Sep 30, 2021 | Art, Photography
NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS — When I recently visited the Bahamas I spoke with Amanda Coulson about Tern gallery, the new art gallery she cofounded last December with Lauren Perez, and she told me a story that relates how the gallery program and their current exhibition are...
Sep 11, 2021 | Art, Design, Sculpture
The Spring Break art show is a barometer of New York’s grassroots art scene and the creativity bubbling below the surface of the overall commercial art world. This year’s theme, HEARSAY:HERESY, pokes at the recent concern over truth, fact, and conspiracies. The topic...
Aug 23, 2021 | Art, Design, Illustration, Photography
The below essay is excerpted from A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See by Tina M. Campt, published with permission from the MIT Press. *** “I broke the internet, ya’ll.” It was the first thing he said as he walked through the front door, dragging the massive case...
Aug 15, 2021 | Art, Illustration, Street Art
In the Philippines, street art scene is emerging to a fully-fledged art form. Graffitis and murals has recently become widespread in cities such as in Manila, the country’s capital. From the art galleries, you can now see art on building facades, walkways,...
Jul 16, 2021 | Art, Photography
The question that propels Emily Rapp Black’s Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg is simple and self-implicating: “Why do we (I) love Frida?” Throughout the book’s fourteen loosely-linked essays, Black lays claim to Kahlo for unique reason: like the painter became later in...
