Alandmark exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York is, amazingly, among the first explorations of the graphic arts of the Surrealist movement. Co-curated by Leslie Jones at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Isabelle Dervaux at the Morgan, it is organized, interestingly, by technique. Surrealism […]
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From the Cultural Revolution to Cultural Landscape at Cheryl McGinnis Gallery The Art and Lives of Duoling Huang and George Zhaozhi Xiong. by Tina Seligman
From the Cultural Revolution to Cultural Landscape” explores the lives and art of Duoling Huang and George Xiong from inside the work/education camps of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution through their re-emergence as powerful cross-cultural artists in the United States. This historically significant exhibition curated by Cheryl McGinnis for her TriBeCa […]
Renouncing the Object: “Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925” casts a brilliant light on the most significant art movement of the 20th Century. by Sara Evans
Subtitled “How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art,” this landmark exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art presented a cogent, deep and thoroughly intriguing examination of the art movement that shaped and informed the 20th century. Incredibly broad and international in scope, MoMA has chosen to showcase not only well-known […]
A Chinese Renaissance, Live on Stage: Shen Yun revives 5,000 years of civilization with mesmerizing performances
by Jon Kunsman After selling out New York City’s Lincoln Center in 2012 and other top venues around the world, Shen Yun Performing Arts has become a global cultural sensation. The remarkable journey of Shen Yun began six years ago with one company. Now, Shen Yun’s three dance companies and […]
BUBBLING COLOR AND FORM ERUPT IN DAZZLING ABSTRACTIONS AT GOLDENBELT By Adrienne Garnett
True artists are usually free spirits, it’s just that some are more apparently so than others. We get to engage with an exhilarating, though unassuming free spirit when we enter the GoldenBelt Rm. 100 Gallery in Durham this month. Suzy Andron’s organic, dimensional paintings and “Polytychs” greet us as they […]
Ben Aronson on Exhibit at the Ann Norton by Marty Karlin
Renowned art historian, Donald Kuspit, writes of Aronson’s paintings, “Ben Aronson paints the urban scene, but, more to the esthetic point, his paintings are eloquently urbane: not just painterly, but suavely painterly.” His representation of the modern city is not simply a laundry list of architectural landmarks, but rather the […]
Is Drama School For You?
If you are still contemplating the type of a career you are going to embrace once you will graduate from high school or you are a young adult trying to find a new path in life, hopefully these next few lines should inspire you. You will learn a few critical […]
The Heart of a Nation The Israel Museum in Jerusalem holds infinite treasures, both ancient and modern. By Sara Evans
When museums try to be all things to all people, they usually fall on their face. Not so Jerusalem’s Israel Museum. Perched on a 20-acre campus overlooking this most ancient and beautiful of cities, this museum is the repository of the nation, of its art, its archeology, its culture, its […]