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BELLY OF THE BEAST

By Erika Cohn, Angela Tucker, Christen Marquez, and Nicole Docta

Filmed over seven years with extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people, BELLY OF THE BEAST exposes a pattern of illegal sterilizations, modern-day eugenics and reproductive injustice in California prisons.

When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal sterilizations in California's women's prisons, they wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. With a growing team of investigators inside prison working with colleagues on the outside, they uncover a series of statewide crimes -- from inadequate health care to sexual assault to coercive sterilizations -- primarily targeting women of color. This shocking legal drama captured over 7-years features extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people, demanding attention to a shameful and ongoing legacy of eugenics and reproductive injustice in the United States.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2020 / 81 minutes

GLOW: A WILD RIDE TO HEAVEN

Director: Gabriel Baur

"Someone who glows so brightly is not going to grow old," Fellini once prophesied about Irene Staub, aka Lady Shiva, one of the greatest of all Swiss divas. Thanks to her aura and talent, many doors opened for Irene during Zurich's exuberant years between 1968 and the late 1980s. Discovered by a pioneer of Swiss fashion design, she made the break from streetwalking to being part of the fashionable art scene. Finding work as a model, she also pursued her dream of becoming a singer, starting out in a legendary Zurich underground band. But Lady Shiva lived life in the fast lane; torn between the stress and strain of success, a yearning for freedom, and self-destructive urges, she died far too young under circumstances that have never been fully explained.

Using never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with prominent contemporaries, director Gabriel Baur brings us back to a vibrant age of boundless possibilities, in which the sky seemed the only limit for people like Lady Shiva...an age that to this day still kindles a yearning in us.

DVD (German with English Subtitles) / 2020 / 100 minutes

I'M MOSHANTY - DO YOU LOVE ME?

Director: Tim Wolff

The world's second largest island, Papua New Guinea is one of the most dangerous places to be a woman, with 70% reporting that they experienced domestic violence and sexual violence before the age of 15. Sorcery accusation killings and family violence take the lives of thousands of women every year and HIV infection rates are the highest in the Pacific. Transgender women are most often homeless, unemployed, denied education and medical care and living under the constant threat of robbery, rape and murder.

I'm Moshanty - Do You Love Me? Is a musical tribute to the late, legendary South Pacific recording artist and transgender activist Moses Moshanty Tau and the LGBTQI community of Papua New Guinea. With their lives still haunted by colonial-era sodomy laws and deadly religious bigotry, Moshanty stands as a beacon of hope for the transgender and LGBTQI community of the entire South Pacific.

Filmed over a weekend in the fall of 2017 and including her last live performances, the film celebrates the transgender activist with a mother's heart, teeth of gold and a voice like a coronet. Hear her journey from a tiny Motuan village to the top of the regional music industry. In her last interview, she shares her personal truth and her greatest desires as a woman with her millions of fans.

In 2017, a diagnosis of throat cancer threatens to silence the activist and a failed surgery leaves her unable to sing. Finally, an entire nation, from ordinary citizens to Ministers of Parliament, is asked to grieve for their brightest light and their most heavenly voice. Who could ever sing the songs of Moshanty?

DVD (English, Tok Pisin, With English Subtitles) / 2020 / 57 minutes

ALL WE'VE GOT

By Alexis Clements

ALL WE'VE GOT is a personal exploration of LGBTQI women's communities, cultures, and social justice work through the lens of the physical spaces they create, from bars to bookstores to arts and political hubs.

Social groups rely on physical spaces to meet and build connections, step outside oppressive social structures, avoid policing and violence, share information, provide support, and organize politically. Yet, in the past decade, more than 100 bars, bookstores, art and community spaces where LGBTQI women gather have closed. In ALL WE'VE GOT, filmmaker Alexis Clements travels the country to explore the factors driving the loss of these spaces, understand why some are able to endure, and to search for community among the ones that remain. From a lesbian bar in Oklahoma; to the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center in San Antonio run by queer Latinas; to the WOW Cafe Theatre in New York; to the public gatherings organized by the Trans Ladies Picnics around the US and beyond; to the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, the film takes us into diverse LGBTQI spaces and shines a light on why having a place to gather matters. Ultimately, ALL WE'VE GOT is a celebration of the history and resilience of the LGBTQI community and the inclusive spaces they make, as well as a call to action to continue building stronger futures for all communities.

DVD (Color) / 2019 / 67 minutes

BLACK FEMINIST

By Zanah Thirus

BLACK FEMINIST is a lively and illuminating documentary that explores the double-edged sword of racial and gender oppression that Black Women face in America.

Frustrated by the lack of intersectionality in the women's movement and the misogyny plaguing the Black liberation movement, filmmaker Zanah Thirus set out to shine a light on the complexities and power of Black feminism. Featuring interviews with a wide range of scholars, writers, business owners, veterans and comedians including former Ebony Editor-in-Chief Kyra Kyles, professor Carrie Morris, and author Tami Winfrey Harris, the film lays bare the everyday lived experiences of Black Women everywhere.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2019 / 53 minutes

NICE CHINESE GIRLS DON'T: KITTY TSUI

By Jennifer Abod

Nice Chinese Girls Don't is a portrait of Kitty Tsui -- an iconic Asian American lesbian, poet, artist, activist, writer, and bodybuilder who came of age in the early days of the Women's Liberation Movement in San Francisco.

In Nice Chinese Girls Don't, Kitty Tsui recounts her emergence as a poet, artist, activist, writer, and bodybuilder in the early days of the Women's Liberation Movement in San Francisco. She narrates her experience of arriving to the States as an immigrant from Hong Kong by way of her own original poetry and stories.

Tsui wrote the groundbreaking Words of a Woman Who Breathes Fire, the first book written by an Asian American lesbian. She is considered by many to be one of the foremothers of the API, Asian Pacific Islander, lesbian feminist movement.

In 2018, APIQWTC, Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women & Transgender Community honored her with the Phoenix Award for lifetime achievement. In 2019, her alma mater, San Francisco State University inducted Tsui into the Alumni Hall of Fame. Her forthcoming books include Nice Chinese Girls Don't, Battle Cry: Poems of Love & Resistance, and Fire Power: Poems of Love & Resilience. Tsui currently lives in Oakland, California, and is writing a screenplay, Unmasked.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2019 / 20 minutes

NO TIME TO WASTE: THE URGENT MISSION OF BETTY REID SOSKIN

Directed by Carl Bidleman

Celebrates legendary 99-year-old park ranger Betty Reid Soskin's inspiring life, work and urgent mission to restore critical missing chapters of America's story.

NO TIME TO WASTE celebrates legendary 99-year-old park ranger Betty Reid Soskin's inspiring life, work and urgent mission to restore critical missing chapters of America's story. The film follows her journey as an African American woman presenting her personal story from a kitchen stool in a national park theater to media interviews and international audiences who hang on every word she utters.

The documentary captures her fascinating life—from the experiences of a young Black woman in a WWII segregated union hall, through her multi-faceted career as a singer, activist, mother, legislative representative and park planner to her present public role.

At the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park, Betty illuminates the invisible histories of African Americans and other people of color. Her efforts have changed the way the National Park Service conveys this history to audiences across the U.S., challenging us all to move together toward a more perfect union.

DVD / 2019 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adults) / 52 minutes

NORMAL GIRL, A

Directed by Aubree Bernier-Clarke By Shawna Lipton, Pidgeon Pagonis

A NORMAL GIRL brings the widely unknown struggles of intersex people to light through the story of intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis.

Activist Pidgeon Pagonis was born intersex, not conforming to standard definitions of male or female, and experienced genital mutilation as a child. Now Pidgeon is fighting the medical establishment, seeking to end medically unnecessary surgeries and human rights abuses on intersex people in the United States and around the world.

An estimated 1.5% of the population is born with intersex traits. While most of these babies are healthy, their bodies are treated as a medical emergency. It is common practice for doctors to perform genital surgeries on intersex infants--often with disastrous results including total loss of genital sensation, lifetime synthetic hormone dependence, and being assigned a gender with which they do not identify.

Through the story of Pidgeon's remarkable journey and fight for bodily self-determination, A NORMAL GIRL brings the widely unknown struggles of intersex people to light.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2019 / 14 minutes

SHUSENJO: COMFORT WOMEN AND JAPAN'S WAR ON HISTORY

Director: Miki Dezaki

One of the most heated issues in Japan and Asia today is over something that occurred 80 years ago: the Japanese Imperial Army's sexual enslavement of an estimated tens of thousands of Korean women and others in military brothels during World War II. Many nationalist Japanese conservatives (with the surprising support of Western media influencers) believe the women were mostly willing prostitutes, not 'sex slaves', and that the estimated number is far smaller than are claimed. But contemporary historians, activists and - most significantly - the surviving victims and their families, believe otherwise; the denial of their suffering so long ago has created an entirely new trauma.

Director Miki Dezaki, a second-generation Japanese American who learned about comfort women from his Japanese immigrant parents, questions why accounts in the Western media have often sided with the Nationalists. With a keen eye for detail and precision, he interviews historians, advocates and lawyers who discuss the evidence: historical documents related to the Japanese military's direct role in managing the brothels, and harrowing testimonies by former comfort women. 'Shusenjo' is a deep dive into this impassioned subject - bringing to light the hidden intentions of the supporters and detractors of comfort women.

DVD (English, Japanese, Korean with English Subtitles) / 2019 / 120 minutes

ARCHIVETTES, THE

By Megan Rossman

For more than 40 years, the Lesbian Herstory Archives has combated lesbian invisibility by literally rescuing history from the trash.

Founded in the 1970s in a New York City apartment, The Lesbian Herstory Archives is now the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians. For more than 40 years, the all-volunteer organization has striven to combat lesbian invisibility by literally rescuing history from the trash.

Frustrated by misogyny and homophobia within academia, Deborah Edel and Joan Nestle co-founded the archives for those conducting research, both professional and personal. Over the years, the organization has witnessed many of the major milestones in LGBTQ+ history and has weathered several storms. Today, with its founders in their seventies, the archives are facing new challenges, including a change in leadership and the rise of digital technology.

Exploring the fascinating origins of the organization, THE ARCHIVETTES is a tribute to second-wave feminism and intergenerational connection, as well as an urgent rallying cry for continued activism in a politically charged moment.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2018 / 61 minutes

FEMALE PLEASURE

By Barbara Miller

#FEMALE PLEASURE accompanies five extraordinary women around the globe fighting to reclaim female sexuality.

The film introduces us to author Deborah Feldman from Brooklyn's Hasidic community, sex educator Vitika Yadav in India, manga artist Rokudenashiko in Japan, Somali activist Leyla Hussein, and former nun Doris Wagner in Europe, courageous women who are all struggling to end the harmful cultural practices like genital mutilation and the shaming of the female orgasm that lie at the root of rape culture and patriarchy. Not only highlighting the issues that have contributed to the sexual marginalization of women, the film also calls these atrocities, embedded within cultural and religious norms, by their actual names: rape, assault, child trafficking, abuse. We witness these female activists who were taught to be silent confronting the very entities that have oppressed them.

Both an urgent call to action and an empowering plea for self-determined joyful female sexuality, #FEMALE PLEASURE is ultimately an inspiring tool to help women, no matter their cultural or religious background, to reclaim their bodies and celebrate their sexuality without shame or suffering.

DVD (English, Japanese, German, Color, Closed Captioned) / 2018 / 101 minutes

TO A MORE PERFECT UNION: U.S. V. WINDSOR

Director: Donna Zaccaro

To A More Perfect Union: U.S. v. Windsor tells a story of love, marriage and a fight for equality. The film chronicles two unlikely heroes, octogenarian Edie Windsor and her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, on their quest for justice: Edie had been forced to pay a huge estate tax bill upon the death of her spouse because the federal government denied federal benefits to same-sex couples...and Edie's spouse was a woman.

Deeply offended by this lack of recognition of her 40+ year relationship with the love of her life, Edie decided to sue the United States government - and won. Beyond the story of this pivotal case in the marriage equality movement, the film also tells the story of our journey as a people, as a culture, and as citizens with equal rights.

Windsor and Kaplan's legal and personal journeys are told in their own words, and through interviews with others, including Lillian Faderman, a leading scholar on LGBTQ history, and Evan Wolfson, who first at Lambda Legal and later as founder of Freedom to Marry was the godfather of marriage equality in the US and now worldwide. Legal observers, including Jeffrey Toobin from CNN and Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio, also lend their insights.

DVD / 2018 / 63 minutes

WE ARE THE RADICAL MONARCHS

Directed by Linda Goldstein Knowlton

Follows the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color on the frontlines of social justice.

Set in Oakland, a city with a deep history of social justice movements, WE ARE THE RADICAL MONARCHS documents the Radical Monarchs--an alternative to the Scout movement for girls of color, aged 8-13. Its members earn badges for completing units on social justice including being an LGBTQ ally, the environment, and disability justice.

The group was started by two fierce, queer women of color, Anayvette Martinez and Marilyn Hollinquest as a way to address and center her daughter's experience as a young brown girl. Their work is anchored in the belief that adolescent girls of color need dedicated spaces and that the foundation for this innovative work must also be rooted in fierce inter-dependent sisterhood, self-love, and hope.

The film follows the first troop of Radical Monarchs for over three years, until they graduate, and documents the Co-Founders' struggle to respond to the needs of communities across the US and grow the organization after the viral explosion of interest in the troop's mission to create and inspire a new generation of social justice activists.

DVD / 2018 / (Grades 4-12, College, Adults) / 86 minutes

YOURS IN SISTERHOOD

By Irene Lusztig

YOURS IN SISTERHOOD is a performative, participatory documentary inspired by the breadth and complexity of letters that were sent in the 1970s to the editor of Ms.- America's first mainstream feminist magazine. The film documents hundreds of strangers from around the U.S. who were invited to read aloud and respond to these letters written by women, men and children from diverse backgrounds. Collectively, the letters feel like an encyclopedia of both the 70s and the women's movement- an almost literal invocation of the second-wave feminist slogan "the personal is political." The intimate, provocative, and sometimes heartbreaking conversations that emerge from these performances invite viewers to think about the past, present, and future of feminism.

DVD (Color) / 2018 / 101 minutes

FEMINISTA: A JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF FEMINISM IN EUROPE

By Myriam Fougere

FEMINISTA is a lively and inspiring feminist road movie that explores the largely unrecognized yet hugely vibrant pan European feminist movement. Filmmaker Myriam Fougere joined an international group of young feminists who were traveling across twenty countries – from Turkey to Portugal, by the way of the Balkans, to Italy, Spain and Portugal – to make connections and unite forces with other women. She witnessed these determined activists participating in political gatherings, supporting homegrown local feminist struggles, exchanging strategies, and inventing new ways to resist and fight for change. Revealing how feminism is transmitted from one generation to another, FEMINISTA provides a rare glimpse into a widespread feminist groundswell movement, possibly one of the largest and unrecognized mass political movements that is very much alive and well throughout Europe today.

DVD (Color) / 2017 / 60 minutes

FINE LINE, A (EDUCATIONAL VERSION)

Directed by Joanna James

Explores why less than 7% of head chefs and restaurant owners are women, when traditionally women have always held the central role in the kitchen.

Featuring intimate interviews with world-renowned chefs like Dominique Crenn, Lidia Bastianich, Cat Cora, Elena Arzak, Elizabeth Falkner, Maria Loi, Sylvia Weinstock, Michael Anthony and others, A FINE LINE explores pressing issues faced by women in the culinary arts and across all industries, including sexual and workplace harassment, access to capital, unequal pay, and lack of paid family leave and affordable childcare.

An uplifting American success story about perseverance, family, and food, A FINE LINE follows the personal story of Valerie James, a small town restaurateur with a larger than life personality who raised Joanna as a single mother on a mission to do what she loves while raising two kids and the odds stacked against her.

DVD / 2017 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adults) / 56 minutes

CATCHING SIGHT OF THELMA & LOUISE

Directed by Jennifer Townsend

Explores the same women's and men's reactions to the groundbreaking film, "Thelma & Louise", 25 years ago and today.

Powerful, authentic, and timely, CATCHING SIGHT OF THELMA & LOUISE dives off the edge into the truth of women's experience in the world. It revisits the journey of Thelma & Louise through the lens of viewers who saw that iconic film in 1991 and shared intimate, personal, stories at that time. The same women and men were tracked down 25 years later. Are their responses different now? Has anything changed in the way women are treated?

Interview commentary mixes with clips from "Thelma & Louise" to reveal why this cinema classic continues to resonate with millions of viewers, the world over. Christopher McDonald, who played Thelma's husband, and Marco St. John, who played the truck driver, offer an insider's viewpoint.

DVD / 2016 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adults) / 86 minutes

REVIVAL, THE: WOMEN AND THE WORD

By Sekiya Dorsett

THE REVIVAL: WOMEN AND THE WORD chronicles the US tour of a group of Black lesbian poets and musicians, who become present-day stewards of a historical movement to build community among queer women of color. Their journey to strengthen their community is enriched by insightful interviews with leading Black feminist thinkers and historians, including Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Nikki Finney, and Alexis Deveaux. As the group tours the country, the film reveals their aspirations and triumphs, as well as the unique identity challenges they face encompassing gender, race, and sexuality. This is a rarely seen look into a special sisterhood - one where marginalized voices are both heard and respected.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2016 / 82 minutes

SIBERIAN LOVE

By Olga Delane

In rural Siberia, romantic expectations are traditional and practical. The man is the head of the household. The woman takes care of the housekeeping and the children. But filmmaker Olga Delane doesn't agree. While she was born in this small Siberian village, as a teenager she migrated to Berlin with her family, and 20 years of living in Germany has changed her expectations. SIBERIAN LOVE follows Delane home to her community of birth, where she interviews family and neighbors about their lives and relationships. Amusing and moving, this elegant film paints a picture of a world completely outside of technology, a hard-farming community where life is hard and marriage is sometimes unhappy - but where there are also unexpected paths to joy and family togetherness. Through clashing ideals of modern and traditional womanhood, SIBERIAN LOVE is a fascinating study of a country little known in the US and of a rural community that raises questions about domesticity, gender expectations, domestic abuse, childcare, and romance. Excellent for anthropology, women's studies, sociology, Russian and Eastern European Studies.

DVD (Color) / 2016 / 82 minutes

VOICES OF MUSLIM WOMEN FROM THE US SOUTH

By Maha Marouan and Rachel Raimist

When one thinks of the American Deep South, the image of veiled Muslim students strolling the University of Alabama campus is the last thing that comes to mind. VOICES OF MUSLIM WOMEN FROM THE US SOUTH is a documentary that explores the Muslim culture through the lens of five University of Alabama Muslim students. The film tackles how Muslim women carve a space for self-expression in the Deep South and how they negotiate their identities in a predominantly Christian society that often has unflattering views about Islam and Muslims. Through interviews with students and faculty at Alabama, this film examines representations and issues of agency by asking: How do Muslim female students carve a space in a culture that thinks of Muslims as terrorists and Muslim women as backward?

DVD (Color) / 2015 / 32 minutes

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Unknown Artist, 'Portrait of a Young Woman', pastel on paper, late 1700s, European?, currently in the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, MO, USA.

Formerly attributed to Jean Etienne Liotard (b.1702 - d.1789), a Swiss artist.

This pastel depicts a young woman with her face turned slightly toward the viewer, revealing a warm expression. Her head is covered with a light‑colored wrap decorated with a sheer pattern. She wears a pair of small gold earrings, a pearl choker necklace, and a dress with an embellished scoop neckline. Both the woman and the artist who portrayed her remain unidentified. A recent Google image search produced nearly 5.7 billion results with no clear answers to the artist’s and sitter’s identities. Useful clues may lie in the woman’s attire. Some scholars believe her head covering reveals Caribbean origins. This drawing’s blue paper contains a clue—a watermark is revealed when the sheet is held up to light. Watermarks contain information about when and where the paper was made. This one spells out E V Orspronk, a Dutch paper manufacturer active in the 18th century. (x)

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Black Beauty in Paintings through the Ages....

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LOCKDOWN READS 2020

It is no surprise that time people spent with books has doubled in the current “locked down” environment. This surge in reading across the world is more than a way to kill time rather is reflective and therapeutic. Personally, I’ve always favored thrillers and crime novels which is obvious in this featured list.

Sheldon, Sidney (1987) Windmills of the Gods

“If something seems to be too good to be true, Mary, it probably is.” 

Mary Ashley, a young ambassadress married to a doctor named Edward, unexpectedly faces her plotted destruction in the middle of a global conspiracy.

This classic best-selling thriller will never disappoint with its thrills and spills from start to finish.

Sheldon, Sidney (1991) The Doomsday Conspiracy

“I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.”

This suspense-thriller novel revolves around an US Navy Commander, Robert Bellamy, who finds himself in the middle of an international conspiracy after being handpicked by the head of the NSA to track down and identify the ten unknown survivors of a weather balloon accident in the Swiss Alps.

With an easy-to-follow plot and great wicked twists that carry the readers on a luxury tour of Washington, this is definitely a page turner.

Pike, Christopher (1995) The Visitor

“All are doomed to love, all are doomed to die.”

Nope, it’s definitely not about Tom, the strange new boy in town, as the back of the book says, but instead it focuses on a story of many lives told through the eyes of Mary or Clareesh, who's engulfed in her grief and guilt over the death of her boyfriend, Jerry.

The writing style is twisted, but delightfully weird. Some stuff is brilliant, some is just bizarre. All in all, it’s a pretty groovy, high as a kite YA novel.

Pike, Christopher (1991) Die Softly

“He had smoked dope exactly twice, but stopped when he realized it was called dope for a reason.”

Herb Trasker, a senior in Alamo High who doesn't have much going for him except that he's a good photographer, decides to take pictures of cheerleaders as they shower in the gym locker room. He sets up his camera, sets the timer, and comes back to find out that he might have photographed a murder.

Definitely a dark and twisted thriller.

Pike, Christopher (1986) Weekend

“If I thought there was a chance, I would do it.”

A weekend of sun and fun in Acapulco turns into a nightmare when four guys and five girls are trapped in a luxury Oceanside mansion in Mexico and realize that they have been lured there for a deadly reason.

It is an excellent, entertaining, and swiftly moving thriller for older young adults who are a bit more worldly.

Pike, Christopher (1989) Scavenger Hunt

“Yes, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they.”

With school nearly over, a secretive club on campus has organized a scavenger hunt for the whole senior class. The kids are led throughout the city and into the nighttime desert. Their goal is the wonderful prize promised to the winner. Soon, it transforms into a nightmare for Carl Timmons, a troubled young man weighed down by guilt and what ifs from his best friend's death, when he and his friends are lured a ruse by evil creatures from the time of the dinosaurs looking for their next victims.

This scavenger hunt from hell has a supernatural/sci-fi angle, an ending that is just beyond bizarre, and a weird spiritual angle which makes it worth the read.

Clark, Mary Higgins (2000) Before I Say Goodbye

“They use their little bit of authority on people like us who can't fight back. Expect it, Winifred. That's the kind of world it is.”

Nell McDermot probes into the mysterious circumstances of her husband's death when his private boat explodes. Thrown into a pit of grief, she seeks answers from a medium who claims to be his channel and has a message for her.

A host of characters keep the reader occupied and twists and turns galore in this gripping thriller. The plot was excellent and I was on the edge of my seat throughout the whole book. It is definitely a manna from heaven for suspense lovers.

Clark, Mary Higgins (1982) A Cry in the Night

"Please understand, Jenny," he'd begged. "Every artist needs a place to be totally alone."

Jenny MacPartland was a charming, divorced mother of two working at a New York art gallery whose struggle is not helped by her irresponsible ex-husband. Soon, she’s whisked away into a life of riches when she meets the man of her dreams, talented Erich Krueger. They marry quickly and Jenny plans a loving home on Erich's vast Minnesota farm but begins to notice his obsession with his dead mother.

This wonderfully creepy book story is filled with intrigue and mystery. This chilling portrait etched in terror proves that Clark is a real woman who loves her work and can't stop.

Clark, Mary Higgins (1997) Pretend You Don’t See Her

"The words refused to pass her lips. It was too late. Lacey could see that.”

The book, set in New York and in Minneapolis-St. Paul, is the story of Lacey Farrell, a young rising star on Manhattan's high-powered and competitive real estate scene. She becomes a witness to a murder and finds that what she's seen might make her the next casualty, putting her into the witness protection program.

It’s a mystery that's never easy to figure out and satisfying in the end. This book is no exception. Clark writes characters that I like - all of them - even the bad guys. My favorite part of this novel is that the ending is very unpredictable.

THE END

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Interviews with artists, photographers, illustrators, designers, and performers:

PHOTOGRAPHY Hunter Barnes' series 'Outside of Life: Lowriders, Coolers, Bikers & Bloods' is underpinned by a desire to explore communal identity, 2019

ART See Sidsel Paaske, Jacqueline de Jong, and Jean Conner's provocative artwork, 2019

PHOTOGRAPHY Feeling like a "misfit" in her home country inspired Deborah Benzaquen to document queer and mixed identities in her work, 2019

PHOTOGRAPHY See how artists documented the decade before the fall of the Berlin Wall, 2019

PHOTOGRAPHY Janette Beckman spent the 80s and 90s chronicling rising stars such as Salt-N-Pepa and Run-DMC, 2019

PHOTOGRAPHY JJ Levine's work explores themes around gender, sexuality, and identity, 2019

FASHION Stephen Tayo explores the duality of twinship through his raw images, 2019

PHOTOGRAPHY A new exhibition celebrates 'La Movida,' the experimental punk movement that emerged after decades of dictatorship in Spain, 2019

PHOTOGRAPHY Ulla Deventer spent 6 years living alongside her subjects in Europe and Africa, 2019

FASHION Designer Olivier Theyskens on drama, reinvention, and finding beauty in terrible things, 2019

ART Now open at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 'Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech' spans the designer's work from fashion to architecture, 2019

ART These beautiful paintings by Kehinde Wiley celebrate the transgender women of Tahiti, 2019

ART Frieze New York is back: Here are the artists you don't want to miss, 2019

PHOTOGRAPHY Joost Termeer’s ‘This Reminds Me Of An Experience I Never Had’ simulates how we’ve lost touch with reality, 2019

PHOTOGRAPHY Lisetta Carmi was the first to document Italy's lgbtq community. The photographer's 1965 series 'I travestiti' has been equated with the work of Nan Goldin, 2018

PHOTOGRAPHY 5 photographers reimagining masculinity: From ​Turkish men in ruffled Gucci blouses to Mexico's Cholombiano subculture, fashion photography lets us push the boundaries of what it means to be a man today, 2018

PHOTOGRAPHY Ethereal portraits of boys free from gender confines: Julia Falkner and Lorena Hydeman traveled from Barcelona to a mountain village documenting boys — age six to 16 — in their homes, 2018

PHOTOGRAPHY Surreal photos of strangers and lovers in a Paris hotel: No. 223 (aka Lin Zhipeng) took over the Hôtel Grand Amour for three days, 2018

PHOTOGRAPHY Paul Mpagi Sepuya uses portraiture to explore homoerotic desire, 2018

FASHION French designers études studio are the subject of a new book: The book includes their fan Dev Hynes, a remix of their 13 collections by stylist Camille Bidault-Waddington, and an homage to the clothes they wore as teenagers, 2018

PHOTOGRAPHY Sory Sanlé captured the eclectic youth culture of newly free Burkina Faso, 2018

PHOTOGRAPHY Alice Mann's magical photos of South Africa's young majorettes: 'Drummies' chronicles an aspirational world where young women can cast off stereotypes and create a positive space for themselves, 2018

PHOTOGRAPHY Ruth Ossai's vibrant studio portraits celebrate Nigerian tradition, 2018

PHOTOGRAPHY Stephan Pfriender Stylander photographed the restless spirit of the 90s: The fashion photographer's evocative new monograph reveals a young Heath Ledger and a virtually unknown Kate Moss, 2018

PHOTOGRAPHY Feng Li captures the dark absurdity of Chinese street life: By day, the Chengdu-based photographer shoots pro-government propaganda as a civil servant, 2018

FASHION Ann Ray shares her massive archive of Alexander McQueen photos: The photographer spent 13 years capturing Lee's preparations, runway shows, and (very) rare moments of quiet, 2018

BEAUTY Chloë Sevigny created the red lipstick she's been looking for since the 90s, 2018

PHOTOGRAPHY Talia Chetrit's intimate portraits: photographing female sexuality from adolescence to adulthood, 2018

CULTURE Lukasz Wierzbowski captures two sisters during their most intimate, awkward moments: The photographer's series is an homage to budding femininity, 2018

PHOTOGRAPHY Raw photos of Hungary's underground 80s punk scenePhotojournalist András Bánkuti captured Budapest's nascent punk community as it rose up under a totalitarian regime, 2017

CULTURE Devon Rodriguez's paintings of commuters will change the way you see the subway, 2017

ART James Herbert's erotic photographs of 80s hippie youth, 2017

CULTURE Chloe Wise is turning America's food fetish into art: The artist discusses her new show, milkmaids, and the moral ambiguities of quinoa, 2017

PHOTOGRAPHY ‘#girlgaze: a frame of mind,’ a new show at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, is championing the next generation of female-identifying photographers, 2016

CULTURE Walter Pfeiffer photographs the eternal, erotic power of youth: As he approaches his 70th birthday, the boundary-pushing Swiss photographer reflects on a career spent capturing fresh-faced free spirits, 2016

CULTURE Charles Fréger spent years capturing ceremonies in rural Japan, 2016

CULTURE Ugandan photographer Sarah Waiswa documents a woman’s defiance in the face of discrimination in her award-winning series "Stranger in a Familiar Land,” 2016

CULTURE An extensive amateur photo collection from trailblazing director Sébastien Lifshitz reveals much about this century of LGBTQ issues, 2016

ART The pop-tastic painter duo remixing Lindsay Lohan and Courbet: A new show in Paris explores the work of Ida Tursic and Wilfried Mille, 2016

MUSIC Peaches: The original binary-breaking electropop provocateur talks to i-D about the disruptive power of nudity, 2016

CULTURE Seydou Keïta: A new exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris showcases the photographer’s striking compositions, and the amazing mid-century fashion of his subjects, 2016

FASHION From his wild nights at Le Palace in the 80s (when he worked for Yves Saint Laurent) to his second career as a designer of whimsical interiors, Vincent Darré’s life has always gravitated towards the eccentric and glamorous, 2016

PHOTOGRAPHY Omar Victor Diop is documenting a new generation of African creatives: The Senegalese photographer talks to i-D about reclaiming black history, Malick Sidibé, and his love for textiles, 2016

CULTURE Travel back to louche, lawless 70s New York: A new exhibition of photographer Arlene Gottfried's work reveals a city filled with nudity and naiveté, 2016

ART Wu Tsang brings queer crystals to Paris: The American artist who crusades for trans awareness discusses her new, super-sparkly installation for the FIAC, 2015

ART Emerald Rose Whipple's paintings are like a street style blog by Monet: Subjects like Hanne Gaby Odiele feature in these painstakingly precise works pulled from snapshots, 2015

CULTURE Claude Nori's sexy, summery, sun-drenched photos: The artist’s sun-drenched images of the Mediterranean will make your vacation envy kick in immediately, 2015

PHOTOGRAPHY Osma Harvilahti's colorful photographs will change the way you see the world: The Finnish photographer’s international body of work is full of unexpected juxtapositions and new viewpoints, 2015

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MORE CELEBRITIES THAT DIED BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED TO LESLIE WOFFORD AND HER KIDS AND HER FAMILY AND WITH PAGAN’S DYING IT WILL TAKE OUT ANY DEMON THAT HATED OR CONSPRIRED AGAINST LUCIFER. APPLY’S TO DEVIL’S TOO, UNLESS LUCIFER WAS LESLIE’S RUINER, AND THOSE ONES WERE TRYING TO KILL HIM TO STOP HIM FROM HURTING LESLIE’S CHILDREN OR KILLING OFF HER FAMILY.

July 2002[edit source]

Unknown date - Catmando, 7, British Cat and Politician and joint Leader of the Monster Raving Looney Party

2 – Earle Brown, 75, American composer.

2 – Ray Brown, 75, American bassist.

3 – Michel Henry, 80, French philosopher.

4 – Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, 90, American physicist.

4 – Sir Jake Saunders, 84, British banker.

4 – Winnifred Van Tongerloo, 98, oldest living survivor of the Titanic.

4 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr., 89, African-American General.

5 – Ted Williams, 83, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

5 – Katy Jurado, 68, Mexican actress.

6 – Dhirubhai Ambani, 69, Indian businessman.

6 – John Frankenheimer, 74, American film director.

6 – Kenneth Koch, 77, American poet and playwright.

6 – Stuart Shorter, 33, British homeless activist.

7 – Decherd Turner, 79, American librarian and book collector.

8 – Sir Robert Bellinger, 92, former Lord Mayor of London.

8 – Ward Kimball, 88, Disney animator.

8 – Patrick Rodger, 81, British Anglican prelate, former Bishop of Oxford.

9 – Laurence Janifer, 69, science fiction writer.

9 – William Robinson, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Ottawa.

9 – Ron Scarlett, 91, New Zealand paleozoologist.

9 – Dave Sorenson, 54, former NBA and Ohio State University basketball player.

9 – Rod Steiger, 77, American actor, kidney failure.

10 – John Wallach, 59, journalist and philanthropist.

11 – Roy Orrock, 81, British World War II pilot.

12 – Edward Lee Howard, 51, American CIA agent who defected to the Soviet Union.

12 – Mani Krishnaswami, 72, Indian vocalist.

13 – Yousuf Karsh, 93, celebrity portrait photographer as "Karsh of Ottawa".

13 – Eric Price, 83, English cricketer.

14 – Joaquín Balaguer, 95, former President of the Dominican Republic.

15 – Gavin Muir, 50. British actor and musician.

15 – Camillus Perera, 64, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.

16 – Alan Charles Clark, 82, British Roman Catholic prelate.

16 – John Cocke, 77, American computer scientist, key figure in the development of RISC architecture.

16 – Cletus Madsen, 96, American Roman Catholic priest.

16 – Jack Olsen, 77, American "True crime" writer.

17 – Charles I. Krause, 90, American labor leader.

18 – Metin Toker, 78, Turkish journalist and one time politician

19 – Dave Carter, 49, American singer-songwriter.

19 – Alexander Ginzburg, 65, leading Soviet dissident.

19 – Alan Lomax, 87, American documenter of blues and folk songs.

21 – John Cunningham, 84, British World War II fighter pilot.

21 – Antti Koivumäki, 25, Finnish poet and keyboardist (Aavikko)

22 – Joyce Cooper, 93, British Olympic swimmer.

22 – Marion Montgomery, 67, American jazz singer.

22 – Giuseppe Corradi, 70, Italian footballer.

22 – Prince Ahmed bin Salman, member of the Saudi Arabian royal family.

22 – Chuck Traynor, 64, American pornographer.

23 – Bill Bell, 70, New Zealand cricketer.

23 – Alberto Castillo, 87, Argentine tango singer and actor.

23 – Leo McKern, 82, Australian actor.

23 – William Pierce, American neo-Nazi, author of The Turner Diaries.

23 – Chaim Potok, 73, American author.

24 – Maurice Denham, 92, British actor.

24 – Mike Clark, 61, former NFL kicker.

25 – Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher.

27 – Krishan Kant, 75, Indian politician, Vice-President (1997–2002).

29 – Peter Bayliss, 80, British actor.

30 – Fred Jordan, 80, British folk singer.

31 – Pauline Chan Bo-Lin, 29, Hong Kong actress, suicide.

31 – Sir Maldwyn Thomas, 84, Welsh businessman and politician.

August 2002[edit source]

1 – Theo Bruce, 79, Australian long jumper.

1 – Jack Tighe, 88, American baseball coach.

3 – Kathleen Hughes-Hallett, 84, Canadian Olympic fencer.

3 – Peter Miles, 64, American actor.

3 – Carmen Silvera, 80, UK television and theatre actress (Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo!).

5 – Josh Ryan Evans, 20, American actor ("Timmy" on Passions).

5 – Chick Hearn, 85, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960.

5 – Franco Lucentini, 82, Italian writer (The Sunday Woman).

5 – Darrell Porter, 50, American baseball player.

6 – Jim Crawford, 54, Scottish motor racing driver.

6 – Edsger Dijkstra, 72, computer scientist.

7 – Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, 100, British aristocrat.

9 – George Alfred Barnard, 86, British statistician.

10 – Doris Wishman, 90, American film director, producer and screenwriter.

12 – Sir John Rennie, 85, British diplomat.

12 – Enos Slaughter, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

12 – Dame Marjorie Williamson, 89, British university administrator.

14 – Peter R. Hunt, 77, British film editor.

14 – Larry Rivers, 78, American painter.

14 – Dave Williams, 30, singer of Drowning Pool.

15 – Jesse Brown, 58, United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

15 – George Agbazika Innih, 63, Nigerian army general and politician.

15 – Haim Yosef Zadok, 88, Israeli jurist and politician.

16 – Abu Nidal, 65, terrorist.

16 – Ola Belle Reed, 85, American singer.

16 – Johnny Roseboro, 69, American baseball player.

18 – Dame Elizabeth Chesterton, 86, British architect and town planner.

18 – Edward Crew, 84, British air marshal.

18 – David Keynes Hill, 87, British biophysicist.

19 – Sunday Silence, 16, thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.

20 – Augustine Geve, Solomon Islands Cabinet Minister, assassinated.

22 – Allan George Bromley, 55, computer scientist, historian of computing.

22 – Bruce Duncan Guimaraens, 66, Portuguese wine maker.

23 – Emily Genauer, 91, American art critic.

23 – Hoyt Wilhelm, 80, American baseball player who played for nine different teams and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

24 – Wayne Simmons, 32, American Football player.

25 – Per Anger, 88, Swedish diplomat.

25 – Dorothy Hewett, 79, Australian poet, playwright and novelist.

27 – Edwin Sill Fussell, 80, American scholar of English literature.

27 – George Mitchell, 85, Scottish musician (The Black and White Minstrel Show).

27 – John S. Wilson, 89, American music critic.

29 – Elizabeth Forbes, 85, New Zealand athlete.

29 – Paul Tripp, 91, American musician and TV host.

30 – Thomas J. Anderson, 91, American publisher and politician.

30 – Maia Berzina, 91, Russian geographer, cartographer and ethnologer.

30 – Roy Wright, 73, Austrian rules football player.

31 – Lionel Hampton, 94, American jazz musician.

31 – Martin Kamen, 89, American scientist.

31 – George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, 81, British Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.

September 2002[edit source]

1 – Peter Ramsden, 68, British rugby league player.

2 – Sir Robert Wilson, 75, British astronomer.

3 – Kenneth Hare, 83, Canadian scientist.

3 – Ted Ross, 68, American actor.

3 – Len Wilkinson, 85, British cricketer.

4 – Frankie Albert, 82, American National Football League star.

4 – Jerome Biffle, 74, American Olympic long jumper.

5 – Robert W. Brooks, 49, American mathematician.

5 – William Cooper, 92, English novelist.

5 – Cliff Gorman, 65, American actor.

5 – David Todd Wilkinson, 67, American cosmologist.

7 - Eugenio Coșeriu, 81, linguist specialized in Romance languages

7 – Uziel Gal, 78, designer of the Uzi submachine gun.

7 – Don Smith, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.

8 – Marco Siffredi, 23, French snowboarder (last seen on this date).

9 – Geoffrey Dummer, 92, British engineer.

11 – Johnny Unitas, 69, American football player (Baltimore Colts) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

12 – Kim Hunter, 79, American stage, television and Oscar-winning film actress (played "Stella Kowalski" in the original Broadway and film versions of A Streetcar Named Desire).

13 – Charles Herbert Lowe, 82, American biologist.

13 – George Stanley, 95, Canadian historian and public servant.

14 – Paul Williams, 87, American saxophonist.

15 – Robert William Pope, 86, British Anglican prelate, Dean of Gibraltar.

16 – Archibald Hall, 78, British criminal.

16 – Nguyễn Văn Thuận, 74, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate.

17 – Denys Fisher, 84, British inventor of the Spirograph.

18 – Bob Hayes, 59, American football player Dallas Cowboys and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

19 – Sergei Bodrov Jr., 30, Russian movie star, Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide.

19 – James Macdonald, 83, Scottish-born Australian ornithologist.

20 – Necdet Kent, 91, Turkish diplomat and humanitarian.

20 – Bob Wallace, 53, American computer scientist.

21 – Henry Pybus Bell-Irving, 89, Canadian Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

21 – Angelo Buono, Jr., 67, the "Hillside Strangler".

21 – Robert L. Forward, 70, physicist and science fiction author.

22 – Joseph Nathan Kane, 103, American historian and author.

22 – Jan de Hartog, 88, novelist and playwright.

22 – Anthony Milner, 77, British musician.

23 – Vernon Corea, 75, Sri Lankan-born British radio broadcaster.

24 – Mike Webster, 50, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame).

24 – George Wilson, 86, British cricketer.

25 – Arnold Ross, 96, American mathematician.

26 – Thomas S. Smith, 84, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.

27 – David Granger, 99, American bobsledder.

27 – Bill Pearson, 80, New Zealand writer.

30 – Robert Battersby, 77, British soldier and politician.

30 – Arthur Hazlerigg, 2nd Baron Hazlerigg, 92, British cricketer and soldier.

30 – Meinhard Michael Moser, 78, Swiss mycologist.

30 – Ewart Oakeshott, 86, British illustrator.

30 – Sir Jock Taylor, 78, British diplomat.

October 2002[edit source]

1 – Walter Annenberg, 94, American publisher and philanthropist.

1 – Ted Serong, 86, Australian soldier.

2 – Norman O. Brown, 89, American classicist.

2 – Heinz von Foerster, 90, Austrian-born American physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism.

2 – Alexander Sinclair, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.

3 – John Erritt, 71, British civil servant.

3 – Bruce Paltrow, 58, American television and film producer.

4 – Alphonse Chapanis, a founder of ergonomics.

4 – Barbara Fawkes, 87, British nurse.

4 – Ahmad Mahmoud, 70, Iranian novelist.

5 – Sir Reginald Hibbert, 80, British diplomat.

5 – Morag Hood, 59, Scottish actress.

6 – Chuck Rayner, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.

6 – Claus von Amsberg, 76, Dutch diplomat; husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

8 – Phyllis Calvert, 87, British actress.

9 – Jim Martin, 78, American football player.

9 – Aileen Wuornos, 46, convicted of killing six men, lethal injection.

10 – Joe Wood, 86, American baseball player.

11 – William J. Field, 93, British politician.

12 – Sir Desmond Fitzpatrick, 89. British general.

12 – Audrey Mestre, 28, French world record-setting free diver.

12 – Nozomi Momoi, 24, Japanese AV idol, murdered.

12 – Sidney W. Pink, 86, American movie director and producer.

13 – Stephen Ambrose, 66, historian and author of "Band of Brothers".

13 – Keene Curtis, 79, American actor.

13 – Jim Higgins, 71, British politician.

14 – S. William Green, 72, American politician.

15 – Jack Lee, 89, British film director.

15 – Ze'ev, 79, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator.

16 – William Macmillan, 75, Scottish minister, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

17 – Derek Bell, 66, member of The Chieftains, harpist.

17 – Henri Renaud, 67, French jazz pianist and record company executive.

18 – Sir Cecil Blacker, 86, British army general.

18 – Roman Tam, 52, Hong Kong canto-pop singer.

19 – Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 100, Mexican photographer.

20 – Barbara Berjer, 82, American actress.

20 – Elisabeth Furse, 92, German-born British war-time agent.

20 – Mel Harder, 93, American baseball player.

21 – Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, 83, British politician.

22 – Richard Helms, 89, American former CIA director.

23 – David Henry Lewis, 85, New Zealand sailor and adventurer.

24 – Winton M. Blount, 81, last United States Postmaster General to have served in a Presidential Cabinet.

24 – Adolph Green, 87, American lyricist and playwright.

24 – Harry Hay, 90, American gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder.

25 – Richard Harris, 72, Irish actor.

25 – René Thom, 79, French mathematician.

25 – Paul Wellstone, 58, United States Senator (D-MN).

28 – Margaret Booth, 104, Academy Award-winning film editor.

28 – Erling Persson, 85, Swedish businessman, founder of H&M.

28 – Sir Patrick Russell, 76, British jurist.

29 – Chang-Lin Tien, educator, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.

29 – Richard Jenkin, 77, Cornish nationalist politician.

29 – Glenn McQueen, 41, Canadian film animator.

30 – Jam Master Jay, 37, DJ of Run DMC, murdered.

30 – Sir William Mitchell, 77, British physicist.

31 – Yuri Ahronovitch, 70, Russian conductor.

31 – Sir Napier Crookenden, 87, British Army general.

31 – Baroness Hylton-Foster, 94, British peer.

November 2002[edit source]

1 – Edward Brooke, 85, Canadian Olympic fencer.

1 – Sir Charles Wilson, 93, British political scientist.

2 – Brian Behan, 75, Irish writer, younger brother of Brendan Behan.

2 – Robert Haslam, Baron Haslam, 79, British industrialist and life peer.

2 – Lo Lieh, 63, Hong King actor.

2 – Dame Felicity Peake, 89, British Director of the Women's Royal Air Force.

2 – Tonio Selwart, 106, Bavarian actor and Broadway performer.

2 – Charles Sheffield, 67, science fiction author and physicist.

3 – Lonnie Donegan, 71, British skiffle musician.

3 – Sir John Habakkuk, 87, British economic historian.

3 – Jonathan Harris, 87, American actor, TV's "Dr. Smith" on Lost in Space.

3 – William Packard, 69, American poet and author.

3 – Sir Rex Roe, 77, British air force officer.

4 – Antonio Margheriti, 72, Italian filmmaker, heart attack.

5 – Billy Guy, 66, American singer.

5 – Mushtaq Qadri, 35, Pakistani religious poet.

6 – Brian James, 61, English cricketer.

6 – Sid Sackson, 82, board game designer.

7 – Rudolf Augstein, 79, founder and chief editorialist of the German newsweekly Der Spiegel.

8 – Dorothy Mackie Low, 86, British novelist.

9 – Dick Johnson, 85, American test pilot.

9 – Merlin Santana, 26, actor.

9 – William Schutz, 76, American psychologist.

10 – Steve Durbano, 50, ice hockey player, lung cancer.

11 – Sir Michael Clapham, 90, British industrialist.

11 – David Steel, 92, Scottish minister.

13 – Kaloji Narayana Rao, 88, Indian poet and political activist.

13 – Irv Rubin, 57, Canadian chairman of the Jewish Defence League.

14 – Eddie Bracken, 87, actor.

14 – Mir Qazi, 38, Pakistani convicted criminal, executed by lethal injection in Virginia.

15 – Myra Hindley, 60, the Moors murderess.

15 – John Joseph Stewart,79, New Zealand rugby coach.

16 – Rupert E. Billingham, 81, British biologist.

16 – Sir George Gardiner, 67, British politician.

17 – Abba Eban, 88, Israeli foreign affair minister.

18 – James Coburn, 74, Oscar-winning actor, heart attack.

18 – Pasquale Vivolo, 74, Italian footballer.

19 – Prince Alexandre de Merode, 68, International Olympic Committee member, lung cancer.

19 – George Fullerton, 79, South African cricketer.

20 – George Guest, 78, British organist and choirmaster.

20 – Ben Webb, 45, Canadian journalist.

20 – Zhang Shuguang, 82, Chinese politician

21 – Prince Takamado, 47, Japanese prince

21 – Hadda Brooks, 86, American jazz singer, pianist and composer.

21 – Arturo Guzman Decena founder of Los Zetas

21 – J. Roger Pichette, 81, Canadian politician.

22 – Joan Barclay, 88, American actress.

22 – Christine Marion Fraser, 64, Scottish novelist.

23 – Roberto Matta, 91 Chilean artist.

24 – Philip B. Meggs, 60, American graphic designer.

24 – John Rawls, 81, political theorist.

25 – Gordon Davidson, 87, Australian politician.

25 – David Drummond, 8th Earl of Perth, 95, British politician and aristocrat.

26 – Verne Winchell, 87, founder of Winchell's Donuts (nicknamed "The Donut King").

27 – Stanley Black, 89, British musician.

27 – Ronald Gerard Connors, 87, American Roman Catholic bishop in the Dominican Republic.

28 – Billy Pearson, 82, American jockey.

29 – David Weiss, 93, American novelist.

30 – Tim Woods, 68, professional wrestler who wrestled as Mr. Wrestling, heart attack.

December 2002[edit source]

1 – Dave McNally, 60, American baseball player.

1 – José Chávez Morado, 93, Mexican artist.

1 – Michael Oliver, 65, British classical music broadcaster and writer.

2 – Jim Mitchell, 56, Irish politician.

2 – Vjenceslav Richter, 85, Croatian architect.

2 – Derek Robinson, 61, British nuclear physicist.

2 – Fay Gillis Wells, 94, American pioneer aviator.

3 – Glenn Quinn, 32, Irish actor (Roseanne, Angel).

5 – Roone Arledge, 71, American television producer and executive (Monday Night Football and Nightline).

5 – Ne Win, 91, Burmese dictator.

6 – Father Philip Berrigan, 79, American priest and political activist.

6 – Charles Rosen, 85, pioneer in artificial intelligence.

7 – Barbara Howard, 76, Canadian artist.

7 – Paddy Tunney, 81, Irish traditional artist.

8 – Bobby Joe Hill, 59, American basketball player.

8 – Charles Rosen, 85, American computer scientist.

9 – Stan Rice, 60, painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice, cancer.

9 – To Huu, 82, Vietnamese poet and politician.

10 – Desmond Keith Carter, 35, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in North Carolina.

10 – Earl Henry, 85, American baseball player.

10 – Andres Küng, 57, Swedish journalist, writer, entrepreneur and politician of Estonian origin.

10 – Steve Llewellyn, 78, Welsh rugby league player.

10 – Ian MacNaughton, 76, director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

11 – Kay Rose, 80, American Oscar-winning sound editor.

12 – Dee Brown, 94, author (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee).

12 – Edward Harrison, 92, English cricketer and squash player.

12 – Jay Wesley Neill, 37. convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Oklahoma.

13 – Ronald Butt, 82, British journalist.

13 – Zal Yanofsky, 57, Canadian member of The Lovin' Spoonful music group.

14 – Jack Bradley, 86, English footballer.

15 – Arthur Jeph Parker, 79, American set decorator.

15 – Dick Stuart, 70, American baseball player.

17 – John Aubrey Davis, Sr., 90, American civil rights activist.

17 – Hank Luisetti, 86, basketball star and innovator.

18 – Lucy Grealy, 39, Irish-born American poet and memoirist.

18 – Ramon John Hnatyshyn, 68, former Governor-General of Canada, pancreatitis.

18 – Sir Bert Millichip, 88, British football administrator.

18 – Wayne Owens, 65, U.S. Congressman (D-UT), heart attack.

19 – Guy Bordelon, 80, American Korean War flying ace.

19 – Stephen Fleck, 90, American psychiatrist.

19 – Jim Flower, 79, British admiral.

19 – Arthur Rowley, 76, English footballer, holder of the record for most career league goals scored.

19 – Lewis B. Smedes, 81, American theologian.

20 – Joanne Campbell, 38, British actress who starred in the comedy series, Me and My Girl (1980s).

20 – James Richard Ham, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.

22 – Desmond Hoyte, 73, President of Guyana from 1985 to 1992.

22 – Joe Morgan, 57, New Zealand rugby union player.

22 – Joe Strummer, 50, former singer for The Clash.

22 – Kenneth Tobey, 85, prolific character actor (appeared in about 100 films including: Twelve O'Clock High, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Thing from Another World and Airplane!).

23 – Jimmy Osborne, 94, Australian soccer player.

24 – James Ferman, 72, American film censor.

24 – Tita Merello, 98, Argentinian actress and singer.

24 – V.K. Ramasamy, 76, Indian actor.

24 – Jake Thackray, 64, English singer-songwriter, heart failure.

25 – Gabriel Almond, 91, American political scientist.

25 – William T. Orr, 85, television executive (brought Maverick, F-Troop and 77 Sunset Strip to TV).

25 – Davina Whitehouse, 90, British-born New Zealand actress.

26 – Herb Ritts, 50, celebrity photographer.

26 – Armand Zildjian, 81, cymbals manufacturer.

27 – George Roy Hill, 81, film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting).

28 – Meri Wilson, 53, American singer.

29 – Don Clarke, 69, New Zealand rugby player.

29 – Sir Paul Hawkins, 90, British politician.

30 – Mary Wesley, 90, novelist, author of The Camomile Lawn.

31 – Billy Morris, 84, Welsh footballer.

31 – Kevin MacMichael, 51, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter (Cutting Crew).

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Portrait of a Young Woman, late 18th century Artist: Unknown, previously attributed to Jean-Étienne Liotard Swiss (1702–1789) Medium: pastel Dimensions: 16 x 12 3/4 in. (40.6 x 32.4 cm) Current location: Saint Louis Art Museum (currently not on view)

Source: Saint Louis Art Museum, www.slam.org

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The 2019 Wellcome photography prize: close focus on the human condition

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The 2019 Wellcome photography prize: close focus on the human condition

The annual awards celebrate the best images of science around the world

A human face lies inert on a surgical tray as if staring up at the team of doctors hovering over it. It has taken them 16 hours of precise, painstaking work to remove it from a 31-year-old female donor, who had died three days earlier. A few seconds after photographer Lynn Johnson captured this extraordinary moment, plastic surgeons in the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, began the second phase of a procedure that lasted around 30 hours in total. When it was completed, 21 year-old Katie Stubblefield became the youngest person to receive a successful full face transplant.

Taken in 2017 as part of a bigger series documenting Stubblefields groundbreaking surgical transformation, Katies New Face (2017) is one of several arresting images that have made the shortlist for the 2019 Wellcome Photography prize. The aim of the award is to celebrate compelling imagery that captures stories of health, medicine and science. Composed of four categories Social Perspectives, Hidden Worlds, Medicine in Focus and Outbreaks the shortlist perhaps predictably favours documentary and photojournalism. There are some surprises, though, not least the often beautiful abstractions of David Linsteads microscopic image of the capillaries of a human fingertip that had been injected with red ink.

Katies New Face, 2017, Lynn Johnson.

At the age of 21, Katie became the youngest person ever to receive a full- face transplant. This was the critical moment after the donors face was surgically removed before being transferred onto Katie. There was complete silence in the room as the surgical team absorbed the gravity of their mission. The transformational procedure took over 30 hours and was undertaken by a team of around 30 medical professionals at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

From its inception, photography has been utilised to illuminate the mysteries of science and medicine, with Victorian pioneers such as Henry Fox Talbot and Auguste Adolphe Bertsch creating microscopic studies of insects and plants that often resembled ornate line drawings. As the category Hidden Worlds shows, that tradition of cutting-edge experimentation continues apace with an advanced image-mapping of HIV infection undertaken by a team of research scientists that allows us to see four representations of the same cluster of 100,000 cells from a rhesus monkey.

Shroud, Rhne Glacier, 2018, Simon Norfolk and Klaus Thymann

In the Rhne glacier in the Swiss Alps, a family runs an ice grotto as a popular tourist attraction. But, as the Earth warms, the glacier is shrinking and the grotto is under threat an unusual example of how climate change imperils peoples livelihoods. In response, the family has covered part of the glacier with white geosynthetic blankets to reflect away the suns heat and keep the cold in. This slows the shrinkage, but it is only a small-scale, temporary fix.

In the same section, Simon Norfolk and Klaus Thymanns man-altered landscape Shroud, Rhne Glacier, shows the range of approaches and the breadth of subject matter that the prize celebrates. It could be mistaken at first glance for a signature work by the conceptual land artist Christo, famous for his wrapping of monumental buildings and stretches of landscape in fabric. It is, in fact, an attempt by environmentalists to slow down the melting of the Swiss glacier, the heavy thermal material reflecting heat and light that would otherwise destroy the ice. It is an image of an undertaking that seems both surreal and slightly desperate, but the ecological context is calamitous: the Rhne Glacier has lost 350 metres (1,150ft) in ice thickness since 1856 and around 40 metres in the last decade alone.

Zora the Robot Care-Giver, 2018, Dmitry Kostyukov This woman in a nursing facility outside Paris has developed an emotional attachment to Zora the robot. There are at least 15 of these robots currently in use in healthcare settings in France, and more around the world, including Australia, the US and elsewhere in Europe. Controlled remotely by a nurse, Zora can help people with communication and provide comfort and entertainment (including exercise classes). Some people respond very positively to interacting with Zora, others ignore it completely.

Sex and death inevitably feature and, again, it is in the Hidden Worlds category where the contrast is most dramatic. Simone Cerios wonderfully tender and intimate series, Love Givers, is represented by a single understated image of two semi-naked women lying on a bed. Shot from above, it suggests the casual intimacy of longterm lovers, but one of them, Debora, is the first officially sanctioned sexual assistant in Italy, whose role is to support disabled people to explore intimate practices.

Love Givers, 2013, Simone Cerio

Debora is the first sexual assistant in Italy supporting disabled people (male and female) to explore intimate practices. Repression of sexual instincts can cause psychological stress, and this can particularly affect those who are not able to use their bodies fully. By providing physical contact of the right kind in a safe environment, a trained professional can improve a persons wellbeing, increase self-esteem, and prepare them for future intimate relationships.

Cerio has described her project as a physical and mental journey that challenges our perception of the disabled and their most intimate needs. Sexual assistance is a technique of psychophysical approach to disabled people, based on massages, kisses, visual contacts and erotic stimulation, she elaborates on her Facebook page, This project is an opportunity, perhaps the only way for disabled people to have such an experience.

The Morgue, 2017 Luis Henry Agudelo Cano

In a country with high rates of violent crime, many young people in Colombia choose to study forensic sciences or embalming. They seek to discover the identities of the many unknown bodies that arrive at the morgue in the hope that they can then be returned to their families. This busy university teaching morgue in Medellin also doubles as the judicial morgue when the civil service is on strike.

Luis Henry Agudelo Cano has already won second place in the current affairs and news category of the 2018 Sony world photography awards for his black and white series Young People Who Beautify Death. The single image from it included here gives you a sense of its almost ghostly intimacy. Entitled The Morgue, and shot in Colombia in 2017, it is a multiple exposure of one of the young people who are trained to, as Cano puts it, salvage the beauty of the deceased, that those who love them can always remember them. Like his fellow students, this young man is being trained in postmortem techniques to erase the scars and wounds of violent death so that the victims of Colombias prolonged paramilitary-fuelled violence can be viewed by their relatives.

Among the several captured moments of intimacy on display in the shortlist, perhaps the strangest is by Dmitry Kostyukov. His portrait of an elderly resident of a nursery facility near Paris is tenderly observed, but it challenges all our received notions of what constitutes care and, indeed, tenderness. The woman is cradling Zora, a robot remotely controlled by a nurse as an aid to communication, comfort and entertainment of the residents. Many of them ignore Zora, while others take her to their hearts as they would a child.

Mapping SHIV infection in the body, 2018, by Carly Ziegler, Alex Shalek, Shaina Carrol, Leslie Kean, Victor Tkachev and Lucrezia Colonna.

Visualising complex genomic data is hard. In this image, each of the four coloured circles shows the same roughly 100,000 cells from rhesus macaques, with genetically and phenotypically similar cells clustered together. Every dot represents a single cell and the lines connecting them reflect how similar they are. In the bottom right circle, red cells are from monkeys infected with simian- human immunodeficiency virus while blue cells are from uninfected ones. Distinguishing the red and blue cells helps to show which cells change and malfunction during infection, despite treatment with antiretroviral drugs.

Like many of the images that have made it on to the shortlist, Zora the robot care-giver is a glimpse of a future in which new technologies such as advanced robotics and artificial intelligence will inform our lives in ways that, until recently, we would have scarcely imagined outside of the realm of science fiction. It is these glimpses of a future that is already here that makes the selection so compelling. That, and the evidence of the deep humanity that still underlies so much of the work done by those at the forefront of advances in health, medicine and science.

All the winning and shortlisted entries will go on show at the Lethaby Gallery, London, 4-13 July. Category prizes and the overall winner will be announced at aceremony in London on 3 July 2019

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Artists: Cédric Eisenring, Carol Jackson, Sean Kennedy, Matthieu Manche, Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton, Miriam Laura Leonardi, Flannery Silva

Venue: Bel Ami, Los Angeles

Exhibition Title: Bloom

Co-curated with: Orion Martin

Date: September 20 – October 27, 2018

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Press Release:

Bel Ami is pleased to present Bloom, a group show curated in collaboration with Orion Martin.

Four murals act as the backdrop for the show: appropriations of paintings by Michel Majerus, realized through documentation gleaned online and in books, painted directly onto the walls of the space, approximate monumental paintings never seen in person by Martin or Bel Ami. A giant sneaker next to a generically geometric abstract shape tries to replicate a 1997 installation from a group exhibition Majerus participated in at Städtische Galerie Nordhorn.

Opposite from it, Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton’s Bloom, after which the show is named, stands as an equally colossal figure: the portrait of a San Francisco art student circa 2003 rendered in beefy brushstrokes, it encapsulates the era’s perfectly indie style. Feeling as fresh now as fifteen years ago, and transcending its documentarian impulse, the burgeonning identity of the young larger-than-life woman appears almost like an icon, similar to Watteau’s Pierrot, which once possibly hung as a sign in a café (it now hangs in the Louvre). Can the same shoe be attractive to everyone, and forever?

Nearby, Flannery Silva’s Bumper Ballerina sits. Based on a bird cage-like prison with a heart dangling inside, featured in the world of Elisa Design—an online illustrator who Silva purchases digital doll renderings from—Silva’s version is covered in foam tubing that acts as a protective bumper, similar to what you’d see on the bars of a baby’s crib or the handlebars of a child’s bicycle. Hanging inside the cage are two dangling novelty fishing lures shaped like penises. They are positioned to echo a ballerina’s legs en pointe, dangling above a reflective dance floor, mirroring the cage, its content and its surroundings in a circular pool of hot pink.

Sean Kennedy’s paintings on plexiglas circles originate from the designs of NASCAR automobiles, which sport sponsors’ logos as well as more incongruous graphics. Kennedy’s distorted versions render the speedy advertorial as formal autonomy brought to a stand still. While Untitled (2016-2018) is based on a 1980s design promoting BASF’s brief foray into the manufacturing of audio equipment, as suggested by soundwave-like patterns, Untitled (2018) is freed from direct branding references, looking like they are about to start spinning, perhaps like tires, perhaps like Duchamp’s Rotoreliefs.

Two paper mache sculptures by Carol Jackson feature degraded surveillance images found on the Internet, the best contemporary repository of oral culture, showing scenes of wildfires. Looking like their sliced sides open up to a landscape within, they are both alien artifacts in their strangeness and unmistakably human in their sampling of decorative language and their handmade quality. In anticipation of the apocalypse—or has it happened already?—Jackson’s sculptures testify to the banality of disasters, while casting a nearly nostalgic gaze on the deadpan slapstick comedy that is the end of human civilization.

Forever lifeless and fixed in an unclear position—is she paying respect to her patients, or simply curtsying?—Miriam Laura Leonardi’s sculpture Angels of Chaos 4 depicts a nurse, spiked onto the stem of a desiccated plant. Greeting the visitor, its eyes glowing, its face carved by a Swiss carnival mask-maker. The sculptures in the ongoing Angels of Chaos series depart from works of female artists that include a flower in their margins, which Leonardi uses as starting points for her paradoxical assemblages, in which her own expression appears hushed in the same black and white auto-portrait (her gesture copying an unknown Dada artist). The straw on Angels of Chaos 4 refers to the same material sprouting from the top of Meret Oppenheim’s 1962 Primeval Venus.

Almost-stock and found characters also make their way into Cédric Eisenring’s works. A marching band, the purpose of their parade uncertain, appears in Soft Parade, a diptych of etchings made with modified discarded industrial printing plates. Two fairy-tale-like children, originating in a shoe advertisement, but later found on the cover of Simon Finn’s 1970 psychedelic folk album Pass the Distance, faintly head toward the horizon in Still Close Friends, a white-on-white pressed velvet work. The psychedelia in Eisenring’s works, at once gentle and off-putting, draws from various narratives—children’s books to Sci-Fi literature—and is generated through elaborate processes mixing both classical and digital techniques. It is psychedelia both of our fantastic imagination and of the world now, far far away from its ubiquitous sources.

Ubiquity manifests as a riotous mix of real locations and fictional characters in Matthieu Manche’s drawings from his Sekaido series: everybody, everything, everywhere, all the time. Made using the materials and techniques of manga drawing, the black-and-white works on paper juxtapose snapshots from Manche’s travels around the world and elements from characters found in daily life in Tokyo, where Manche lives part-time. Sekaido is the prime art supply store in Tokyo and literally means “the world store.” The entirety of the series, comprised of 768 works divided in 102 subgroups, realized between 2004 and 2016, presents a world populated by the twisted, the contorted, the disfigured: at Bel Ami, a selection of four subgroups of scenes set in Antwerp, Prague, Tokyo and Pondicherry playfully toys with archetypes and tourism, patchworked signs escaping their original intentions.

Majerus died in a plane crash in 2002 at the age of thirty-five, the contents of his laptop lost in the accident.

Link: “Bloom” at Bel Ami

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Paris Fashion Week: Your guide to the spring/summer 2018 shows

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Change is afoot at Paris Fashion Week. In a first, the official schedule this season will kick off on Monday night instead of Tuesday, with the Jacquemus show and after-party. New creative directors at four major houses—Chloé, Givenchy, Lanvin and Carven—will make their runway debuts. And the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode is introducing several international designers to its lineup, most notably Thom Browne and Joseph Altuzarra of New York. Read on to see our predictions of the week’s highlights.

The headliners When it comes to big names, Paris packs a punch like no other. This season marks Maria Grazia Chiuri and Anthony Vacarello’s one-year anniversary at Dior and Saint Laurent, respectively. (A tribute will also be in order at Saint Laurent following the passing of co-founder Pierre Bergé earlier this month.) Elsewhere, expectations will be running high at Comme des Garçons, which has attracted a legion of new fans since this year’s solo exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And while Demna Gvasalia’s own label, Vetements, is not showing on the schedule, he will be presenting his radical brand of couture-influenced streetwear at Balenciaga. And not to be missed, of course, is Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, Phoebe Philo at Céline, Nicolas Ghesquière at Louis Vuitton and Jonathan Anderson at Loewe, who will continue to set the agenda – and dictate our shopping wishlists—for the season to come.

4 debuts to watch

British designer Clare Waight Keller, who finished her dreamy six-year-run at Chloé in March, has replaced Riccardo Tisci as Givenchy’s artistic director. Although spring/summer 2018 marks her official debut, over the last few months Waight Keller has been dropping hints of what we might expect from her first collection via a series of black-and-white portraits and short films shot by Steven Meisel. It’s clear she’s ready to embrace a darker, sexier aesthetic that the airy, sun-kissed designs she deployed at Chloé. Count on sharp tailoring—Waight Keller cuts a killer pant.

Natacha Ramsay-Levi joined Chloé in April as a relatively unknown talent to the outside world. As creative director of womenswear under Nicolas Ghesquière for 15 years—first at Balenciaga and then Louis Vuitton—she’s been esteemed within industry circles for some time. Her work to date has little in common with Chloé’s soft, sensual and flou-loving woman. Chloé is ripe for new interpretation and Ramsay-Levi could be the timely appointment in this politically charged era of third-wave feminism.

Following the dramatic departure of longtime artistic director Alber Elbaz in 2015, it’s no exaggeration to say the future of Lanvin continues to look uncertain. His successor, haute couture designer Bouchra Jarrar, stayed on just 16 months before stepping down down in July. Her replacement, the fifty-nine-year-old French designer Olivier Lapidus, has arrived at Lanvin at a high-pressure time, with sales on the decline after Elbaz’s departure. Unlike Jarrar, Lapidus is not widely known in the industry: He worked at Balmain Homme for a year in the mid-’80s and then worked for his father, the designer Ted Lapidus, before setting up his own eponymous “e-couture” brand. As for the rest, we have to wait until Wednesday to see what’s in store for France’s longest operating couture house.

Carven is the fourth storied Parisian label to welcome a new creative director this season. Swiss designer Serge Ruffieux has joined the brand after a nearly 10-year stint at Dior, where he worked as co-artistic director in the period between Raf Simons’s departure in October 2015 and Maria Grazia Chiuri’s appointment in September 2016. Ruffieux kicked off his new vision with Resort 2018, introducing a new Carven muse who is as streetwise and quirky as she is ladylike. We look forward to seeing more of her on Thursday.

Americans in Paris New York-based Joseph Altuzarra and Thom Browne have joined the womenswear calendar this season, proving the cross-Atlantic pull of showing in Paris shows no sign of waning. Following the footsteps of U.S. fashion houses like Proenza Schouler and Rodarte, who showed in Paris during couture in July, and Tommy Hilfiger’s recent shows in Las Vegas and London, their appearance adds fuel to the argument that static designer-city ties of old are gradually being replaced by something more fluid. Virgil Abloh’s Off-White show also promises to be one of the hottest tickets of the week as the designer continues to clock successes with a recent Nike collaboration and store opening in New York.

New names to know Paris is welcoming a wave of new talent this season. Marine Serre, whose skilful cutting and adroit mix of styles and references nabbed her this year’s LVMH Prize, will present her Spring/Summer 2018 collection by appointment. Glenn Martens of Y/Project, known for his expert blend of maximalist opulence with streetwear, is another one to watch following his ANDAM Award win, which has given him the support to explore innovative embroidery techniques that will make their debut this season. Atlein designer Antonin Tron, who worked with Raf Simons and Demna Gvasalia before launching his own line last year, is another not to be missed. Tron’s debut catwalk show in March showcased his innovative approach to draping, structuring and contouring jersey, to dazzling effect.

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The Paris catacombs (photo by Joe deSousa, via Wikimedia Commons)

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Subscribe to receive these posts as a weekly newsletter.

Two teenage boys were rescued after getting lost in the Paris catacombs for three days. The remains of some 6 million people are housed in the catacombs’ 150 miles of tunnels.

A painting found in the attic of a home in Arizona’s Sun City retirement community is believed to be a previously unknown work by Jackson Pollock. According to auction house J. Levine Auction and Appraisal, which commissioned forensic reports to verify its authenticity, it could be worth up to $15 million.

The artist Khadija Saye is missing following the fatal blaze that consumed west London’s Grenfell Tower on Wednesday. She lived with her mother on the building’s 20th floor.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker called for the relocation of the state’s only Confederate monument, currently located on Georges Island in Boston Harbor. Meanwhile, in St. Louis, a dispute over the Confederate Memorial in Forest Park escalated after the Missouri Civil War Museum claimed to own a deed to the monument and the municipal government asserted the city owns the monument because the deed is no longer valid.

Two Australian museums, including the National Museum, agreed to return the remains of several Ainu people to Japan.

Forty-six years after the song “Imagine” was first released, John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono has finally been given a co-writer credit on the song.

A 118-year-old watercolor painting of a dead tree creeper by Dr. Edward Wilson was found in a hut in Antarctica.

Nearly a decade after its Rafael Viñoly-designed renovation opened, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum will finally open its rooftop terrace to the public.

Statue of Zeus Enthroned, artist unknown, Greek (circa 100 BCE), marble, 29 1/8 x 18 1/8 x 17 15/16 in (photo courtesy the J. Paul Getty Museum)

The J. Paul Getty Museum returned a 29-inch marble statue of Zeus from the first century BCE to Italy. The Getty acquired the object in 1992 but no export documents were ever found for it; a fragment from the same sculpture was discovered in recent years near Naples.

A mural by the street artist David Choe on Manhattan’s Lower East Side was repeatedly tagged. Choe’s commission for the high-profile mural site caused controversy due to the artist’s claim that he had sexually assaulted a woman.

The East Village’s Vladimir Lenin statue, which was removed from the rooftop of East Houston Street’s Red Square apartment building in September 2016, was reinstalled nearby on the roof of 178 Norfolk Street.

A commission for a 41-foot-tall public sculpture by Tim Hawkinson that was to stand outside downtown San Francisco’s new, $6-billion Transbay Transit Center, was canceled after its costs ballooned from $1.67 million to $3.7 million.

The architect Jeehoon Park has filed a lawsuit against Skidmore, Owings & Merrill alleging that the firm’s design for One World Trade Center was stolen from a graduate student project he created in 1999.

Members of Newfoundland indigenous groups demanded the return of the skulls of their ancestors, Nonosabasut and Demasduit, from the National Museums of Scotland.

Google launched a new initiative, “We Wear Culture,” a digitized collection of over 30,000 fashion garments and objects.

The California Academy of Sciences became the first museum to commit to the Paris Accords to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The main building of Houston’s Menil Collection will be closed for eight months, beginning February 26, 2018, while its floors are sanded and finished. The museum’s other buildings, including the Rothko Chapel and Cy Twombly Gallery, will remain open.

Kurt Schwitters’s unfinished Dada installation in England’s Lake District, the “Merz Barn,” is at risk of being sold to developers who may bulldoze it unless an arts organization or institution steps in to preserve it.

Kurt Schwitters’s “Merz Barn” in the Lake District (photo by Luke McKernan/Flickr)

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Agnes Gund confirmed that she sold a 1962 painting by Roy Lichtenstein for a reported $165 million (including fees). The sale has been used to establish the Art for Justice Fund, an “initiative designed to make meaningful progress on key reforms in the U.S. criminal justice system.”

The J. Paul Getty Museum secured its acquisition of Parmigianino’s “The Virgin and Child with Saint Mary Magdalen and the Infant St John the Baptist” (ca 1535–40).

Monty Python member Michael Palin donated more than 50 of his personal notebooks, spanning 22 years, to the British Library.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts received a $9 million bequest from the estate of California businesswoman Madeleine Rast — the largest single gift in the museum’s history.

Jean-Léon Gérôme, “Portrait of Claude-Armand Gérôme,” (ca 1848) (© Fitzwilliam Museum)

The Fitzwilliam Museum acquired Jean-Léon Gérôme’s “Portrait of Claude-Armand Gérôme” (ca 1848).

Jordan Schnitzer donated $5 million to the construction of an arts museum on the campus of Portland State University.

Zach Rawling pledged to donate Frank Lloyd Wright’s David and Gladys Wright House to the School of Architecture at Taliesin.

The province of Quebec gave grants totaling Canadian $4.5 million (~US $3.4 million) to 18 museums.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales received a $184-million grant to help build an expansion.

The Carnegie Museum of Art acquired five photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot.

In its final round of grants for 2017, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded 1,196 grants for a total of $82 million.

The Joslyn Art Museum received a gift of 124 photographs from the collection of Bruce Berman. The gift includes works by Walker Evans, Russell Lee, John Vachon, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, and Graciela Iturbide.

The J. Paul Getty Museum also received a gift from Bruce Berman, totaling 186 works. The gifted works include pieces by Harry Callahan, Dorothea Lange, and Camilo José Vergara.

Camilo José Vergara, “Saint Peter’s Pentecostal Deliverance Center, 937 Home Street, South Bronx” (2002), chromogenic print (© Camilo José Vergara; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, gift of Bruce Berman and Lea Russo)

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Daniel H. Weiss was appointed president and chief executive officer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum also named Allison Rutledge-Parisi as its Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art appointed three new members to its board of trustees: Allison Berg, Troy Carter, and Carter Reum.

Hemma Schmutz was appointed director of Linz’s Lentos Kunstmuseum.

Rebecca Salter will succeed Eileen Cooper as Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools.

David Lan will stand down as artistic director of the Young Vic.

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, completed construction of its permanent home in the Miami Design District.

The inaugural Kuala Lumpur Biennale will open in November.

A major renovation of the Cattle Raisers Museum was completed.

On Stellar Rays will close its gallery at 213 Bowery later this Summer. Stellar Projects will be open by appointment at 1 Rivington Street.

Toby Kamps was named the new director of the Blaffer Museum.

Phillips auction house appointed Meiling Lee as an international specialist in 20th Century & Contemporary Art.

The Institute of Contemporary Art in London added artist Wolfgang Tillmans, collector Delya Allakhverdova, and arts patron Maria Sukkar to its council.

Tracy K. Smith was named the next US Poet Laureate, a role she’ll begin in the fall.

Kevin Jennings was appointed as the next director of the Tenement Museum.

Jenny Dixon, the longtime director of the Noguchi Museum, announced that she will retire at the end of 2017.

Leora Maltz-Leca was appointed curator of contemporary projects at the Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, Rhode Island.

Tarah Hogue was appointed as the Vancouver Art Gallery’s first Senior Curatorial Fellow, with a focus on Indigenous Art.

Paul O’Neill was appointed as the new artistic director of Checkpoint Helsinki.

Accolades

Switzerland’s federal office of culture announced the winners of the Swiss Art Awards and the Swiss Design Awards.

The Museum of Modern Art’s film curator, Dave Kehr, received the insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Obituaries

Adam West as Batman (film still by Shed On The Moon/Flickr)

Chana Bloch (1940–2017), poet and Hebrew translator.

David Boxer (1946–2017), artist, collector, and scholar. Former chief curator of the National Gallery of Jamaica.

Andy Cunningham (1950–2017), entertainer and ventriloquist.

Samuel D. Cook (1928–2017), educator.

Edit DeAk (1950–2017), artist and writer. Co-editor of Art-Rite.

Vin Garbutt (aka the Teesside troubadour) (1947–2017), folksinger and songwriter.

Juliana Young Koo (1905–2017), diplomat, supercentenarian, and author of 109 Springtimes: My Story in 2015 (2015).

Ndary Lo (1961–2017), sculptor.

Edith Shiffert (1916–2017), poet.

Diane Marian Tor (1948–2017), artist, writer, and educator. Renowned for her “Man for a Day” and gender-as-performance workshops.

Ed Victor (1939–2017), literary agent.

Adam West (1928–2017), actor. Best known for portraying Batman.

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coup de soleil, 2015 Musa Banana, UV print on glass, metal racks, magnets Dimensions variable

See the Light, 2014 UV print on passepartout, hand sewn Tyvek® 2462-C, acrylic glass frame, latex print on non-woven wallpaper Dimensions variable

The bulb, 2015 Replica of the „Centennial Light Bulb“, livestream from the fire station in Livermore (California), iPad Dimensions variable

tempo rubato (Geneva), 2015 Swiss station clock showing Geneva’s mean solar time (90 cm in diameter), reproduction of a black and white photograph from c. 1885 (from the collection of the Bibliothèque de Gèneve), wooden frame (40 x 50 cm)

Installation views: “L’heure entre chien et loup”, Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva

Lately I found an intriguing french expression in a book by Jaques Derrida: the hour between dog and wolf. It describes the time of the day that we also call twilight, or dusk. The time when the light is so dim you can't distinguish a dog from a wolf. It made me think of the past, when time was still closely connected to sunlight and each place had its own time. When Geneva's "Tour de l'Ile" had three clocks showing three different times: the one from Geneva, the one from Paris and the one from Berne. It was the necessity of train schedules that put an end to this diversity at the end of the 19th Century, since then we live in time zones. And it was the invention of the light bulb around the same time that made human action become more independent from the sun.

           I have long been fascinated by the history of light bulbs, and this summer I had the chance to visit the world's longest burning one. I travelled to the town of Livermore in California and asked for access to the city's fire station, as this is where the bulb is burning nonstop since 1901. I stood underneath the weakly glowing bulb next to the fire engine and chatted with one of the firefighters. He acted like a guardian, the guardian of the bulb. And suddenly I felt like standing underneath an energy vortex, a mysterious source of power. This bulb seemed to resist time and deterioration. Will it ever stop glowing? And how many people from all over the world are watching it right now via livestream photos of the "bulb-cam" that is installed right next to it?

           When I took my leave the firefighter gave me a t-shirt with a picture of the bulb and the words "1.000.000 hours of service" printed on it. I wore the same shirt a few days later when I went to see an exhibition of historic photography in Los Angeles. Next to the amazing photographs spanning the 19th and 20th Century they also showed historic cameras and other devices connected to the history of photography. Among these exhibits was the replica of an old light bulb hanging from the ceiling. It was made to resemble the look of the antique bulb, but with the material that is used for recent bulbs. Which basically means that this bulb will end service after only 30.000 hours. Is that true progress in times of capitalism?

           One of the museum guards startled me out of my thoughts by saying that it was closing hour. And while I was slowly approaching the exit I watched the guards covering some of the photographs with special fabric to protect them from light rays. The exhibition was called "See the Light", but now I understood that light truly was the aggressor here, attacking the images, endangering their existence, challenging history. It was light that once created these photos, now they had to be saved from it. And for me the exhibition seemed perfect in this very state, with some of the images hidden behind high-tech material, while others were not. Somewhere in between light and darkness, between visibility and invisibility.

           All photographs in the exhibition were developed onto paper. But basically any material that reacts to light can be used as photographic medium. Even a banana plant would carry images after you'd attach negatives to its leaves for several weeks. Photosynthesis then becomes photography and creates pictures in different shades of green. Once you remove the negatives to unveil the delicate images, they start to disappear by slowly fading into the same green all over again. In a similar way, albeit quite unhealthy and all in red, works the process that let photographs appear on the skin of those Instagram users that started the "sunburn art" hype in the summer of 2015.

           But what shall the images show that we'd materialize? With the millions of photographs being taken every single day, which ones do we like to add? Sometimes I wish I could forget everything that I know about photography. And then take pictures without knowing what the meaning of that is. Like the stray dogs from Mongolia that I equipped with a camera which was automatically taking one photograph each minute. These wild dogs were able to establish a form of photography that is devoid of any aesthetic pretension or intended composition. The resulting series of pictures represent a direct approach to a place which we would otherwise be incapable of realizing. It is a form of subconscious photography that is directed by smell, and as such is completely strange to us.

           Which makes me wonder if the expression "the hour between dog and wolf" speaks about more than just levels of light. It also seems to describe that limit between the familiar, the comfortable versus the unknown and the dangerous. An uncertain threshold between hope and fear: when the dogs return home and the wolves appear.

(from the press text of the show)