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Americas Society Announces 2017 Music Commissions

Press Room Team — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:51:33 +0000

New York, April 2017 — Americas Society is pleased to announce that it has commissioned five composers to write new works for player piano and live instrumentalists inspired by the music of Conlon Nancarrow. A native of Arkansas, Nancarrow spent most of his professional life in Mexico. His works for the player piano are among the most original and influential collections of music composed in the twentieth century in the Americas.
The new works by Tatiana Catanzaro, Kyle Gann, Jaime Oliver, Carlos Sandoval, and Sabrina Schroeder will be premiered in Spring 2018 at Americas Society’s landmark building in New York City. On this occasion, the composers—some of whom worked with Nancarrow himself—will present and discuss their work, touching on topics related to the late composer’s life and oeuvre as well as broader aesthetic issues of perception and musical production.

Support for the creation of these new works comes from the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation; FACE Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, a program with major support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, SACEM, Institut français, and the Florence Gould Foundation; and the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Born in 1912, Nancarrow joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade at the start of the Spanish Civil War. Concerned by the harassment faced by other former Brigade fighters upon their return to the United States, he relocated to Mexico in 1940, where he remained until his death in 1997. Nancarrow’s renown rests on his later, intricately contrapuntal works, almost exclusively written for the player piano. Having spent many years in obscurity, the composer gained notoriety from the 1969 release of an entire album of his work by Columbia Records.

For the creation of these new musical works, the commissionees will take Nancarrow’s music for player piano as a point of departure. The Disklavier—a modern descendant of the player piano that performs without a live musician but that still retains the physicality of a piano—will serve as the common thread connecting all the pieces, which will also feature harp, percussion, bass, and Ondes Martenot.

Founded in 1965, Americas Society is unique among U.S. cultural institutions as the premier presenter of arts and culture from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada, including U.S.-based artists from the region and U.S.-Latino composers and musicians. Previously featured artists include ICE, JACK and Momenta Quartets, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Continuum Ensemble, Plácido Domingo, Egberto Gismonti, Inti-Illimani, and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra. Americas Society Music Program, which organizes the year-long Music of the Americas Concert Series, has been twice awarded the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, most recently in 2014.

In addition to offering global or U.S. premieres of several new works every season, Americas Society Music Program has developed a vigorous commissioning initiative that has premiered eight pieces since 2007. The commissioned composers are selected taking in consideration diverse nationalities, ages, and stylistic approaches. Previous Americas Society commissionees include Valéria Bonafé, Zosha di Castri (commissioned in collaboration with the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), Mario Davidovsky (supported by a grant from Chamber Music America), Du Yun, Alvin Lucier, Paulo Rios Filho, Aurelio Tello (with support from Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund and the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust), and Antonio Zimmerman (with support from The New York State Music Fund).

Contemporary Art from the Coast, Tapestries, and more open at Gadsden Arts!

Press Room Team — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:54:49 +0000

The Gadsden Arts Center & Museum presents an exciting exhibition, Contemporary Art from the Coast, opening Friday, April 14, 2017 from 6–9pm in the Sara May Love Gallery. The exhibition features cutting edge work by artists living and working along Florida’s Forgotten Coast, the region stretching along the Gulf of Mexico from St. Marks to Port St. Joe – Jaime Llewelyn, Joyce Estes, Joe Kotzman and Leslie Wentzell. Three of these artists, Estes, Kotzman and Wentzell, will offer presentations about their work at 6:30opening night in the Woodell Family Art Studio. Opening receptions are offered free and open to the public.

Sculptor Jaime Llewelyn allows the earthiness of clay to guide the organic and natural forms she creates; Joyce Estes, a silk master designer, uses vibrant French dyes on silk allow for free-flowing and elegant designs; award-winning watercolorist Joe Kotzman creates imaginative and subconsciously fanciful imagery derives from childhood folk tales; and sculptural ceramicist Leslie Wentzell, uses the textures, colors, patterns, and linear movement found in nature to create hand-built clay sculptures. The exhibition will examine the ways in which a shared environment can inspire artists working within different mediums and how each personally connects with nature to capture the region’s beauty.

Also opening the same night in the Zoe Golloway Gallery is the exhibit MJ Lord: Warp-Weft-Image, a visually immersive display of tapestries by weaver Mary Jane Lord. With over thirty years of experience creating textile arts, her work is aimed at the play between imagery and texture, with a current focus on the interaction between colors, both in her abstracted creations and within nature.

Contemporary Art from the Coast and MJ Lord: Warp-Weft-Image, will be on view from Friday, April 14-Saturday, June 24, 2017. Suggested exhibitions admission is $5 (members and children free), with guided tours available for any group with a reservation by calling850-627-5023.

The Gadsden Arts Center & Museum, Florida’s 27th art museum to be accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, is located at 13 N. Madison Street, Quincy, Florida, just 20 minutes from Tallahassee. Exhibitions in four galleries and our Bates Community Room change quarterly. The museum also offers a Museum Shop and studio art programs for children through adults. For more information, please call (850) 875-4866 or visit www.gadsdenarts.org.

LONDON TSAI’S FLYING DESSERTS AND OTHER UTOPIAS EXHIBITION OPENS AT MIA

Press Room Team — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:10:30 +0000

Brooklyn-based artist London Tsai’s Flying Desserts and Other Utopias is now on display at Miami International Airport’s Central Terminal Gallery, located just beyond MIA’s Concourse E security checkpoint.

“In an age of global tourism and extreme mobility, utopias are no longer in the future, but somewhere else. In order to reach these other places more conveniently, it makes sense that our homes become our ‘ships,’” said Tsai. “That’s why I’ve designed the ‘ships’ in the shapes of desserts we love. In addition to being completely mobile, we are hyper-visible. This way, we can have our cake and eat it too.”

Lun-Yi London Tsai was born in Massachusetts, spent his early childhood in Paris and grew up in SoHo, New York in the 1980s. After college and graduate school at Tufts University and the University of Pittsburgh respectively, Tsai spent six years in China. Since then, he has lived in Boston, Seattle, Miami and New York. An artist residency in Berlin in 2008 was pivotal in awakening his latent sculptural tendencies; his father was the late kinetic sculptor Wen-Ying Tsai. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

“As the title of the exhibition implies, there is great humor, imagination and even, optimism, in Tsai’s work,” said Yolanda Sánchez, Ph.D., Fine Arts and Cultural Affairs Director at MIA. “Through his extraordinary skill and his manipulation of materials and scale, Tsai invites us to re-consider both our physical and psychological relationship to those objects we encounter in our everyday life. His charismatic and sometimes, enigmatic, works intelligently evoke memory and narrative.”

The Flying Desserts and Other Utopias exhibition continues the primary mission of the Aviation Department’s Fine Arts and Cultural Affairs Division to humanize and enrich the airport environment through the commission of contemporary artwork and the presentation of exhibitions in various media that communicate culture, environment and art resources of an international scope. To learn more about other exhibits in the MIA Galleries, visit http://www.miami-airport.com/mia_galleries.asp.

Lords investigates role of the BBC in UK arts and culture

Press Room Team — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 20:10:31 +0000

On Tuesday 21 July, the House of Lords Communications Committee continues its inquiry into the BBC’s public purposes.

First panel

Tuesday 21 July, Committee Room 2, Palace of Westminster

At 3.45pm

Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chair, Arts Council England
Cerys Matthews, singer/songwriter, presenter and author

Possible questions

The Committee is expected to explore with the first set of witnesses issues including:

the role the BBC plays in the arts and culture of the UK
the role the BBC should play in education and training
the effectiveness of the BBC’s public purposes in delivering public benefit for culture
the effect any financial cuts would have, both on the BBC and on the cultural life of the UK.

Second panel

At 4.45pm

Dr Roberto Suarez Candel, Director of the Media Intelligence Service, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Switzerland

Possible questions

The EBU runs a worldwide satellite and cable network across entertainment, news, sports and music programming. Dr Candel is likely to face questions on a number of areas, including:

the BBC’s standing overseas
comparisons with other public service broadcasting organisations in Europe
the changing definition from public service broadcasting to public service media.

EMERGING ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD CREATING SPECIAL SHOW IN MIAMI

Press Room Team — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:32:16 +0000

12th May 2015: The London based Global Art Agency Ltd presents the first edition of “The Miami Art Expo” 19th-26th June 2015 at the Nina Torres Fine Art Gallery situated nearby the famous Wynwood area on the northern side of Downtown Miami — in the heart of the city’s arts, entertainment, and cultural district.

Visitors can expect a variety of paintings, photography art, urban art, sculptures, in different styles. The event gives a great opportunity to invest into international art, and is a showcase of the well-established artist as well as young talent displayed in the fabulous water view venue providing an extraordinary setting for the Miami Art Expo.

The exhibition starts Friday 19th June from 18.00 with a big show opening, champagne reception and private view for invitees and VIP ticket holders. With a live DJ rolling out the tunes in the background, the Miami Art Scene will be in charge of the interactive social media Lounge area – a live, on-site, streaming coverage from the expo.

Among the artistic highlights of the event are the works by Pure Evil, who is selling his work also in the London Saatchi Gallery. He is known for his fanged Pure Evil bunny rabbits, and he fell in with the people behind Banksy’s Santas Ghetto.

Award winning artist Roger de Tanios winning the third prize of Best Global Artist Award curated by Sotheby’s Valeria Carbo Guell at the Gaudi’ Casa Batllo during the recent BCN Art Fair will be exhibiting his famous steel wired dynamic sculptures.

All together a collection of hundreds artworks will be for sale by almost 80 artists from around the world, between a price range from $ 250 USD up to $ 15.000 USD.

VISIT THE ART FAIR:

Friday 19th June 2015 : 18.00pm – 21.00pm Grand Opening, Private View, Champagne Reception sponsored by Juve & Camps. PRIVATE VIEW & VERNISSAGE only $10.00 per VIP ticket. (book online)

Saturday 20th June 2015 – Friday 26th June 2015 : 11.00pm – 17.00pm Open to the public – Free entry

VENUE & CONTACT.

Nina Torres Fine Art Gallery – 1800 N Bayshore Dr, Miami, FL 33132, US.

CONTACT: Ms Joelle Dinnage (UK based) +44(0)7825 443925 email. office@globalartagency.com

WEBSITE & TICKETS: http://www.themiamiartexpo.com