Ghosts in Brooklyn

1. Sam Taylor-Wood's Ghosts exhibition opens today, October 30, in Brooklyn, New York:

Sam Taylor-Wood: “Ghosts”
October 30, 2010–August 14, 2011
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Herstory Gallery, 4th Floor
Brooklyn Museum

Ghosts, Sam Taylor-Wood’s 2008 photographic exploration of the Yorkshire Moors, was inspired by Emily Brontë’s classic Victorian novel Wuthering Heights, whose famously atmospheric descriptions of the bleak, wild landscape almost turn that locale into the novel’s third major character. For many years Taylor-Wood kept a country house in the same West Yorkshire region where Emily Brontë and her literary and artistic family lived. In the ten images from the series to be shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Taylor-Wood captures the stark and haunting character of the windswept moors and gray skies surrounding Top Withens, a ruined farmhouse and the alleged setting of Wuthering Heights. Drawing inspiration from the Brontë sisters’ gothic romantic fiction, the artist followed the footpath from the stone parsonage where the Brontës lived and died up across the moors to Top Withens.

Sam Taylor-Wood: “Ghosts” is the latest exhibition in the Herstory Gallery of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, which is devoted to subjects that explore the significant contributions of the women named in Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party.

This exhibition is organized by Catherine Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum.

Picture: Sam Taylor-Wood (British, b. 1967). Ghosts VIII, 2008. Chromogenic photograph, 43 x 55½ in. (109.2 x 141 cm). © The artist, courtesy of White Cube, London 

2. And tomorrow, October 31, in Hebden Bridge:

Hebden Bridge Literary Festival
Juliet Barker ‘The Brontës Revisited’

12 noon at The Little Theatre, Holme Streeet, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX7 8EE

Tickets: Hebden Bridge Bookshop, 7 Crown Street, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX7 8EH: tel 01422 843686

Juliet says: "Despite being a patron of the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival for many years, it’s been a long time since I did an event in the town, so I’m pleased to have been invited to talk about my new edition of The Brontës for the literary festival organised by the new Hebden Bridge Bookshop. A small town that can boast two fantastic independent bookshops has to be worth visiting!"

Categories: Arts-Exhibitions, Biography, Talks