Category: Visual Arts

  • Mural coming to Linnentown Lane, artist needed

    Mural coming to Linnentown Lane, artist needed

    Linnentown Lane is welcoming a mural in the coming months. The Athens-Clarke County Unified Government has created an opportunity for artists to submit applications to be considered for public art in Linnentown Lane. The goal of this artwork will be to capture the joy and sense of life in Linnentown, while also speaking to the…

  • Sculpture coming to Linnentown Lane, artist needed

    Sculpture coming to Linnentown Lane, artist needed

    Linnentown Lane is welcoming a sculpture in the coming months. The Athens-Clarke County Unified Government has created an opportunity for artists to submit applications to be considered for public art in Linnentown Lane. The goal of this artwork will be to capture the joy and sense of life in Linnentown, while also speaking to the…

  • Last nonprofit art school in SF faces uncertain future

    Last nonprofit art school in SF faces uncertain future

    The California College of the Arts is San Francisco’s last remaining nonprofit art school, but it remains to be seen for how much longer. Ex // Top Stories

  • Ten museum shows to see in every New England state

    Ten museum shows to see in every New England state

    CONNECTICUT DIVINE GEOMETRY: ISLAMIC ART AT THE WADSWORTH ATHENEUM Drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition expands on the historic motifs of Islamic art with modern and contemporary pieces that contain echoes of an ancient aesthetic practice defined by its crisp forms and elegant visual rhythms. Nov. 27-April 13. Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main St.,…

  • A Short Visual History of America, According to the Irreverent Comic Artist R. Crumb

    A Short Visual History of America, According to the Irreverent Comic Artist R. Crumb

    [embedded content] As a founder of the “under­ground comix” move­ment in the 1960s, R. Crumb is either revered as a pio­neer­ing satirist of Amer­i­can cul­ture and its excess­es or reviled as a juve­nile pur­vey­or of painful­ly out­mod­ed sex­ist and racist stereo­types. Crumb doesn’t apol­o­gize. He keeps work­ing, and his fans are grate­ful. He has par­layed…

  • WVCSD Artist of the Week: Dania Barillas

    WVCSD Artist of the Week: Dania Barillas

    As part of its ongoing Artist of the Week feature, Warwick Valley High School recently highlighted senior Dania Barillas. Barillas is a talented violinist who began playing in third grade and has never let up. She’s now in her ninth year as a performing musician here in Warwick Valley, while also developing her skills as…

  • Concordia co-hosts the first major gathering focused solely on Inuit visual arts since 2011

    Concordia co-hosts the first major gathering focused solely on Inuit visual arts since 2011

    Making Waves In collaboration with the MMFA, Avataq Cultural Institute, La Guilde, Concordia, and the university’s FOFA Gallery, the Inuit Futures Symposium will be the first major gathering focused solely on Inuit visual arts since the Inuit Modern Symposium that took place in Toronto on February 4, 2011. The three-day gathering will be an opportunity…

  • Pakistani PM’s climate aide highlights visual arts’ role in wildlife protection

    Pakistani PM’s climate aide highlights visual arts’ role in wildlife protection

    Coordinator to Pakistan’s Prime Minister on Climate Change, Romina Khurshid Alam on Friday said that while the climate change impacts grow more frequent and intense, innovative approaches such as painting and visual arts can play a vital role to sensitise policymakers and public about various threats being faced by the wildlife species and their habitats…

  • Multiple Speaks: A Review of the Thirty-Eighth Panorama da Arte Brasileira at MAC USP

    Multiple Speaks: A Review of the Thirty-Eighth Panorama da Arte Brasileira at MAC USP

    Installation view of 38º Panorama da Arte Brasileira, 2024, at MAC USP/Photo: Ruy Teixeira Days after the intense heat waves and fires in large areas of Brazil have cooled down, we have arrived at “Mil Graus” (A Thousand Degrees), a good example of the current Brazilian artistic fervor. Fire and heat lead the thirty-eighth Panorama…

  • As Georgia Decides Its Future, Artists Are Worried About Theirs

    As Georgia Decides Its Future, Artists Are Worried About Theirs

    On a sultry late summer night, in a horseshoe-shaped club cantilevered over the Mtkvari River that cuts Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, in two, the artist and drag performer Andro Dadiani was belting out the last bars of his aria act a cappella. Wearing a sweeping ball skirt the same shade of blue as the European Union…