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From a Shipping Container in Brooklyn, a New Arts Org Champions Caribbean Culture
CaribBEING is a young hybrid arts organization working to play several roles.
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Paintings of Nudes and Flowers, Dripping with Color and Quirk
Pastels, floral still lifes, and portraits of babies are about as safe and traditional as visual motifs come — they evoke a cutesy Hallmark aesthetic.
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How a Bodega Became a Sprawling Site for Collage
CHICAGO — In the second act of Arthur Miller’s 1949 Death of a Salesman, a distressed Willy Loman laments, “Nothing’s planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.”
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ArtRx NYC
This week, a lecture details the history of fan painting, a panel ponders colonialism's influence on indigenous choreography, Barkley Hendricks's solo show heads into its last days, and more.
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Whitewashed Portrait Mural of Ed Ruscha Will Be Reborn, Older and Wiser
LOS ANGELES — No matter where he stands, Kent Twitchell looks to be in scale with the environment.
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Your Arts-Centric Guide to the 2016 Presidential Primaries
As New Yorkers head to the polls tomorrow for the 2016 presidential primaries — and many more states follow suit in the coming weeks and months — it's important to keep in mind each candidate's record on culture.
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At Bernie Sanders’s Official Art Show, the Candidate Meets His Muppet Avatar
On Saturday night, Bernie Sanders visited an art gallery in the East Village.
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An Artist Duo’s Shocking Stop-Motion Animations and Hypnotic Installations
PERTH — The exhibition, a collaboration between Hans Berg and artist Nathalie Djurberg, has been titled Secret Garden, and naturally, given all of its enchantment and ambience, immediate associations arise to Alice and the gardens of Wonderland. But there’s a lot more going on here.
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Beyond Drips: Investigating Jackson Pollock’s Many Artistic Phases
"Come over here to the drips," a visitor at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) advised friends.
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The Wild Children of William Blake
Raymond Foye – who possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of various underground currents of poetry, music, and art – is the only person on the planet who could have conceived of this exhibition, Dark Star: Abstraction and Cosmos at Planthouse.
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Conversations Can Be a Way of Moving Forward: Melissa Meyer’s Category-Resistant Abstractions
Since 2001, Melissa Meyer has continued to reinvent herself without severing her connections to Abstract Expressionism or, more particularly, the brushstroke and drawing in paint.
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Out of Time: Stephen Greene’s 1960s Abstractions
Visiting the exhibition of Stephen Greene’s paintings from the 1960s at the Jason McCoy Gallery is like hearing a squat black dial telephone ring next to an ashtray holding a freshly lit cigarette, the smoke curling up into a shaft of sunlight.