Art, Trauma and Rebuilding

Art, Trauma and Rebuilding

Through the use of mixed media and watercolor, Tori Kovarik creates abstract images and landscapes and explores experiences of trauma and the constant acts of recreating and rebuilding that follow trauma.” I do this to bear witness to the harsh realities of...

Emotional Expressions

Emotional Expressions

Eanaj Janae is a self-taught artist originally from Southern California that uses her captivating art to spotlight the Black community's struggles and triumphs, including mental health challenges and the strength required to endure. Often incorporating color and...

Marrying Art, Culture & Religion

Marrying Art, Culture & Religion

With my art, I want my adoration of my culture and faith to bleed through the paints onto the canvas. I want the impact of the beliefs I hold to be seen with every brush stroke and every color. The importance of family, love, values, community, and perspective.”

Afrofuturistic Storytelling

Afrofuturistic Storytelling

James Flowers is a visual artist with a neoclassic style with a hint of Afrofuturism. Each piece of his art tells a story as he uses oil to paint portraits of African Americans on steel–a unique and futuristic medium.

Belonging, Home & Connection

Belonging, Home & Connection

Combining elements of neo-expressionism, graffiti and African art, Brittany’s a multidisciplinary artist that creates abstract images and figures of the Black diaspora, to celebrate, uplift, and communicate complex emotions of Blackness and its intersectionality....

Events & Exhibits

Vika Visual Arts Association to Host Group Exhibition

Vika Visual Arts Association to Host Group Exhibition

Washington, DC—Vika Visual Arts Association (VVAA) is pleased to announce a group exhibition, “Healing, Connection & Preservation,” the association’s inaugural art exhibition and the capstone event of its 2023 “Mind Your Art Business” artist development...

Redland Gallery Hosts 30 Years of Asia Pacific Contemporary Art

Redland Gallery Hosts 30 Years of Asia Pacific Contemporary Art

Visitors to Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland can experience the best of the long-running Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) series of exhibitions when Asia Pacific Contemporary: Three Decades of APT arrives on Redlands Coast from August 25 to October 8,...

Trust Me

Trust Me

Drawn from the Whitney’s collection, Trust Me brings together photographic works that invite shared emotional experience. The artists in the exhibition embrace intuition and indeterminacy as part of their creative process and recognize that vulnerability, usually...

Sanctuary

Sanctuary

The works in “Sanctuary” include large-scale sculptures as well as mixed-media assemblages and collages on wood panels.

Africa Fashion

Africa Fashion

Africa Fashion, presented by Brooklyn Museum, celebrates the ingenuity and global impact of African fashions from the 1950s to today.

News

LGDR Gallery Splits After Less than Two Years

LGDR Gallery Splits After Less than Two Years

LGDR gallery, formed by four art dealers to counter the rise of mega-galleries, is de-partnering after less than two years in business. One of the principals, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, confirmed that she is leaving the consortium whose name is based on the last names...

Feature Articles

The Spice Trade

The Spice Trade

The spice trade began almost 4,000 years ago as soon as humans left their primitive hunter-gatherer stages of development. Spices were sought on many occasions to be used for bartering for other goods and traveled long distances to reach their trading points on continents across Asia and Europe.

Haute Season

Haute Season

This would soon expand to clothing and along the way, Chanel would invent pieces that are still coveted today including the collarless Chanel jacket, the quilted purse and the little black dress.

Music & Books

An Inventory of Losses

An Inventory of Losses

Judith Schalansky; Harper Collins With each passing year, parts of the world are lost. Species become extinct. Old texts fade from print. Artifacts are buried. Islands slip into the ocean. In An Inventory of Losses, Judith Schalansky surveys some of the things that...

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beabadoobe – Fаkе It Flоwеrѕ

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Marrying Art, Culture & Religion

Marrying Art, Culture & Religion

With my art, I want my adoration of my culture and faith to bleed through the paints onto the canvas. I want the impact of the beliefs I hold to be seen with every brush stroke and every color. The importance of family, love, values, community, and perspective.”

Afrofuturistic Storytelling

Afrofuturistic Storytelling

James Flowers is a visual artist with a neoclassic style with a hint of Afrofuturism. Each piece of his art tells a story as he uses oil to paint portraits of African Americans on steel–a unique and futuristic medium.

Art, Trauma and Rebuilding

Art, Trauma and Rebuilding

Through the use of mixed media and watercolor, Tori Kovarik creates abstract images and landscapes and explores experiences of trauma and the constant acts of recreating and rebuilding that follow trauma.” I do this to bear witness to the harsh realities of...

Illustrative Portraits

Illustrative Portraits

Mendy Sylvain has always loved to draw. “I found it difficult to express my feelings otherwise, so for years I learned to draw as an autodidact at the same time as I was doing several studies,” he explains. After several years of drawing, visiting exhibitions and...