The Witness Tree Project asked RISD students to design objects reflecting on immigration, made from a fallen 150-year-old elm in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.
September 15, 2017
This Way to the First-Ever Show of Women Sign Painters
The Pre-Vinylette Society at the Chicago Art Department is an inspiring exhibition with a vibrant display of over 60 women sign painters from nine countries around the world.
Dude! Nikon Picked 32 Male Photographers to Promote New Camera
In a statement, the Japanese camera manufacturer claimed that none of the women photographers it had invited had responded.
From Immigrant Stories to Environmental Dread, EXPO Chicago Gets Dark
The Midwest’s mega-fair seems less concerned with the bottom line, making space for politics.
An Off-Kilter Homage to Boston’s 18th-Century Quaker Architecture
Mark Reigelman II’s colorful public art piece is made up of 20 different parts using traditional woodworking techniques.
An Exhibition About Revolution that Keeps Faith with Ringgold
It is a great irony that the Faith Ringgold’s first public commission was effectively imprisoned for over 40 years, but this situation raises valuable questions regarding our notions of the public and how that public is served.
A Climate Change Bakery Serving Coal Treats Is Coming to Gowanus
Artist Spencer Merolla’s “Coal Comforts” is a pop-up bakery serving treats made from coal ash to encourage dialogue on climate change and pollution.
How Renaissance Painting Smoldered with a Little Known Hallucinogen
Looking at depictions of St. Anthony in the paintings of Renaissance masters, the influence of the disease of ergotism on the history of art starts to become clear.
Art Movements
This week in art news: the British Museum apologized for a controversial #AskACurator tweet, Documenta’s organizers disputed claims that the exhibition has accrued a €7 million deficit, and an 88.5-foot-tall Keith Haring mural in Paris was restored.