[ad_1] Maybe it’s something in the springtime air — all the new growth and wild nature — but fantastical landscapes and creatures seem abundant in galleries this month. While Sanam Khatibi’s uncanny scenes feel like memento mori transplanted to a land between life and death and Joy Curtis’s strange anatomies reimagine life as we know […]

[ad_1]  Art #bronze #childhood #Petrit Halilaj #sculpture “Abetare” (2024). All photos by Eileen Travell, courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, shared with permission When visiting his hometown of Runik, Kosovo, back in 2010, Petrit Halilaj realized that his elementary school was being demolished. He went to the site—which had miraculously survived the Yugoslav […]

[ad_1] Dozens of students took over Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall earlier this morning, April 30, renaming the building “Hind’s Hall” in honor of six-year-old Hind Rajab, who was killed alongside her family by Israeli forces in Gaza. Echoing the 1985 student protests opposing Columbia’s investments in apartheid in South Africa, during which organizers baptized the […]

[ad_1]  Photography #food #Suzanne Saroff April 30, 2024 Grace Ebert All images © Suzanne Saroff, shared with permission “You know how when you smell a fragrance that brings you to a specific time—like if you wore a certain scent for a year in college or if your grandmother always smelled like Channel No. 5—each […]

[ad_1] Marcelle Reinecke, “Detour” (2024), acrylic and flashe on panel, 20 x 16 inches (image courtesy the Ruffed Grouse Gallery) In his celebrated “Sonnet 18” (1609), Shakespeare writes that “rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.” So, too, does the lively art scene in Upstate New York flutter with a robust round of […]

[ad_1]  Art #installation #paper #sculpture #Yuko Nishikawa April 29, 2024 Jackie Andres All images © Yuko Nishikawa, shared with permission For the last two years, Yuko Nishikawa (previously) has prioritized traveling. Chasing the unbridled inspiration that new environments bring to her practice, the Brooklyn-based artist has found herself in Japan, participating in residency programs […]

[ad_1] The Chicago-based human rights organization Justice For All has filed a submission with the International Criminal Court (ICC) arguing that the Israeli military’s partial destruction of the Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City last October constitutes a war crime.  Situated in Gaza’s Old City, the Saint Porphyrios Church is considered one of […]

[ad_1]  Art #gemstones #installation #Lauren Fensterstock #mosaics #sculpture #stars April 29, 2024 Grace Ebert “Beyond Mind” (2023), vintage crystal, glass, quartz, obsidian, tourmaline, and mixed media, 27 x 26 x 13 inches. Photo by Luc Demers. All images © Lauren Fensterstock, shared with permission When a massive star dies, it collapses with an enormous […]

[ad_1] VENICE — The 60th Venice Biennale’s theme of “Foreigners Everywhere” includes a number of communities historically overlooked in art, like folks from queer, indigenous, and immigrant backgrounds. While disability does appear in specific works of art, it’s not a major presence. So I was pleased to learn about Crip Arte Spazio, an exhibition about the […]

[ad_1]  Art #installation #public art #sculpture #site-specific #Stéphane Thidet April 26, 2024 Grace Ebert “Rideau” (2020), in situ installation at Théâtre Graslin, Nantes, France, water, pumps, pond installation in situ. Photo © Martin Argyroglo, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Aline Vidal. All images shared with permission Paris-based artist Stéphane Thidet invites viewers into wondrous […]