The Frist Art Museum has just announced that Seth Feman will replace its longtime CEO and Executive Director, Susan Edwards. Feman, who grew up in Nashville, has a Ph.D. and an MA from William & Mary, and an undergraduate degree from Vassar. He has worked for the past decade atRead More →
“STEEP”: The Princeton Arts Council has announced a call for ceramic art for a national exhibition exploring the possibilities of the teapot. Adam Welch, ceramist and executive director of the CAP, will be part of the jury. (Teapot by Adam Welch) The Princeton Arts Council (ACP) is now accepting submissionsRead More →
NEWS | CHARACTERISTICS | PREVIEWS | EVENTS originally published: 02/14/2022 (PRINCETON, NJ) — The Princeton Arts Council is now accepting submissions for STEEP: a national exhibition on the teapot, exploring the endless possibilities of the idea of a teapot. This year’s exhibition will be judged by ceramic artist and CAPRead More →
NEWS | CHARACTERISTICS | PREVIEWS | EVENTS originally published: 02/14/2022 (PRINCETON, NJ) — The Princeton Arts Council is now accepting submissions for STEEP: a national exhibition on the teapot, exploring the endless possibilities of the idea of a teapot. This year’s exhibition will be judged by ceramic artist and CAPRead More →
He is a gifted visual artist, but Oliver Lee Jackson has the added ability to use language to provide a unique perspective to viewing art. His talk about what drives him to create sheds light on what artists set out to achieve with their personal creative responses to the worldRead 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 →
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 →
Focusing on a rarely seen side of one of America’s most indelible artists of all kinds, “Bob Dylan: Retrospectrum” will be the biggest and broadest survey of Dylan’s visual oeuvre ever presented in the United States during of its opening in Miami this week. After a first edition two yearsRead More →
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — At a luncheon today in the Sapphire Ballroom at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel, the Audain Award for the most distinguished artists of the British Columbia was awarded to James Hart. Hart is a hereditary chief of the Eagle Clan ofRead More →
For much of her life, Elizabeth Mayeux said she had been prejudiced against the visual arts. “No offense meant – just because I can’t see it,” said the 44-year-old, who has been blind since birth. “I thought it was irrelevant.” Now she may be experiencing a change of heart. MayeuxRead More →
The visual arts festival has started again. Did you miss your invitation? No sweating. The party continues. Art museums and art groups across the region are once again exhibiting in the real world – and not just virtually. They started this spring and plan to keep it going for asRead More →
Some of the most ambitious local programming derailed by the pandemic was originally planned in conjunction with the Feminist Art Coalition. The brainchild of BAMPFA curator Apsara DiQuinzio, this consortium grew out of the 2016 presidential election and the 2017 Women’s March, ultimately involving more than 100 arts organizations acrossRead More →
Over a century of painstaking collecting by two ardent and prolific artists/collectors has produced a great collection of artwork in the Walla Walla Valley. A rare opportunity to view these collected works that have been hidden from the public will be offered with a free viewing from 4-7 p.m. onRead More →
Diane K.Bert “We do this out of love, without compensation. I love the idea of bringing the museum to people,” says Bloomfield Hills resident Carlene Van Voorhies. “I have always been interested in art. I give 200 to 250 talks and tours a year Van Voorhies. She is an InterpretiveRead More →
This obviously cannot be compared to the live experience of a museum or gallery. But with many such venues closed by the pandemic, a home computer can be a welcome way to watch the visual arts. The following is an overview showcasing sites to see exhibits that were scheduled toRead More →
Future visual arts students who dream of becoming rich and famous should understand that achieving this goal as an artist or designer is difficult because many people working in art and design fields earn modest salaries. Compensation statistics from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS, show that manyRead More →
“Bearded Woman”, Pablo Picasso Shortly after World War II, Pablo Picasso and his lover Françoise Gilot made their first visit to Vallauris, France, a small coastal town known for its pottery. The 65-year-old master painter had then only tried his hand at pottery, firing a few vases with sculptors likeRead More →
IIf all the artists in major American museums were represented by 100 people, 88 of them would be men. A large-scale study looked at major US museum collections and found that only 12% of artists in their collections are women. Data from the Tate galleries suggests that UK institutions areRead More →
A Williams College student hangs an artwork on loan from the WALLS program in his dorm room (photo by Julia Sabot, courtesy Williams College Museum of Art) As the fall semester draws to a close and, while skipping studying for finals, you plan to redecorate your sparse dorm, try thinkingRead More →
In Subject of discussionthe “snapshot” of Australian contemporary visual arts recently published by the Australia Council in 2014, it was surprising to find only one reference to the country’s 42 art galleries and university museums and no interviews with any of their professionals. Described as a glimpse into the “vibrantRead More →