Avery’s juxtaposing of colour planes creates a cohesion in his compositions, affording them a sense of resolution, serenity and beauty. Edith Devaney, “Milton Avery—Color into Form,” in Milton Avery, Victoria Miro gallery, 2017
Javier Sánchez, Founding Partner & Director with JSa, is here for a special Tuesday Evenings presentation in conjunction with this year’s Fort Worth AIA Design Awards. In 1996, he founded JSa, a key architectural practice in the contemporary renewal of Mexico City, whose work focuses on projects of “urban acupuncture” and the recovery of the national architectural heritage.
Long before it became commonplace, Rice Gallery was one of a handful of spaces in the US devoted to commissioning site-specific installation art. One Thing Well: 22 Years of Installation Art, edited by Rainey Knudson. Texts by Kimberly Davenport, Joshua Fischer, Nonya Grenader, Dave Hickey, et al.
As this was Rauschenberg’s first use of video, he spent time working with the studio technicians to understand the colors that could be transmitted on television, eventually selecting forty colors that would be used as the solid colors of the dancers’ costumes. Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Chronology, Anne Livet, Brazos River: A Video Collaboration, unpublished exhibition catalogue, 1977, tape 2. Robert Rauschenberg Archives, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
As Holiday navigates the depths of Black remembrance and loss, she sets her sights on the relationship between “the new” and “the archival.” She treats both entities as collectively improvising ensembles in which prose and poetry sit by turns comfortable and chaotic, next to images cribbed from Black artistic and private life. Text on Harmony Holiday’s film God’s Suicide, commissioned for the Hammer’s 2021 biennial Made in L.A. 2020: a version, The Hammer at UCLA and the Huntington
Joyeux Noel tells the true-life story of the spontaneous Christmas Eve truce declared by Scottish, French, and German troops in the trenches of World War I. Enemies leave their weapons behind for one night as they band together in brotherhood and forget about the brutalities of war. Diane Krüger, Daniel Brühl, and Benno Fürmann head a first-rate international cast in a truly powerful, must-see film.
PG-13; 116 minutes
Bourbon Dinner
Garrison Brothers from Hye, TX
with Master Distiller Donnis Todd
Reservations available here. Please indicate Bourbon Dinner in the ‘special request’ field.
BUSCH TRIO
(Omri Epstein, piano; Mathieu van Bellen, violin; Ori Epstein, cello)
The Program:
Wolfgang Mozart - Trio in B flat Major, KV. 502
Johannes Brahms - Trio in C Minor, Op. 101
Maurice Ravel - Trio in A Minor
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In this concert, Yekwon takes part in a performance and conversation, moderated by Buddy Bray, with insights on his life since his 2017 win, as well as plenty of wonderful music.
The aim of the Slow Art movement is to break with the often frenetic pace of modern life to simply enjoy works of art in a deliberate and unhurried fashion. Slow Art at the Modern invests in this pause with a 30-minute spotlight tour focusing on one work of art. Led by a Modern docent, the January tour will focus on Claes Oldenburg.
