Category: Visual Arts

  • Lunar Love

    Lunar Love

    Whether you’re starry-eyed in love or just looking for a celestial adventure, prepare for a Valentine’s Day journey that’s light-years beyond usual hearts and roses. Sokaris Studio and the 124 Street & Area Business Association are giving the day an interstellar twist with To The Moon and Back — an immersive and interactive art experience. According…

  • Lunar Love

    Lunar Love

    Whether you’re starry-eyed in love or just looking for a celestial adventure, prepare for a Valentine’s Day journey that’s light-years beyond usual hearts and roses. Sokaris Studio and the 124 Street & Area Business Association are giving the day an interstellar twist with To The Moon and Back — an immersive and interactive art experience. According…

  • Obituary: Artist and longtime Stillwater prison teacher William Murray, 76, transformed pain into painting

    Obituary: Artist and longtime Stillwater prison teacher William Murray, 76, transformed pain into painting

    If William Murray created a painting he wasn’t happy with, he wouldn’t disregard it and start over on a fresh canvas, as some artists might. Instead, his wife, Angie Murray, said, he would keep reworking the same piece; amending it, rethinking it, turning day into night, pushing it until he thought it stood on its…

  • Review: Shar Coulson’s “Night Sight” at the Museum of Surgical Science

    Review: Shar Coulson’s “Night Sight” at the Museum of Surgical Science

    Shar Coulson, installation view of “Night Sight: Illuminating the Mind’s Eye Through Darkness,” 2025, at International Museum of Surgical Science/Photo: Susan Aurinko Artist Shar Coulson understands the healing power of art firsthand. When she was diagnosed with endocarditis in 2021 Coulson underwent emergency open-heart surgery that likely saved her life. During the first month and…

  • Fred Wilson Lecture in Global Black Studies: Dr. Zalika U. Ibaorimi – e-flux Education

    Fred Wilson Lecture in Global Black Studies: Dr. Zalika U. Ibaorimi – e-flux Education

    Fred Wilson Lecture in Global Black Studies: Dr. Zalika U. Ibaorimi 2025 Fred Wilson Lecture in Global Black Studies: March 5, 6–8pm Add to Calendar Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College, SUNY 735 Anderson Hill Road Purchase, NY 10577USA Hours: Wednesday–Sunday 12–5pm T +1 914 251 6100 [email protected] On Wednesday evening, March 5, the Neuberger…

  • Portraits by Jeremy Okai Davis add new faces to Oregon history

    Portraits by Jeremy Okai Davis add new faces to Oregon history

    Installation view of ReEnvisioned: Contemporary Portraits of Our Black Ancestors in the A.M. Bush Gallery at Salem Art Association, 2025. Photo credit: Mario Gallucci, image courtesy of Salem Art Association After a three-year process, the complete set of ten portraits of Black Oregon ancestors by Jeremy Okai Davis is on view at the A.M. Bush…

  • Brownfield celebrates 10 years

    Brownfield celebrates 10 years

    Shari Brownfield Fine Art is celebrating its tenth anniversary on Valentine’s Day with a new exhibition, “The Message Is the Medium.” From the slippery horizon of Miya Ando’s “Kasumi (Mist)” to Roy Lichtenstein’s 1964 “Setting Sun and Sea,” the collection demonstrates principal Shari Brownfield’s ability to cross genres and continents. #placement_706514_0_i{width:100%;margin:0 auto;}

  • 3 artists open works in town gallery

    3 artists open works in town gallery

    Bo Bartlett An American realist, Bo Bartlett’s portraits of people and animals are dramatic widescreen incisions into the fabric Bartlett captures on his 6-by-8-foot canvases. #placement_706514_0_i{width:100%;margin:0 auto;}

  • Photographer Laura Wilson captures the best of the modern West

    Photographer Laura Wilson captures the best of the modern West

    Dallas-based photographer Laura Wilson has played an essential role in crafting how the American West is represented in the modern age. Through her work assisting legendary lensman Richard Avedon on his photographic series commissioned by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Wilson researched the best faces and places to capture the depth and complexity…

  • Teen artist Callum MacInnis lets his creations do the talking

    Teen artist Callum MacInnis lets his creations do the talking

    The cliché is that a picture is worth a thousand words. In Callum Macinnis’s case, it’s not a cliché. Callum, age 15 and living with autism, admits he is more comfortable painting than speaking. And with his first solo show having opened at the Dundas Valley School of Art (DVSA), area residents and art lovers…