Detroit ‘The House of Tarot’ Exhibit Gives Us Major ‘Silent Hill’ Vibes (in a good way) Inside Detroit’s former Herman Kiefer Hospital complex, 22 artists bring their vision of the tarot’s Major Arcana cards to life Randiah Camille Green 2 May 2025 · 3 min read
Detroit Artists Take It Outside Detroit park turns art gallery, for Earth Day festivites. Erica Hobbs 29 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Tulsa “Flowers Shall Grow” Helped Me Make Meaning Out Of Loss Mery McNett’s solo exhibition examines grief with bright colors, interactive elements, and—yes—flowers. Meredith Boe 25 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Detroit Charles H. Wright’s ‘Luminosity’: A Black Detroit Arts Gathering For The Ages African American History Museum’s 60th year celebrated with work from over 30 artists Randiah Camille Green 24 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Tulsa 50 Years After The Fall Of Saigon, An Art Exhibition Reflects This isn’t a showy show; it asks you to slow down, to stand in the midst of a long history and listen for the ways it speaks in the present. Alicia Chesser 18 Apr 2025 · 5 min read
Tulsa I Failed To Consider The Lilies Their largeness and pleasingness are just about the only things you can say about them. Z.B. Reeves 7 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
Oakland Proud to be Scratchy At the opening of the special exhibition “Creative Growth at 50: A Visual History,” a woman with a guide cane asked if I’d seen her reflectors. I didn’t know who she was, and I didn’t know what reflectors she was referring to. She held out her hand… Agustín Maes 19 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland A Sophisticated Forest I certainly didn’t expect Ross-esque paintings, and the works on exhibit are definitely not “happy little trees.”…This is a decidedly more sophisticated forest than those broadcast on PBS years ago. Agustín Maes 27 Aug 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Nature, Order, and Disorder in the Art of Life and Death Artists’ Reception: Tara Esperanza, Christine Meuris, Dalar Alahverdi, Leah Korican, and Elizabeth Sher Mercury 20 Gallery 475 25th St. Oakland June 22, 2024 I was wilting under the heat of Robin Lapid 30 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Hope and History Celebrated Through Dance Fallen Heroes, Rising Stars: A Juneteenth Celebration Through Dance 494 9th St., Oakland June 22, 2024 On a closed-off block of 9th Street in Old Oakland, even the sun seemed Robin Lapid 28 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Emotional Tank Emptied This-Ability Gallery Opening UCONN Health Center Farmington April 18, 2024 The therapeutic nature of art has been well documented for thousands of years, but often presented from the perspective of Jamil Ragland 21 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Terrarium Flex: Date Night At The Shopping Mall Co-Working Space Date Night Downtown-Make Your Own Succulent Terrarium Globe WORK_SPACE Manchester April 16, 2024 “Succulent” was always a word that I associated with food until yesterday. That’s when I Jamil Ragland 17 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Seeking The Soul Of James Baldwin Winter in America: The Speakeasy; Bold, Black & Brilliant — The Baldwin Edition Joyce Gordon Gallery 406 14th St. Oakland April 3, 2024 When I think of James Baldwin, the images Breezy Bratton 10 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Come For The Art, Stay For The History (And The Historian) Spring Art Exhibit Garmany Visitor Center Elizabeth Park Hartford March 7, 2024 When I go to galleries, I’m usually self-guided and left to contemplate the artwork by myself. That’ Jamil Ragland 8 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland The Library of Broken Hearts Broken Hearts Party and Shrine Launch Oakland Public Library Oakland, CA Feb. 13, 2024 At The Alcove cafe on the east side of Los Angeles, there was a secret desk Robin Lapid 22 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Freaky Teenage Foibles Flaunted For Laughs Mortified’s “Doomed Valentines” Show The New Parish Oakland Feb. 10, 2024 Ah, the foolishness of youth. Is the ability to laugh at your own adolescent follies evidence of your Robin Lapid 16 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Valdez Street Vibe Captures Soul Of The city Valdez Street Vibes Valdez Street between 23rd and 24th Streets Oakland Feb. 10, 2024 I was surprised that, even if I was only there a short while, I caught it. Robin Lapid 14 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland It Was A Dark Aand Rainy Crawl Friday Night Crawl Downtown, various locations Oakland Feb. 2, 2024 I walked around the rain-slicked streets of Old Oakland on Friday night, wondering if the Night Crawl might have been Robin Lapid 6 Feb 2024 · 3 min read