Art

A Historic Conceptual Art Group Has Taken Over a French Château

For the last few years, the Château de Montsoreau has been home to one of the most significant museums of contemporary art outside of Paris.

Art

The Idiosyncratic Paintings of Maud Lewis, a Beloved Canadian Folk Artist

Lewis may have operated on, or even outside of, the fringes of the art world, but the McMichael Canadian Art Collection believes she deserves a place within its halls.

Announcement

Susan Roth: BLACK IS A COLOR, on View at the Sam & Adele Golden Gallery

The 14 acrylic paintings exhibited in this show trace her unique approach to the shaping of the canvas as it responds to the compositional elements within. On view through March 13, 2020.

Film

Reimagining Cinema from Nature's Perspective

The "Animistic Apparatus" program at this year's Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival explored the natural world as a potential audience.

Art

In Shanghai, Carving Out a Space for Critiques of Consumerism

At the TANK Art Festival, the line between art and product became ambiguous, though it was probably artificial to begin with.

Announcement

The VCUarts Community's Interdisciplinary Breakthroughs in the Arts and Research

Students and faculty lead creative projects and discoveries that connect the arts to health care, community justice, computer science, and more.

Art

Peruvian Artists of Chinese Descent Shed Light on a Long History of Migration

“Chinese migrants arriving in the 19th century didn’t speak Spanish — had no knowledge of the language — and found themselves in an adverse environment,” curator Marco Loo tells Hyperallergic.

Art

Required Reading

This week, a history of Porgy and Bess, talking to Simone Leigh, Amy Sherald, and Lorna Simpson, history of the Art Institute of Chicago's lions, otters chasing a butterfly, and more.

Art

Yoko Ono, More Urgent Than Ever

At the Everson Museum in upstate New York, a mini-retrospective highlights the timeliness of the artist’s enduring humanistic and nature-focused themes.

Art

Damien Hirst, Turning In Circles

Hirst has been an erratic artist from the beginning, just as likely to fail as to succeed.

Art

Paintings with a Retinal Buzz

In Relative Brightness the canvas transforms into a rippling, luminous field of ever-shifting optical sensations.

Books

Twenty Years of Peter Schjeldahl

Schjeldhal moves quickly to characterize an artist, like a cat pouncing on his prey.