The Unsettling Confrontations of Artist Yoshitomo Nara
Two U.S. exhibitions explore the work of the Japanese artist, who combines childlike cuteness with adult anger and pain.
Yoshitomo Nara, ‘Miss Spring,’ 2012. Photo: Yoshitomo Nara 2012, photo by Keizo Kioku, courtesy of the artist By Susan Delson Dec. 18, 2020 1:59 pm ET
Posed against a blank background, the girl stares up at us like a small child. Her enormous head, small body and wide-open eyes signal “adorable.” Her vulnerability triggers our protective instincts.
But then there’s that knife she’s holding.
“The Girl With the Knife in Her Hand” was a breakthrough work for Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. Painted in 1991, it’s the first in a long line of female figures in his work that combine irresistible cuteness
Mellody Hobson, Accomplished Black Businesswoman Named Chairwoman of the Board of Starbucks
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Published December 17, 2020
Mellody Hobson was named Chairwoman of the Board of Starbucks. (NNPA)
Mellody Hobson, a Princeton graduate who in 2019 earned the Woodrow Wilson Award, the university’s highest honor, was named Chairwoman of the Board of Starbucks.
With the promotion, Hobson becomes the only African American woman to chair a Fortune 500 company.
“I am thrilled and honored to take on the role of chair,” Hobson exclaimed. “Over nearly two decades, I have seen the company continue to elevate and transform its business – adapting to various market environments and evolving consumer trends.
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California possesses serpentine grasslands, oak forests, vernal pools and a variety of other unique habitats on its coast, mountains, rivers, lakes and deserts. These habitats support an incredible diversity of plants and animals, many of which are found nowhere else on the planet. When these factors are combined with one of the largest growing human populations in the country, the result is the highest number of extinct and imperiled species in the continental United States.
Without question, the Golden State is an epicenter of extinction.
The former curator of entomology at the Los Angeles County Museum wrote that in 1940, 25 different types of butterflies could easily be seen in a single day fluttering outside of his office. Today, an astute observer would be extremely lucky to see three species on the grounds of the museum.
William Turner Gallery presents a new series of paintings by Andy Moses
Installation view.
SANTA MONICA, CA
.-William Turner Gallery is presenting Recent Works , an expansive new series of paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Andy Moses. This extensive presentation marks the artists first solo exhibition since his highly acclaimed 30 Year Survey exhibition in 2017 at the Santa Monica College Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery.
Andy Moses: Recent Works presents an artist fully engaged and at the height of his creative process, showcasing perhaps his most ambitious and diverse body of work to date. Implementing techniques that utilize the artists almost obsessive study of the alchemical properties of paint, Mosess work blurs the line between abstraction and a new kind of pictorialism.
Photographer, a Saratoga Springs native, captures faces of COVID across the USA | The Daily Gazette
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Jon Dragonette photographs Joe Petersen at the corner of Lake Avenue and Broadway in Saratoga Springs on Saturday. (Peter R. Barber/Staff Photographer)
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SARATOGA SPRINGS – Saratoga Springs native Jon Dragonette has taken a different view of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past nine months and it is all in black and white.
The 41-year-old professional photographer traveled from coast to coast completing his upcoming photo essay “The Corner of COVID & Main Street,” with a final stop in his hometown of Saratoga Springs.