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April 10, 2024

Anthracite (2024) French Series on Netflix: An Engaging Blend of Macabre Murder Thriller with a Dash of Comedy

Anthracite is a new French series starring Hatik, Noémie Schmidt, Camille Lou and Nicolas Godart. It is created by Fanny Robert, Maxime Berthemy and Mehdi Ouahab.

A new series blending mystery, macabre thriller, and a dash of comedy arrives on Netflix to add enjoyment to the beginning of spring. “Anthracite” is one of those mysterious series set in a secluded town filled with gruesome crimes, but this one has a lot of humor, thanks, in particular, to actress Noémie Schmidt (who plays Ida), who injects a humorous touch into the program that, seemingly, should be rather intense.

The result is far more entertaining because of her.

On the other hand, there’s Hatik, a breakout actor who is sure to garner attention.

Plot

She’s a crime expert, a sort of online private investigator with a passion for true crime, who has also lost her father. He’s an ex-con struggling with his daughter and unable to find decent employment. And amidst it all, a horrendous crime tied to cults and a ritual related to anthracite.

About the Series

It may not be a blockbuster and doesn’t intend to be, but the combination of comedy and macabre thriller is appealing, charming, and uniquely captivating. Don’t be fooled, as “Anthracite” is neither a comedy, a romantic comedy, nor anything similar, it’s a snow-set thriller where two people find themselves entangled in horrifying events and try to uncover what’s behind them.

Visually, it breaks no new ground, nor does it have a marvelously perfect script or even present an entirely unique atmosphere: it’s a TV production aware of its constraints and that aims, to the extent it can, to be engaging.

And it succeeds, it delivers, and viewers are appreciative of the comedic elements in a series that’s well worth watching, especially thanks to the performances of its leads that add much humor to this series which, if only a thriller, would have been quite unoriginal and, if simply comedy, would have been less funny.

However, the combination of both genres gives it the cozy series feel that we crave.

Being only six episodes, this miniseries won’t leave you hanging wondering who or what was committing the awful crimes.

All the while, you’ll enjoy this light, fun and consistently entertaining macabre thriller.

Enjoy watching.

Where to Watch “Anthracite”

Netflix

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Published on April 10, 2024 04:05

Unlocked: A Jail Experiment (2024) Docuseries on Netflix: A Penitentiary Experiment Turned Reality Show

Unlocked: A Jail Experiment is a documentary series on Netflix that can be viewed starting April 10.

19 independent cameras in a unique experiment: 6 weeks in a reality style documentary where the inmates of a prison will live an experience of freedom, but always within the prison. All the doors will open and the officers will remain outside, allowing the inmates to form their own community.

In the United States, inmates remain locked up for about 23 hours a day. All the built-up tension generates tension and, when they get out, conflicts arise.

The revolutionary idea of Sheriff Higgins, from Little Rock, Arkansas, is simply to let the inmates interact, without guards, and behave like adults, responsibly, and organizing their own community.

About the Documentary

Netflix turns this experience into a full-blown reality show: an experiment with inmate interviews and cameras everywhere showing us how they interact and organize without the intervention of the guards.

The docuseries consists of eight episodes where we can witness aggression and many conflicts but, above all, the implementation of this revolutionary idea of imprisonment.

Viewers and, above all, the sheriffs of prisons, who make these kind of decisions in the United States, will have their say: Is this applicable to the rest of the country or will it just be an isolated experiment for a Netflix documentary?

A highly interesting experiment that, without a doubt, will generate a lot of discussion.

In terms of cinema or television: it’s the formula we’ve seen a thousand times with youngsters, but this time with inmates many of them guilty who will have to exercise their responsibility.

“Unlocked: A Jail Experiment” is a documentary that, above all, raises countless questions and rethinks the prison system, at least for a special type of inmates.

At the very least, Netflix presents us an incredibly interesting idea, novel in a format that isn’t at all novel. But it’s a volatile mix that may well become a huge hit, at least with audiences.

8 episodes in which to determine if responsibility can replace locks.

Enjoy.

Where to Watch “Unlocked: A Jail Experiment

Netflix

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Published on April 10, 2024 01:59

What Jennifer Did (2024) True Crime Documentary on Netflix: The Gripping and Shocking Case of Jennifer Pan

What Jennifer Did is a documentary written and directed by Jenny Popplewell about the case of Jennifer Pan.

“What Jennifer Did” is a true crime documentary that explores the case of Jennifer Pan, a story that caught the attention of Canadian media due to its unique violent circumstances. Gradually, much like a suspense movie, we will uncover the truth.

The case of Jennifer Pan

A murder and a hospitalized victim in a Canadian residential neighborhood. A Vietnamese immigrant family in Canada, allegedly attacked during a robbery. The witness, a young girl named Jennifer. The news quickly spread across Canadian media, unaccustomed to such violent incidents. Jennifer had been in a relationship with a boy named Daniel for seven years, who had had his issues with drugs.

About the documentary

In a work of fiction, whether it’s a movie or a novel, we often discuss whether the work “works” or “doesn’t work,” as the ultimate verdict. Does “What Jennifer Did” succeed as a documentary? Yes, and resoundingly so. It’s a documentary that knows how to present the facts and withhold them from the viewer to gradually reveal them just like in a suspense movie.

This time, we have access to files containing interviews with Jennifer and her boyfriend, as well as interviews with the agents involved in the case. They tell us how it developed and how the facts were finally clarified. This documentary is perfect in conveying real events and, treating them like a movie, gradually narrating the facts.

The documentary features a stunning story, that of Jennifer and the plot she contrived. It also delves into the background of the case and the causes that led to this behavior.

And, as always with these types of documentaries, the controversy will remain: Are they successful only because of the voyeurism and curiosity that violent crimes provoke? Certainly, there’s some truth to that, but we can’t accuse film producers of ‘poisoning’ viewers, as this is a genre so in-demand and with such a broad history dating back to before the invention of the cinema.

Is “What Jennifer Did” a lurid documentary that exploits a violent, dramatic situation and capitalizes on it? The answer is a resounding yes in this shocking story that will leave you in awe because we have the testimonies of the supposed victim who, as you may have already guessed, had a lot to hide.

In cinematic terms, as a documentary piece, it’s once again excellent in a genre that is constantly being refined and perfected every day, always seeking the darker side of humanity.

Whether you watch it or not, that’s your responsibility and your preference.

Where to Watch “What Jennifer Did”

Netflix

Who is Jennifer Pan

Jennifer Pan was born in 1985 to Vietnamese immigrant parents who had settled in Canada. She grew up in Markham, Ontario and was known as a model student who excelled academically. However, behind her perfect image was a dark secret. At age 26, Jennifer organized a murder plot that resulted in her mother’s death and seriously injured her father. This case shocked the community and made national headlines in Canada. Read more

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April 9, 2024

A Spiritual Journey with the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre at The Rubin Museum of Art NY on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 2pm

Mimi Garrard of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre is proud to present a special invitation only film event, A Spiritual Journey, on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 2pm at the Rubin Museum of Art,150 W 17th St, NYC.

With direction, camera, and editing from Mimi Garrard, and costumes by Mindy Nelson, the program consists of four dances created for video — “Realeyes,” “Mestos,” and “Seasons of the Mind” explore a mythical idealized world, while “Notes from the Underground Percussionist” uses the words of Fyodor Dostoevsky to explore the dark side of human nature.

A Spiritual Journey  Program

“Realeyes”

Dancer: Austin Selden

Music: Tom Hamilton

“Notes from the Underground Percussionist”

Performer: Jonathan MevillePratt

Singer and music: Jonathan Melville Pratt

Text: Dostoevsky selected by Mimi Garrard

“Mestos”

Dancers: Tim Bendernagel and Kate Jewett

Music: Tom Hamilton

“Seasons of the Mind”

Dancers: Tim Bendernagel and Cynthia Koppe 

Music: Joao Castro Pinto 

About Mimi Garrard

Mimi Garrard was a dancer with Alwin Nikolais. He produced her concerts at the Henry Street Playhouse for ten years before she toured under the National Endowment Touring Program. In collaboration with James Seawright, her work was commissioned for CBS Camera Three and WGBH Boston television. She has created more than ninety works for the stage which have been performed throughout the United States and in South America. She received two grants for choreography from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Most recently Mimi Garrard has begun experimenting in new ways, creating dance for video using digital techniques to transform the dance material. Her work in this area is unique and is gaining increasing attention, being shown internationally on television, in museums and galleries, and in festivals. It was also shown on the dome of the planetarium in Jackson, Mississippi, and on the BBC BIG screen throughout England. She has participated in 2247 film festivals and won 1241 first place awards. She won the Distinguished Alumnae Award from Sweet Briar College in 2019.

She has a half hour monthly television program on Manhattan Neighborhood Network in Manhattan, New York that is streamed live at the time of broadcast (247 programs to date). She received a life- time achievement award from the Institute of Arts and Letters in Mississippi for her outstanding achievement in dance both for video and for the stage. 

About the Rubin Museum of Art

The Rubin Museum of Art is a dynamic environment that stimulates learning, promotes understanding, and inspires personal connections to the ideas, cultures, and art of Himalayan regions. For more information, visit https://rubinmuseum.org/about/

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Published on April 09, 2024 13:58

‘Mother of the Bride’ (2024): Experience the Heartwarming Journey of First Love in the Netflix Film, Starring Brooke Shields

“Get ready to experience the ultimate feel-good movie of the year! First love always deserves a second chance, and with Brooke Shields as Mother of the Bride, it’s a heartwarming journey you won’t want to miss. From the director of classic favorites like Mean Girls and Freaky Friday, this Netflix original film will have you laughing, crying, and falling in love all over again. Mark your calendars because this must-see movie premieres just in time for Mother’s Day!”

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Published on April 09, 2024 13:46

Max Original Drama Series ‘Pretty Little Liars: Summer School’ Premieres on Max, Airing Weekly Beginning May 9th

The Max Original drama series PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: SUMMER SCHOOL, from Warner Bros. Television, debuts with two episodes THURSDAY, MAY 9, followed by one new episode weekly through June 20 on Max.

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Logline: Following the harrowing events of “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin,” our Pretty Little Liars face a fate worse than death – summer school. However, Millwood High isn’t the only thing getting in the way of their fun summer jobs and new, dreamy love interests. A new villain, who may or may not have a connection to A, has come to town and is going to put them all to the test.

Cast: Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Zaria, Malia Pyles, and Maia Reficco return as the next generation of Pretty Little Liars. The series also stars Mallory Bechtel, Sharon Leal, Alex Aiono, Jordan Gonzalez, and Elias Kacavas.

Credits: The series is created, written, and executive produced by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (“Riverdale,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”) and Lindsay Calhoon Bring (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”). Aguirre-Sacasa’s Muckle Man Productions and Alloy Entertainment produce, in association with Warner Bros. Television. Alloy’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo are also executive producers, along with Marlene King (who developed the original “Pretty Little Liars” series), and Michael Grassi.

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Published on April 09, 2024 13:31

Introducing Hangry: A New Snack ‘n’ Slash Action RPG from Leading Canadian Game Studio, Game Pill!

 Toronto, Canada – April 9, 2024— Game Pill, one of Canada’s leading and most experienced game development studios with over 100 game credits, is thrilled to announce a new original snack ‘n’ slash action RPG called Hangry. In this all-new adventure, players take on the role of the titular character, Hangry, on an intergalactic quest to hunt down, carve up, and devour countless delicious beasts spread across a wide assortment of exotic locales. 

Hangry is a third-person action RPG with over-the-top fast-paced combat and gorgeous visuals powered by Unreal Engine. The diverse landscapes are like nothing you’ve seen before from the BBQ’d woodlands to candy-coated caverns littered with monsters waiting to be your next secret ingredient.

“We’re honestly salivating at the thought of people finally getting the chance to sink their teeth into this game, puns intended,” said Mike Sorrenti, president of Game Pill. “Our team has worked on dozens of licensed games over the years that we’re immensely proud of, but we can’t wait to show off more of our original IP and deliver something deep and rewarding for RPG fans, but also light-hearted and fun enough for anyone that appreciates a tasty pun.”

Hangry is focused on a satisfying gameplay loop of hunting, eating, and evolving. You’ll set out on hunts to track down creatures to check off your recipe, then you’ll cook and serve the dishes to grow your character, upgrade stats, and unlock new weapons. 

For more details about Hangry, you can visit the game’s official website

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Published on April 09, 2024 13:22

Full Cast And Creative Team Announced For Tour Of Atri Banerjee’s Acclaimed Reimagining Of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie

Rose Theatre, Alexandra Palace, and Belgrade Theatre today announce full casting and further creative team for a new tour of Atri Banerjee’s highly acclaimed production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, first seen at Royal Exchange Theatre in late 2022. The production opens at Belgrade Theatre on 16 March and runs through 23 March with Press Night on 20 March before moving to Malvern Festival Theatre, Rose Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre Royal Bath and Alexandra Palace through late spring.

The cast includes BAFTA nominee Geraldine Somerville (Cracker, Gosford Park, and the Harry Potter film series) reprising her acclaimed portrayal of Amanda Wingfield, who is joined by new cast members Kasper Hilton-Hille (Tom Wingfield), Zacchaeus Kayode (Jim O’Connor), and Natalie Kimmerling (Laura Wingfield).

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The creative team includes Atri Banerjee (Director), Rosanna Vize (Designer), Lee Curran (Lighting Designer), Giles Thomas (Composer and Sound Designer), Anthony Missen (Movement Director), Helena Palmer CDG (Casting Director), Darren Sinnott (Associate Director), Alys Whitehead (Associate Designer) and Robbie Butler (Associate Lighting Designer).

Tom, the play’s narrator, escapes a suffocating home life through cigarettes and long visits to the movies while his sister, Laura, withdraws into her records and collection of glass animals. But their mother, Amanda, harbours dreams for them far beyond their shabby apartment. When Tom brings home a potential suitor for Laura, Amanda seizes the opportunity to try and change their fortunes forever.

Banerjee’s acclaimed production reimagines Williams’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, exploring the intimacy and intensity of the complex web of love and loyalty that binds families together.

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Director Atri Banerjee said, “Theatre provides opportunities to explore time and memory in exciting and challenging ways. It’s a gift to revisit Williams’ classic and discover the new things it says about a world that’s dramatically changed in just the 18 months since we first opened in Manchester. I’m delighted to be reunited with Geraldine and to work with our new cast members to bring this story to life.”

Christopher Haydon, Artistic Director at the Rose said, “As familiar as The Glass Menagerie may be to some, Atri takes us on a heartfelt journey while challenging our perceptions of what we know about Williams’ characters. His bold and innovative interpretation will both excite those who know the story well and inspire new audiences with its optimism, energy, and love in the face of personal flaws, disappointment, and tragedy.”

Emma Dagnes, Alexandra Palace Chief Executive: “We are delighted to be working with Belgrade and Rose Theatres to bring this acclaimed production to our beautiful theatre where it will end its UK tour. Bringing this reworking of the Royal Exchange’s original production to our audiences is an exciting prospect and we look forward to welcoming the company to North London for a fitting finale.”

Neil Murray, Interim CEO of The Belgrade Theatre, said, “The Glass Menagerie is one of the great plays of the 20th Century. We are thrilled to be opening the revival of Atri Banerjee’s highly acclaimed production, here at the Belgrade, with such a brilliant cast and team.”

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THE GLASS MENAGERIE

Written by Tennessee Williams

Directed by Atri Banerjee

Running time: Approx. 2hrs, 20mins, including interval
Age guidance: 12+

National Press Night at Belgrade: Wednesday, 20 March, 7:30 pm

Guest Night at Rose Theatre: Thursday, 18 April, 7:30 p.m.

Press Night at Alexandra Palace: Thursday, 23 May, 7:30 p.m.

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TOUR VENUES

Belgrade Theatre ⁠— 16-23 March

Malvern Theatres ⁠— 26-30 March

Rose Theatre — 17 April-4 May

Bristol Old Vic ⁠— 7-11 May

Theatre Royal Bath ⁠— 13-18 May

Alexandra Palace ⁠— 22 May-1 June

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Published on April 09, 2024 11:31

The Phillips Collection Presents Bernardí Roig: The Head of Goya

WASHINGTON, DC—The Phillips Collection presents never before seen drawings by Spanish artist Bernardí Roig (b. 1965) who, while confined to his home in Binissalem, Mallorca, Spain during the global COVID-19 pandemic, created 55 drawings, one a day, inspired by the lost, severed head of Francisco José de Goya (1746–1828). They were drawn as Roig struggled to process the uncertainty of living in a world where people were physically isolated—cut off from the social body—and dying. Bernardí Roig: The Head of Goyais on view through July 7, 2024, in the museum’s Second Floor, Annex Galleries.

Goya was the most important Spanish artist of his time, painting lavish portraits of Spanish nobility and harrowing scenes of the country’s ongoing social and political turmoil. Goya’s body was discovered headless, in 1888, when it was exhumed in Bordeaux, in preparation for reinterment in Madrid. Roig’s intense and expressive drawings are meditations on the grotesque and unexplained dismemberment of Goya’s body.

“Roig’s deeply personal enterprise connects us to the past by inviting viewers to explore and find comfort in universally relatable expressive impulses,” writes Vradenburg Director & CEO Jonathan P. Binstock in the catalogue.“For those artists, including Roig, who find their rightful home within Duncan Phillips’s collection—a testament to the founder’s earnest appraisal of the value of the artist’s hand and the marks it makes— the past is alive, it is present, it is to be wrestled with and lived in.”

While living in isolation during the lockdown, Roig reflected on the legacy of artists in troubled times, and specifically those artists whose humanistic depiction of pain and suffering spoke to the present moments. Among them was the haunting example of Goya. With an obsessive fervor, Roig drew Goya’s missing head for 55 consecutive days, his mind spinning with the possibilities of where it had gone and why.

“Artworks uphold the presentness of whoever is looking at them,” says Roig. “The gaze is not innocent; it’s made of memories, and it holds millions of gazes within. During the pandemic, we had a way of feeling fear that was new to us, and now we have new scars. They aren’t better or worse than the scars of earlier eras, but they are ours.”

In this special installation, guests will be immersed in The Head of Goya drawings as they fill a gallery, arranged like a frieze to echo their diaristic feel and to document the progression of Roig’s artistic thought process. The gallery will also include The Phillips Collection’s The Repentant Saint Peter (c. 1820–24) by Goya to invite a conversation between these artists across time. The Phillips previously presented examples of Roig’s sculpture in his 2014/15 Intersections project, NO/Escape. This series is the fourth work by Roig to enter the collection. 

ABOUT  BERNARDÍ ROIG

Bernardí Roig was born in 1965 in Palma de Mallorca, and currently lives and works in Madrid and Binissalem, Mallorca. His multi-disciplinary work (sculpture, video, graphic, painting, and writings), with elements of minimalist and conceptual art, are subtle reflections on isolation, lack of communication, and desire. His obsessive and disturbing creations can be understood as embodiments of loneliness, expressing the urge to “speak despite the impossibility of speech” and to find figures and images for an age of uncertainty. 

CATALOGUE

The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated, bilingual catalogue by The Phillips Collection, with a foreword by Vradenburg Director & CEO Jonathan P. Binstock, an interview with the artist by Assistant Curator Camille Brown, and a text by the artist. The publication is available at the Museum Shop or shopphillipscollection.org.

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Published on April 09, 2024 10:08

Lauren Quin: Logopanic – 125 Newbury, New York

New York, NY – April 9, 2024 – 125 Newbury presents Lauren Quin: Logopanic, an exhibition of new paintings by the Los Angeles-based Quin. The show, which will take place at 125 Newbury’s location at 395 Broadway in Tribeca from May 3 until June 15 of 2024, will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York.

In Lauren Quin’s paintings, form occupies a fugue state. Quin builds her compositions methodically, layer by layer, only to scrape through them, carving channels that spiderweb across the picture. Her paintings are palimpsests; past and present mingle in a single surface, interrupting one another. Both sedimentary and archaeological, the works are as much excavated as painted. Constructed from an arsenal of recurring gestures and techniques, Quin often makes use of marks she refers to as “tubes,” together with skeins and filigrees of color that she monoprints directly onto a work’s surface.

“The ambition of Lauren’s work is astonishing to me,” says Arne Glimcher, founder of 125 Newbury. “When I walked into her studio for the first time, it was blast a fresh air. The environment her paintings created was electric. I immediately felt that here was an artist ready to take on the world. It was something I found instantly captivating.”

For Quin, the act of painting involves the risk of getting lost. To paint is to give up a fixed location – in space but also in language. The exhibition’s title suggests an anxiety or instability around words and images. From the Greek logos (meaning “word”) and penia (meaning “poverty, absence, or lack”), logopenia refers to a type of aphasia, a condition characterized by a progressive loss of the faculties of speech. In the colloquial sense, a logo is a visual and symbolic metonym – an image that stands for something else. “Logo panic” evokes a sense of unmooring from such systems of signification.

Quin orients her practice around an archive of drawings, prints, and carvings, which contain an ever- expanding collection of symbols. A hand, a spider, a vulture, a needle, a skull, the sun—for Quin, these symbols function in myriad ways. At times, they provide the starting point for a painting; at others, Quin prints the symbol onto the surface of an existing composition – or carves it directly into the painted surface – disrupting or inflecting its evolution. Often, she will transfer a symbol onto the verso of a canvas, where it remains hidden from the viewer, but available to her as she works. The drawings act as anchorages, providing fixed reference points as a composition unfolds, and linking one painting to the next. These drawings are always evolving and bleeding back into her larger repertoire, seeding new possibilities for paintings.

Shadows and traces of imagery ebb and flow across Quin’s canvases, caught in relentless currents of form, refusing solidification or coherence. Quin’s tubes are tools for abstraction, but they are also tunnels, pathways, furrows, or mouths. A swirl of paint is at once a sun and a cymbal – and also a symbol. Her paintings are constantly digesting her symbols, subsuming and transforming them wholesale, eroding contours and allowing form to diffuse in suspended animation. “I think of the symbols as windsocks,” explains Quin of her drawings, “They are not as important as the direction of the wind, or the wind itself.”

What results from Quin’s process are manifolds of chromatic and temporal counterpoint – paintings that hold space for a matrix of internal struggles: between the solid and the ephemeral, image and non- image, symbol and cymbal. In this way, Quin is involved in charting a new and deeply self-reflexive mode of abstraction. Skirting the edges of signification and eschewing fixity, Quin’s paintings quest for what words cannot contain, circling around meaning rather than seeking to touch it directly.

Lauren Quin (b. 1992) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work was recently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Nerman Museum of Art (2023). Other solo presentations have taken place at the Pond Society in Shanghai (2022), at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles (2022) and Tokyo (2023), and at Friends Indeed in San Francisco (2021). Her paintings have been included in several group exhibitions, including at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2022), and reside in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Long Museum, Shanghai, China; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Smart Museum, Chicago, IL; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and the Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China.

ABOUT 125 NEWBURY

125Newbury isa project space in NewYorkCityhelmed by ArneGlimcher, Founder and Chairman of Pace Gallery. Named for the original location of Pace, which Glimcher opened at 125 Newbury Street in Boston in 1960, the venture is located at 395 Broadway in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood, at thecorner of Walker Street. Occupying a 3,900-square-foot ground-floor space in a landmark building with 17-foot ceilings, the interior of 125 Newbury has been fully renovated by Enrico Bonetti and Dominic Kozerski of Bonetti/Kozerski Architecture.

Guided by Glimcher’s six decades of pioneering exhibition-making and steadfast commitment to close collaboration with artists, 125 Newbury presents up to five exhibitions per year, with a focus on both thematic group shows as well as solo exhibitions by emerging, established, and historical artists. The 125 Newbury team is led by directors Arne Glimcher, Kathleen McDonnell, Talia Rosen, and Oliver Shultz, who work together to develop cutting-edge and thought- provoking exhibitions that reflect a global, cross-generational perspective.

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Published on April 09, 2024 10:02

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