Category: Visual Arts

  • Isaiah Zagar’s iconic Painted Bride mosaic is coming down

    Isaiah Zagar’s iconic Painted Bride mosaic is coming down

    From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! It took Isaiah Zagar nine years to make the 7,000-square-foot tile mosaic wrapping around the Painted Bride building in Philadelphia’s Old City. The work stood for a quarter century, then endured a five-year…

  • AI in the Arts and Public Policy

    AI in the Arts and Public Policy

    With the sudden rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT and Dall-E, issues surrounding intellectual property rights and copyright laws have become a pressing concern in Hollywood and visual arts as a whole. Recent writer strikes have emphasized the necessity to scrutinize the new technology and pass public policy to regulate it.  Darian Mullen,…

  • Art history lecture at Rice to explore race, racism and representation in Roman art

    Art history lecture at Rice to explore race, racism and representation in Roman art

    Rice’s Department of Art History will hold a lecture, “‘Race,’ Racism and Representation in Roman Art: Aethiopians in the Visual Arts of the Roman World,” at Fondren Library Oct. 26. The lecture will feature Sinclair Bell, professor of art history at Northern Illinois University, and will be moderated by Sophie Crawford-Brown, assistant professor of art…

  • Mark Cavagnero Associates completes a new visual arts building

    Mark Cavagnero Associates completes a new visual arts building

    Southwest of San Jose, California’s city center and just down the road from Apple HQ in Cupertino is West Valley College, a 140-acre public community college with over 8,000 students in San Jose’s Saratoga district. This September, a new visual arts building at West Valley College’s Cilker School of Art and Design opened to students…

  • Paris Cultivates a New Allure

    Paris Cultivates a New Allure

    It’s a lively time for the art world in the French capital, with new art foundations, fresh outposts for major galleries and the city’s relative affordability. A century or so ago, Paris was the undisputed epicenter of the international art world, the birthplace of the avant-garde. The city teemed with talents from all over —…

  • The Artful Life: 6 Things Galerie Editors Love This Week

    The Artful Life: 6 Things Galerie Editors Love This Week

    Tadashi Kawamata’s installation “Nest in Liaigre” in Paris. Photo: Courtesy of Liaigre Tadashi Kawamata’s installation “Nest in Liaigre” in Paris. Photo: Sylvie Becquet 1. Japanese Artist Tadashi Kawamata Creates an Installation for Liaigre Just in time for Paris+ par Art Basel, Liaigre’s opulent mansion on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré is sporting a new look courtesy…

  • Visual artist Lyric Johnson ’24 uses arts as communication – The Brown Daily Herald

    Visual artist Lyric Johnson ’24 uses arts as communication – The Brown Daily Herald

    Lyric Johnson ’24 began creating art when they picked up photography in 2020 as a way to get outside during the pandemic. It began as “just a hobby.” This pandemic pastime has blossomed into a broader passion for art, expanding to include drawing, photography, sculpture and other art forms at Brown. Johnson said they have…

  • Infinity Visual And Performing Arts Adds Nelson To Team

    Infinity Visual And Performing Arts Adds Nelson To Team

    Madelyn Nelson <!– SHOW ARTICLE –> Infinity Visual and Performing Arts has added Madelyn Nelson to its team of instructors to teach photography and creative movement. Nelson is a 2022 graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design with a degree in photography. She has been a performing arts student since the age of…

  • ‘As I Am’: Scarsdale artist on identity and transformation

    ‘As I Am’: Scarsdale artist on identity and transformation

    Within the frames of Kendal O’Leary’s prints, viewers can observe octopuses come to life. Their tentacles reach out to the corners of the canvas, moving fluidly through a sea of black or white ink. O’Leary describes these prints as self-portraits, reflecting her ever-evolving experiences with womanhood, queerness and motherhood. O’Leary grew up in Scarsdale, surrounded…

  • Eleven ways to get your cultural fix at the U this fall

    Eleven ways to get your cultural fix at the U this fall

    With the days growing shorter and weather turning cooler, fall is the perfect time of year to indulge in the smorgasbord of cultural offerings on the University of Utah’s campus. The state’s flagship school has a lot more to offer in October and November than football and tailgate parties. Whether it’s performing or visual arts…