One of the few positive side effects of the global pandemic caused by Covid-19 has been a renewed emphasis on the primacy of an artist’s work. That can be seen in “Necessary Memories,” the new show of Janet Taylor Pickett’s paintings currently on view at Jennifer Baahng Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City until October 30, 2021. And Too, She Was Born, ...
"Still Life in Real Life," an exhibit at Garfield Park Conservatory, through Oct. 17, 2021. (Patty Wetli / WTTW News) As an artist specializing in still lifes and landscapes, Charles Ethan Porter, a late 19th-century painter, translated scenes from nature onto canvas. Now the Garfield Park Conservatory has reversed the process, using spades instead of brushes, and plants in place of paints, to transform its ...
It was the summer of 2018 and David Omari, a 20-year-old business student at the University of Ghana, Legon, was sitting in his bedroom scrolling through Instagram. Discovering work on the platform by artists in Ghana, and across Africa, had become his favorite pastime. While not from a family with any particular artistic leanings—his father and mother run a fishing company—Omari loved the art ...
Although Darrel Ellis, a Black artist known for his conceptual portraits of family and friends died of AIDS-related illness in 1992 at age 33, his work and life story—including HIV, racism, queerness and African-American culture—continue to resonate. Ellis’s father, Thomas Ellis, a studio photographer in Harlem and the South Bronx, was shot and killed by police two months before Darrel was born in 1958. ...
Bali, Indonesia – Sixty years ago, I Ketut Soki was the delighted recipient of his first painting kit – and since that day, he has rarely put his brushes down. “I still have the spirit to paint. I still have a lot of ideas,” he told Al Jazeera. “I paint to maintain the Balinese culture. I want to show people abroad about Bali. I ...
Two pioneering artists spoke on their work, the symbiosis of art and social justice, and creativity amid the coronavirus pandemic at a virtual event hosted by Harvard’s Office for the Arts Wednesday.The event — titled “Creativity and Courage: Two Artists Speak to Our Moment” and moderated by Office of the Arts Associate Director for Programming Alicia Anstead — featured musician and music entrepreneur Aaron ...
(RNS) — I remember my mom looking in my young face and telling me that my father, who had gone to his homeland in Kenya to visit his sick mother, had to delay his return because the country was experiencing a coup, which at that time in Kenyan history was common. This week, when my daughter walked into my home office, her eyes were ...
Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNNIs it art or the work of aliens? This question has enthralled the internet since the discovery and disappearance of an enigmatic 10-foot-tall silver structure among the red rocks of remote southeastern Utah last month. Dubbed the "Utah monolith," the object was likened to the unsettling extraterrestrial machines -- also of uncertain origins -- from Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space ...
