Category: Visual Arts

  • Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy in Historical Perspective, Part 2

    Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy in Historical Perspective, Part 2

    Continued from Part 1 The “American Indian Movement 1976 Exhibition” took another approach to material-cultural support, by producing a show directly with the liberation movement in question. Organized by Artists for Democracy (AFD) and the UK committee of the American Indian Movement (AIM), it was staged in part to protest “Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years…

  • Cite, Sight, Site: Notes on Citation as a Gesture of Reproducibility

    Cite, Sight, Site: Notes on Citation as a Gesture of Reproducibility

    Which Citational Practices? Citational practices have come under review in several recent settings. In 2020, Annabel L. Kim edited an issue of Diacritics called “The Politics of Citation.” Curator Legacy Russel delivered her lecture “On Footnotes” in 2021. In Parse Journal’s 2023 issue “Citation,” editors Kathryn Klasto and Marie-Louise Richards facilitated a discussion that went…

  • Come draw on Town Hall gallery walls — You Know You Want To

    Come draw on Town Hall gallery walls — You Know You Want To

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  • From historic restorations to original creations, Spokane Stained Glass is working to keep a dying art alive

    From historic restorations to original creations, Spokane Stained Glass is working to keep a dying art alive

    <a href="https://media2.inlander.com/inlander/imager/u/original/27115495/culture1-1-7a6dd7716f21e7fb.jpg" rel="contentImg_gal-27115496" title="Alex Brannin is a stained glass master. – Erick Doxey photo" data-caption="Alex Brannin is a stained glass master.   Erick Doxey photo” class=”uk-display-block uk-position-relative uk-visible-toggle”> click to enlarge Erick Doxey photo Alex Brannin is a stained glass master. Alex Brannin learned at a young age that the intricate and magical art of glasswork…

  • MCA unveils Tacita Dean’s poetically-charged art

    MCA unveils Tacita Dean’s poetically-charged art

    Associate Professor Donna Brett is Chair of the Discipline of Art History. She is the author of Photography and Place: Seeing and Not Seeing Germany After 1945 (Routledge 2016), and co-editor with Natalya Lusty of Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images (Routledge, 2019). This story was first published in The Conversation. Top image: Tacita Dean, Paradise (film still), 2021, with music,…

  • Anne Labovitz Artist Talk at the Athenaeum

    Anne Labovitz Artist Talk at the Athenaeum

    Courtesy of the artist Photo: Eric Mueller Get Tickets Thursday, December 14, 2023 from 6 PM to 8 PM Athenaeum Music & Arts Library All Ages $5-20 Tickets are $5 students, $15 for members of the Athenaeum, and $20 for the general public. The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library welcomes Anne Labovitz for a special…

  • Dare Arts announces call for entry for 2024 Frank Stick Show

    Dare Arts announces call for entry for 2024 Frank Stick Show

    Dare Arts announces call for entry for 2024 Frank Stick Show Published 5:37 pm Wednesday, December 13, 2023 Artist and educator Eric Burris, who will judge the 46th Annual Frank Stick Memorial Art Show. Courtesy Eric Burris Dare Arts is now seeking entries for the 46th Annual Frank Stick Memorial Art Show, which will open at the organization’s gallery…

  • Funding cut to Metro Arts threatens 43-year legacy.

    Funding cut to Metro Arts threatens 43-year legacy.

    STATEMENT FROM WEST END BASED METRO ARTS Metro Arts announces with deep regret – that despite our 43+ year legacy and a stellar reputation in supporting artists through the most difficult of times – we have not secured multi-year funding from Creative Australia, for the period of 2025-2028. In servicing both visual and performing artists,…

  • Meet Keanu Reeves’ award-winning visual artist girlfriend, Alexandra Grant

    Meet Keanu Reeves’ award-winning visual artist girlfriend, Alexandra Grant

    Here’s everything you need to know about the Hollywood actor’s talented girlfriend. Alexandra Grant is a visual artist whose work has been widely exhibited Alexandra Grant is Keanu Reeves’ visual artist girlfriend. Photo: @grantalexandra/Instagram According to her website, Grant is a visual artist who explores “the use of text and language in various media”, including…

  • San Diego weekend arts events: Scrooge, Scrabble and sound art

    San Diego weekend arts events: Scrooge, Scrabble and sound art

    Top picks ‘A Christmas Carol’ TheaterCygnet Theater’s adaptation of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” returns with cofounder and artistic director Sean Murray in the Scrooge role. Murray said he’s drawn to the play by the depth and complexity of Scrooge, beyond the “Bah Humbug.” “People focus on his anti-Christmas stance, and his resistance to being included…