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Juan Hamilton, an aspiring artist who enriched the last years of the painter Georgia O’Keeffe as her much younger caretaker, confidant and protégé, but who became the object of sensational accusations as virtually the sole beneficiary of her will, died on Feb. 20 at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 79. His death,…
The Haitian artist and writer known as Frankétienne, who published the first novel written entirely in Haitian Creole and who, as the nation’s foremost literary lion, refracted its chaos and disorder through art, died on Thursday at his home in Port-au-Prince, the nation’s capital. He was 88. The Haitian Culture Ministry announced the death. The…
On a recent eight-hour shift at a McDonald’s in Hong Kong, Luke Ching, 52, wiped tables, cleared trays of half-eaten fries, emptied cups of soda and milk tea and lugged bulging trash bags to the dumpster. For him, the main goal of the part-time work was not making ends meet. It was research for his…
“Morgiane” is believed to be the oldest existing opera written by a Black American — but despite its historic significance, the show was only performed for audiences for the first time in 2025. “Morgiane” was the magnum opus of New Orleans-born composer Edmond Dede. The opera, based on themes from “Ali Baba and the 40…
Harrison Greenbaum Through March 22 at 7 p.m. at Asylum NYC, 123 East 24th Street, Manhattan; asylumnyc.com. Harrison Greenbaum regularly tells jokes at the Comedy Cellar, but he is also a successful magician who has toured the globe. Starting in 2022, Greenbaum spent nearly two years as a starring act in Cirque du Soleil’s New…
ARTISTIC duo Beagles and Ramsay put on a display of performance art last night, which involved black pudding made with their own blood. The show, at the National Galleries Scotland: Portrait, had an audience for current and former art students from West Lothian College, who were invited to meet the artists afterwards. Glasgow-based John Beagles…
Lauren Cuthbertson, guest principle ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet, photographed for the New Review. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The Observer Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
Two art fraud rings in a remote Canadian city produced thousands of paintings sold in galleries as works by Norval Morrisseau, Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous artist. By Norimitsu Onishi Photographs by Brett Gundlock Reporting from Thunder Bay, Ontario Jan. 26, 2025 Tim Tait put two and two together when he went to sell some of…
Yuko Mohri thought she knew what the Japanese government wanted from its artists: something conservative and quiet. It certainly wasn’t a renegade punk rocker with a penchant for moldy fruits. “It started out as a joke,” she said during a recent interview in her Tokyo studio. She was explaining how memories of a school science…
The most famous beastly sculpture in the college town of Athens, Ga., is — improbably — not a bulldog. It is an 11-foot-tall welded steel horse, an abstract labyrinth of undulations and crescents, created at the University of Georgia by a visiting Chicago sculptor, Abbott Pattison, in 1954. When a crane first heaved Pattison’s mammoth…
