Thanks to Gerardo Gomez-Martinez (aka Hacer), the public plazas on Broadway in New York City’s Garment District are now a zoo of origami-style animals. The Mexican-American artist installed a series of powder-coated steel sculptures that loom over dining areas and walkways as part of Transformations. Commissioned by The Garment District Alliance, the project consists ofContinue reading "Seven Origami Animals Transform New York City’s Garment District into a Vibrant Menagerie"
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The installation of his sculpture marks a homecoming for the 85-year-old artist, whose diptych at the World Trade Center was destroyed on 9/11.
His paintings and murals rendered the Harlem Renaissance, Martin Luther King Jr. and his Brooklyn neighbors in stunning color.
Through a winding series of delicate illustrations, Zoe Keller (previously) explores the fragility of the natural world. In Scale & Bone, the Portland-based illustrator renders copper belly water snakes, San Francisco garters, and eastern diamondback rattlers through sinuous compositions that are ripe with skeletal remains, rows of butterflies, and dense patches of fungi. Each graphite drawing examinesContinue reading "Sinuous Snakes, Insects, and Florals Intertwine in Graphite Illustrations by Zoe Keller"
Shining a spotlight on a painter and illustrator at the nexus of folk art and Modernism. She appeared everywhere, from W.P.A. murals to Life magazine. Then she disappeared.
Van Gogh’s comfortable, middle-class existence in London is at odds with how the public imagines the painter. But this period shaped his art, a new exhibition shows.
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Swiss sound artist Zimoun (previously) harnesses the power of quick, chaotic movements in his large-scale installations and kinetic sculptures. Each artwork is composed of simple materials like cardboard boxes, wooden dowels, and cotton balls, among other common objects. Zimoun assembles multiples of the same configuration—think teetering sticks and metal washers suspended on a wire—and motorizesContinue reading "Sound Artist Zimoun Channels Frenetic Movement in Expansive Kinetic Sculptures and Installations"
Bill Traylor - Untitled (Spread-Legged Drinker) | American Folk Art Museum
Jan Stanisławski
May 1 is the birthday of George Inness (1825-1894), an American painter who came of […]
In the art world, Grayson Perry believes, despite the blockbuster exhibitions at national galleries, “popular” is a term of abuse, linked to populism and unthinking prejudice. But in his exhibition "The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!” he shows that craft is also “art,” and that it belongs to us all. It's here, even more than in his overt political statements, that Perry is truly democratic and profoundly “popular.”
