Category: Visual Arts

  • Akbank Sanat marks 30th year with 3-decade exhibit of artistic evolution

    Akbank Sanat marks 30th year with 3-decade exhibit of artistic evolution

    Akbank Sanat, the pioneer in the art world in Türkiye, is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a special exhibition. “A Space of Insight: Akbank Sanat and 30 Years” opened its doors on Dec. 6, offering a journey through time to explore 31 different exhibitions held at Akbank Sanat and the stories behind them. Hasan Bülent…

  • Open call: PERSPEKTIVE FUND 2024 for visual arts projects – Announcements – e-flux

    Open call: PERSPEKTIVE FUND 2024 for visual arts projects  – Announcements – e-flux

    The call for visual arts projects for the tenth edition of PERSPEKTIVE is open until January 8, 2024. Launched in 2014, the PERSPEKTIVE fund is a project co-organized by the Bureau for visula arts/Institut français Germany and the Goethe-Institut. It seeks to support the development of collaborative and transnational artistic initiatives between French and German…

  • Loft Gallery: Nebraska 4-H Visual Arts

    An art exhibition, featuring 4-H’ers artwork selected from over 600 entries at the Nebraska State Fair. The 4-H visual art projects included in the show were completed this year but demonstrate mastery developed over many years in the project. The works were selected based on creativity, originality, and attention to detail. The show features a…

  • ‘Everyone is outraged’: SUNY Fredonia to cut 13 programs

    ‘Everyone is outraged’: SUNY Fredonia to cut 13 programs

    The leader of SUNY Fredonia was booed as he exited off the stage after delivering a campus-wide address announcing more than a dozen programs are on the chopping block to deal with a deficit. It was a packed auditorium mixed with students and faculty to hear SUNY Fredonia President Stephen Kolison’s speech entitled “Ensuring a…

  • Art history professor Huey Copeland receives award for volume on Black modernism

    Art history professor Huey Copeland receives award for volume on Black modernism

    The Daily Pennsylvanian is a student-run nonprofit. Please support us by disabling your ad blocker on our site. Huey Copeland was awarded the 2024 James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Award in African American Art History (Photo from Penn Arts & Sciences). Huey Copeland, BFC Presidential Associate Professor of History of Art, was awarded…

  • San Diego weekend arts events: Evan Apodaca, Sew Loka, ‘El Mesías’ and more

    San Diego weekend arts events: Evan Apodaca, Sew Loka, ‘El Mesías’ and more

    Top Picks Evan Apodaca: ‘The Secret City’ Visual artSan Diego artist and filmmaker Evan Apodaca will open a solo exhibition at the Athenaeum Art Center inside Bread & Salt in Logan Heights. Apodaca’s work focuses on what he refers to as the “hyper-militarization” of the San Diego region. This exhibit includes his video exhibit, “Monumental…

  • 7 Questions for Firdy Arman on Founding the First Asian Contemporary Art Space in San Francisco

    7 Questions for Firdy Arman on Founding the First Asian Contemporary Art Space in San Francisco

    One of the newest and most exciting additions to the San Francisco art scene, Roundcollab Contemporary Asian Art is dedicated to giving a platform to a range of diverse and dynamic artists from Asia and the Asian diaspora. Helmed by founder Firdy Arman, the gallery’s programming aims to foster and promote cross-cultural dialogue, highlighting a…

  • Antigo Visual Arts teams up with Antigo FD to launch art project

    Antigo Visual Arts teams up with Antigo FD to launch art project

    ANTIGO, Wis. (WJFW) – Antigo Visual Arts (AVA) teamed up with the Antigo Fire Department (AFD) for an art display in the AFD apparatus bay, led by AVA artist Vicki Eldridge. Vicki is a creative artist who often uses recycled materials to make carved, award-winning totems and arts displays in the AVA gallery of the…

  • Two Rivers Gallery announces new curator

    Two Rivers Gallery announces new curator

    Two Rivers Gallery has announced its new curator Ehsan Mohammadi. He is a folklorist and visual arts curator originally from Iran. His educational background spans folklore studies and English Literature, with a focus on post-humanism, power relations, and stigma in cyberspace, as well as postmodern American literature. In addition to his academic and curatorial pursuits,…

  • Art therapy enriches lives

    Art therapy enriches lives

    Breadcrumb Trail Links Opinion Column Shell-Lee Wert jpg, BI Article content Today I am going to share some insight into the benefits of Art therapy. In the context of our agency, Arts-based therapy provides those recovering from a stroke with an outlet to express themselves through visual arts such as painting and sculpting. The use…