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Exaudi. This lunchtime recital, entitled Chromatic Renaissance, intersperses 16th and 17th-century works with a selection of madrigals from contemporary composer James Weeks’s Primo Libro. The program opens with four of Orlande de Lassus’s Sibylline Prophecies 2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents Insula Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey. Laurence Equilbey conducts Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir in an all-Schumann program comprising Vom Pagen und der Königstochter Op. 140, Des Sängers Fluch Op. 139, Requiem für Mignon Op. 98b, and Nachtlied Op. 108. View here. 2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. Wigmore Hall’s 120th anniversary sees the Hall’s Associate Ensemble joined by soprano Mary Bevan for Fauré’s ....
/ Since 1999, Sean Scully’s Landline paintings have led a transition from what John Caldwell called ‘the asceticism of his earlier black paintings’ towards the ’emotion, space, colour and physicality’ [i] of a more expressive style that has traced the world’s contours. As Scully says, ‘I change, of course, and hopefully expand’. In the Landline series, Scully seeks to paint his ‘sense of the elemental coming-together of land and sea, sky and land … the way the blocks of the world hug each other and brush up against each other.’ [ii] The series works as a guide for how to look at or feel the natural world ....
Original Ghost Compendium, Andrew Bick (hbck, Hanej Cantz/Haus Konstruktiv) This is a long overdue and very welcome monograph about the London-based artist Andrew Bick, who is represented by Hales Gallery, London but is a major presence at Gallerie Von Bartha in Basel. This book is published on the back of an important solo exhibition at Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich back in 2017, and also includes reproductions of and discussion about work exhibited in subsequent exhibitions at Von Bartha in 2018 and Hales in 2019. Bick is both an artist and a curator, and his work has included artist’s books, sculpture, gallery and architectural installations, drawings, prints and paintings. These paintings often blur the lines between three-dimensional reliefs and more traditionally flat painted canvasses, with Bick often partially obscuring areas of his work with wax or Perspex layers, and interrupting his apparently formal grids with gesture, scribble and line. ....
“Patmos has been in my mind since I was a little kid,” says Kevin Brine. One of his family friends was Time art critic Alexander Eliot, a passionate Hellenophile who had worked with Brine’s mother, Ruth Brine, the magazine’s first and, for many years, only female senior editor. Another Time colleague had been Robert Lax, who went on to become an acclaimed poet and settled on the island in the early 1960s and whose niece happened to be a friend of Brine’s. So some 20 years ago, when another friend Ashton Hawkins, the former executive vice president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that he would be selling his Patmos getaway, furnished and located right below the Byzantine monastery of St. John the Theologian, what else could the Wall Street executive turned scholar, artist, and writer do? ....