‣ Three years after Kaci Merriwether-Hawkins founded Black Girls in Art Spaces, Adria R. Walker visited one meet-up in Mississippi to report on the organization’s growth across the country for the Guardian: Initially, BGIAS started relatively small, with...
The wave of gallery closures that has roiled the art world in recent months continues this week with the back-to-back announcements of the shuttering of Kasmin and Clearing galleries. Manhattan’s Kasmin Gallery, which represents artists including Joel Shapiro,...
CINCINNATI, Ohio — When art collectors and preservationists Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson decided to open a hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2006, the intent was to help revitalize the city by bringing contemporary art to an unconventional context and audience....
NEWARK — Helina Metaferia’s deep engagement with pan-African and African-American aesthetics, as well as the visual language of protest, reverberates throughout her solo exhibition When Civilizations Heal. The culmination of the Ethiopian-American artist’s...
Welcome to the 297th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists turn branches into sculptures and begin the work day by playing with their cat. Want to take part? Check out our submission...
Fall reading lists may be popping up already, but contrary to popular belief, summer’s not over yet. The last few months have brought several compelling books worth fitting into your summer reading, from an exquisite book on race and water in contemporary art to...
From fried cod to red saveloy sausage to the carb-lover’s chip butty—a simple sandwich made with chunky fries on a buttered roll—the menu at Bourdon Street Chippy resembles what you’d expect to see at a traditional British fish and chips shop. The only...
“Clay is an incredible medium to hold narrative,” says Xanthe Summers, who turns to the medium as a way to explore themes around domesticity, craft, and so-called “women’s work” like cleaning, mending, working with textiles, and...
The Western concept of time as linear and disconnected from natural and sociocultural contexts is increasingly being challenged. Most notoriously by non-Western worldviews that envision time as cyclical, multifaceted and interconnected with the environment. The linear...