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Agustín Maes
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May 6, 2024 3:45 pm
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Gina Gaiser
"Space Burger" 2024, digital photograph
“Revisiting Oakland: A Post-Pandemic Photographic Survey of Urban Landscapes“ Works by Gina Gaiser Manna Gallery 473 25th Street, Oakland Through June 1
Only four years ago we were washing our hands often, trying not to touch our faces, and staying six feet away from one another. Even when we went for walks to get out into the fresh air, the sequestered existence we led meant crossing the street when another person approached on the sidewalk. We were masked and leery, unsure of the potentially deadly airborne virus around us; a new reality. We’re still learning to cope with that reality, and its scars.
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Brian Slattery
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May 3, 2024 10:33 am
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Juliana Chavarria
Unbothered, a new exhibit in a coworking space in downtown New Haven, features works by Juliana Chavarria, Lauren Clayton, Shaunda Holloway, Kimberly Klauss, Melida McKenzie-Alford, Shanna T. Melton, Aisha Nailah, P. Rose, Remy Sosa, and Kim Weston. Curator Nailah describes the show as“an exhibit/space for Black Women to unwind, breathe, and reflect through art and dialogue. A much-needed opportunity for connection, healing, and empowerment.”
Woodworker Jesse Rinyu and Poet LindoYes attempt to fix their shared sculpture's nutty brain.
LindoYes performs his poem, "Irregular Heartbeat."
The Poetry Gumball Machine Project Museum for Art in Wood 141 N. 3rd St. Philadelphia April 27, 2024
“Tough love is being punched until you don’t cry — and crying is the only thing that stops the punching from hurting as much,” Philly Poet and local organizer LindoYes recited softly. His words were resonant enough to reach his audience without relying on a mic as he stood next to a wooden robot designed to dispense his poems — and social service supports — to the city at large.
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Emily Ann Zisko
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Apr 28, 2024 11:52 am
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Anya Gta Photo
IKEARESIDENCYRECEPTION Surely Work Studios Los Angeles April 20, 2024
Like the markers in the 22-acre IKEA in Burbank — second in size only to the flagship store in Stockholm — arrows made of masking tape led me to the entrance of a hullabaloo in shades of yellow and blue. Välkommen to At Home, the inaugural exhibition of the IKEA residency in Downtown Los Angeles.
The banner for the Art Connections Studio exhibit at UCONN Health Center
This-Ability Gallery Opening UCONN Health Center Farmington April 18, 2024
The therapeutic nature of art has been well documented for thousands of years, but often presented from the perspective of the artist. What about the effects that viewing art has on the healing process for people who are recovering?
Sovereign Futures Various locations April 4 – 7, 2024
Sovereign Futures, a multi-day program from the University of Tulsa, brought artists, academics, and others together for performances, exhibits, communal meals, chartered bus tours to Boley and Pawhuska, panel discussions and more around the stories of sovereignty that meet in Indian Territory. Curated by TU’s Allison Glenn, this felt like something new: not an academic conference, nor a lecture series, nor an art festival, but a series of generative, clear-eyed, community-focused encounters with Oklahoma’s Black and Indigenous histories and possibilities.
Monumental and ephemeral: Ashanti Chaplin at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Ashanti Chaplin: “The Hidden Gospels Of Dust“ Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship April 5, 2024
It’s spring in Tulsa and a lot of people are suffering. Often ranked as one of the worst locations for allergies, the city is beautiful but terrible right now for people sensitive to dust, dirt, and particles in the air. But stepping into the Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship space for Ashanti Chaplin’s solo exhibition The Hidden Gospels of Dust will transport you into a space adrift and grounded with the beauty of dust — without the need for an antihistamine.
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Brian Slattery
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Apr 12, 2024 10:08 am
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Joy Bush photo
It’s the shape of an ancient Middle Eastern cityscape, verandahs and towers, arched doorways and windows like peeping eyes. But it’s not anywhere near the Middle East; it’s on a rock hilltop in Waterbury, and it’s part of Holy Land USA — to some, a roadside attraction, to others, a place of serious pilgrimage, and for Joy Bush, the subject of an almost 40-year-long series of photographs.
Winter in America: The Speakeasy; Bold, Black & Brilliant — The Baldwin Edition Joyce Gordon Gallery 406 14th St. Oakland April 3, 2024
When I think of James Baldwin, the images that surface in my mind are often in black and white. Photographs, video clips, and even his words on the page appear stark and matter-of-fact. Walking into the Joyce Gordon Gallery and seeing over 40 faces and expressions of Baldwin, my connotation of him was elevated.
The traveling exhibition, “Frontline Prophet: James Baldwin,” features works from Detroit artist Sabrina Nelson. Pop art-style portraits of Baldwin covered the walls, infused with hues of bright red, cobalt blue, greens, and golds. Seeing Baldwin’s face in modern styles brought him out of the past and into the now in a refreshing way.
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Nora Grace-Flood
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Apr 9, 2024 10:17 am
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M Solivan Photo
Art, albeit shitty (but a better photo than I could get) ...
Nora Grace-Flood Photo
... as compared to a permanent sculpture that served as artistic guidance to Monday's show.
Eclipse Viewing The Woodlands April 8, 2024
The Woodlands in West Philly looked picturesque under the half-baked sun Monday afternoon, with picnic blankets, magnolia leaves, and bicycles strewn across the historic lawns as neighbors sought out their personal vision of a rare celestial show: the solar eclipse.
They came expecting a cosmic spectacle. As an arts reviewer, I came looking for an answer to a question: Could an eclipse count as art?
In a temporary gallery space, canvases came to life. On gray felt walls hung one-to-five foot pieces bursting outward, upward, toward the viewer. They begged to be touched, to be held, perhaps. Figurative in some spaces and wildly abstract elsewhere, the pieces breathed in the could-be-sterile space.
The occasion was a pop-up show featuring the works of artists from Nigeria, South Africa, and, closer to home, Chicago, Houston, L.A. Their pieces hung (or stood, as some proudly did) on the second floor of a bank building (Beneficial State Bank, located downtown blocks from BART and the lake), full of lush plants and welcoming hosts. A glass of Moët was offered to visitors entering the space, as was a warm greeting from the gallerists .
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Alicia Chesser
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Mar 31, 2024 12:46 pm
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JOSH NEW PHOTO
Bradford Lovett, "Gaythering at the Fam Farm"
Bradford Lovett: “Myths & Hymns” The Parlour Tulsa March 21, 2024
In Bradford Lovett’s Gaythering at the Fam Farm, a disembodied hand reaches down from the sky with a pink donut in its fingers, almost making contact with jubilant penises rising from little floating Mario clouds. A dude with gold-plated pecs sits next to a man in white shirtsleeves who’s groaning over a cauldron full of bones, with two apocalyptic creatures in shiny red boots poised nearby and a slain Goliath in the foreground. A pair of cows holds space with a ballerina and a giant frosted cupcake as a witch-hatted Boy Scout rolls by on a recumbent wooden bike and a dragon carries a bound figure away over the peak of a falling-down barn.
