“This is for you. It is not much but I promised you a little story. Maybe this is not a story.” So begins Mary’s Book (1949), a love letter of sorts in the form of a handmade photobook that a 25-year-old Robert Frank made for his long-distance girlfriend and soon-to-be wife, Mary Lockspeiser. The young…

#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } The Jacobson House Native Art Center is set to host a two-day Holiday Art Market featuring various indigenous artists. The Holiday Art Market is set to take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Nov. 30, to Dec.…

A new report commissioned by the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) has found that earnings for visual artists in Britain have plunged by 40 per cent since 2010. The University of Glasgow researchers who worked on the report found that visual artists had a median annual income of £12,500, 47 per cent lower than…

Candida Gertler. Courtesy Outset Contemporary Art Fund Candida Gertler, founder of Outset Contemporary Art Fund, has announced her resignation from the art philanthropy charity and all voluntary positions within UK arts institutions with immediate effect. ‘This decision comes not out of fear, weakness, or defeat, but as an act of principled protest against the alarming…

art by Ashley Swarts / photos by Alex Parker Like most great things in this world, collage has been mocked as a girlish hobby – something tweens make for their locker, say, or a cool-but-grungy creation for zines. But the work and precision required for collage creations can and do reach the highest levels of…

An artist pieces together Lansdale’s history — and future — in mosaic mural Artist Roxanne Slemmer has led more than 200 people in envisioning the borough’s past and present. By Emily Neil November 29, 2024 From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly’s suburbs do you want WHYY News to…

Yayoi Kusama’s major exhibition at NGV opens December 2024 Yayoi Kusama wraps more than 60 trees with her recognizable polka dots before the opening of her major exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) International in Melbourne. Named Ascension of Polka Dots on the Trees, they stand in line along St Kilda Road, just…

An exhibition of work by Tekla Alexieva entitled Encyclopaedia of Boundlessness opens at Sofia City Art Gallery on December 4 and continues until February 2 2025. The gallery said that tere has been increased interest in Alexieva’s art in recent years, as indicated by the numerous exhibitions of her work presenting various aspects of her…

This year has been “a masterclass in climate destruction.” These were United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’ opening words at this year’s COP29 in Baku. This edition of the annual summit, which ended on November 24, has frustratingly been marked more by division and regression than the urgently needed unity and progress. Meanwhile, we are standing…