AS Trinidad and Tobago celebrated Emancipation Day yesterday, an art exhibition depicting the tyrannical rule of slave owner and British governor Sir Thomas Picton opened at the National Museum Cardiff in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.Picton, who was governor of Trinidad from 1797 to 1803, had been portrayed in the museum as a military hero for over 100 years due to the fact that he ...
An exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum titled “Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture and Reparations, Chicago to Guantanamo” is acknowledging 20 years since the opening of a United States extra-legal prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The exhibition examines the local and international consequences of state violence, while simultaneously celebrating some of those torture survivors. A book also accompanies the exhibition, with words written by ...
KINGSTON — July 20, 2022 — The University of Rhode Island Feinstein Providence Campus lobby gallery is hosting “Synergy: Below the Surface II,” an art exhibit running through July 28 that features works from artists across the country. The exhibit presents art that looks at life, conditions and research beneath the ocean’s surface. “Synergy: Below the Surface II” brings together original pieces from “Synergy ...
An Australian artist's work featuring a pickle from a McDonalds' cheeseburger stuck to a ceiling has raised the age-old question: what is art? The artwork, creatively named 'Pickle' by Sydney artist Matthew Griffin, is part of the Hosting Fine Arts, Sydney exhibition currently on show at Michael Lett gallery in Auckland, New Zealand.It displays a small slice of pickle on a pristine white ceiling as ...
Here’s a look at some of the stories we’ll be following today as they make headlines across Southwest Virginia:The LewisGale Regional Health System is holding a pre-opening ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house to celebrate its new Lewis Gale Medical Center Blue Hills ER. It is a freestanding emergency room located at 1423 West Ruritan Road. It starts at 3 p.m.The We Are Art; The ...
Maybe it’s her ubiquity in the Southwest American imagination that makes people forget that there’s more to learn about Georgia O’Keeffe. The patron saint of nature’s sickly, sensual side, O’Keeffe created some of the most iconic paintings of the last century. A new show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, however, will shed light on how those canvases are indebted to a Darwinian investigation that ...
Guildford College Art student Daniel Channon, 23, has been selected to exhibit his work at Origins Creatives, taking place at the Truman Brewery in July. Daniel’s submission, titled ‘It Came to Me Like a Wave’, explores an underwater environment inspired by a diving trip the artist made off the coast of Cornwall and caught the attention of UAL Awarding Body’s curator amongst nearly 500 submissions. Artist, ...
The Maui Arts & Cultural Center will present a new exhibit called “Paper Water Wind.” This work is from Oahu artist Janetta Napp. Maui Arts & Cultural Center photos The Maui Arts & Cultural Center will present a new exhibit called “Paper Water Wind” over the next month featuring a group of artists, including Maui’s Zenobia Lakdawalla, selected from local ...
DHAHRAN: A popular Arabic song by a legendary Saudi singer inadvertently became the inspiration for an entire art exhibition that debuted last year in Jeddah. For the first time, that exhibit is now housed in Dhahran, where original works of art serve as personalized portals of nostalgia that allow viewers to take a trip down memory lane to real or imagined destinations. The works ...
Image: Modou Dieng Yacine Lycee Faidberbe, 2021. Mixed media on printed photograph. 52 x 36 in. The University of Southern Indiana’s New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is proud to present Utopia Land featuring mixed media works by Modou Dieng Yacine. In this solo exhibition, Chicago-based artist Modou Dieng Yacine builds upon architectural imagery from New Orleans, Louisiana, and his hometown of Saint-Louis, ...
