1:54: Popup Art Comes to Brooklyn

1:54: Popup Art Comes to Brooklyn

In 2015, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair was a pop-up event in Brooklyn. That was a test, to see if there was a market for the full show, which has been a London event for the past three years. Their 2015 success in New York paved the way for this year’s...
NASA Wants to Send Your Art to an Asteroid

NASA Wants to Send Your Art to an Asteroid

Just because you might never get to go to space doesn’t mean your art can’t. NASA has invited the public to send art to Asteroid Bennu on its new spacecraft, the OSIRIS-Rex, or the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer....
A Lock of John Lennon’s Hair Goes Up for Auction

A Lock of John Lennon’s Hair Goes Up for Auction

A fifty-year-old lock of John Lennon’s hair that is being called “significant” is going up for auction in Dallas by Heritage Auctions. The hair was freed from Lennon’s head in 1966 on the set of How I Won the War, a Richard Lester film in which Lennon played Musketeer...
Dead Treez

Dead Treez

Ebony Patterson has a lot to say about her homeland, Jamaica of the 1990s. Now a resident of Kentucky where she teaches at the University of Kentucky, she uses art to say it. Her first solo show, Dead Treez, originally designed for the John Michael Kohler Arts Center...