Sculptures created by one of the most influential modern Chinese artists are now on display for the first time ever in Canada, at an exhibition in the ArtLAB Gallery at Western.   In the Heart of the Bronze: A Liu Shiming Experience showcases 25 bronze artworks crafted by the late renowned Chinese sculptor, Liu Shiming.   The…

Within the desert landscape of Giza, Egypt, a statue of the goddess Hathor stands her ground, a surreal apparition perfectly aligned with the Great Pyramid. The work, Egyptian Woman in the Form of the Goddess Hathor by the American artist Carole A. Feuerman, celebrates the deity of love, fertility, music and motherhood. It is one…

If looking at Judy Chicago’s art makes you uncomfortable, well, good. The essential 60-year retrospective at New York’s New Museum contains such an abundant supply of provocations, bloodied menstrual pads, gaping sexes, sarcastic needlework and other feminist flexes that it would make anyone break into a sweat. And yet the show is an exhilarating corrective,…

ASHEVILLE – River Arts District visitors have more one-of-a-kind visual arts to see and experience as a new boutique hotel’s restaurants and bars open to the public. The Radical has opened at 95 Roberts St. in a previously vacant 1920s warehouse. Owned by Hatteras Sky, along with its capital partner Somera Capital East, and operated…

Graduate students in the Master of Fine Arts studio art program in the School of Art, Art History and Design will host their annual Open Studios and Raffle from 6-8 p.m. Nov. 3. The event, hosted by the student-run Visual Artists in Practice, is free and open to the public. Studios will be open in Richards…

Where words fall short, art rises.  Words often form the foundation for necessary change-making: letters to representatives, petitions, slogans, calls to action. But sometimes, we need more than words to express our hunger for change — that’s when we turn to art, music, movement, and other creative mediums to call for unity and amplify one…

WE DROVE THREE HOURS from Los Angeles to the remote desert at the edge of California and made our way through the maze of gates and checkpoints to our classroom in a state prison. The students were going to present their final projects for our arts facilitator training. One by one, sometimes in pairs, they…

Abstract Music production is a universal phenomenon reaching far back into our past. Given its ubiquity, evolution theorists have postulated adaptive functions for music, such as strengthening in-group cohesion, intimidating enemies, or promoting child bonding. Here, we focus on a longstanding Darwinian hypothesis, suggesting that music production evolved as a vehicle to display an individual’s…

All too often, an artist’s success only falls upon them once they gain the title of “late artist.” But sometimes, artists get to experience the fruits of their labor as a late-in-life artist. Up-and-coming artist Scott Kahn is a perfect example of this phenomenon. Born in 1946, Kahn grew up in the southwestern part of…

Kambui Bomani Kambui Bomani is the general assignment and breaking news reporter for The Daily Memphian. He is a graduate of Jackson State University’s multimedia journalism program and earned a master’s degree in digital journalism from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School. His work has been published in Pro Football Focus, The Southside Stand, HBCU Legends, FanSided…