featured in the New York Times in April in an article about the one-man show he recorded in 2020 during the Covid lockdown, John Cullum: Accidental Star.