Category: Visual Arts

  • Review: Indigenous Artists ‘Remember the Future’ in New Show

    Review: Indigenous Artists ‘Remember the Future’ in New Show

    Rabbett Before Horses Strickland (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), “Searching for Nokomis,” 2002-07 (oil on canvas)Collection Tweed Museum of Art, art by Rabbett Before Horses Strickland A new show at the University of Minnesota’s Katherine E. Nash Gallery titled “Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers” showcases an impressive…

  • The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) announced the 23 recipients of its 2024 Grants to Artists awards (News)

    The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) announced the 23 recipients of its 2024 Grants to Artists awards (News)

    23 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS RECEIVE UNRESTRICTED GRANTS OF $45,000 EACH FROM THE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 2024 Grants include Inaugural Grants, The Viola Farber Award and The Alvin Lucier Award for Music PR: New York, NY, February 15, 2024 – Today, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) announced the recipients of its 2024 Grants to Artists awards—twenty-three…

  • Top Five: February 15, 2024

    Top Five: February 15, 2024

    Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. Delilah Montoya, “Jackie Chavez, from the series Women Boxers: The New Warriors,” 2005/2013, gelatin silver print. 1. Unbreakable: Feminist Visions from the Gilberto Cárdenas and Dolores Garcia CollectionBlanton Museum of Art (Austin)September 16 – March 31, 2024 From…

  • Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican review – the fabric of dissent

    Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican review – the fabric of dissent

    She saw that a gendered hierarchy of art forms had contributed to the erasure of female experience, and pointed to the “iconographic void” where images of childbirth in western art might be. Appearing early on in the show, Birth Tear/Tear, 1982, is an extraordinary evocation of the sensations of childbirth, embroidered by Jane Gaddie Thompson as…

  • 10 Artists Receive Art Ventures Grants – The Resident Community News Group, Inc.

    Posted on February 15, 2024 By Editor Neighborhood News, Riverside, Avondale, Ortega, Murray Hill, San Jose, San Marco, St. Nicholas The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida’s Art Ventures winners. Top row: Ithiell Yisrael, Jessica Q. Stark, Andrew Fallon, Emily Cargill and Raquel Benjamin; Bottom row: Glenn Van Dyke (Kairos Creature Club), Julian Bryson, Marcus Jamal…

  • Three Indigenous art exhibitions signal a shift in the Twin Cities

    Three Indigenous art exhibitions signal a shift in the Twin Cities

    On the third floor of the historic Turnblad Mansion, a part of the American Swedish Institute, screenprinted archival photos of Sámi people, who are indigenous to the northernmost parts of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Russia, hang from the ceiling and drawings of a herd of reindeer grace the walls. “Mygration” portrays the eight seasons of…

  • Don’t look at the art: Taste it, touch it, smell it or just listen at the Weisman Art Museum

    Don’t look at the art: Taste it, touch it, smell it or just listen at the Weisman Art Museum

    Sit down on a bench and slide your hands onto neon-tinted spongy, porous silicone, and listen to a huge cat purr, as if it’s sitting beneath you. Grab packets of salty pretzels and sweet biscotti, sit down on blue leather airline seats and learn about the politics of name change. Whichever of the 16 multimedia…

  • OZ Arts Nashville Welcomes Striking New Visual Art Exhibit from Artist Shabazz Larkin

    An extension of multidisciplinary artist Shabazz Larkin’s circulated collection from The Museum of Presence, “May I Be Brave Enough to Speak My Truth” explores the human body as a canvas for protest and storytelling. Curated in partnership with Clarence Edward, founder of Cë Gallery, the exhibit features a collection of the Nashville-based artist’s beautiful paintings and woven blankets…

  • Phoenix Art Museum welcomes Barbie to town with all-pink fashion exhibit

    Phoenix Art Museum welcomes Barbie to town with all-pink fashion exhibit

    Visitors who come to Phoenix Art Museum specifically for “Barbie: A Cultural Icon” shouldn’t miss the opportunity to see the rest of the museum’s collection, but there’s one exhibition in particular they’ll want to see. In conjunction with the traveling show, the museum has put together its own fashion exhibit, “The Power of Pink,” which…

  • Arts Listings: Week of 2/15/2024

    Arts Listings: Week of 2/15/2024

    Some classes, exhibits and events are available exclusively online. All events are subject to change and cancellation; always verify with venue and/or organizer. OPENING THEATER ALICE IN WONDERLAND | Feb. 16-18. The Lewis Carroll classic about one young girl’s trip down a rabbit hole and into a fantastical world is here adapted for young actors…