Beer With a Painter: Samia Halaby
At her longtime studio in Tribeca, the Palestinian-American painter discussed her experimentation with color and how she “accidentally stepped into abstraction.”
Beer With a Painter: Samia Halaby
At her longtime studio in Tribeca, the Palestinian-American painter discussed her experimentation with color and how she “accidentally stepped into abstraction.”
Phoenix Art Museum Receives Largest Gift of Native American Works
A hundred works by Indigenous artists tracing creative resilience over the course of a century will go on view at the institution in August.
Carmen Maria Machado on Power
Plus, the largest survey of Arthur Jafa’s work is coming to New York.
Realistic Oil Painting Marks Return to Art After Decades in the Public Sector
After consolidating a career in the public sector, artist Cláudia Botrel resumes realistic oil painting in Belo Horizonte with works requiring up to 200 hours. Reclaiming Time Through Classical Realism…
Ceramics as Therapy Unites Manual Work and Creative Recovery
Ceramist Ana Valéria Cafezeiro exchanged her IT routine for manual modeling in Petrópolis, using art as meditation and creative therapy. The search for quality of life after closing corporate cycles…
7 Art Books You Should Read This Pride Month
A joint biography of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, a catalog on Martin Wong’s Chinatowns, Catherine Opie’s portraiture, queer nightlife through the ages, and more.
My Queasy, Forest-Scented Stroll Through LA’s New AI Art Museum
Refik Anadol’s Dataland is a whirling, glaring, hyper-stimulating audio-visual-olfactory voyage that has more in common with Disneyland.
Afro-Brazilian Art Unites Ancestry and Faith in Pastel Crayons
The Pintando Asé project translates African-matrix religiosity through pastel crayons, breaking away from academic rigor to honor ancestry. An academic trajectory frequently acts as a preamble to the true discovery…
Kohei Yamada: MY SCREEN TESTS @ Gr Gallery, New York (UPDATED with Installation Imagery)
GR gallery is pleased to present My Screen Tests, the first New York City solo exhibition by Kohei Yamada. The exhibition examines the enduring value of the authentic relationship between…
Expanded Photography
Renature, presented at Bildhalle Zürich, explores the shifting relationship between nature, perception and materiality in contemporary lens-based art. The post Expanded Photography appeared first on Aesthetica Magazine.