Category: Visual Arts

  • An exhibition that explores AI, culture, and what it means to be an artist today

    An exhibition that explores AI, culture, and what it means to be an artist today

    Technology and art have long overlapped, but talk about crossovers between the two has skyrocketed since the eruption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Although its artistic potential seems endless, the speed at which it seems to be disrupting the status quo has turned the question of how to adapt to this new reality into a pressing…

  • Indigenous art show arriving at Georgian’s campus gallery

    Indigenous art show arriving at Georgian’s campus gallery

    NEWS RELEASEGEORGIAN COLLEGE*************************Exploring the world and issues affecting contemporary Indigenous cultures is at the heart of the newest exhibition at Georgian College’s Campus Gallery. Running Feb. 15 to March 24, the exhibition, Over & Over & Over Again, will feature the art of the late Carl Beam, celebrated Ojibwe artist and recipient of the Governor…

  • New gallery, art studios, and recording studio open in February

    New gallery, art studios, and recording studio open in February

    Op-Ed Longtime Savannahians may know that Polk’s, the family-run produce business still in operation today, first started in the 1930’s in the old City Market. After the market was demolished in 1954 to make way for a parking garage, the store moved to the site of the current Vinnie Van GoGo’s, and then to Liberty…

  • Online Art Gallery #200

    Online Art Gallery #200

    Our online art gallery began nearly 4 years ago. It was the early days of the pandemic. “06880” wanted to give stuck-at-home artists, photographers, sculptors, knitters — and all other visual arts creators — an opportunity to show off their work. The first pieces were COVID-related. Soon, our gallery moved on to a galaxy of…

  • Salem-based artist, Indra Persad Milowe, holds exhibition at Topsfield Library celebrating Balinese culture

    Salem-based artist, Indra Persad Milowe, holds exhibition at Topsfield Library celebrating Balinese culture

    #inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } Indra Persad Milowe, an internationally recognized Salem-based visual artist, has traveled extensively to inspire her highly celebrated artwork. Her most recent exhibition, “Beautiful Ubud, Bali”, is on display at the Topsfield Library through Feb. 16 and explores Milowe’s second…

  • Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz want you to see the ‘Giants’ of art in their collection

    Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz want you to see the ‘Giants’ of art in their collection

    The singer-songwriter Alicia Keys and her husband, rapper/producer Kasseem Dean, known professionally as Swizz Beatz, are known as musicians. But they are also art collectors. And now, dozens of works they own are on display at the Brooklyn Museum in a new exhibition called”Giants.” The musicians mainly collect living Black artists, and “Giants” refers both…

  • HSQAC programs encourage attention to Black History Month

    HSQAC programs encourage attention to Black History Month

    QUINCY — In one of Faye Dant’s collages on display at the History Museum on the Square, teachers of the segregated Douglass School march for fair voting rights laws led by Michelle Obama. “All the ladies are looking right at you. You can’t look away from them,” museum coordinator Lynn Snyder. “You’ve not going to…

  • Anne Fleckstein is new Director – Announcements – e-flux

    Anne Fleckstein is new Director – Announcements – e-flux

    Anne Fleckstein is new Director Akademie Schloss Solitude Solitude Haus 3 StuttgartGermany Anne Fleckstein is new director of the renowned artist-in-residency program Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. As of February 2024, she succeeds Elke aus dem Moore (2018–2022), and Jean-Baptiste Joly (1990–2018). Since opening its doors in 1990, the Akademie has supported more than 1,750…

  • ‘Give Peace a Chance: The Art of John Lennon’ Exhibition at EC Gallery

    ‘Give Peace a Chance: The Art of John Lennon’ Exhibition at EC Gallery

    Imagine a world where art and music intertwine, echoing the call for peace and unity. This is the world that the “Give Peace a Chance: The Art of John Lennon” exhibition brings to life at the EC Gallery in Gaslamp area of Downtown San Diego from February 9 to February 28, 2024. There are special…

  • When Forms Come Alive, Hayward Gallery review — anarchic sculpture for restless times

    When Forms Come Alive, Hayward Gallery review — anarchic sculpture for restless times

    Spring has come early to London’s South Bank: on a grey February day inside the Hayward Gallery, a burst of huge silken flower-lights drops from the ceiling, opening into many-layered luxuriant blooms. Then a motor pulls them back into bud and, slowly closing, they rise, out of reach, like dancers gracefully rippling backstage. Delicate and…