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Jewel was meant for Crystal Bridges: the singer will create an ‘art experience’ at the Arkansas museum
No foolish games here. Jewel, a darling of the 1990s whose first album went 12 times platinum, has created a unique project for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, her first official foray into visual art. “I just got a call one day from Jewel saying she’s interested in working with…
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Baton Rouge Gallery shows works by Johnson, Koptcho, Parker and Surtain in March
Baton Rouge Gallery center for contemporary art, 1515 Dalrymple Drive, is showing work by artist members Libby Johnson, Leslie Koptcho, Mary Jane Parker and Brandon Surtain through March 28. The artists will participate in an Artists’ Talk at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 10. Admission is free. Libby Johnson’s ‘The Yellow Ball.’ PROVIDED PHOTO BY BATON…
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Williamson gives photography presentation at Rockland library
Benjamin Williamson A large and powerful bolt of lightning strikes the ocean as seen from Lookout Point in Harspwell in “Boom!” by Benjamin Williamson. “Curtis Island Lupines” by Benjamin Williamson. “One of Maine’s most beautiful lighthouses, on Curtis Island just outside Camden Harbor, looked absolutely resplendent above this field of lupines. I got very lucky…
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Art Room to host 21st annual Adult Art Show | West Orange Times & Observer
The Art Room is returning with its 21st annual Adult Art Show Saturday, March 9, in the town of Windermere. This year, the show will feature more than 60 local students from across Central Florida, with the majority coming from West Orange County in areas such as Windermere, Winter Garden and Dr. Phillips. The free…
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A 93-Year-Old UWS ‘Accidental Artist’: Deliberately Countering Negative Stereotypes
Nancy Brandon. Photos courtesy of Goddard Riverside. By Manon Manavit To walk into Nancy Brandon’s apartment on West 91st Street is to enter an Upper West Side wonderland. Nearly every inch of her space is covered in art, and every piece of art carries a deeper personal story. The floor is segmented by playful strips…
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Jewel Announces Immersive Art Experience at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
The Portal drone show rendering The Portal will inspire Crystal Bridges visitors to explore Jewel’s concept of the Three Spheres of existence: the inner world, outer world, and the unseen world, encompassing the human experience of mind, body, and spirit. When the spheres align, happiness, harmony, and well-being can be achieved, while misaligned spheres manifest as anxiety,…
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Review: ‘The Impressionist Revolution’ at the Dallas Museum of Art
The visions are reproduced on place mats, coffee mugs, women’s scarves, men’s ties and socks: urban haze, flowering gardens and placid country roads. So popular is artistic impressionism that exhibitions of Monet, Renoir, Degas and company are art museums’ equivalent of Nutcracker, A Christmas Carol and the Beethoven Ninth Symphony: what you program to get…
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Visual Arts students curate glimpse at local history
Second-year visual culture student Natalia Rodrigues helped to install archival artifacts for the exhibit, “Women, Water and Words: an Exploration of Visual Culture in Niagara,” on display in the Brock Library Learning Commons and Thistle corridor until the end of March. An exploration of women and water in the history of Niagara’s visual culture is…
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Nature Notes: Babcock Ranch Art Show; Shell Museum & Aquarium reopens
This year’s Babcock Ranch Art Show continues today, Sunday, and features 67 local and internationally acclaimed artists exhibiting along the Founder’s Square lakefront. The juried show, now in its sixth year, includes artists from 18 states and Israel and represents the full spectrum of fine and visual arts – from painting, drawing, digital, 2D and…
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‘Young at Art’ 2024 coming to the Rood Center March 11 to May 23
Announcing the annual “Young at Art” student display of visual arts sponsored by Nevada County Superintendent of Schools. It is part of a national program recognizing March as Youth Art Month and is a public testimony to the value of the arts in education. This year’s theme is “Dream in Art.” The public is invited…