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As we prepare our posts on this weekend’s 2012 Bushwick Open Studios, we wanted to give you a sense of what we saw over the course of the last few days. The following 110 images are a selection of studio visits, gallery shows, some impromptu exhibitions and even the area’s first art fair, Bushwick Basel.
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Tomashi Jackson Rediscovers Long Island’s Beleaguered Past
Jackson’s exhibition The Land Claim began an extensive dialogue with local Indigenous, Black, and Latinx families on Long Island’s East End.
Nikolai Astrup’s Joyous Norway
There is not a hint of psychological trauma in Astrup’s art, despite the parallels in his own experience to that of his countryman Edvard Munch.
PORTAL at the National Portrait Gallery Presents Three Online Lectures This Fall
The Greenberg Steinhauser Forum in American Portraiture Conversation Series continues with presentations on Hung Liu, African Methodist Episcopal aesthetics, and the Oak Flat conflict.
Altarpieces and Shrines Shaped From Found Objects
Inspired by her foremothers’ recycling of materials, Jan Wade creates altarpieces, shrines, and memory jugs out of found objects.
The First Museum Exhibition of Brazilian Modernist Photography Outside Brazil
This retrospective of the work from a São Paulo photo club is a reminder that Modernism was not solely a European phenomenon.
The Art Students League of New York Expands Its Online Classes With a New Platform
After students around the world responded to online classes by the historic art school, the League launched e-telier™ to elevate its digital learning experience.
For Udo Kier in Swan Song, Flamboyance Is Its Own Redemption
Todd Stephens’s new film is a celebration of willful, collective flamboyance that flourishes within small cities.