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comments In his new HBO program "Painting with John," John Lurie wants you to know that he knows the comparisons to Bob Ross are inevitable, but hes there to quickly subvert them. "None of the trees in my paintings are happy," he tells viewers as he dabs his paintbrush on to a watercolor palette. "Theyre all miserable." Lurie, the founder of the art-jazz band the Lounge Lizards and late-80s and 90s indie film star, was diagnosed with Advanced Lyme disease in 2004 and ended up resettling in the ...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Albireo Recognizes International Alagille Syndrome Awareness Day 2021 Albireo Pharma, Inc.January 22, 2021 GMT BOSTON, Jan. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Albireo Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALBO), a clinical-stage rare liver disease company developing novel bile acid modulators, today joins the Alagille community in commemorating the second annual International Alagille Syndrome Awareness Day on January 24,...

His new series for HBO, “Painting With John,” is a meditative and often joyful blend of painting and personal storytelling. But Bob Ross it isn’t.

Selfie, 2020. (Courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York) Critics are not required to be right, merely (as Donald Judd said of artworks) interesting. But part of what makes criticism of new art potentially interesting is that it is, in part, a gaze into the future. Remember Clement Greenberg in The Nation in 1946 predicting of Jackson Pollock’s work, “In the course of time, this ugliness will become a new standard of beauty,” and two years later, venturing that one of the same artist’...

Anthony Meier Fine Arts opens an exhibition of never-before-seen works by Rosie Lee Tompkins Rosie Lee Tompkins, Untitled, 2005–2006. Polyester mens’ ties, cotton fabric, denim, Polyester Christmas print, cotton thread, 17 × 36 1/2 inches; 43.2 × 92.7 cm. SAN FRANCISCO, CA .-Anthony Meier Fine Arts is presenting a solo exhibition of never-before-seen works by renowned American artist, Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936–2006), considered one of the greatest quiltmakers of all times, and one of the ce...

Renowned American artist Rosie Lee Tompkins is considered one of the greatest quiltmakers of all time. “In the still-unfolding field of African-American quilt-making, she has no equal,” critic Roberta Smith…

Art & Design|The Kids of Survival Are Middle-Aged — and Transforming Yet Again Tim Rollins and Studio K.O.S. in 1993, Longwood Ave., South Bronx: From left: Rick Savinon, Tim Rollins, Carlos Rivera, Victor Llanos. Back row, from left: Robert Branch, Angel Abreu. Seated: Jorge Abreu.Credit...Studio K.O.S. and Wexler Gallery The Kids of Survival Are Middle-Aged — and Transforming Yet Again Studio K.O.S. continues the legacy of the ’80s art collective that grew up, entered museums a...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — The Routt County Board of Health will wait to sign off on the 5-Star certification program’s application to state health officials until the county has had two sustained weeks within the metrics for level orange on the state’s dial framework. In order to receive state approval, the application needs to have a letter of support from the local public health authority as well as other community members. The letter from the board is the last piece of the application. While...

Sigrid Nunez. Photo: © Marion Ettlinger. A candid attitude about death and sincere empathy for grief are wrongly put at odds: to speak with frankness is regarded as insensitive, and condolences are meant to come from the heart. But often it is the card-aisle euphemisms that ring false. Sigrid Nunez’s most recent novel, What Are You Going Through, is unflinching on the theme of mortality and thus presents an openhearted honesty so rare it feels thirst-quenching. The two major elements at pla...

Members of law enforcement rest beneath Robert Walter Weirs painting Embarkation of the Pilgrims (around 1837) in the rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Photo: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images In the minutes and hours after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol in Washington, DC yesterday, leading art world figures took to social media to express their anger and dismay at scenes including videos showing police opening barricades to rioters and posing for self...