In dandelions and fireflies, artists try to make sense of climate change
Kate Flint, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Climate change is real, it’s accelerating and it’s terrifying. We are adding carbon to the atmosphere […]
Sandy Rodriguez: an artist honoring the land and confronting immigration
Sandy Rodriguez, an artist who calls the border between California and Mexico “home,” creates artworks that illustrate not only the political history of migration between the Americas but that also […]
Liberating art history: Wangechi Mutu takes over the Metropolitan’s empty niches
The Metropolitan Museum of Art continues to challenge its traditional reputation through the inauguration of its new annual facade commission. Before visitors even step into the museum, they can see […]
Marta Minujín: an artist ahead of her time
I had never heard of Marta Minujín before visiting the New Museum’s exhibition, La Menusuna: Reloaded, whose experimental and surreal qualities at once allured and overwhelmed me with an urge […]
’William Blake’ at Tate Britain is unique, wonderful, sometimes odd, and a must see
Following William Blake’s rather unsuccessful exhibition in 1809, the Examiner reported his works to be ‘[a] farrago of nonsense, unintelligibleness, and egregious vanity, the wild effusions of a distempered brain.’ […]
The statues and sculptures of Montreal
With the changing of the guard from summer to fall almost upon us, the prevalence of outdoor arts events begin to dwindle. Especially in Montreal, where festivals and public events […]
Polymorphous Paganism in Underground NYC Art Shows
Pagan revivalism is evident in underground NYC art shows this September.
