Category: Visual Arts

  • The naked truth behind the canvas

    The naked truth behind the canvas

    “Words and images drink the same wine. There is no purity to protect,” South African artist Marlene Dumas once said, echoing her paintings. “Open-End,” her solo show at Palazzo Grassi in Venice in 2022, was a revelation touching upon two themes that are intrinsically linked to the Italian city: love and death. Dumas was equally…

  • 10 Galleries That Had a Breakout Year in 2024

    Art Market Maxwell Rabb Dec 20, 2024 5:02PM Portrait of Sara Mearns and Jodi Melnick performing in “Spirit Playgound,” Diana Orving’s site-specific installation at Carvalho Park, 2024. Photo by Se Yoon Park. Courtesy of Carvalho Park. This has been a challenging year for small galleries. Contending with much of the existing economic conditions that have…

  • 75th Sun Bowl Art Exhibit showcases El Paso artists

    75th Sun Bowl Art Exhibit showcases El Paso artists

    For 75 years, the International Museum of Art and the Sun Bowl Association have combined football and art.

  • ART BEAT: Norcross Gallery and Studios celebrates annual photography contest, looks forward to 2025

    ART BEAT: Norcross Gallery and Studios celebrates annual photography contest, looks forward to 2025

    The highly successful “Norcross Gallery and Studios Annual Photography Contest” began with a comment from artist Anne Labaire. “Norcross is extraordinarily picturesque,” she commented to the group of members and artists that make the non-profit such a popular gathering place to create and display work. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for you…

  • Today In Culture, Friday, December 20, 2024: DCASE Names Deputy Commissioner For Visual Arts | “Brutalist” Director Talks Brutalism | Congo Square Ensemble Walks

    Today In Culture, Friday, December 20, 2024: DCASE Names Deputy Commissioner For Visual Arts | “Brutalist” Director Talks Brutalism | Congo Square Ensemble Walks

    Photo: Todd Hieggelke Get Chicago & Midwest culture news sent to your inbox every weekday morning. Subscribe to Newcity Today here. ART DCASE Names Deputy Commissioner For Visual Arts The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events announced the naming of Evangelestia Dougherty as Deputy Commissioner For Visual Arts. She “brings a wealth of expertise and knowledge…

  • Four of the best new books about painting

    Four of the best new books about painting

    Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules The late American abstract expressionist and “colour field” artist pioneered the soak-stain technique, which allowed paint to seep deeper into the canvas. Published in conjunction with a show at Florence’s…

  • These paintings will put a spell on you

    These paintings will put a spell on you

    Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The art world is in the midst of a mystical moment. While 20th-century painters such as Remedios Varo and Swedish spiritualist Hilma af Klint are being given new prominence, myriad scenarios are being magicked up in…

  • 10 Best Miami Art Exhibitions of 2024

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  • Don Bachardy Fellowship 2025 | ArtsHub UK – Arts Industry News, Jobs & Career Advice

    Don Bachardy Fellowship 2025 | ArtsHub UK – Arts Industry News, Jobs & Career Advice

    The Don Bachardy Fellowship at the Royal Drawing School enables a gifted and dedicated post-graduate artist from outside the United Kingdom to join the Royal Drawing School during the Summer Term each year. The fellowship gives one artist the opportunity to join London’s vibrant art scene, with the School’s Shoreditch campus and artists’ studios located in the…

  • The Dalí’s Surprisingly Surreal Photo Contest | ArtsHub UK – Arts Industry News, Jobs & Career Advice

    The Dalí’s Surprisingly Surreal Photo Contest | ArtsHub UK – Arts Industry News, Jobs & Career Advice

    The Dalí’s special exhibit, The Subversive Eye: Surrealist and Experimental Photography from the David Raymond Collection, explores photography’s vital role as a Surrealist medium. For Surrealists and the experimental photographers they inspired, the camera became more than just a tool—it was a way to unlock visual poetry and see the world through an entirely new lens.…