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/ The Desert X Board in consultation with its team and members of the Coachella Valley community have decided that, In light of the urgent health crisis and surge in cases of COVID-19, the only responsible way forward to protect the community, health care system, Desert X artists, visitors and all those who volunteer and contribute to the exhibition, is to wait until the lockdown period has been lifted before opening to the public.  The artists’ projects are ready, and the Desert X team and board will identify a new opening date as soon as they believe it can be done safely.

@ Home Winter Festival The Irish Repertory Theatre begins its Theatre @ Home Winter Festival on Tuesday with its first of nine different productions that will run between January 26th – February 21st with each production playing at four different times throughout the month. MOLLY SWEENEY Molly Sweeney has lived in happy, capable, and independent darkness since she was ten months old. When Frank, her restless, unemployed, and enthusiastic husband, makes her blindness his latest cause, he recruits Mr. Rice, a once-famous surgeon who, despite being half-drowned in Irish whiskey, agrees to atte...

December 31, 2020 11:30 am Shari Urquhart, Wedding Portrait (J. Van Eyck), 1998, Persian wool, mohair, metallic acrylic & silk fibers, 79.5 x 67.75 inches Lamentable deaths occur every year, but in 2020 Covid-19 has made for an especially grim atmosphere of loss. In the art world, painter Jackie Saccoccio and art historian Barbara Rose are the most recent to be mourned across social media and in thoughtful obituaries in the New York Times . Artnet has compiled a list of other notable art figures who have passed away, including Beverly Pepper, Emily Mason,...

We are experiencing an extended period of museum and gallery closures. Lockdowns intended to curtail the spread of the coronavirus mean it is ill-advised to linger among crowds of strangers in enclosed spaces—which counts out enjoying art in person. Some might consider this the death knell for museums and galleries, and from the perspective of visitor income, it certainly is catastrophic. But my hope is that virtual exhibits will remain an alternative art-going experience that will complement traditional in-person viewing when normalcy returns. Just before the pandemic took hold last...

The seventieth anniversary edition of Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek is dedicated to the theme of friendship in the art of the early modern Low Countries and its diaspora. Its essays consider friendship as an analogy for the agency of artworks, and the ethics and politics of friendship as a motivation for artistic creation, patronage, and cross-cultural exchange. Contributions examine social ideals and lived experiences of friendship in relation to works by Van Eyck, Rembrandt, Rubens and Van Dyck as well as Titia Brongersma, Maria Tesselschade and the Chinese landscapist Wu ...