Category: Visual Arts

  • Fifty Years of Painting Innovation: What Jamillah James Wants You to Know About “The Living End”

    Fifty Years of Painting Innovation: What Jamillah James Wants You to Know About “The Living End”

    Jamillah James/Photo courtesy Jamillah James “Curator time operates on a very different timescale than everyone else’s,” Jamillah James jokes as she reflects on the inevitable last-minute decisions and minor crises leading up to the opening of “The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970-2020” at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). Bringing together decades of…

  • Firelei Báez’s Paintings Capture the Dominican Diasporic Experience

    Firelei Báez’s Paintings Capture the Dominican Diasporic Experience

    “These here are little protective hair buns, or Angelitas,” says the Dominican-born artist Firelei Báez during the last days of summer, pointing to a series of sensuous, inky coiled-hair paintings in her Brooklyn studio. “I think of performing self as this very conscious thing. Within culture, we have this idea of dress and adornment as…

  • SF Gallery to show annual Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition

    SF Gallery to show annual Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition

    Santa Fe College will open its Gallery for the annual Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition on Friday, Nov. 8. The event will run from 7 to 9 p.m. The gallery is in Building M, Room 147 at the Northwest Campus, 3000 NW 83 St. in Gainesville. “We welcome everyone to come explore the creative works of…

  • Artworks from museum’s permanent collection on display in Loretto

    Artworks from museum’s permanent collection on display in Loretto

    #inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } LORETTO, Pa. – This collection of artistic work explores the nuances between brightness and obscurity and the contrast of light and darkness. The “Light and Dark” exhibition is on display through Dec. 15 at Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art…

  • GraphicPécs Festival Showcases International Graphic Art with a Musical Twist

    GraphicPécs Festival Showcases International Graphic Art with a Musical Twist

    The GraphicPécs international graphic arts festival, taking place from 7 November to 25 January in Pécs, offers a rich programme of exhibitions, professional talks, book launches, and roundtable discussions for enthusiasts. In a statement on Wednesday, the event organizer Zsolnay Heritage Management Non-profit Ltd (ZSÖK) recalled that the festival was first held in 2022. This…

  • Aurora Biennial returns to downtown Dallas with a look at the ‘FuturePresentPast’

    Aurora Biennial returns to downtown Dallas with a look at the ‘FuturePresentPast’

    For its first in-person biennial since 2018, Aurora is returning to its roots by gazing backward — and forward — for the sixth edition of its free public art event. On Saturday, Nov. 16, from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m., the organization will transform the skyline with projections and performances that land in the sweet…

  • Blackstone River Theatre Art Gallery presents paintings by Cantrell Hogg

    Blackstone River Theatre Art Gallery presents paintings by Cantrell Hogg

    CUMBERLAND – Blackstone River Theatre’s Art Gallery will host an exhibition and sale of paintings by Robin Cantrell Hogg through Nov. 30, viewable two hours before and during scheduled theater events, in the upper and lower lobby of the Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St. The BRT Art Gallery is an ongoing initiative to have…

  • Christopher Carter Bridges Old and New Practices at Edge Zones

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  • NCFL to host TechTalk and artist conversation

    NCFL to host TechTalk and artist conversation

    CHATHAM — The North Chatham Free Library (NCFL) is hosting two events in the upcoming weeks. A Return to Realism The first event, A Return to Realism with Visual Artist Arnon Moscona will take place on Nov. 10 at 3 p.m. at 4287 Route 203. Enjoy an open and stimulating conversation with Moscona when he…

  • NCFL to host TechTalk and artist conversation

    NCFL to host TechTalk and artist conversation

    CHATHAM — The North Chatham Free Library (NCFL) is hosting two events in the upcoming weeks. A Return to Realism The first event, A Return to Realism with Visual Artist Arnon Moscona will take place on Nov. 10 at 3 p.m. at 4287 Route 203. Enjoy an open and stimulating conversation with Moscona when he…