Art

SANTE FE — On a typical summer, tens of thousands of people visit Santa Fe, New Mexico for the largest juried Native American art show and market in the world, the Southwestern Association of Indian Arts (SWAIA), also known as Indian Market. While this year marked the 101st year of SWAIA, other marketplaces also showcased Indigenous artists like the Free …

LOS ANGELES — For over three decades, artist Gary Simmons has been making work that urgently speaks to the issues of our time, as well as centering historical narratives within the United States’s visual lexicon. These narratives have informed and engendered systemic racism, structural violence, and class disparities. Positioning questions around identity, class, race, and representation, Simmons references popular culture, …

About 30 climate activists lined up in the Dinosaur Wing of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in Manhattan today, September 2, to protest the museum’s acceptance of donations from banks and other entities invested in the fossil fuels industry. The event was organized by Extinction Rebellion (XR), a prominent environmental group headquartered in the United Kingdom. The protestors entered the …

Barkley L. Hendricks, “Misc. Tyrone (Tyrone Smith)” (1976), oil and magna on linen canvas, 72 × 50 inches (© Barkley L. Hendricks; courtesy the Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York) In a city of great diversity, art plays a role in bringing us all together to consider the world anew. Art helps us imagine new …

A seemingly empty time capsule recovered from a monument on the US Military Academy West Point campus flipped the script after its underwhelming reveal last Monday, August 28. Two days after a much-anticipated unboxing, live-streamed on YouTube, revealed nothing but silt, the academy announced that several 19th-century coins were later found beneath the layer of dirt that caked the bottom …

Labor Day Weekend may be the last opportunity to make the most of the dwindling summer, but I’m going to use those three precious days to catch up on my sleep, do some deep stretches, and replace the batteries of my Fitbit in preparation for two jam-packed weeks of art fairs in New York City. Anchoring the art extravaganza is …

We are thrilled to launch the debut of the Rehearsal Art Book Fair, taking place on September 15 and 16 in New York City’s Lower East Side. The fair will unfold within the theater space and bathhouse-converted classrooms of University Settlement — a historical community hub that has supported immigrant workers and low-income families since the 19th century. Co-organized voluntarily …

VCUarts Qatar’s inaugural participation in the ARS Electronica Campus Exhibition, Meta-Functions of Cultural Production, features a selection of 10 works produced by undergraduate and graduate students and student-faculty collaborations. Reflective of the diverse creative and cultural ecosystems of Qatar and the larger SWANA region, this exhibition aims to present a multi-faceted exploration into the meta-functionality of cultural production and preservation. …

 History Illustration Science #birds #books #Elizabeth Gould #lithographs September 1, 2023 Grace Ebert Vulturine Guineafowl, Acryllium vulturinum, Plate 8, Icones Avium (1837–38). All images courtesy of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, shared with permission As often happens with creative couples throughout history, Elizabeth Gould’s legacy tends to be overshadowed by her husband’s. Gould (1804-1840) was an …

A selection of new works by artist Nicolás Romero Escalada (previously featured here). Born in Buenos Aires and currently based in Madrid, Romero’s latest exhibition represents the end of a series that emerged from months of confinement during the pandemic. Caught in an artist residency in Barcelona, Romero drew on memories to create a record of his own consumption. Rewriting …