by admin | Aug 7, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
Michaela Coel is a part of every aspect of her show on the BBC, I May Destroy You. She’s the creator, writer, director, and plays the lead roll, that of Arabella. The show is a personal project for her, even working with the giant that is the BBC, who allowed...
by admin | Aug 5, 2020 | News & Trending
With the ash not yet settled and the death count far from complete, perhaps it’s too soon to talk about what the August 4th explosion in Beirut, Lebanon has done to the art scene in that city. But the pictures are already coming out – art askew on walls, the...
by admin | Jul 29, 2020 | Donations, Gallery, museums, News & Trending
Jane Roughton Kearns wasn’t a student at the University of North Carolina, but her husband, Thomas Kearns Jr. graduated from the school in 1958. A legacy student, he played basketball for the school and apparently is still fiercely loyal. They sent three...
by admin | Jul 29, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
Before Lucy Liu hit television big time in 1997 on Ally McBeal, and big screen fame in Charlie’s Angels in 2000, she was showing her art in major galleries in New York and Los Angeles. She’s worked in collage, photography, mixed-media works, and sculpture...
by admin | Jul 22, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
Charles Ross has been toiling away in the New Mexico desert for nearly 50 years, since his mid-30s. Now 84, the artist is finally almost finished with his life’s work.
Ross and his wife, the painter Jill O’Bryan, began Star Axis in the summer of 1971....
by admin | Jul 14, 2020 | Art, culture, News & Trending
In the early morning of July 1, 2020, Albuquerque news station KRQE got the first of a flurry of emails, reporting a new statue erected in front of the doors of Albuquerque’s city hall. Apparently bronze, life-sized, and frowning, it was a statue of the late disgraced...
by admin | Jul 7, 2020 | Art, Gallery, News & Trending, organizations, Upcoming Exhibits
The German submarine base in Bordeaux, France, was built in 1941 under the orders of Admiral Donitz, to establish a protective base from which Nazi submarines could patrol the Atlantic. After its completion in 1942, it housed a significant fleet, including 42 u-boats....
by admin | Jun 29, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
Everyone remembers the extraordinary damage done to the painting of Christ titled “Ecce Homo” by a well-meaning but over-confident parishioner in Borja, Spain in 2016. In her attempt to ‘restore’ the 1930 painting, Cecila Giménez made it into something...
by admin | Jun 17, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending
While Art Basel, the international fine arts fair founded in 1970 by Ernst Beyeler, Trudl Bruckner, and Balz Hilt has three major events a year, spaced around the globe, it is its eponymous event, Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, that is the gem of the set. At Basel...
by admin | Jun 5, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
The “Scarecoronas” in Northside, Cincinnati may seem silly and casual, just a bunch of scarecrows and monsters made of whatever the residents of the neighborhood had at home. But they are heirs to quite a long artistic history. Gargoyles, the grotesques carved in...
