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The Untitled Space is pleased to present “TRUE STORIES” group show opening on April 9th and on view through May 27th, 2022. Curated by Indira Cesarine, the exhibition features over 30 contemporary artists whose work addresses storytelling through narrative painting, drawing, or portraiture. “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Storytelling through art is historically one…

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From The Nightmare Before Christmas to Sweeney Todd, his films have encouraged those who have felt like outcasts to embrace their misfit status, weirdness and flaws. Whether you have scars, skin so pale you look dead or you just enjoy a spot of taxidermy, Tim Burton has taught us to take pride in who we…

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RIDE THE TIGER Colleen Barry and Will St. John Partners in life, painting, and parenthood, the Brooklyn-based artist’s Colleen Barry and Will St. John will each be sharing a selection of figurative paintings at Caelum Gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, in a joint exhibition hosted by their long-time friends, Adam Driver and Joanne…

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Tomas Urbelionis was born in Lithuania, which was then part of Soviet Union. He lived in an industrial city and his parents were factory workers. He’s been playing basketball since he was a teenager and his only dream was to become professional player. And actually this dream almost came true – he was very good…

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Le papier à l’œuvre  February 17th – March 12th 2022Clavé Fine Art 10 bis rue Roger – Paris 14e Almost a year after its inauguration with its opening exhibition Small is Beautiful, Clavé Fine Art is organising a new exhibition featuring the great masters of the 20th century. This time on the theme of works…

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Kat Toronto, aka ‘Miss Meatface’, is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in performance-based photography. She uses her often unsettling and surreal Polaroid images to explore the cultural ideals of feminine beauty and the objectification of women in a feminist society by toying with the push and pull of dominance and submission, and the act of…

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NEW YORK CITY OPERA’sPRODUCTION OFRICKY IAN GORDON’S “THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS” Libretto by MICHAEL KORIEBased on the novel by GIORGIO BASSANIProduction Concept by RICHARD STAFFORD Directed by MICHAEL CAPASSO and RICHARD STAFFORDA co-production with NATIONAL YIDDISH THEATRE FOLKSBIENE On January 27, 2022 New York City Opera (under the direction of Michael Capasso, General Director)…

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CHANEL has just launched an innovative and eco-responsible approach to beauty combining skincare, makeup and a fragrance mist: N°1 de CHANEL.Its formulas honor ingredients of natural origin that are renewable and have reduced environmental impact. They contain up to 97% ingredients of natural origin*** without compromising effectiveness, safety or sensory quality. The eco-design packaging includes…

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PMA, Reykjavík Art Museum, and Bildmuseet announce artists forNorth Atlantic Triennial: Down Иorth Featuring both emerging and more established artists living today, the exhibition presents 21st-century art from an unprecedented cross-section of artists living in Maine, the Canadian Maritimes, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark as well as Indigenous Nations throughout the…

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Growing up, we were taught to save the ‘special things’ for worthy occasions: our grandmothers would bring out their bejewelled Christian Dior only for the most memorable moments; our fathers saved their bespoke leather shoes for weddings only; our mothers would keep their few ‘designer’ handbags wrapped in dust bags only to resurface – very…

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With an aesthetic rooted in fetishism and decorative style of Russian folk Karina Akopyan’s work features painting, photography and costume pieces, the series is a bold questioning of sexuality, religion, ritual, and iconography – in all their jarring coexistence yet inevitable convergence. Debating the preservation of values and traditions, as either a beautiful necessity or,…

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From our early childhood days, we’re taught to love the hero and hate the villain. Through fairy tales and Disney movies, the world is divided into good and evil, and everyone is rooting for the good guy. Or are they? Regular people care about their self-image and tend to see themselves in a positive way.…

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In the early 1800’s Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected stories that depicted the unpredictable and often unforgiving life experienced by central Europeans. These brothers, determined to preserve the Germanic oral story telling that was vanishing, poured over the folklore of the region. Fairy tales, gripping, magical and inspiring, are master narratives. Children subconsciously recall their…

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The grim undertones of fairy tales are often fascinating, the unvarnished originals often chilling in their stark depiction of human moral frailty. Hans Christian Andersen wrote “Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.” Accounts of…

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Bernal Espacio Galería presents Marina Abramović’s solo show Portrait as Biography, next February atLa Nave Sánchez-Ubiría de Madrid Bernal Espacio Galería will hold the solo exhibition Portrait as Biography by Marina Abramović next February. The legendary performance artist was recently awarded the 2021 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts. The show, which will be her first solo…

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East/West: A Symphonic CelebrationEast/West, a concert at the David H. Koch Theater, featured Conductor Jindong Cai and the New York City Ballet Orchestra, together with standout bass William Guanbo Su, violin Shenghua Hu, erhu (a traditional Chinese two-stringed bowed instrument) Jiebing Chen, soprano Esther Maureen Kelly and coloratura soprano Holly Flack. The concert started with…