Aspen’s Hexton Gallery Exhibits Christo and Jeanne-Claude Rarities

Though Christo carried on working for more than a decade after the death of his wife and creative partner Jeanne-Claude (she suffered a fatal brain aneurysm in 2009, at 74 years of age), a cloud of melancholy certainly hung over those years. To be sure, the two had been inextricably linked for some four decades before her passing; though it was well-known that they had agreed to always fly on separate planes, so that in the event of a crash, their work would carry on by way of the surviving partner.

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Vincent Namatjira Elizabeth and Vincent (on Country), 2021 Acrylic on linen 48 x 60 in. VN007

Fort Gansevoort’s ‘Iwantja Rock n Roll’ Exhibit Assembles the Work of Indigenous Australian Artists

The recent and excitedly received exhibition ‘Emily: Painter of the Desert’ at Gagosian’s rue de Ponthieu Paris gallery (January 21 - March 26) was certainly strong evidence of the Western art world’s increased interest in the work coming out of Australia’s Aboriginal communities. Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910 - 1996) had actually achieved genuine recognition in her lifetime, but her experience was very much uncommon.

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Mette Towley Shows Off Fierce Athleticism in New Alexander McQueen Short Film

In 2022, it’s a veritable crime that female athleticism is still bounded by old prejudices regarding women and sports. But a recent Forbes headline trumpeted the encouraging news, ‘Popularity of Women’s Sports Surges Approaching 50th Anniversary of Title IX’, of course making reference to the landmark 1972 civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in any US educational program that receives federal funding.

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