Category: Visual Arts

  • Mickalene Thomas’ homecoming at the Barnes is All About Love

    Mickalene Thomas’ homecoming at the Barnes is All About Love

    From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The day before her internationally touring exhibition “All About Love” opened at the Barnes Foundation on Oct. 20, Mickalene Thomas hosted a soft opening for about a hundred friends and family. The show’s…

  • Department of Art Brings Foundry, Faculty Expertise to Collaboration With Toledo Museum of Art

    Department of Art Brings Foundry, Faculty Expertise to Collaboration With Toledo Museum of Art

    The University of Toledo fired up its foundry to assist an artist collective in dropping digital medallions into the smartphones of visitors to the Toledo Museum of Art. The Queen’s Medallion, a bronze work emblazoned with the stately profile of an imagined Ethiopian Queen, is on display in “House of Yatreda” through Sunday, Nov. 10.…

  • UToledo Department of Art Brings Foundry, Faculty Expertise to Collaboration with Toledo Museum of Art

    UToledo Department of Art Brings Foundry, Faculty Expertise to Collaboration with Toledo Museum of Art

    The University of Toledo fired up its foundry to assist an artist collective in dropping digital medallions into the smartphones of visitors to the Toledo Museum of Art. The Queen’s Medallion, a bronze work emblazoned with the stately profile of an imagined Ethiopian Queen, is on display in “House of Yatreda” through Sunday, Nov. 10.…

  • “ritual”: Paintings by Susan Carr at LABspace

    “ritual”: Paintings by Susan Carr at LABspace

    Let me say this first: Susan Carr is peachy. She is the kind of person you want to embrace within moments of meeting her, which is exactly what I did when I landed in the loving arms of her exhibition “rituals” at LABspace in Hillsdale (her sixth solo show with the gallery). The show is…

  • Monthly shows mix music and visual arts in Fort Langley

    Monthly shows mix music and visual arts in Fort Langley

    Three upcoming events will entertain the ears and eyes as musicians team up with a local visual artist. Talent from across the Lower Mainland will perform a wide range of genres featuring rock, folk, pop, and swing during the Music Night Series. “We want to involve local performers in the event and give them opportunities…

  • National Medal of Arts Awarded to UC San Diego Alumna Carrie Mae Weems

    National Medal of Arts Awarded to UC San Diego Alumna Carrie Mae Weems

    Article Content Carrie Mae Weems, a celebrated American artist and University of California San Diego visual arts alumna, was presented the National Medal of Arts by President Joe Biden at a White House ceremony on Oct. 21. Artist Mark Bradford, whose work is included in the university’s public art collection, the Stuart Collection, was also…

  • San Diego weekend arts events: Ghosts, breath and a book fair

    San Diego weekend arts events: Ghosts, breath and a book fair

    Top picks| Live music picks | More art and culture weekend events Top picks The Rosin Box Project: ‘Ghost Light Masquerade’ Dance, Contemporary, Ballet | Each year, contemporary ballet company The Rosin Box Project adds a touch of mystique to its Halloween-themed “Ghost Light Masquerade” performance series. Centered on choreography by founder Carly Topazio and…

  • Arts Council exhibit closes on Saturday

    Arts Council exhibit closes on Saturday

    OLEAN — The Tri-County Arts Council presents the exhibit “Buck Up Buttercup,” featuring 2023 Southern Tier Biennial Best in show winner, Tammy Renée Brackett, through Saturday in the Peg Bothner Gallery at the Tri-County Arts Council, 110 W. State St. The Southern Tier Biennial is held every other year and includes visual artists ages 18…

  • Art and Graphic Design of the European Avant-Gardes Opens at the Frary Gallery

    Art and Graphic Design of the European Avant-Gardes Opens at the Frary Gallery

    Share via: By Sheila Wickouski The Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti wrote  in 1909 the “Manifesto of Futurism,” a call for artists to reject the past, “destroy museums, libraries and  academies”  and to celebrate the future of modernization. Over a century later, his works are the starting display at The Irene and Richard Frary Gallery…

  • Mendocino County photographers shine at Willits Center for the Arts exhibit • The Mendocino Voice

    Mendocino County photographers shine at Willits Center for the Arts exhibit • The Mendocino Voice

    WILLITS, CA., 10/18/24 — The Willits Photography Club showcases its members’ art at the twentieth iteration of this always-popular exhibition at the Willits Center for the Arts. Longtime photographers Bruce Haanstra, Steve Eberhard, and Michael and Lydia Steffen are among the twelve exhibitors; the show spans the gamut of abstract, landscape, nature, and portraits.  The…