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Scribble After Dark
Pictionary meets improv comedy meets hand-drawn, cartoon-style art in Scribble After Dark, a new touring show stopping in Spokane this weekend. Essentially an adult-oriented version of an existing show called Scribble Showdown, the game-show style event pits YouTube-famous artist/animators TheOdd1sOut, JaidenAnimations, RubberRoss and Domics — plus host Arin Hanson (perhaps better known by his handle,…
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Queer Texas: Chloe Chiasson reclaims small-town iconography at Dallas Contemporary
On the concrete floor, a key chain tells a story about its owner: There’s the key that starts the Jeep, a dangling canister of Mace for protection, a Budweiser bottle opener, a cowboy boot charm and a trinket that spells out “LOVE IS LOVE.” Only, this key chain at the Dallas Contemporary is massive —…
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Museum of New Art in Portsmouth closes: ‘Such a loss’
PORTSMOUTH — The Museum of New Art, a downtown attraction complementing Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club on Congress Street, has suspended operations due to financial challenges. Opened in October 2021, the museum reports it hosted more than 16,000 visitors and presented six exhibitions featuring local, regional and national artists. The museum was operated by a…
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Fifth VH AWARD Exhibition – Announcements – e-flux
For the first time, the National Arts Council of Singapore (NAC) and VH AWARD organized by Hyundai Motor Group are collaborating to bring The Fifth VH AWARD Exhibition to Singapore as part of the twelth edition of Singapore Art Week (SAW). The VH AWARD is Asia’s leading award platform that aims to support emerging media artists…
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Artist Frank Auerbach: ‘I was working at the very edge of my powers’
It was painted nearly 70 years ago, but the features — lofty brow, sensual lips, direct scrutinising gaze, expression at once assertive, sympathetic and inward, with emotion held back — in Frank Auerbach’s great charcoal “Self-portrait” (1958) are immediately recognisable in the inquisitive, furrowed face which appears at the door to welcome me to the…
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Visual Arts Review: “Deeply Rooted: Faith in Reproductive Justice” — Religion and Rights
By Jacqueline Houton The overall impression of this valuable exhibit is to remind us that religious conviction is by no means synonymous with conservatism. Deeply Rooted: Faith in Reproductive Justice at Brandeis University’s Kniznick Gallery, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Waltham, through February 1. Giovanna Pizzoferrato Ribeiro, Portrait of Saint Lucy Holding Her Own Eyeballs, 2021, Glazed ceramic,…
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A corrugated experience
Dr. Ann Vogel admires a cardboard sculpture created by Michael Wiechmann. The piece is titled “An Average Week.” Vogel said “I feel that. This is perfect.” NEW ULM — Visitors to The Grand Center for Arts & Culture’s latest exhibit will never look at cardboard the same. The exhibit “Cardboard Explorations: A Corrugated Experience,” is…
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C You Saturday: SUPERFLEX
ICA San Diego is pleased to invite you to the launch of our Interface season of exhibition, focusing on the theme of Art & Science. This year, we will present six exhibitions that invite audiences to consider how art can mediate, translate, and expand the relationship between humans and the science of everyday life. Please…
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Chris Chandler at Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Installation view of Elemental Forms by Chris Chandler. Courtesy Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Elemental Forms, Chris Chandler’s first solo exhibition with Elizabeth Leach Gallery, is an intuitive lesson in searching for balance. The eight large monotype relief prints are, as the exhibition’s statement explains, a “balance between formalism and improvisation[…], a delicate layering process of give…
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NHA Students Shine in Winter Arts Showcase
New Haven Academy dance students perform at the Winter Arts Showcase. Photos Kapp Singer.
