Tulsa Craft Elbows The State of Craft 108|Contemporary Tulsa Through Jan. 21 Threads, grain, skeins, ripples: these are the textures that connect us, and no art modality lets us see them better Alicia Chesser 7 Jan 2024 · 5 min read
Hartford First Thursday Starts 2024 With An Art-counter Art Escape First Thursday Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Jan, 4, 2024 “Excuse me, what kind of camera is that?” I looked up to see a fresh face bracketed by overflowing curly Jamil Ragland 5 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
LA Revolutionary Blake-splaining WILLIAM BLAKE: VISIONARY Getty Center Los Angeles Through Jan. 14, 2024 The word “prophet” gets tossed around. But in the case of William Blake (1757 – 1827), it renews itself daily. Jack Skelley 5 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Boston Things Delicate and Fierce: Xuan Hui Ng at the Griffin Museum of Photography Transcendence: Awakening the Soul Griffin Museum of Photography 67 Shore Rd. Winchester, Mass. Through Jan. 7, 2024 It’s often said that photography is one of the hardest art forms Sasha Patkin 2 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Good Things Lurk at Gearbox Gallery “Press Play: Remain Creative“ Malik Seneferu Gearbox Gallery 770 W. Grand Ave. Oakland Through Jan. 6, 2024 African mask paintings stare down family portraits, a wall of small sculptures arranged Sarah Bass 2 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Boston Post-“Normal” World Glimpsed The Myth of Normal: A Celebration of Authentic Expression MassArt Art Museum 621 Huntington Ave. Through May 19, 2024 Sitting in the middle of a gallery at MassArt Art Museum Sasha Patkin 21 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Nashville “Quilty Pleasures” Indulged Quilty Pleasures Elephant Gallery Buchanan Arts District Nashville Through Jan. 27 Through the windows of Elephant Gallery, I saw an elephant, a lamp toilet, Tweety Bird. I cursed myself for Libby Weitnauer 21 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Oakland In Search Of The Sage Serpent “Sage Serpent“ Maybelle Avenue & MacArthur Boulevard Laurel District, Oakland www.last1s.com www.fistofflour.com No names, no faces. That’s what I promised one of the co-founders of Agustín Maes 20 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Artist Rolls With The Temporary After decades of printmaking, Barbara Harder revels in embracing the accidents. “I’m trying to make things the way I’m making them,” she said, but “sometimes I almost like Brian Slattery 19 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Hopper With A Camera: Paul Vlachos Captures The Loneliness Of The Metropolis PRIVATE/NYC: Photos by Paul Vlachos, New York City, 1998 ‑2023 Art Cake 214 40th St. Brooklyn, NY Through Dec. 23, 2023 Paul Vlachos’ haunting photos of vacant spaces of Betsy Kim 18 Dec 2023 · 5 min read
Hartford You Made Me Look. My Bad Matrix 193 Work by Talia Chetrit Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Through Jan. 7, 2024 When I entered the gallery to view Talia Chetrit’s first museum exhibit in the United States, Jamil Ragland 18 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
Boston Nativity Scene: Elves Torn To Shreds Somerville Illuminations Somerville, Mass. Through early January 2024 How many different ways can you decorate your yard for the holidays? You might opt for the classy, minimal look with classic Sasha Patkin 18 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Artist Questions The Questions The show of artist Amira Brown’s work, up now at the Mitchell Branch Library in Westville through the end of the month, doesn’t have a title, nor do Brian Slattery 18 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Lawdy Mama: Adam & Betsy Dish On 1st Black Artist Solo Show At The Frick Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits The Frick Madison 945 Madison Ave. at 75th Street New York City Through Jan. 7, 2024 Taking advantage of free tickets from NYC’s culture pass Stacey Peters 15 Dec 2023 · 7 min read
Reno Life On The Farm, For Real Birthed from the soil Iyana Esters Front Door Gallery at UNR Reno Through Jan. 1, 2024 You have to get close to some of Iyana Esters’ photographs to make out Jose Davila IV 12 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa A Slower Kind Of Knowing Darren Dirksen: November Grass Joseph Gierek Fine Art Tulsa Through Dec. 9 In the introduction to her “Best Music of 2023” list, the New Yorker music critic Amanda Petrusich wrote Alicia Chesser 6 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
LA From Guyana with Love CARIBBEAN TELEVISION Commonwealth and Council Los Angeles Through Dec. 23, 2023 Adam revealed his life to me in slivers over the course of our brief romance: his Muslim faith, the Brandon Sward 6 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven How An Artist Sparked An Institution The two friends in Ann Lehman’s sculpture — we only know they’re friends because the title tells us so — appear as though they’re deep in the middle of Brian Slattery 6 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
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