With museums and galleries officially reopening across San Diego — fingers crossed — 2022 looks set to be a full calendar year of programming and exhibits. There is certainly a high profile reopening in the new year, but however grand it is, it will be the art on display thatRead More →
1. Rembrandt at the Crawford The reopening of art galleries across the country this summer has been a welcome relief for those long bored of watching Portrait Artist of the Year on TV. One of the most popular exhibitions was Rembrandt in Print, which opened at the Crawford Art GalleryRead More →
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Whatever 2022 brings, there will be great art – and, fingers crossed, it will be safely accessible in galleries, museums and public spaces across the country. Travelers may need to think twice before attending the Venice Biennale, where Vancouver artist Stan Douglas will unveil new works in the Canada PavilionRead More →
I will remember 2021 as a year of reopenings and looking back. On the former, not only have many museums and galleries reopened after closing for months during the pandemic, but one institution in Balboa Park has unveiled its large, redesigned space. We also lost a local legend just beforeRead More →
Curator Max Fields stands in front of Baseera Khan’s ‘Receive and Give’ tapestry at FotoFest ‘In Place of an Index’ at Silver Street Studios, featuring new works by 12 artists who are or are currently living in Texas, Wednesday, September 1 2021, in Houston. The exhibit, which opens Sept. 2,Read More →
1. “Contemporary Printing: 20 Years at Highpoint Publishing.” This year, the Minneapolis Institute of Art purchased the complete archive of work from the Highpoint Center for Printmaking, a mainstay of the Minnesota art scene. Mia’s groundbreaking exhibition featured 175 of the 310 published prints and multiples that joined a collectionRead More →
M+, one of the world’s largest museums devoted exclusively to modern Asian visual arts, opened in Hong Kong last month. The inverted T-shaped facility, whose name means “museum plus”, would have cost well over $760 million. The 700,000 square foot building, designed by world-renowned Swiss architecture firm Herzog & deRead More →
In the art world, rules have always mattered a little too much. This is an area that historically loves boxes and categories, to put things better – and keep things out of the way. Consider the difficult course of photography for the better part of a century – a copyingRead More →
December 10, 2021 Visual Art, a digital signage producer, and Finnish retail company Kesko, have signed a long-term agreement on a software solution that will be used to create and publish content for approximately 15,000 digital screens in grocery stores around the world. group K, according to a company pressRead More →
Meanwhile, the sale of works of art from public collections has continued, a lingering impact of the pandemic given the looser disposal rules approved by the Association of Art Museum Directors in the spring. 2020. And, in case anyone has forgotten, when 2021 began, the United States was in theRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Dan Schwalm © 2021 Pennfirst Maya Lin’s “Decoding the Tree of Life” in the University of Pennsylvania Hospital Pavilion More than 15,000 Burlington-made blown glass globes areRead More →
Museums are important, but what happens outside the museum probably matters much more. Art for the people, by the people, where the people are, is the Guiding force of now. The fourth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennale, “The Available City”, recognized this by dispersing its interventions throughout the city,Read More →
Showcasing a shimmering assemblage of ceramic objects, “Ceramic Expressions,” an exhibition featuring 12 ceramic artists, opened to the public at Art Etc at Defense Colony on Saturday, December 4, 2021. Curated by Ekatmata Sharma, it will is the first exhibition organized by Art Etc, and will continue until today. “TheRead More →
Click to enlarge Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY) #12, James Casebere, 2011 At first glance, the bright palette and plastic foliage of by James Casebere Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY) #12, suggestsRead More →
Bob Dylan is known around the world for his music and lyrics, but the Nobel Prize winner in Literature has also been producing visual art for decades. As reported by a number of outlets, the Philip Frost Art Museum in Miami has just opened (November 30, 2021) Retrospectrum, a comprehensiveRead More →