[ad_1]  Art History Social Issues #crochet #sculpture #textiles #Xenobia Bailey June 21, 2024 Kate Mothes “Sistah Paradise’s Great Walls of Fire Revival Tent” (1993/1999/2009), hand-crocheted cotton and acrylic yarns, metal frame, electrical tape, and cowry shells, 144 x 60 x 60 inches. All images © Xenobia Bailey, courtesy of Venus Over Manhattan, shared with […]

[ad_1] Philip Guston’s “Sunrise” 1979 and Martha Diamond’s “Central Character” (1983) at the Portland Museum of Art (photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) The American figurative painter Alex Katz has maintained a deep connection to Maine since he first ventured out of New York City in 1949 when he received a scholarship to attend the Skowhegan School of […]

[ad_1]  Books Design History Photography #architecture #cities June 21, 2024 Kate Mothes UFO, a two-module ‘Bathyscaphe’ in Biała Podlaska, Poland. All images © David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka, courtesy of Zupagrafika, shared with permission If you were born in the past three or four decades, you may not remember much about the former Eastern […]

[ad_1] This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. In 1989, photographer Lola Flash sat on the other side of the lens for what would become one of the decade’s most iconic images. Flash, who uses she/they pronouns, kisses fellow artist Julie Tolentino in a […]

[ad_1]  Nature Photography #birds #contests #wildlife June 20, 2024 Jackie Andres “Blackburnian Warbler” by Mathew Malwitz, Audubon Photography Awards, 2024 Grand Prize Winner. Promised Land State Park, Pennsylvania, USA 2024 marks the 15th year of the annual Audubon Photography Awards, which garnered over 2,300 entrants from all 50 states, Washington D.C., and 10 areas […]

[ad_1] CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee — Entering Hand to Mouth, visitors are greeted by Todd Anthony Johnson’s six-minute performance video, “FIELD HOLLA” (2015). Showing the artist screaming amid a verdant wilderness setting, it is a jarring introduction to the exhibition, and an immediate immersion into the art. The figure remains largely motionless but the camera cuts to […]

[ad_1]  Art Craft #ceramics #clay #Karolina Romanowska #masks June 17, 2024 Jackie Andres All images © Karolina Romanowska, shared with permission How do you know when your artwork is finished? Do you step back and take a few deep breaths as you listen to your intuition? Or do you keep going, focusing on the […]

[ad_1] “The Star” from the Mixed Signals Tarot deck (all images from the Mixed Signals tarot deck designed by M Eilo; all images courtesy M Eilo) In the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice — June 20 — feels like it’s already here, with record-breaking heat around the world. The past year alone has seen 75% […]

[ad_1]  Art #animals #birds #Gigi Chen #painting #surreal June 18, 2024 Kate Mothes “From Above” (2023), acrylic on wood, 15 x 11 ⅛ inches. All images © Gigi Chen, shared with permission Bluebirds are often associated with happiness, love, hope, and positivity, making them an apt subject for New York-based artist Gigi Chen (previously), whose […]

[ad_1] Like many people who grow up in Brooklyn, Adama Delphine Fawundu remembers spending much of her childhood and adolescence in Prospect Park. Yet she never recalled learning about the stories behind the 526-acre green space’s structures and sites, such as the 18th-century farmhouse that once belonged to the family of Continental Army Lieutenant Pieter […]