Visual Art

Artists Get Constructive

Ariel Bintang’s pieces can be understood as abstractions of figurative landscapes. The color choices, of vivid greens, blues, and oranges, don’t happen much in the real world, and

“Everything Is Political In America,” Including The Art

Howardena Pindell had already created the spiraling mess of oranges, yellows, blues, and greens, footprinted with red arrows indicating the path of the swirls, when she realized that the lithograph

Trace Evidence: The Work & Friendship Of Hayley Nichols & Nic Annette Miller

Hayley Nichols and Nic Annette Miller: Natural Rhythms 108 Contemporary Tulsa Through Sept. 21 I was lucky enough to get out of Oklahoma’s sweltering heat recently, as my family

This Art Deserves Better

Jordan Vinyard: Command + C, Command + C, Command + CTAC Gallery Tulsa Aug. 2 – 24, 2024 Kinetic sculpture — sculpture that moves — is a tough beast to tame. It tends to move slowly,

Ashley The Creator’s Art Bears Fruit

According to legend — and poet Christina Rossetti — one should never eat fruit offered by fairies. It’s considered illicit, otherworldly, and so good that one taste will leave you hankering

Matisse Makes Way For Pink Handcuffs

Visions The Barnes Foundation 2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy Philadelphia Aug. 1, 2024 Meandering through a maze of Matisse — meaning through a wave of 20th century women generously sprawled across colorful

Living Memory

“Living” Living Arts of Tulsa Tulsa Through Aug. 24, 2024 I’m not sure how, growing up in the Tulsa burbs, I got so obsessed with the fringes of art.

The Holocaust, In The First Person

How do we talk about something for which we have no words? How do we develop a vocabulary for a tragedy of such volume that the human language does not

X‑FOLX ASSEMBLE! Superheroes Reframed

X‑FOLX Hella Positive 1606 7th St. Oakland July 27th, 2024

Finally, Crying for Megan

I only found you when I stopped looking Real Art Ways Hartford July 31, 2024 I’m sure that there’s more to Denisse Griselda Reyes’ exhibit, I only found

Star Secrets Revealed, As Chinese Lanterns Light Up Franklin Square

Chinese Lantern Festival Franklin Square 700 Arch St. Philadelphia July 30, 2024 A live rat ran past my shoe while I was lacing up to walk through Philly’s Chinese

Global Citizens, Local Fashions

Oakland Renaissance: Saint Maurice Fashion Show West Oakland Matters 7th West 1255 7th St, Oakland July 27, 2024 Local art matters, and so do your neighbors. Produced in “The New

Shaunda Holloway Shows Up

For Shaunda Holloway, art is all about getting yourself a seat at the table. It’s a way to be seen, to be heard, to express yourself and then have

Land Back, Language Back: Osage Poetic Forms

𐓏𐒰𐒿𐒷́𐓒𐒷 (Markings): 𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰́𐓓𐒷 𐒻́𐒷 poetic forms Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship Tulsa Through Aug. 10 Standing in 𐓏𐒰𐒿𐒷́𐓒𐒷 (Markings): 𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰́𐓓𐒷 𐒻́𐒷 poetic forms, the current exhibit at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship space, I feel as though

El Gallo Crows At The Grand

The Grand Gallery 560 2nd St Oakland El Gallo, or Bill Weber, as the government or his friends and family would know him, sat quietly, tucked in a corner and

That’s Bananas

E.T. And Some Bananas Fleisher/ Ollman Gallery 915 Spring Garden St. Philadelphia July 24, 2024 I took in a wall of misshapen, flat figures with stone faced expressions — and

Safe — & Sound? — Back Home From RNC

Artists Embrace Change, Transformation

A preoccupation with change suffuses a few of the solo shows at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, running now through Aug. 4.