Three Artists and Their Mediums By Martin Mugar, WTP Guest Writer Diverse, The Contemporary Female Gaze. November 15, 2020 – February, 2021; Flood Gallery; Black Mountain, NC. Despite attempts to contemporize the show with its title Diverse, The Contemporary Female Gaze, on exhibit thru February at the Flood Gallery Fine Art Center in Black Mountain, NC,…
Category: exhibition reviews
Meditative Painting
Designed to Heal our Eyes and Hearts By Donald Brackett, WTP Guest Writer Time Shadow, The Ambient Paintings of Bernadette Jiyong Frank. July 9 – August 29, 2020, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco. This remarkable body of work by Jiyong Frank, in its harmonious entirety, is the opposite of the hyper-speeds of technology and celebrates…
Shape of Shape at MoMA
The Artist’s Choice at MoMA By Emilia Dubicki, WTP Art Correspondent The Shape of Shape, on view through April 20, 2020, at MoMA The newly renovated and reopened Museum of Modern Art in New York City, NY, is expansive, airy, and open. Upon entering one is faced with a choice of going left to the…
Interview: MoMA Curator Paulina Pobocha on Brancusi
Through February 2019 at the MoMA Interview by Emilia Dubicki, WTP Art Correspondent On exhibit now through February 18, 2019, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, are eleven quite monumental sculptures by Constantin Brancusi. Born in rural Romania in 1876, Brancusi learned carving as a youth, and throughout his life worked in wood,…
Poets/Artists Ponder “Breath and Matter”
By Doug Holder, WTP Guest Writer I was pondering a question over my dark ale (with a hint of citrus) at the Remnant Brewery in the new Bow Market in Union Square. It was posed by the poet Robert Pinsky in the foreword of an anthology of poems about sculpture. He asked, “What has art…
Art as Healing and Headbands
Wearing Your Happiness By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Last week, I attended a fundraiser for Healing Headbands Project, Inc., a unique operation that integrates art-making with the perhaps lesser known “art” of laughter. The melding of these two is the healing catalyst for hospitalized children in their daily struggles to get well, even just to survive,…
Exhibition Review: Michelangelo at the Met
Drawings by a Master By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief The Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer exhibition at the Met is a must-see. It ends February 12, so if you’re in the city, it’s worth the trip and braving the crowds. It’s a phenomenal showcase of more than two hundred works, including Michelangelo’s sculptures, and even a…
Exhibition Review: The Other Art Fair
A Brooklyn Debut By John S. Berman, WTP Art Correspondent Since its launch in 2011, Saatchi has promoted The Other Art Fair as an international exposition to showcase the work of emerging but often “under-the radar” artists. From November 9–12, Brooklyn joined the ranks of London and Bristol in the United Kingdom and Sydney and…
Exhibition: Resonant Spaces
Experiencing Sound Art at Dartmouth By Susan B. Apel, WTP Art Correspondent Take seven internationally-acclaimed artists whose work has graced world-renowned venues like the Tates Modern and Britain, the Shanghai and Berlin Biennales, and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Commission them to produce new, site-specific works, and then bring them and their installations to…
Exhibition Review: Out of Bounds
At the White Gallery, Bridgehampton By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief The White Room Gallery, tucked down a brick path off Main Street in Bridgehampton, NY, is a refreshing oasis of authentic art—a welcomed relief from what otherwise of late can seem an ostentatious art scene in the Hamptons. I attended this current exhibition because one of…
International Surrealism Now at the Multimedia P.O.R.O.S. Museum
Portugal | Multimedia PO.RO.S Museum International Surrealism Now exhibition WORLD, PORTUGAL, EXHIBITIONS Date: September 17, 2017 – December 31, 2017 Come see the dreams of International Surrealism Now, A Project by Acclaimed Painter and Curator Santiago Ribeiro, Makes Debut at Multimedia PO.RO.S Museum 2017, Condeixa a Nova, Portugal International Surrealism Now is the largest…
Whitney Biennial Review: Part 2
Gesture, Craft, and Capitalism by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor I couldn’t help myself. I had to see the Whitney Biennial a second time, circling through the galleries until I was a bit dizzy with all the color and sound. I was partially enticed by the promise of a lens into the most contemporary of art—a…