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Monday, 1 August 2022

Artlyst - Art Search: August 2022 Diary

My August diary for Artlyst includes Claes Oldenburg and Judson Memorial Church, Peter Schumann and Bread and Puppet Theater, Cornelia Parker, Richard Woods at Southwark Cathedral, and Gift to the City, a PassionArt Art Trail featuring Micah Purnell and Rachel Ho:

‘Oldenburg commemorated the period in 1990 with a poster printed to benefit the Judson Memorial Church on its 100th Anniversary. He wrote: “I wanted to make a symbol of the active Church, a walking or ‘rockin’ cross, which also happens to be a ‘J,’ a birthday candle and a newspaper collage of the world around the church. Selected activities of the Judson over the years are typed on my 1926 typewriter and scattered like street signs over the ‘newspaper cross.’ There’s also a personal reference to the work in outlined newspaper collage I was doing when I showed and performed at the Judson Gallery in 1959-60.” Given Judson’s artistic innovations and political engagement, Bonhams suggest that “Oldenburg’s image of Judson as a powder keg as it celebrated its 100th birthday, was very apt.”

Peter Schumann was another who got his first break at Judson. His first production in the United States, Totentanz, The Dance of Death, was staged there on May 15, 1962. Erik Wallenberg writes that Schumann saw the dance as “the new execution of the old rite” being a resurrection of dances performed throughout the Middle Ages in European churches. Schumann later formed Bread and Puppet Theater as a performing group for his works with their first play being “The Puppet Christ,” and with the group providing “a kind of communion — its signature sourdough bread — to its audience.”’

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Knockin' On Heaven's Door (featuring Dolly Parton).
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