Jun 21, 2021 | Exhibitions, News & Trending, Organizations
Santa Monica, California, is going rainbow for June. To celebrate Pride Month, the tourist core of Santa Monica is painting itself all the colors of the rainbow with the “Rainbow Road Art Walk.” Santa Monica Pier, downtown including the Third Street Promenade, and...
Jun 11, 2021 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending
It’s finally happening – The Obama portraits are going on tour. And they’re starting at the Art Institute of Chicago. Unveiled in 2018, the official state portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald have been a large draw in the National Portrait Gallery in...
May 14, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, Music, News & Trending, Profiles
In the 1960s, Bob Dylan was the voice of anti-war protest and civil rights. In the 70s, he traveled through country music into contemporary gospel, an icon of the born-again Christian. Since the 1980s, he’s been touring on the Never Ending Tour with an...
May 10, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending, Profiles
George Haag asserts that he never intended to steal the portrait of Andy Warhol from the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York, back in January. “I did think about stealing it,” he said in an interview in April while awaiting his court date, “but I decided not...
Apr 19, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending, Profiles
Clementine Hunter is perhaps one of the most important folk artists in American history. Born at Hidden Hill Plantation in Louisiana, she spent her youth as a farm laborer with her parents, working for the owners of the plantation. She never learned to read or write,...
Apr 9, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
Bisa Butler’s stunning art quilts are vivid, bold, and lavish in detail. Made from hundreds of pieces of cloth and millions of stitches each, every one is a portrait. A painting in textiles. Originally a high school teacher, she began quilting with the leftover...
