Category: Visual Arts

  • Wacom Enraged Customers by Using AI Art, But Says It’s Not To Blame

    Popular drawing tablet company Wacom is under fire for allegedly using AI-generated artwork on its social media, infuriating the company’s customer base who already face an existential threat due to AI-generated imagery. The controversial story is a confusing, winding road of deception, but The Verge has done great keeping up with twists and turns. Yesterday,…

  • New art faculty member to have exhibition in Western’s art gallery

    New art faculty member to have exhibition in Western’s art gallery

    Front Window Reception, by Benjamin Nathan.   Wyo4News staff, [email protected] [PRESS RELEASE] January 10, 2024 — Western Wyoming Community College (Western) will host an exhibition of artworks by new faculty Ben Nathan to start the year off in Western’s Art Gallery. Western recently welcomed Ben as an Assistant Professor of Art on campus. The artworks on…

  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to eliminate its degree programs

    America’s oldest museum and art school is closing its college. In a major blow to Philadelphia’s proud, pioneering tradition of visual arts training, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, long billed as the first and oldest art school and museum in the U.S., is winding down its degree-granting programs, leaders said on Wednesday. The…

  • Northern Kentucky University Reels in Special “Moby Dick” Art Collection

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  • Lecturer Proves Everyday Items Can Make Great Art!

    A Visual Arts Lecturer has showed people that sometimes the most special creations come from starting exactly where you are, with what you have in front of you. As such, she has created gorgeous prints from everyday items like dish soap, candle wax and cool drinks! Gqeberha, South Africa (10 January 2024) — A clever…

  • Genius Black named Maine Arts Commission fellow

    Local media entrepreneur Genius Black, host of the “Maine’s Black Future” podcast featured in The Maine Monitor, has been granted a Maine Arts Commission fellowship for 2024, the commission announced. In the Maine’s Black Future podcast, Genius Black, who also goes by Jerry Edwards, revisits the stories of historic Black Mainers and also conducts interviews…

  • This pop-up gallery is just the creative space Toronto artists needed

    The Gift Shop, a pop-up immersive art gallery at stackt market, is a gift to local Toronto artists packed with love from founder Imani Dominique Busby. It comes in unconventional packaging — a tricked-out shipping container — but what’s more important is what’s inside. The gallery holds art for sale by over 35 local up-coming…

  • FOG Fair returns to SF Fort Mason this month

    It’s time for the official kickoff of another year of fine art in San Francisco. FOG Design+Art, The City’s premier international fine art and design fair hosted at Fort Mason Center, will get things started. The fair returns this year for its 10th edition with exciting new additions. Over the past decade, the week of…

  • Brush to canvas: News from the visual art world

    All eyes this week are on the Florida CraftArt gallery, 501 Central Ave., where the Tibetan Buddhist monks of the Drepung Gomang Monastery are in residence through Sunday, creating an intricate mandala – a brilliant, colorful design made, by hand, from individual grains of sand. The mandala “represents the enlightened mind and the ideal world.” …

  • Who’s a Good Boy? Norton Latourelle’s ‘Rescue Dogs’ at Frog Hollow

    click to enlarge Courtesy Of Frog Hollow Dogs by Norton Latourelle Didn’t get a puppy for Christmas? It’s not too late. Especially if you prefer one that definitely won’t pee on the carpet. All kinds of canines await their new best friends at Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington, and they’re as low-maintenance as…