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Art installations open in Downtown Boston, including two giant floating clown heads; effort to attract more people to city
Four art installations have taken up temporary residence in Downtown Boston, including two enormous balloons made to look like clown heads and an 11,000 pound steel whale sculpture, part of a free winter art experience produced by the Downtown Boston Business Improvement District. “Why not have a couple of inflated clowns in Downtown Boston?” said…
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2024 Winner Represents Conroe ISD in YoungArts
THE WOODLANDS, TX — Junior Matthew Yu, a member of the Academy of Science and Technology at College Park High School, has been selected as a 2024 YoungArts winner with distinction in Visual Arts. College Park HS junior Matthew Yu recognized for outstanding visual art talent “For the Visual Arts discipline, the application was a…
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Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being: Art in Three Dimensions
A viewer experiences one of Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins’ works. Courtesy Contemporary Calgary As you walk through bare Brutalist concrete corridors towards the entry to the new Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins multimedia art exhibition “Three Dimensions,” you might wonder what you’re doing there. The place is immense and austere–like an ultramodern wartime bunker…
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ROBINET: My friend Leonard
Breadcrumb Trail Links Opinion Column Author of the article: Karen Robinet Published Jan 11, 2024 • Last updated 30 minutes ago • 4 minute read Join the conversation The late Leonard Jubenville is seen here speaking to those attending a retrospective of his art work, held at the Thames Art Gallery in January 2023. (Karen Robinet…
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San Diego weekend arts events: ‘Working Title,’ kelp art and more
Top picks ‘Working Title’ Visual art, Dance, Music For more arts events or to submit your own, visit the KPBS/Arts Calendar. If you want more time to plan, get the KPBS/Arts newsletter in your inbox every Thursday to see event picks for the weeks ahead. Project [BLANK]’s annual interdisciplinary art and performance takeover of a…
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First call for 2024 Vermont Studio Center applications open today
Artists and writers from near and far can now apply for 2024 residencies at the Vermont Studio Center. Applications will be accepted Jan. 10 – Feb. 15. Residencies will take place April – December. 35% of accepted applicants will receive a full fellowship for their residencies — meaning the $12,000 cost of the 4-week program will be…
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Be sure to see the fantastic artwork from black artists all around the nation!
CALYTON, Mo.- The Portfolio Gallery and Education Center was founded to spotlight local and national African American artists. It’s founder, Robert Powell, saw that so many talented artists were remaining anonymous, not getting to be well known for their talent. Since 1989, the Portfolio Gallery has worked for change. This Saturday, be sure to attend…
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Druid Arts Awards postponed until 2025 by organizers
The Druid Arts Awards ceremony planned for this March has been postponed to 2025, due to unforeseen circumstances, according to the Arts Council of Tuscaloosa, which hosts the biennial celebration. More:Tuscaloosa drops plans to demolish long-abandoned Quik Mart building The Druid Arts Awards honors artists, educators, volunteers and patrons of the arts in theater, dance,…
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Curator Virginia Brilliant On the Old Master Women History Chose to Forget
Artemisia Gentileschi, “The Penitent Magdalene,” c. 1626, Oil on canvas, 81 x 68.5 cm (31 7/8 x 27 in.). Courtesy Robilant + Voena When it comes to Old Master works, many of us think immediately of art made by men—most often Caravaggio, Rembrandt or Vermeer. But there were women artists working in the Early Renaissance…
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See Tibetan Monks create a sand mandala in St. Petersburg
Tibetan Buddhist Monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in India have returned to St. Petersburg on their Sacred Art Tour to create an intricate sand Wisdom mandala at Florida CraftArt (501 Central Ave.). They started the mandala on Monday, Jan. 8 and are working on it every day through Saturday, Jan. 13 from 10:30 a.m.-4:30…