[ad_1] The 2024 Upstate Art Weekend was a large, sprawling affair that mapped over 140 spaces in the Hudson Valley region, from Westchester in the south to Albany in the north, or roughly a 125-mile (~200-kilometer) stretch of New York State, and Walton to Millerton, another 100 miles (~160-kilometer) east to west. The geography made […]

[ad_1]  Art Design Nature #Macarena Ruiz-Tagle #postcards #sky #weather July 20, 2024 Grace Ebert All photos by Franziska Strauss, © Macarena Ruiz-Tagle, shared with permission While exploring the Alpine region around Mont Blanc in 1789, the Swiss physicist and mountain climber Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799) conceived of a tool to measure the blueness of the […]

[ad_1] TORONTO — In its second iteration, the Greater Toronto Art 2024 (GTA24) triennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) connects art-making with ever-shifting movements in the region’s flawed formation. Until the late 1990s, when it was amalgamated into a single-tiered City of Toronto, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) was Metropolitan Toronto, a hodgepodge […]

[ad_1]  Art Craft #ceramics #Katie Rose Johnston #sculpture July 19, 2024 Grace Ebert All images © Katie Rose Johnston, shared with permission Evoking the meandering veins in leaves, the clustered divots of termite holes, or pocked coral, Katie Rose Johnston’s ceramic sculptures meld organic form with function. The Glasgow-based artist (previously) works as M A […]

[ad_1] As the Piazza Pia in Rome undergoes a major pedestrianization project ahead of the Jubilee Year at the Vatican in 2025, Italian archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a portico and garden attributed to the infamous Emperor Caligula. Among the architectural remains are a travertine wall, a colonnaded portico, and an open area presumed […]

[ad_1]  Craft Design #installation #paper #sculpture #Zim&Zou July 18, 2024 Grace Ebert Image © Nacása & Partners Inc., courtesy of Hermès Japon. All images courtesy of Zim&Zou, shared with permission An inventive and adventurous spirit courses through each one of Zim&Zou’s elaborate paper installations, the latest of which imagines a mighty horse leading a […]

[ad_1] In 1924, the Morgan Library & Museum was incorporated as a public institution dedicated to sharing its collections with the world. Over the past century, it has expanded its collections and collecting areas, evolved into one of New York’s most beloved cultural destinations, and become a global resource for research and conservation. With rare […]

[ad_1]  Illustration #animals #cats #drawing #ink #Kamwei Fong July 18, 2024 Jackie Andres All images © Kamwei Fong, shared with permission Kamwei Fong (previously) is drawn to the nature of cats. Whether extroverted and playful or curious and timid, the clawed companions truly relish living their lives as they please, embodying a charming spirit […]

[ad_1] “All hail our overlord…” (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic, photo via Getty Images) China’s Shanghai Museum is not kitten around about Ancient Egypt.  The public museum situated at the People’s Square announced last week that visitors will be allowed to bring their cats to a special series of events commemorating its forthcoming Egyptian antiquities exhibition, […]

[ad_1]  Art Nature #animals #birds #Efrain Almeida #sculpture #wood July 17, 2024 Grace Ebert Photo by Antônio More. All images courtesy of Oscar Niemeyer Museum, shared with permission In O Jardim, Efrain Almeida cultivates the memories of his parents’ home in the backlands of Ceará, Brazil. Carved wooden creatures populate the gallery at Oscar […]