LA By The Sea SHORELINES Place Settings Los Angeles Jan. 17, 2024 I was supposed to be in Jamaica this week, but I changed my mind. There were many factors, but the biggest one Danielle Monique 22 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford I’m Not Seeing The Trauma Bamboo Melamine Theaterworks Hartford Jan. 17, 2024 As I was searching for some cool art events to check out this week, I came across a listing for Bamboo Melamine by Jamil Ragland 17 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Video Art Can Actually Mean Something Pipilotti Rist: Prickling Goosebumps & a Humming Horizon Two-part exhibition across two galleries Hauser & Wirth 542 West 22nd St. NYC Through April 13, 2024 Luhring Augustine 531 West 24th Betsy Kim 16 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Monumental Dreamspace Monument Valley Living Arts of Tulsa Through Jan. 20 As a solo viewer walking into Living Arts on a quiet weekday afternoon, I had a very different experience of Monument Alicia Chesser 16 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
LA L.A.’s Uncool School THE ADVANCE OF THE REAR GUARD: CEEJE GALLERY IN THE 1960S ArtCenter College of Design Through March 9, 2024 Los Angeles’s art history is seemingly as infinite as the Damon Willick 15 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Dr. Brains(ane) Will See You Now Joseph Kowalczyk Fm Gallery 483 25th St. Oakland On a small pedestal at waist are a clutter of ceramic sculptures, none more than 10 or 12 inches high. They are Sarah Bass 12 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Artists Look At Beginning Again Hank Paper may have given his photograph the perfect title. Another Brand New Day is on one level just a normal street scene in Italy, but its vivid colors and Brian Slattery 12 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Making Voices Visible Invisible Voices Positive Space Tulsa Tulsa Through Jan. 27 Not many things around here move me as much as a packed house at an art show opening. When the community Alicia Chesser 11 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Finding My Story On Gallery Walls First Sundays Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak St. Oakland The Oakland Museum of California is not that crowded around noon on this Sunday. But there are a lot of Robin Lapid 11 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven At City Gallery, “Blue Does Not Mean Sky” Judy Atlas’s Blue Flux can evoke dozens of things if you let it: a cityscape in the rain, a snow field, the inside of an ice crystal, with just Brian Slattery 11 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland A Full Pour (Of Art) First Pour by Lola SLATE Contemporary Gallery 473 25th St. Oakland, Calif. Eye-popping colors of tinted, layered resins in organic shapes ooze an unreal light. Some soothe, watery; others evoke Sarah Bass 10 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
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