Category: Visual Arts

  • Brooklyn Museum’s June Public Programs For All Ages

    Brooklyn Museum’s June Public Programs For All Ages

    The Brooklyn Museum announced its June programming, offering a wide range of events for visitors of all ages. This month’s highlights include a Brooklyn Talks with photographers Tyler Mitchell and Qiana Mestrich, a First Saturday event spotlighting trailblazing queer artists, and hands-on family workshops. These programs are designed to enhance the museum’s exhibitions, engage the…

  • Enjoy ‘May Flowers’ spring art exhibit at Solano Town Center gallery

    Enjoy ‘May Flowers’ spring art exhibit at Solano Town Center gallery

    FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield-Suisun City Visual Arts invites all to see “May Flowers” through July 5 at the Solano Town Center Gallery, 1350 Travis Blvd. The opening reception/poetry reading is 3 to 6 p.m. June 21.

  • ‘Nature and Artifice’ at Dallas Museum of Art rewards a close look

    ‘Nature and Artifice’ at Dallas Museum of Art rewards a close look

    It may not be the flashiest or largest exhibition, but “Nature and Artifice” is one of the most rewarding shows in North Texas. Featuring 10 etchings, engravings and drawings from the 16th and 17th centuries, it’s drawn from the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection and displayed in a gently lit gallery on the museum’s second…

  • LCVA exhibit opens today, displaying work from regional children

    LCVA exhibit opens today, displaying work from regional children

    LCVA exhibit opens today, displaying work from regional children Published 5:32 am Sunday, June 8, 2025 The doors will open this Sunday, drawing attention to artwork from more than 20 schools and several dozen children throughout the region. The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) will begin its annual Youth Art Exhibition with a…

  • The art of connection: Memphis artist crafts community one collage at a time

    The art of connection: Memphis artist crafts community one collage at a time

    Kelsey Bowen Kelsey Bowen is a born-and-bred Memphian with publications in Creative Nonfiction magazine and at the Library of Congress, who occasionally moonlights as a writing teacher. You can usually find her digging around a Summer Avenue antique mall or seated at a Malco movie theater.

  • I adored a piece of art that cost $280,000. So I decided to forge it.

    I adored a piece of art that cost $280,000. So I decided to forge it.

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  • Spain gears up for year-long celebration of surrealist Joan Miro

    Spain gears up for year-long celebration of surrealist Joan Miro

    The torchbearers for one of Spain’s most famous artists, Joan Miro, are promising a year-long fiesta of events honouring the surrealist — and the foundation he set up half a century ago. Miro, who died in 1983 aged 90, was a giant of the surrealist movement, known for his playful, abstract paintings with bright geometric…

  • Student printmaking, nearly 100 booths and prime community at ArtFest in University Park

    Student printmaking, nearly 100 booths and prime community at ArtFest in University Park

    GRAND FORKS — From jewelry to photography and prints to fabrics, ArtFest had something for everyone who stopped by University Park on Saturday. Attendees milled about enjoying coffee, lemonade and snacks from local food trucks as they navigated the maze of vendor booths. A number of patrons brought dogs of all shapes and sizes, and…

  • More than the ‘Big Head’: MFA hosts largest exhibit of Roxbury artist John Wilson’s work

    More than the ‘Big Head’: MFA hosts largest exhibit of Roxbury artist John Wilson’s work

    Throughout his career, artist John Wilson was inspired to capture the faces of his community: Black people who lived in Roxbury. He chose to do figurative paintings, drawings and sculptures, rather than abstract work, because he was determined that Black people should be seen in the fullness of their humanity. That was the overall theme…

  • JC Vargas — visual artist with a mission

    JC Vargas — visual artist with a mission

    Our featured artist today, JC Vargas, is on a mission: to make viewers pause and reflect on the environmental, social and emotional realities often taken for granted. Visual artist JC Vargas His work doesn’t just portray life — it questions, provokes, and inspires. In his exhibit “The Golden Hour 01,” he captures the quiet gratitude…