COVID-19 has wreaked havoc across industries. We’ve got used to reading gloomy headlines from different fields. Museums have also suffered a similar fate, witnessing dwindling attendance and sales. According to reports, the total number of visitors in the top hundred art museums in the world fell 77% in 2020 from 230 million in 2019 to … Read more
IN BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, Elena Gross moves to the Berkeley Art Center (BAC) as co-director. Gross brings eight years of experience in the Bay Area art scene and a background that includes museums, culture-specific institutions, commercial galleries, independent non-profit organizations, and art publications. Gross is currently the director of exhibitions and curatorial affairs at the Museum … Read more
The Denver Art Museum is returning a centuries-old plaque to its African home, the Denver Post recently reported. The panel is part of a larger collection called Benin Bronze, most of whose famous works date back to the 16th and 16th centuriesth until 19th Centuries before they were looted and traded in a British colonial … Read more
Photo courtesy of the National Gallery of Art. The much-anticipated Afro-Atlantic Stories The exhibition at the National Gallery of Art opened on Sunday and is on view through July 17. Crossing five centuries, multiple continents and over 130 artworks, the remarkable exhibition examines the historical and cultural experiences of Black and African people as told … Read more
On April 15, the fifty-first day of the Russian invasion, Ukrainian artist Sasha Kurmaz wrote on his Facebook page: “In my opinion, the artists currently working in Ukraine can be divided into those who have lost their voices and those who continue are assigned to speak actively. Those who (so far) speak actively do not … Read more
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when New York City went into lockdown, artist Luca Buvoli found himself reinterpreting Albert Einstein’s notions of time. Two years later, his artwork A Brief History of Time (Under Covid) – in 7 Lessons was the centerpiece of a solo exhibition entitled Astrodoubt and the Quarantine Chronicles (An … Read more
ThisPlay, exhibition view at Arter, 2022. Photos: Orhan Cem Çetin. This game arter February 17 to April 9, 2022 By ZOË HOPKINSJune 2022 Who could the contemporary surrealists be? In Istanbul, Turkey, Arter may have found the answer to this question. Spanning walls, ceilings and corners on multiple floors, the ThisPlay exhibition is a stubborn … Read more
Samella Lewis, the celebrated artist, activist, historian and mentor to dozens of black creatives, has died at the age of 99. Corresponding The Los Angeles TimesLewis died Friday of kidney failure at a hospital in Torrance, California. Her death was confirmed by her son Claude. Famed artist Samella Lewis, the longtime activist, historian and mentor … Read more
Jeanne Charvat Boyden Jeanne Charvat Boyden died peacefully at her home on May 24, 2022 with her family by her side. Jeanne was born in Schuyler, Nebraska on July 19, 1936 and was 85 years old. Jeanne is survived by her husband, Fredric Martin Boyden, who is 62 years old. MD (86), their four children, … Read more
Smithsonian Associates presents “Geraldine Brooks on the Heart of the Horse: A Novelist’s Portrait” June 27 in person at the Smithsonian’s S. Dillon Ripley Center and online. Randy Baird Wednesday June 1st Smithsonian Knits: The War Years: Delve deep into the making and joining of six knitwear items from the Smithsonian collection in this studio … Read more