Leading lights - Artists
Bill Reid’s Haida grizzly bear honoured in new minting
Physical currency has long been a means for a region to portray its culture, history, and values. While the most common images on the majority of currencies are politicians and […]
Three women artists pushing ceramics forward
Ceramics have long been classified as craft work and for thousands of years, people have created ceramics for use or decoration and the line between the two has often been […]
Descendants of Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Thomas Jefferson partake is photographic series recreating their ancestors
Europe began as the main focus of “The Descendants,” a series of works created by British photographer Drew Gardner. About 15 years ago, Gardner started tracking down and photographing the […]
A collaborative performance work will see $500 in sanitised dollar bills handed out on silver platter in East Hampton
Later this summer, artist Katherine McMahon and musician Ray Angry will bring together continued concerns about COVID-19 and ongoing issues of economic inequality in a performance art piece. The work […]
Four online exhibitions to check out this Pride month
This Pride month has started out a little different compared to others. In lieu of typical celebrations, many in the LGBTQ+ community have banded together in solidarity with Black Lives […]
Banksy’s proposal on what to do with Bristol’s toppled statue of slave trader Edward Colston
Last week, Virginia officials announced that a statue of Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee would be taken down from a main thoroughfare in the state’s capital of Richmond. Then, […]
In new online exhibition, Michelangelo Lovelace pays homage to some of society’s most invisible
A new online exhibition of works by American artist Michelangelo Lovelace is as enjoyable as it is relevant. The exhibition brings into intimate focus some of the US’s most marginalised […]
