The opening reception for SRAC’s Annual Members Show, Friday, November 1, will feature live music by Michelle Gillam and give attendees a chance to meet the artists. The event is free and open to the public and will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Creamery Arts Center, 411 N. Sherman Parkway. The…

On any given Friday, stepping into PHS’ Visual Arts and Design Academy (VADA) classroom is like entering a vibrant world of boundless creativity and expression. The room hums with energy as students dive into a variety of projects—some carefully crafting intricate sketches, others immersed in digital design work or bringing vibrant paintings to life. Art…

“About Time,” the title of the new Charles Atlas career survey at the ICA, is a not-so-subtle double-pun. Atlas works primarily in film and video — what the art world likes to call “time-based media” — so there’s that. He’s also 75, and this is his first career retrospective, anywhere in the United States, ever.…

One of the world’s largest collections of work by women artists is coming to Berkeley this season, courtesy of a Haas School of Business alumna who has brought her prodigious collection to her alma mater’s flagship art museum.  This past weekend, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) opened Making Their Mark: Works…

Support local news in ATL Echo Contemporary Art is located inside Guardian Studios on Atlanta’s westside. Photo by Jessica Helfrecht. Jessica Helfrecht, owner of Echo Contemporary Art, has been building an art empire on the westside of Atlanta since 2022. While working at MINT in early 2020, Helfrecht was tasked with designing a studio and…

KC Studio editor Alice Thorson, photo by Mark Berndt. The end of the year brings significant changes to KC Studio’s roster of columnists. For the past eight years, we have been fortunate to have Julius Karash’s Business and the Arts column, tracking developments citywide at dozens of KC arts organizations. In more than four dozen…

Hanif Kureshi, the co-founder of the St+art India Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that works on art projects in public spaces, died on 22 September aged 41 after a battle with cancer. As the artistic director of St+art India, Kureshi led projects that saw vibrant murals and installations created in cities including Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai.…

WAWL-FM will be the beneficiary of Lakeshore Visual Arts Collective’s (LVAC) newest pop-up art event, which will be held Saturday, Nov. 2, from 5-8 p.m. at the Tri-Cities Historical Museum. More than 50 regional artists will bring work for this one-night-only pop-up art show as LVAC transforms the second story of the historical museum into…

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Perched on two fingers on the roof of an art gallery in Wellington, New Zealand, the giant sculpture of a hand has loomed over the city for five years. Named Quasi, the 16 feet — almost 5 meters — creation of Australia-based sculptor Ronnie van Hout bears an unsmiling human face — because why not?…