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New Telfair Museums leader: Museums can be a 'safe haven for dark times' Savannah Morning News According to Ben Simons, Savannah has a safe haven, a refuge if you will, from the chaotic world we've all found ourselves living in. Simons, the new executive director and CEO of the Telfair Museums, said that haven can be found at any or all of the museums' sites. Whether it's a visiting piece by Picasso (coming this year), an Italian sculpture, a self-portrait by poet and novelist Kahil Gibran or a Regency-style 1819 mansion, all three sites of the Telfair provide a calm and unhurried bit of w...

According to Ben Simons, Savannah has a safe haven, a refuge if you will, from the chaotic world we've all found ourselves living in. Simons, the new executive director and CEO of the Telfair Museums, said that haven can be found at any or all of the Telfair Museums' sites. Whether it's a visiting piece by Picasso (coming this year), an Italian sculpture, a self-portrait by poet and novelist Kahil Gibran, or a Regency-style 1819 mansion, all three sites of the Telfair provide a calm and unhurried bit of wonder. Simons said that attendance at the museums has been steadily climbing, reachin...

Lois Mailou Jones, and Jacob Lawrence, Stovall’s name has yet to seep into the mainstream. And though Stovall has produced his own artwork—mainly silk-screen prints, but also collages and assemblages—along with prints for other artists from his backyard studio for decades, now, due to the artist’s age and an act of nature, his future output is in jeopardy. During a rainstorm on the evening of May 8, 2020, a large tree fell through the Workshop, Inc. studio, which is located behind Stovall’s Cleveland Park home. Branches penetrated the roof, and the overall weight crushed in the cei...

Spring 2021 Laura Owens, Untitled (2016). Courtesy of the artist; Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, Rome; Sadie Coles HQ, London; and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, This exhibition is a homecoming of sorts for Laura Owens. The wide-ranging and experimental painter grew up close to Cleveland in Norwalk, Ohio, and spent many hours exploring the Cleveland Museum of Art’s encyclopedic collections as a teenager. Owens, who has been based in Los Angeles for the past three decades, has developed this unique exhibition with high school students involved with the Cleveland museum’s Arts Ma...

Relatives and relative strangers. A vicious virus united us with a prevailing sense of loss. It got to the point when we cringed every time the phone rang or we turned on the television, fearing that there would be news of yet another person passing away. This year has seen the deaths of legends and loved ones alike. Many across the country, and close to home, were claimed by COVID-19, while others succumbed to the ravages of illness or time. Others were children who barely had time to make their marks in this world. As a rough year ends, The Sacramento OBSERVER takes a minute to reflect and ...