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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Or use those lemons, and all the other random stuff you have lying around your house, to make still life photographs. That’s been the motto for many a photographer in this, the age of social distancing. Out of their studios and off the streets, young photogs have trained […] More
What is a photograph, really? Is it simply an image on a two-dimensional surface? What if it could be more? These are some of the questions the Chicago-born artist Barbara Kasten seeks to pose and answer in her complex photographic works, which straddle printmaking, sculpture, and textile combinations. Kasten’s first exposure to art was through a […] More
Today is World Autism Awareness Day, and Apple is marking the occasion by posting a digital art gallery of works created by artists on the autism spectrum, all using the iPad and Apple Pencil. The project, which is curated by the nonprofit the Art of Autism, will be unveiled over the course of April, which […] More
“For a Dreamer of Houses”Dallas Art Museum What the museum says: “‘For a Dreamer of Houses,’ an imaginative and immersive exhibition, explores the significance of the spaces we inhabit and how they represent ourselves, our values, and our desires. …The featured artists use forms derived from dwellings or furnishings to investigate ideas including belonging, alienation, fantasy, […] More
“El Greco: Ambition and Defiance”Art Institute of Chicago What the museum says: “Since El Greco’s death, writers, critics, and other observers have struggled with how and where to situate him. Was he a Byzantine icon painter transformed by the artistic revolution of the Italian Renaissance? A social climber desperately seeking noble patronage? A devout believer […] More
“Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat”Museo Jumex, Mexico City What the museum says: “Bo Bardi’s singular contributions to the fields of architecture, design, and museum practice are the subject of this exhibition, which also aims to critically frame Bo Bardi’s process of unlearning, and marking a critical distance from the Western and modernist canon, as a pivotal […] More
“Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstract Variations”Seattle Art Museum What the museum says: “At the heart of the installation is a recent addition to the Seattle Art Museum’s collection and a gift of late trustee Barney A. Ebsworth. The first complete expression of O’Keeffe’s personal brand of modernism, ‘Abstract Variations’ brings together with from the collection of the Whitney Museum of […] More
“Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana”Ford Foundation Gallery What the gallery says: “‘Per(Sister)’ explores one of the most critical issues of inequality and injustice facing our nation today through the lens of a population too often overlooked. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, women’s state prison populations in the United States have grown 834 percent over the […] More
