[ad_1] When Brian Rochefort travels, he’s inclined to visit remote parts of the planet. The depths of the Amazon, the volcanic island cluster of the Galápagos, and the immensely diverse ecosystem of Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater have all drawn him in and once back in his Los Angeles studio, inspired the artist’s lushly textured sculptures. Rochefort […]

[ad_1] The Noguchi Museum in New York City has terminated three gallery attendants who said they would not comply with a controversial new rule banning staff from wearing the Palestinian headscarves known as keffiyehs. A fourth worker, the director of Visitor Services, was also terminated during the fallout of the policy announcement. On Sunday, September […]

[ad_1] Thousands of individual flowers and plants grown in Meggan Joy’s Seattle garden form the contours of her ethereal figures. The artist (previously) collages perfectly trimmed photographs of each specimen into silhouettes lush with color and texture. In her most recent body of work titled Fever Dream, Joy draws on fear, loss, and the immense […]

[ad_1] SAN YGNACIO, Texas — For those who are not familiar with Eric Avery or his art, some background information is worthwhile. After receiving his BFA in printmaking from the University of Arizona in 1970, he entered the newly established Institute for the Medical Humanities of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, receiving […]

[ad_1] In 2005, Shawn and Andrew Hosner founded Thinkspace Projects in Los Angeles’s West Adams District before rapidly expanding its program and collaborating with numerous projects nationally and internationally. The gallery showcases the best in New Contemporary art—or lowbrow—a movement that emerged in the 1990s on the West Coast partly in response to what was […]

[ad_1] This month’s list encompasses comprehensive surveys of established artists and stellar solo shows from the next generation, marking the art world’s return from the leisurely dog days of summer. Chicana artist Linda Vallejo’s retrospective at Parrasch Heijnen covers five decades of her work, while Webber Gallery mounts a recuperative show of the late under-recognized […]

[ad_1] Teahupo’o, a village located on Tahiti’s southeastern coast, boasts a shallow and precipitous coral reef system that creates a unique surf break, resulting in some of the largest waves on Earth. These powerful, barreling surges draw in surfers from around the world, including photographer Tim McKenna. From a young age, McKenna surfed on the […]

[ad_1] “Are you here for the art show or the fashion show?” an event staffer asked me as I approached the entrance to Lower Manhattan’s Pier 36 for this year’s Art on Paper fair. The question underscored the tumultuous lineup of overlapping arts and culture events that annually descends upon New York City post-Labor Day. […]

[ad_1] At the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Tau Lewis (previously) presents a vast cosmology in which monumental, mythic beings herald in a new world. Five figures stand nearly 11 feet tall in draping garments, their hands positioned in distinctive gestures. With titles like “The Doula” and “The Reaper,” each bears a particular role […]

[ad_1] For much of the day on Thursday, September 5, a wave of pleasant anticipatory energy resembling the first day of school rippled throughout New York City’s largest art fair, the Armory Show. Well-heeled collectors, art advisors, and other tastefully bejeweled VIPs returning from their summer sojourns streamed into the Javits Center looking for something […]