Beauty Without Borders Beyond Trend Runway Show Creative Growth Art Center 355 24th St. Oakland June 22, 2024 On a glittery, gold-colored runway taped to Valdez Street near Lake Merritt, a woman in Stacey Peters 24 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa And The Skies Are Not Cloudy All Day Maple St. Construct: “Home On The Range“ 1303 E Admiral Blvd. Tulsa June 14, 2024 Throughout history, we see humans’ imprint on natural and manmade environments through careful, slight and Cassidy Petrazzi 23 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
Hartford Soap-Dwelling Alien Created At Juneteenth Cartoonist-Kids Confab Juneteenth Workshop Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts Hartford June 19, 2024 It’s not often that you can get free lessons from an award-winning cartoonist and writer, but that’ Jamil Ragland 20 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Artist Dives Into The Dangers Of Banned Books The pieces at first look just like abstract collages, but soon, fragments of meaning emerge. The shape of lips. A pattern of shadows. Finally, letters and words, but not enough Brian Slattery 14 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Border Towns, Unbound Stories, Irreverent Gods: A Celia Álvarez Muñoz Retrospective Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking The Binding Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa May 31, 2024 According to the ACLU, nearly two out of three people in the United States live within Cassidy Petrazzi 9 Jun 2024 · 6 min read
Oakland Walking on Wool East Bay Open Studios The Loom 2150 Livingston St. Oakland June 1 & 2, 2024 In demonstration of the wool she uses in her work, Meghan Shimek stood atop one Agustín Maes 6 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
Philadelphia The Mutter Misses: “Unhoused” Exhibition Puts Humanity Behind Bars Unhoused: Personal Stories and Public Health The Mutter Museum 19 S. 22nd St. Philadelphia I walked by three people camped out on the few blocks of sidewalk between my bus Nora Grace-Flood 6 Jun 2024 · 9 min read
Oakland Art For All: Open Studios Kick Off East Bay Open Studios Salon Exhibition and Opening Party Studio One Arts Center 365 45th St. Oakland May 30, 2024 My friend Emily and I stared at the white and Sarah Bass 4 Jun 2024 · 6 min read
LA Eyes On The Road EYES ON THE ROAD: ART OF THE AUTOMOTIVE LANDSCAPE PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM Los Angeles Through November 2024 Having survived a near-fatal collision, I’m constantly contemplating the automobile. Much like Brittany Menjivar 3 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
LA Paint The Town Red, In Flames ED RUSCHA/ NOW THEN Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles Through Oct. 6, 2024 Ed Ruscha imagines a Los Angeles where LACMA is burning. It’s surprisingly serene. Madeline Connors 31 May 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Like Rush Hour On Canvas Frank Bruckmann paints the sky to convey a sense of the clouds roiling overhead; perhaps it’s getting dark, or threatening rain, or both. In the dimness, the lights in Brian Slattery 31 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Breathing Fire, Falling Rain: “Year Of The Dragon” Makes Waves “Year of the Dragon” — an exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery celebrating the year 2024 and running now through Nov. 10 — begins with two artworks of waves. One of those Brian Slattery 30 May 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford The Abstract Feels More Real Watershed Moments Clare Gallery St. Patrick-St. Anthony Church Hartford May 28, 2024 Watershed Moments, paintings of the Connecticut River’s watershed by Connecticut’s own Diana Rogers on display at Jamil Ragland 29 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven On Being Soft It’s a simple idea with big consequences. The picture of East Rock is the sort you might see on a postcard. The message is easy to digest, a salute Brian Slattery 29 May 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Will Stomper Outlast the A’s? “Rise & Grind” Artist: Illuminaries @Illuminaries 1900 Webster St. Downtown Oakland Fred Noland 26 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Feminism, By Design It’s a poster for a conference held in Los Angeles in 1975, “for women who work with public visual and physical forms,” as the piece advertises — that is, women Brian Slattery 23 May 2024 · 1 min read
LA A Blood Transfusion From Charli XCX CHARLI XCX PRESENTS CLUB ANGEL Brain Dead Studios Los Angeles, May 9, 2024 Last Wednesday night, Los Angeles – based fans of Charli XCX received the same mass text. It read, Annika Gavlak 16 May 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Artists Stare Into The Sun An entire gallery of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art on Trumbull Street is bathed in a pinkish-orange glow that streams in through tinted windows, a constant chemical sunset. The Brian Slattery 16 May 2024 · 1 min read
