Art

 Craft Food #Ann Wood #birds #flowers #mushrooms #paper #vegetables November 28, 2023 Grace Ebert All images © Ann Wood, shared with permission You don’t need to head out to the forest to find plump morels or chanterelles. After years of cultivating a robust collection of paper flowers and produce, artist Ann Wood (previously) has turned her focus to fungi, …

The theme of the transhistorical exhibition “History Tales. Fact and Fiction in History Painting” has, rather unexpectedly, become highly topical, even frighteningly so, at this historical time of the much-cited “turning point.” Indeed, a geopolitical and economic equilibrium of values and forces appears to be out of step—also  triggered by the war in Ukraine—and a global shift of immeasurable proportions seems to be set in …

Thousands of protesters marched to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City on Saturday afternoon, November 25, as part of a massive action in support of Gaza, where Israeli forces have killed more than 14,000 Palestinians over the past month and a half. After nearly seven weeks of continual bombings following Hamas’s October 7 attack, Israel …

A project about the Punk Rock movement in Soweto, South Africa by photographer and filmmaker Karabo Mooki from Johannesburg. Focusing on distinctive casting and under-represented faces, Mooki’s work explores themes of race, gender, sexuality, and class while seeking to highlight life in South Africa in an honest and authentic way. According to Mooki, the township of Soweto has seen an …

 Art #Ranjani Shettar #sculpture November 27, 2023 Grace Ebert “Cloud songs on the horizon” (2023). All images are installation views of ‘Ranjani Shettar: Cloud songs on the horizon,’ Barbican Conservatory, © Max Colson, Barbican Art Gallery, courtesy of Barbican Centre, KNMA, Ranjani Shettar, shared with permission Emerging from the lush, jungle-like conservatory at the Barbican is a collection of …

Rhea Dillon works in sculpture, painting, performance, and poetry, using wide-ranging materials to articulate an aesthetic of diasporic Blackness grounded in nonbeing. Her charged exhibitions and writing use poetics, abstraction, and everyday objects to produce distinctive arrangements of sense and affect. For this project at Kevin Space, a strain of Dillon’s research coalesces into an architectural intervention. She proposes a …

Dyani White Hawk, “Untitled (Pink and Blue)” (2022), acrylic, oil, synthetic sinew, 24k gold seed beads, glass bugle beads, and vintage glass seed beads on canvas, 47 x 47 1/2 inches (all images courtesy the Brooklyn Museum) During the United States’s internment of Japanese citizens in World War II, painter and printmaker Hisako Hibi used the canvas as a way …

 Art #geometric #Jim Denevan #land art #landscapes November 20, 2023 Kate Mothes Photos by Lance Gerber, courtesy of Manar Abu Dhabi, shared with permission For artist Jim Denevan, a paramount element of his creative practice centers on building experiences within landscapes through art and temporary events. Known for his large-scale land works that shape expanses of sand into precise …

LOS ANGELES — Abel Alejandre’s exhibition of pristine, meticulously rendered paintings at Launch Gallery, The Chicano Moon Landing of 1968, presents a captivating alternative history of the first moon landing. Using a grayscale palette in all but two works to mimic graphic novels, the artist has constructed a narrative that begins with “1968” (2023), a painting of a bull charging …

 Photography #animals #astronomy #Vital Impacts November 21, 2023 Grace Ebert Tim Flach, “Flamingo Reflections.” All images courtesy of Vital Impacts, shared with permission Since launching a few years ago, Vital Impacts (previously) has raised more than $2 million for conservation and humanitarian efforts. The nonprofit hosts annual print sales to raise funds for various causes, bringing together hundreds of …