Ecological Installations
Clare Celeste Boersch is an artist living in Berlin who has been doing some version of collage and assemblage since she was a young girl. Growing up in Brazil, she had the ocean, rivers, and jungles that always existed in stark contrast to the industrial cities. “My...
Sculpting Emotion
“I had started making sculpture by the time I retired, but it still took years after I began to exhibit before I could admit to being an artist. It is truly never too late.”
Movement With Sculptures
“I like sculptures that are aerial, elegant, and powerful. I like to experiment with engineering and push far away the laws of gravity.”
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.
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.”
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
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
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
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
The works in “Sanctuary” include large-scale sculptures as well as mixed-media assemblages and collages on wood panels.
Africa Fashion
Africa Fashion, presented by Brooklyn Museum, celebrates the ingenuity and global impact of African fashions from the 1950s to today.
News
Getty Images Announced as Official Photographer of 2024 Spring/Summer NYFW: The Shows
Getty Images (NYSE: GETY), a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, has once again been named as the Official Photographer for the 2024 Spring/Summer Season of IMG’s New York Fashion Week (NYFW): The Shows. As the Official Photographer, Getty...
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...
Jeffrey Gibson to Represent United States at 60th Venice Biennale in 2024
Portland Art Museum in Oregon and SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, has announced that Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States at La Biennale di Venezia, the...
Feature Articles
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
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
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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Sculpting Emotion
“I had started making sculpture by the time I retired, but it still took years after I began to exhibit before I could admit to being an artist. It is truly never too late.”
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...
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....
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.”