New Haven Sculptors, Painter Lead With The Heart At New Haven’s City Gallery, where works by Linda Mickens, Susan Clinard, and Shaunda Holloway are on display. Click here to read Brian Slattery’s review. Brian Slattery 15 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
Troy/Albany 10 Abstract Artists Summon “The Feels” The Feels, a group exhibition showcasing the work of ten Albany area abstract artists, invites the viewer to do just that: feel the phantom texture of smooth ceramic and rough RS Benedict 10 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Boston Hair Hangs From Ceiling, Sparks Stories From The Heart The introductory video to Gu Wenda’s “United Nations” exhibit, currently on display in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., states that a single strand of hair contains enough Sasha Patkin 9 Aug 2023 · 5 min read
Hartford The Person In The Portrait: Seeing Through Frederick Douglass’ Eyes Frederick Douglass stands next to Harriet Tubman as the only people I describe as heroes. They demonstrated enormous courage even when they didn’t have to. Both had escaped slavery, Jamil Ragland 4 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa The Pitriarchy Persists: Feminist Critique Propels Performance Art Dance Party Google the name “Pitriarchy,” and you’ll get an instant question back: “Did you mean patriarchy?” Would I have rolled my eyes quite as hard at that had I not Alicia Chesser 3 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Boston Sand-Sculpted King Kongs (Mostly) Withstand The Rain Ever since I learned that there’s a train in Boston that literally goes to “Wonderland,” I’ve been looking for a reason to make the journey to the end Sasha Patkin 2 Aug 2023 · 5 min read
NW Arkansas In Cheese Plant-Turned Gallery Space, Bubblegum Pink Beckons The outside of the Momentary (a contemporary art space/music venue/coffee shop/bar in Bentonville, Akansas) looks like a shoebox. The building itself is a repurposed cheese plant, and Serena Puang 1 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Self-Love, & The Intertwined History Of Pharmaceuticals & Color Explored in new group show at the Blake Hotel. Click here to read Brian’s review and see more images. Brian Slattery 27 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa The Way We Are, Post-Pandemic Phantom Limb: Mixed Media Works by Zach Litwack July 14-August 4, 2023 Liggett Studio Who are you when you lose part of what makes you “you”? Zach Litwack started asking Alicia Chesser 27 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland The Durability Of Dorothea Lange: Photography As Activism, And Conscience What first draws the eye, even from across the room, is a close-up: the dark hood, the sinewy face, the upward gaze of worry or hope. She is equally plausible Jonathan Kiefer 24 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford This Means Something — Right? I like experiencing art randomly. If an exhibit or event catches my eye, I don’t research it or the artists, I just go in blind. That was how I Jamil Ragland 21 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
Oakland Words Take On New Meaning In Creative Growth’s Text Me Group Exhibition In Gregory Stoper’s ink on paper drawings, pictorial text takes on the intonations of spoken language. In bowed compositions, the artist presents biographical sentences in a downward sloping motion. Theadora Walsh 21 Jul 2023 · 2 min read
Boston Fest Photos Blend With Nature, As Finding The Right Path Proves Tricky The last thing I want to do on a summer Friday afternoon in Boston is stay inside, which is how I ended up battling through city traffic in a car Sasha Patkin 19 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
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