Oakland Black Women Power, Shown Large Throughline: An Art and Culinary Experience 1500 Broadway St, Oakland Through Nov. 19 In a city like Oakland, damn near everyone, especially in the arts, is connected in some way Sarah Bass 14 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Boston “The White Children Who Tormented Me Eat Kimchi Now”: Lunchbox “Moments” Pack a Punch Lunchbox Moments: Seek Understanding. Share Stories. Stop Hate Pao Arts Center 99 Albany St., Boston Through Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024 When did you realize that you were different? For most Sasha Patkin 13 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Oakland The Gun (Owners) Next Door: Look. Don’t Shoot The Gun Next Door Photographs By Judy Dater East Bay Photo Workshop 312 8th St., Oakland Sept. 15 – Nov. 19, 2023 A small room with low ceilings and white walls, Sarah Bass 8 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Boston Floral Art Blooms in the Pru Voyage The Prudential Center 800 Boylston St Boston, Mass. Even as the weather outside hurtles ever forward toward the wrong side of fall, the inside of the Prudential Center was Sasha Patkin 7 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Ft Worth/ Dallas Folk Art Meets Fine Art Nan Martin solo show Collin College, Spring Creek Campus Plano, Texas Feb. 26-March 20, 2024 To move through Nan Martin’s studio, you almost have to dance. The sculptures composed Sophia del Rio 6 Nov 2023 · 9 min read
Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill Curator ChatGPT Didn’t Mention The Clock Act as if you are a curator: An Al-generated exhibition Nasher Museum of Art Duke University Durham, N.C. Through Jan. 14, 2023 A wall-sized message lets you know that Synclaire Cruel 2 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Twist & Hedge A keen sense of play — married to rigorous formal accomplishment — marks both Marjorie Gillette Wolfe’s show, “Hedge,” and sculptor and potter Amanda Duchen’s show, “Clay,” running concurrently at Brian Slattery 2 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
Hartford How A Guyanese Painter Brought Me Home To Hartford Color and Identity: A Visual Conversation Clare Gallery, Hartford Oct. 19-Dec. 3, 2023 I was looking for some color on a particularly dreary day when I found out about an Jamil Ragland 1 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven In“After Picasso,” Artists Reckon With A Giant Cynthia Beth Rubin’s collage crackles with energy, as colors vibrate off one another and forms within forms, textures within textures, rub against each other. Keen senses of both aesthetic Brian Slattery 27 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
LA Before Los Angeles Was Los Angeles THE IRIDESCENCE OF KNOWING Oxy Arts Los Angeles Sept. 14 – Nov. 18, 2023 The Iridescence of Knowing at Oxy Arts is quietly radical, but, really, it shouldn’t be quiet Annie Buckley 26 Oct 2023 · 2 min read
Oakland Miguel Arzabe’s Kaleidoscopic Thunderbolt “Animales Familiares” Works by Miguel Arzabe Johansson Project 2300 Telegraph Ave. Oakland Through Oct. 28, 2023 Color is a beautiful language, not often well spoken, but “Animales Familiares,” on exhibit Agustín Maes 23 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Artists Take Over The Reins Of Open Studios Artist Chelsea M. Rowe marries festive colors to a violent act in her art, a contrast that opens up the possibilities for interpretation. There’s no getting away from the Brian Slattery 23 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Go Inside To Go Outside To Go Inside Ruth Asawa Through Line Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort St. NYC Through Jan. 15, 2024 Count to 10, taking time to closely examine the hypnotic pattern below, while Betsy Kim 23 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Yale Art Galley Show Uncovers Individuals Amid Crush Of Slavery Prentice looks like a no-nonsense woman. The depiction of her is simple, but it appears to capture some of her essential nature. Prentice looks smart, curious, and strong. But she Brian Slattery 20 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
Oakland In Lit-Up Darkness, Gardens Pulsate With New Life 12th Annual Autumn Lights Festival Gardens at Lake Merritt Oakland Oct. 12 – 14. 2023 “Ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants…” A small grove fitted with Sarah Bass 20 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
NW Arkansas Annie Leibovitz Embraces The iPhone Cam Annie Leibovitz At Work Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bentonville Through Jan. 29, 2024 Walking through the photography exhibit Annie Leibovitz At Work at the Crystal Bridges Museum of Mickey Mercier 19 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Boston This Art Is Bad. That’s A Compliment, Kinda Museum of Bad Art 1250 Massachusetts Ave. Boston, Mass. 02125 I was gazing upon a Michelangelo. Except, it wasn’t a Michelangelo. It was an artist’s painstakingly recreated version Sasha Patkin 17 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Ft Worth/ Dallas Why The Artist Couldn’t Make It To His Opening Looking Within II Transystems Corporation Gallery Fort Worth Community Art Center 1300 Gendy St., Fort Worth, Texas Closed A collection of paintings, works on paper, sculpture and crafted objects was Sophia del Rio 16 Oct 2023 · 4 min read