The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation (NNJCF) announces a call for local, regional and national public artists for inclusion on its artist roster. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis now through June 30, 2024. The NNJCF, a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Hackensack, New Jersey, builds connections, pools resources, and provides leadership to
Rick Kern/Getty Images Billboard Women in Music 2024 Reggae artist Matisyahu has had the House of Blues in Chicago cancel his scheduled performance Friday because of the “threat of protests.” Matisyahu said that House of Blues had canceled the show and paid the contractual penalty, which he promised to donate to an organization that advocates
Over the last couple episodes of my column, I have been telling you about the amazing talents of the infamous artist/photographer/musician Doug Miller of Laguna Beach. We covered his art and photography previously. Today I want to get into his music. The dude is one of those rare people who can make his instrument come
Inside one chamber of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, gallery walls normally painted white instead feature a deep cobalt hue. Hanging on the walls is a series of four works by twin brothers Erick and Elliot Jiménez, completing the exhibition they call “Blue Chapel (Rejection, Acceptance, Advocacy, Interdependence).” Each piece on the blue
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’s (YBCA) interim CEO Sara Fenske Bahat has resigned as the institution’s galleries remain closed since February 15, following a pro-Palestine action led by eight exhibiting artists. Fenske Bahat’s departure follows weeks of turmoil at the center. After artists Jeffrey Cheung and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo alleged that YBCA prevented them from
SARASOTA, Fla. – Each fine detail sculpted by hand brings a face back to life. “I had a lot of really distinctive features. It started off with just sort of an imagination of what this person probably looked like,” said Leighton Karpina. For five days, Leighton Karpina, a freshman at Ringling College of Art and
It began with a quote by Alexander McQueen: “I am the pink sheep in the family.” In 2013, L.A.-based contemporary street artist Ricky Sencion read a biography of the late designer and immediately connected with that feeling. More than a black sheep, but rather a pink sheep, was how Sencion felt growing up as a
Art Fairs Scooped up at TEFAF, this exceptionally rare painting will be reunited with the artist’s drawings and watercolors. Jo Lawson-Tancred 6 mins ago Gesina ter Borch, Portrait of Moses ter Borch as a Two Year Old (detail). Photo courtesy of Dickie Zebregs. The only known painting to have been completed solely by the 17th
Success arrived belatedly for generative art pioneer Vera Molnár: a major retrospective now on view opened a mere two months after her death. It was Paris’s Centre Pompidou that broke the news on X in December with a message that read, “It is with deep emotion that we learn of the death of Vera Molnár,
The difficulty of going to an art fair, as anyone who has attended more than one can tell you, is holding on to the artworks that grab you. This is especially true for contemporary art fairs where, more often than not, market trends influence the work that art dealers bring. If figuration or assemblage is