[ad_1] A sense of gloom permeated the New York Studio School’s annual MFA exhibition. What is the middle ground between losing ourselves in depression and bottling up all our feelings? How can art provide visual catharsis? These are not new questions, but the artists have formulated some novel responses to meet the existential dread of […]

[ad_1]  Art Craft Nature #ceramics #Megan Bogonovich #plants May 22, 2024 Jackie Andres All images © Grace Cooper Dodds, shared with permission Protruding in a meandering fashion like tree branches or the sprawling overgrowth of flowering vines, the flamboyant botanical sculptures that sprout from Megan Bogonovich’s Norwich studio capture the wondrous moments of when “bucolic […]

[ad_1] The naked body — or parts of it — appear a few times in Devoted: Religion in Asian American Art at EFA Project Space. In Dew Kim’s Till I Know What Love Is series (2023), arrows pierce through silicone nipples. From far away, they look like they might be earrings or other jewelry, but […]

[ad_1]  Nature Photography #contests #landscapes #space Lorenzo Ranieri, “The Lions Den,” Atacama Desert, Chile. All images courtesy of Capture the Atlas, shared with permission Whether seen from the craggy mountain landscapes of New Zealand or the vast, arid expanses of the Atacama Desert, the Milky Way is a brilliant band of light that glitters […]

[ad_1] Late artist Joe Zucker (courtesy David Nolan Gallery) Joe Zucker, who passed away on May 15 at age 83, once told me a story that I have repeated many times, often to students. In the late 1960s, shortly after he and Chuck Close became close friends, Close moved into the building where Joe had […]

[ad_1]  Art History Science #art history #Katsushika Hokusai #ukiyo-e  Capucine Korenberg, a scientist at The British Museum, is a big fan of ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, who lived during the Edo period in Japan. Hokusai is best known for a series of woodblock prints titled Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes his iconic “The […]

[ad_1] Elias Rischmawi, “Bonding Ritual, Miami” (2020) (courtesy the artist and Tunnel Projects) MIAMI — In The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard’s 1958 treatise on architecture and memory, the philosopher wrote, “Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our […]

[ad_1]  Art Craft Design #Richard Haining #sculpture #wood All photos by Joe Kramm, courtesy of Richard Haining, shared with permission In the late aughts, Richard Haining began salvaging leftover wood. While working for a set design company, he realized that the sizable waste generated was also an untapped opportunity for his personal projects. “What […]

[ad_1] After Jonathan Yeo’s “Portrait of His Majesty King Charles III” was unveiled at Buckingham Palace on May 14, its bold and unexpected infusion of red paint made the portrait an instant internet meme. Widely shared on social media, the portrait cut through the web like a hot knife slicing butter, setting off a flurry […]

[ad_1]  #sponsor Beatrice Murphy, IED Firenze Master Student Amidst the cobblestone streets of Chinatown in Prato, Italy, typography has become a bridge between worlds. Beatrice Murphy, a student in the Master’s Course in Graphic Design at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) Firenze, developed her thesis project by examining and dissecting the bilingual signage of […]