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BY THE EDITOR September 15, 2021
Curator Priya Khanchandani and Winehouse’s friend Naomi Parry at a wall unveiling to announce the Design Museum exhibition. Photography by Jeff Spicer / Getty Images
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A retrospective of Amy Winehouse’s career will be on view at the London Design Museum.
The Design Museum in London is preparing to open a major Amy Winehouse career retrospective. Rather than focusing on her short but troubled life and tense media exposure, according to curator Priya Khanchandani, the exhibition will focus on Winehouse’s musicality, stylistic influences, and fashion awareness through personal items like an electric guitar and handwritten notebooks. “It felt like something was left unsaid about Amy’s story and about her as a serious musician – the way she was reflected in the media had really diminished her legacy,” Khanchandani tells dem Guardian. “There’s a lot of ado about her story devouring her and I’ve tried to strip the layers off and make sure we’re telling the correct story.” An important part of the show is the creation of an installation by artist Chiara Stephenson, which is inspired by the Metropolis studio where Winehouse recorded; another room will showcase her red Moschino bag and her yellow Preen dress. Winehouse fans can also expect new music to be released from the singer’s estate soon.
A developer from Miami is preparing to build the tallest east coast tower south of New York.
The Brickell neighborhood will rise to 349 meters One Bayfront Plaza, designed by ODP Architects, will be the tallest skyscraper in the region south of New York. Demolition of the site’s current building is slated to begin in the first half of 2022, and developer FECR says the demand is so great that every unit has already been sold, which credits migration from states like New York and California.
The Australian Islamic Center by Glenn Murcutt. Photography by Anthony Browell
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Australian architect Glenn Murcutt receives the Praemium Imperiale Prize 2021.
The Praemium Imperiale laureate is dedicated to awarding artistic areas that do not fall under the Nobel Prize groundbreaking numbers in the fields of sculpture, painting, music and architecture and is carried out every year by the Japan Art Association. Glenn Murcutt received this year’s award for his contributions to architecture and became the first Australian awardee. As the association notes, Murcutt is an “architect ahead of his time” and “has spent his career building humble, environmentally friendly buildings that are rooted in the climate and tradition of his native Australia”.
A symbolic church that was destroyed on September 11th is being rebuilt by Santiago Calatrava.
After the collapse of the original Greek Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas and the National Shrine in New York during the 9/11 attacks, Spanish engineer and architect Santiago Calatrava reconstructs the historic building by exploring the influences of Orthodoxy and the anthropomorphism in architecture. Although initial reconstruction began in 2015, the opening date has been postponed to 2022 due to lack of funding and subsequent delays caused by the pandemic. With a new cash flow pipeline from Nonprofit Friends of Saint Nicholas, the revised design is from Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia Grand. inspired mosque. As Santiago describes, his vision arises “from the idea of a metamorphosis of the images of the Virgin as the throne of wisdom ‘Sedes sapientiae’ and transforms them into a temple of the Church”.
“Stay Downers” (2017) by Nairy Baghramian at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Photography by Timo Ohler
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The Berlin sculptor Nairy Baghramian receives the Nasher Prize 2022.
Nairy Baghramian, an Iranian-German artist who excels at abstract sculptural work, blends historical art influences with modern sculpture to explore the nuances of human anatomy. Her rich work can be seen in renowned galleries such as the Tate Modern in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York meteoric rise in her field, she watches as she receives the Nasher Prize, an award created by the architect Renzo Piano. The handover ceremony is scheduled for next spring at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas. Director Jeremy Strick credits Baghramian’s projects as “evocative, enigmatic explorations of the body that examine our propensity for binary inner and outer, insider and outsider.”
Dread Scott is auctioning his first “White Man For Sale” NFT at Christie’s.
In a degree in social theory, artist Dread Scott created a 70 second loop video of a white man, ready to buy, standing on a block sold as an NFT by Christie’s auction house. Scott’s work undermines the traditional hierarchy of slavery, while his video captures an ignored white man on a pedestal by black pedestrians. The main message of the piece, however, lies in his Connection to capitalism: Scott uses American history and slavery to show the relationship between increased labor and reward capital. His analysis of the ambivalent system leads him to analyze this social phenomenon in a satirical way: “This is a really rare opportunity to buy a white man for sale,” says the artist. “If you have the money to buy one, you should – they don’t come very often.”
“Everyday Life: The First 5,000 Days” by Beeple
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