Marcelo Dantas at Sferik/Photo: Courtesy Roth Productions 8 Get Brazil art news sent to your inbox every Wednesday morning. Subscribe to Brazil Art Letter here. AI Art Prize In Mexico Has Brazilian Connections Brazilian artists Leandro Lima and Mari Nagen received the special recognition award of $20,000 and a thirty-day residency in the SFER IK…

click to enlarge Josh Kuckens Diane Huling at her home in Cabot Most people know Diane Huling as a pianist. With bachelor’s and master’s degrees in piano performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., Huling, 69, has performed internationally. In a parallel career, the Cabot resident — a Vermonter since age 16…

click to enlarge Kevin Goddard Sunflower still life paintings by Union Elementary School students at Walgreens on Main Street In July, floodwaters rose four feet throughout downtown Montpelier, laying waste to buildings along Main and State streets. Soon after, Vermonters were shocked to see images of debris piled high in the streets as shopkeepers mucked…

The paintings of Teri Donovan are fleshy and real, not realistic. Sometimes they employ collage, and sometimes they go beyond collage toward filmic montage – sharply cut images spliced together forming a narrative. And when they are strictly painted, depicting real people living in imagined or real architectural space, the figures and background merge to…

SHAPES, RHYTHM, ABSTRACTION: Swiss Museums by Paul Clemence Architectural photographer Paul Clemence has recently unveiled his latest photo exhibition, SHAPES, RHYTHM, ABSTRACTION: Swiss Museums, at Le Salon Suisse during Miami Art Week 2023. Through a play of textures, patterns, shapes, and light, this photo essay takes us on a visual tour of museums in Geneva, Lausanne,…

Kunsthal Charlottenborg announces its exhibition program for 2024, featuring internationally recognized artists such as Thao Nguyen Phan, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Francis Upritchard, a large-scale exhibition on artificial intelligence as well as talents from the Nordic countries and abroad. Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2024February 2–March 3, 2024 The Spring Exhibition is an excellent opportunity to explore art talents…

Celando Matchevelli’s artistic talent is a gift bestowed on him and most members of his immediate family. But the 16-year-old said he chose to actively nurture this talent, teaching himself the intricacies of using charcoal and graphite to bring his drawings to life and finding inspiration in his daily experiences. His dedication has been rewarded.…

This is not a “white savior” story. Mollie Hosmer-Dillard doesn’t come at her work that way. It would be easy to see things from the perspective of that pop-culture trope, as Hosmer-Dillard—Art Manager for the University of Utah’s Arts & Justice Lab—works with incarcerated adults and youth teaching visual-art programs. But she never wants it…

ArtReview, one of the world’s leading contemporary art magazines, has named University of California, Santa Cruz Arts and Humanities Professor Sir Isaac Julien as the fifth most influential artist in its ArtReview Power 100 list.  “Julien uses and then redefines the visual medium as a tool against cultural erasure and capitalism, ” wrote Prince Shakur…

On View Weserburg Museum For Modern ArtNOW AND THENNovember 18, 2023–March 31, 2024Bremen, Germany Kay Rosen and I have been in conversation for more than thirty years, beginning soon after I first saw her work at Feature Inc. in New York at the end of the 1980s. Our connection ever since has been built around…