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BONHAMS holds Irish Art Sale Wednesday

February 9, 11 //
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Fine Art Auctioneers BONHAMS, one of the few surviving Georgian auction houses in London, will hold its first Irish Arts sale Wednesday. For those wishing to guage the demand for Irish art in 2011, the event will be a valuable thermometer.

The sale marks the end of the company’s long-standing association with Adams Auctioneers in Dublin. This is the first year that the two houses will have separate auction events.

Works going under the hammer include paintings by Jack B. Yeats, Sir John Lavery and Basil Blackshaw. Matthew Girling, Bonhams CEO Europe and the Middle East, comments: “Irish Art at Bonhams has a distinguished track record so I am delighted that we will now have our own dedicated Irish Art Department to celebrate the work of leading Irish artists.”

The auction will take place at BONHAM’s new Bond Street showroom.

Irish Arts Centre will Donate Books on Paddy’s Day

February 5, 11 //
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Irish Central reports that New York’s Irish Arts Centre will donate more than 10,000 free Irish books, gathered from local publishing houses, to readers in all New York’s boroughs on St. Patrick’s day.

With Ireland’s economy in a well publicized state of disrepair, it’s the centre’s intention to promote the more positive aspects of the nation’s future.

“Our mission is to celebrate both Irish and Irish American literature in a broad context in a way that serves all New Yorkers,” Aidan Connolly, the center’s executive director told the Irish Voice.

Parker Meridien Gingerbread Extravaganza!

December 1, 10 //
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Some of the movie-inspired creations at The Parker Meridien’s gingerbread extravaganza! All money benefits City Harvest, the world’s first food rescue organization, dedicated to feeding the city’s hungry men, women and children. Competing bakeries include Tribeca Treats, The Treatstruck, Cupcake Cafe, Buttercup Bakeshop West Side, Norma’s and Soutine Bakery.

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Jesse Malin in Belfast

July 2, 10 //
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New York in February: there’s a blizzard outside and the streets of New York’s East Village are lined with great mounds of pure white snow, but Jesse Malin’s devout fans remain undeterred. They gather in Malin’s basement club- ‘Bowery Electric’- for a night of the rocker’s distinct form of punk rock.
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The Aesthetics of Maurice Pialat’s ‘L’Enfance Nue.’

April 27, 10 //
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‘L’Enfance Nue’ is striking in the blandness of its imagery. There is nothing aesthetically to distinguish the reality of this film from the reality of one’s everyday life. As the film opens on a dreary day on a street lined with concrete buildings, one shivers at the truthfulness of Pialat’s world. Life would never look so real were it reflected in a mirror.
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A Glance at Arin Arbus

March 16, 10 //
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On a cold evening in February, well-dressed theatregoers in cravats and crisp white shirts gathered in the lobby of the Duke Theater on 42nd street.  They were there to see ‘Measure for Measure’, the latest Shakespearian offering from Theater for a New Audience and its most fashionable director, Arin Arbus. What began as patches of hushed conversation soon escalated into a cacophony of sound with the arrival of more audience members and anticipation hung in the air.
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Minor Sea Gods of Maine

February 23, 10 //
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Viewing Inka Essenhigh’s ‘Minor Sea Gods of Maine’ reminds us of turning the first page of a wonderful storybook. We delve back into our imaginations and explore the celestial images of our dreams on canvas. A ghostly green sea seeps over rocks. Finely drawn waves form a frothy beaked gargoyle, sitting on the edge of a rocky precipice. A long green limb emerges from the sea and penetrates the sky: Dimensions and boundaries become meaningless aside from one fine line marking the horizon. Brush strokes seem gentle but precise in creating this mythical otherworldly scene, a throwback to religious pagan imagery.
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Nomination for the Irish Times Theatre Awards

January 16, 10 //
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Nominations have been announced. Check if your predictions were right…

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An Irish Export at the Public Theater

January 5, 10 //
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SILVER STARS (FINAL)
After a tedious run of Othello at the public theatre, a more exciting prospect has arrived in the form of an Irish export. ‘Silver Stars’, a home-grown collaboration by Sean Millar and Brokentalkers theatre company, is a song cycle based on the lives of older Irish gay men.

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Falling for Corn Exchange

October 7, 09 //
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FREEFALL by Michael West

Freefall is both like and unlike any of Corn Exchange’s previous work. Director Annie Ryan seems to have somewhat moved away from her signature use of ‘white face’ and Commedia dell’Arte. This would lead audiences to believe that perhaps this production is more ‘contemporary’ than the Corn Exchange has shown us before.
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