The Lily and Earle M. Pilgrim Art Foundation

04/06/2025

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A popular downtown artist in the 1960s, she worked in obscurity after art world trends left her behind. Now her startlingly fresh work is on view again.

04/05/2025

Following his most recent executive order, I went in search of some “corrosive ideology.”

04/01/2025

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Marcia Marcus, a painter whose work gained late-career praise, has died at 97.

03/31/2025

Lévy Gorvy Dayan is a modern and contemporary art gallery with expertise in collection development, estate planning, and museum collaborations. Our industry leaders—including founders Dominique Lévy, Amalia Dayan, and Brett Gorvy—provide art market insights to clients around the globe. Visit o...

03/28/2025

Candice Carnival Creations presents Jewel of the Nile 2025 Costume Launch/Party for the Baltimore/DC Carnival featured at Druid Hill Park

03/28/2025

"Marcia Marcus, the groundbreaking mixed media painter, passed away last night. She was 97, born the same year as her dear friend, my father. She had an amazing life. This is a repost in her honor." Eliza Anderson

Ma**ca Marcus, the groundbreaking mixed media painter, passed away last night. She was 97, born the same year as her dear friend, my father. She had an amazing life. This is a repost in her honor.

03/26/2025

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03/26/2025

Hidden Heartache highlights the overlooked brilliance of composers, particularly women and minorities, whose contributions to music history have been largely ignored and who have faced marginalization due to gender, race and disability." https://www.jungle-books.com/product/hidden-heartache/

Simone Keller, a classical pianist by training but with a transversal and inter- disciplinary outlook, was born in Weinfelden, in the canton of Thurgau, in 1980. As an artist and performer, she feels at home in contemporary music, musical theatre, improvisation, and in experimental and participatory formats. As a guest performer, Simone Keller has played regularly with ensembles such as the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Southwest German Philharmonic, and the Collegium Novum Zurich. She has collaborated with renowned conductors like Peter Rundel, Jac van Steen, Pablo Heras-Casado, and others. Keller has also recorded various works, including Ustwolskaja's Piano Sonatas for the Böhlau- Verlag Wien and collaborated with institutions like the SWR Experimental Studio.

Additionally, she has a significant presence as a theater musician, participating in numerous productions at theaters like the Theater Basel and Schauspielhaus Zurich. Since 2014, Simone Keller has co-directed the production company ox&öl with the director Philip Bartels. The company conducts participatory projects at the Zurich Tonhalle and develops interdisciplinary music theater productions, including collaborations with individuals with cognitive impairments. ox&öl received recognition from the Department of Culture of the Canton of Zurich in 2017 for its cultural inclusion work and was nominated for the "Junge Ohren Preis" in Frankfurt in the same year.
Simone Keller has been invited to various international institutions, including the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2016, the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University in 2017, and in 2019, invitations from Columbia University, Manhattan School of Music in New York, and Brown University in Providence/Boston.

In 2018, Keller's recording of Julius Eastman's piano music, released by Intakt Records with Kukuruz Quartet, received critical acclaim and appeared on several best-of lists, including being recognized as one of the "Best classical albums" by the Boston Globe and "Album of the year 2018" by The New York City Jazz Records. She was also nominated for the international innovation award by Classical:NEXT in 2019. In the same year, she received both the IBK Prize and the IBK Sponsorship Prize from the youth jury. Simone Keller is the recipient of the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize in 2021.
In 2022, she was honored with both the Swiss Music Prize and the Thurgauer Culture Prize.

Hidden Heartache by Simone Keller is published as volume 21 of the series Facetten, edited by the Kulturstiftung des Kantons Thurgau.

03/26/2025

CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS to SIMONE KELLER!!! Hidden Heartache by Simone Keller is celebrated its anniversary yesterday, exactly one year ago, it was published on the 100th birthday of the composer Julia Amanda Perry.

And now, it is receiving TWO AWARDS: on the one hand, it has been recognized as one of the most beautiful Swiss books, and on the other, it will receive a bronze medal in the "Best Book Design from all over the World" competition this coming Friday at the ://www.jungle-books.com/product/hidden-heartache/ ❤️ Learn more about JULIA PERRY , "an American classical composer and teacher who combined European classical and neo-classical training with her African-American heritage.

Hidden Heartache by Simone Keller is published as volume 21 of the series Facetten, edited by the Kulturstiftung des Kantons Thurgau.