Artist Rory Doyle of Cleveland, Mississippi was awarded the 2019 Southern Prize by South Arts at an event this week in the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, South Carolina. Doyle, a photographer whose work documents the Mississippi Delta’s “Delta Hill Riders” African-American cowboy subculture, received a $25,000 cash award and a two-week residency at The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences.
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A distinguished painter, printmaker, and sculptor, Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935) has created a complex and original body of work that remains rooted in the human figure while drawing on all the resources of modernist abstraction and expression. On view in the East Building of the National Gallery of Art from April 14 through September 15, 2019, Oliver Lee Jackson: Recent Paintings presents some 20 paintings created over the past 15 years, many of which are being shown publicly for the first time.
People around the world expressed shock and sadness as they watched the Notre Dame burn in Paris. President Emmanuel Macron vowed that the cathedral would be rebuilt, and today we look at cathedrals around the world that have recovered from tragic destruction.
Superfine! is one of the most unique art fairs in America. With a belief that art fairs can be curated bust still offer affordable works, Superfine! connects unrepresented artists and upcoming galleries directly to collectors.
Glacier archeology is a field of study that grows as it shrinks: glacial ice that is disappearing due to climate change is exposing land and remnants of ancient man that have been hidden for thousands of years.
Since March 2, the Driehaus Museum has been imbued with new, electric energy courtesy of British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE, whose ongoing solo show marks the first time contemporary art has filled its spaces. It’s also the first in a new series of exhibitions at the Driehaus collectively titled A Tale of Today, a name that nods to Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner’s eponymous novel that critiques the corrupted politics of the Gilded Age.
Journey into the dark realm of vision, nightmare, and dream with Mysterious, Marvelous, Malevolent: The Art of Elihu Vedder, April 5 through December 29 in the Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute.
Desert skulls, vagina flowers, and Alfred Stieglitz—The Art History Babes discuss the many fascinating layers to the artistic practice, philosophy, and partnerships of one of the most important female artists of the 20th century, Georgia O'Keeffe.
This week, the Met debuts a large new exhibition sure to please the summer the crowds. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll is the first exhibition at a major museum to tell the history of rock and roll through its instruments.
Plutschow Gallery and New York gallery Edelman Arts join forces to present a groundbreaking exhibition of monumental works entitled, SIZE MATTERS from April 11th to July 15th, 2019, (Waldmannstrasse 6, 8001 Zürich).
