March 12, 2025
Artists

Border Comics Artists, Noted Afrofuturist Featured in New Exhibits at Comic-Con Museum

Poster for the Border Blitz exhibit at the Comic-Con Museum. Charles Glaubitz has lived his whole life as a border crosser, growing up in Baja California, Mexico and commuting to San Diego to study and work. The Tijuana resident has built a career as a comic book artist whose work has been featured in art

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European Art

Something for Every Palate at the European Fine Art Fair

The European Fine Art Fair, best known as TEFAF, is all about decadence. Its ninth New York edition, running through Tuesday, May 14, features 89 galleries showing everything from furniture, jewelry, and antiquities to contemporary art. It makes for a disorienting mix, hopping from sculptures by Kehinde Wiley at the booths of both Sean Kelly

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Visual artists

Detroit Public Schools’ annual ‘Evening of Fine Arts’ returning to Fox Theatre

The Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) is hosting its 55th annual “An Evening of Fine Arts” next Wednesday at Detroit’s historic Fox Theatre. Subscribe to the Detroit Evening Report on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. This free public event, taking place at 6 p.m. May 15, will feature performances

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Artists

Artist of the Month – Introducing May

EAU CLAIRE, Wis (WLAX/WEUX) – If you have followed this segment of WI Proud at all, you know that I love artists. There is just something about the creative type that I love. Even the ones that are flighty and flakey and maddening to the nth degree, I love them. I enjoy watching them work.

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Artists

Meet PEOPLE’s Talented 2024 Spring Emerging Artists!

Amanda Reifer Amanda Reifer. Jimmy Fontaine I can guarantee you’ve never met a “Bitch Like [Amanda Reifer].”  The 33-year-old singer from Barbados is already making a splash after she was featured on Kendrick Lamar’s hit song “Die Hard.”  She started writing at 15 years old and found herself as the lead singer of a band

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Visual artists

Lydia Kern Receives Fourth Annual Diane Gabriel Visual Artist Award | Arts News | Seven Days

click to enlarge Courtesy “Ghost Twin” by Lydia Kern Burlington sculptor Lydia Kern has received this year’s Diane Gabriel Visual Artist Award, with a cash prize of $5,000 and a $1,000 credit to access Burlington City Arts studios. The award aims to support emerging artists who exhibit high skill, a willingness to experiment and a

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Artists

What Are a Museum’s Obligations When It Shows a ‘Problematic’ Artist?

“Blacks were still discriminated against in mainstream society,” she wrote in her memoir, much of which is set in New York in the 1960s, “but the tendency to prize them as sexual playthings was taking root.” True, in the original Japanese version there’s a line in which another character tells her about Black people shooting

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Visual artists

Houghton to showcase installation by United Visual Artists and Robert Del Naja

This interactive installation uses real-time data to express contemporary issues through visual and sonic elements. Houghton Festival, devised by Craig Richards, will unfold from August 8th-11th at Houghton Hall, Norfolk. This year’s highlight is ‘Present Shock II’, an innovative installation by United Visual Artists (UVA) and Robert Del Naja. ‘Present Shock II’, situated in The

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Artists

Q&A with artist Nanette Vonnegut, daughter of Hoosier author: IU News

“He was very appreciative of artwork, and he enjoyed talking about my art with me,” artist Nanette Vonnegut said of her father, author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Nanette Vonnegut’s work can be seen this summer in the exhibition “Bad Math,” on display beginning May 20 at the Gayle Karch Cook Center for Public Arts and Humanities

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European Fine art

Changes big and small settle Tefaf into its New York niche

If turbulence has taught the market anything over the past decade, it is the value of constants. And yet, even the most tradition-oriented art fairs need to keep things fresh. Now in its tenth edition, The European Fine Art Foundation’s (Tefaf) New York fair (until 14 May) has undergone a steady evolution on its way

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