by Bajan Reporter / February 19th, 2021
Poet, renaissance scholar, dramaturge, novelist Charles Matz died at his home in Southampton, New York on February 12, 2021. He was 96.
He leaves his children,
Margaret Matz (architect, New York),
Charles “Carlino” Matz III (professor, NYIT; architect, New Jersey), and Clare Ann Matz (multimedia artist, film director, Italy). He also leaves
Antonio Lai da Teulada among family members; and a number of friends and colleagues.
“At House of Nehesi Publishers we are saddened by the passing of Professor Charles Matz,” said Jacqueline Sample, president of House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP). Columbus, the Moor by Charles Matz was published here by HNP in 2015 and launched to an international audience at the St. Martin Book Fair that same year.
A child looking at Barbara Hepworth s sculpture Family of Man in Wakefield
Credit: The Hepworth Wakefield
“I don’t know if you remember me,” an art student wrote to Helen Kapp, director of Wakefield Art Gallery, in 1960. “You once purchased a pot cat off me.” Kapp was the doyenne of the Yorkshire art scene at the time, known for acquiring young artists’ work for the Wakefield collection.
This student enclosed a catalogue for his solo exhibition at Skipton Castle. Kapp sent her excuses – the bus trip to Skipton would take a day – but hoped that, when he was home in Bradford, David Hackney (as she misspelled his name) would show her his pictures. Sadly, no trace of Britain’s greatest living painter’s “pot cat” survives.
Gallery Wendi Norris announces publication of Alice Rahon s first monograph
Alice Rahon, La noche de Tepoztlan, 1964. Oil and sand on canvas, 27 1/2 x 33 7/8 inches (69.9 x 86 cm). Photo: Courtesy Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.- Gallery Wendi Norris announced their publication of Alice Rahon, the first monograph on the French-Mexican painter-poet. This 128-page book is illustrated with highlights of her artwork from 1939 through the 1970s, forming a tangible, albeit limited, representation of her oeuvre.
Alice Rahon includes an introduction by Wendi Norris as well as new research explored in three ground-breaking essays. The worlds foremost expert on Rahons life and work, Tere Arcq, proffers ten, formative touchstones to greater understand Rahons creative output in Alice Rahon: Tracing the Marvelous. Her essay has been updated and translated from Spanish in its entirety from its original publication in 2009, on the occasion of Rahons solo exhi
Charles Matz, author, renaissance scholar, dies at 96, Published: 15 February 2021
– by Lasana M. Sekou.
PHILIPSBURG: - Poet, renaissance scholar, dramaturge, novelist Charles Matz died at his home in Southampton, New York on February 12, 2021. He was 96.
He leaves his children, Margaret Matz (architect, New York), Charles “Carlino” Matz III (professor, NYIT; architect, New Jersey), and Clare Ann Matz (multimedia artist, film director, Italy). He leaves Antonio Lai da Teulada among family members; and a number of friends and colleagues.
“At House of Nehesi Publishers we are saddened by the passing of Professor Charles Matz,” said Jacqueline Sample, president of House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP). Columbus, the Moor by Charles Matz was published here by HNP in 2015 and launched to an international audience at the St. Martin Book Fair that same year.
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Unlike London, New York galleries are open for business. After my first Covid jab last week, a wave of cautious optimism motivated me to hit the frigid downtown streets. Luckily, this gallery field trip coincided with a dear friend’s much-heralded solo show, an introduction to work by two inspiring artists I previously did not know of, and even the Outsider Art Fair’s annual and beloved event, spread between galleries. Monday New York was blanketed with an unusually dramatic snowstorm, so my weekend jaunt was perfectly timed. (And as I send this out, it is yet another snowy Sunday, one week later)