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Emily Fisher Landau, a New Yorker who used a Lloyd’s insurance settlement from a spectacular jewel heist in her apartment to fund what would become one of America’s premier collections of contemporary art, died on March 27 in Palm Beach, Fla. She was 102. Her death was confirmed by her daughter, Candia Fisher. From 1991 to 2017, Ms. Landau opened her collection of 1,200 artworks to the public in the Fisher Landau Center for Art, a repurposed former factory in Long Island City, Queens. In 2010, she pledged almost 400 works, then worth between $50 million and $75 million, to the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she had long been a trustee. Ms. Landau’s trajectory into the art world began unexpectedly on a spring afternoon in 1969, while she was out at lunch. Armed burglars disguised as air conditioning repairmen broke into her apartment in the Imperial House building on the Upper East Side, bound the cook in a guest closet and opened a floor safe hidden inside another … [Read more...] about Emily Fisher Landau, Art Patron Who Had Her Own Museum, Dies at 102

Every morning the artists Alex and Allyson Grey take cold showers, meditate, read aloud to each other and then strap themselves into an inversion table that tips them upside down, using gravity to stretch their spines. The act of hanging this way was a suggestion from Albert Hofmann , the Swiss chemist who is considered the father of LSD, synthesizing the psychedelic drug in 1943. “It’s supposed to bring blood to the brain,” Alex Grey, 69, said, his soft voice crackling like a dimly lit fire. He and his wife, Allyson Grey, 71, are the founders and longtime directors of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors , a nonprofit organization that combines elements of a cultural institution and interfaith church in Wappinger, a town in the Hudson Valley. On June 3, they plan to open Entheon , a 12,000-square-foot exhibition space in a converted 19th-century carriage house on the chapel’s grounds that will be devoted to visionary art, which focuses on the artist’s psychedelic spiritual insights … [Read more...] about A Sanctuary for Psychedelic Art Opens in the Hudson Valley

See the article in its original context from November 3, 1986 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. THERE comes a time when a satirical writer, if he's really out for blood, must stop clowning around and move in for the kill. That unmistakable moment of truth arrives about halfway through ''The Colored Museum,'' the wild new evening of black black humor at the Public Theater. In a sketch titled ''The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play,'' the author, George C. Wolfe, says the unthinkable, … [Read more...] about STAGE: ‘COLORED MUSEUM,’ SATIRE BY GEORGE C. WOLFE

0 Arts & Entertainment Artists are sought to paint two water tanks, create a sculpture for the Clearwater Beach fire station and create a mosaic at "The Mercado." D'Ann Lawrence White , Patch Staff Posted Reply CLEARWATER, FL — The Clearwater Public Art & Design Program has multiple public art opportunities for professional artists to design and create artwork on several installations in the city. The city is seeking a muralist to paint two water tanks; a mosaic artist for the Mercado, a new community space in the city's Downtown Gateway; and a sculptor to build an installation at the new city Fire Station 46 on Clearwater Beach. Countryside Water Tanks: A stipend of $30,000 is available for murals on two public water tanks at 2709 State Road 580 in Clearwater's Countryside neighborhood. The city is looking for an engaging mural or image to beautify the tanks, which are highly visible on a heavy commuter state … [Read more...] about Clearwater Calling For Artists For Multiple Public Art Projects

Before Abdel R. Salaam traveled to Ghana last fall, he didn’t have deep knowledge of its music and dance traditions. But the country held a special association for him dating back to when Chuck Davis celebrated it at DanceAfrica, the festival he founded. It was 1978, the festival’s second year, and Davis’s opening words were a call and response in the Twi language: “Ago! Ame!” Those words refer to the willingness to listen, to pay attention. It’s a memory that stuck with Salaam, now the festival’s artistic director who this week brings Ghana back to the DanceAfrica stage. After immersing himself in the country’s culture — and holding auditions for 21 companies in different regions — he landed on a title: “Golden Ghana: Adinkra, Ananse and Abusua.” Before its independence, in 1957, Ghana was known as the Gold Coast. But Salaam was thinking beyond that. He likens “Golden Ghana” to the idea of “living my life like it’s golden,” as Jill Scott sings. “You want to reach for not just … [Read more...] about Living the Golden Life: DanceAfrica Welcomes Ghana to Brooklyn

ROME — This much is known: In 70 AD the Romans destroyed Jerusalem, looted the temple of its treasure — including a seven-branched solid gold menorah — and brought at least some of the artifacts back to Rome in a triumphant procession. Depictions of the victorious Roman army and its booty are carved on the Arch of Titus, near the Colosseum, built about a decade later to commemorate that military triumph. What later happened to the menorah has been the object of intense speculation for centuries, giving rise to various, sometimes colorful, legends and scholarly hypotheses over its whereabouts. Now, Rome’s Jewish community and the Vatican have teamed up to produce an exhaustive exhibition on the menorah, which in time became an enduring symbol of Jewish culture and religion, in a collaboration that leaders of the two communities described as a further step in solidifying their ties. “This is a historic event,” Ruth Dureghello, the president of Rome’s Jewish community , said at a … [Read more...] about Vatican and Rome’s Jewish Museum Team Up for Menorah Exhibit