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
New Haven Barn Raised To “Amplify The Arts” The soul-stirring sculptures of Linda Mickens, both large and small, anchored one corner of the Eli Whitney Barn. Across the room, Michael Jackson’s iconic Off the Wall album cover Karen Ponzio 16 Oct 2023 · 6 min read
Tulsa Oil on Troubled Waters Flower Moon Art Show Tulsa Artists’ Coalition Oct. 6 – 28, 2023 Oil was discovered on Osage lands in northeastern Oklahoma in the early 1900s, and it wasn’t long after Jenny Wu 13 Oct 2023 · 2 min read
Reno Birds Of A Fiber Weave Together Clothesline Fiber Arts Group University of Nevada Reno Through Nov. 10 Two black-headed birds hang upside down and keep watch. Another, fully in view and sporting bright orange and yellow Jose Davila IV 13 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
LA Best Artwork Ever, Borrowed & Adjusted RACHEL YOUN: WELL ADJUSTED Night Gallery Los Angeles Sept. 23 – Oct. 28, 2023. I am relatively certain that I know the best work of art ever created. Not the best Brandon Sward 12 Oct 2023 · 2 min read
Hartford The More Things Change … Running For Office: Candidates, Campaigns, And The Cartoons Of Clifford Berryman Exhibit Connecticut Old State House, Hartford Through Nov. 11 One constant runs through American politics: Everyone thinks that their Jamil Ragland 11 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Artists Connect Soul To Soul In ways that photographs can’t capture, the installation of “Impossible Souls” — running now through Oct. 29 on the second floor of the Hilles Gallery of Creative Arts Workshop at Brian Slattery 10 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
NYC Cathedral’s Art Flips The Story The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine 1047 Amsterdam Ave. at 112th St. New York, N.Y. Collection on view — ongoing Does this Madonna and Holy Infant surprise you? Betsy Kim 6 Oct 2023 · 5 min read
New Haven Artists Build Worlds In Group Show The look of Jihyun Lee’s Doll Shelf partakes at once of the past and an imagined future. The collection of objects has the feel of a cabinet of curiosities, Brian Slattery 4 Oct 2023 · 3 min read