Listening to the Paintings of Serj Tankian

Sep 16, 2025

Serj Tankian’s abstract paintings have complex layers of a handful of colors that evoke a deep emotional longing that can be hard to describe. But his works come alive in unexpected ways when accompanied by music he composed especially for them.  “I see music and...

The Past and Future of Boucher’s Four Seasons

Sep 16, 2025

When François Boucher created a series of paintings known as The Four Seasons in 1755, agriculture in France was highly seasonal, just as it had been for millennia — since humans started cultivating crops, in fact. In good years, autumn would have seen a bounty of...

France Flips the History of Photography Upside Down 

Sep 16, 2025

ARLES, France — The investigation of the archive, in all its malleable reinvention and disruption of canonical narratives, is at the core of this year’s Rencontres d’Arles photography festival and its theme: “Disobedient Images.” The more than 40 exhibitions included...

The Poetry of van Gogh’s Montmartre Years

Sep 16, 2025

Christianity had failed him. What next then? Art?  Vincent van Gogh’s life as an artist had the most faltering and rudimentary of beginnings in 1880. By 1890 he was dead, by suicide, at the age of 37. A tempestuous life snuffed out. A Fire in His Soul: Van Gogh,...

No Other Land Director’s Home Raided by Israeli Military 

Sep 16, 2025

The Israeli military reportedly raided No Other Land co-director Basel Adra’s home in the Occupied West Bank on Saturday, September 13, as first made public on X by investigative journalist Yuval Abraham, the film’s other co-director. The raid followed an...

Jamea Richmond-Edwards: Another World and Yet the Same

Sep 16, 2025

Detroit artist Jamea Richmond-Edwards has long been celebrated for her mixed-media, collage-based paintings. In her most ambitious exhibition to date, she turns to storytelling on an epic scale. Another World and Yet the Same presents a new body of work based on a...