The Bay State Banner, Boston’s Black-owned urban community newspaper, is running a series on its website highlighting local Black artists. Editor and publisher of the newspaper Ronald Mitchell, along with artists Paul Goodnight and L’Merchie Frazier, joined Boston Public Radio on Wednesday to discuss the project. Mitchell explained that the newspaper, which was founded in
Serena Rios McRae will humbly tell you she doesn’t know how to draw people — but if you flip through her recently published coloring book, you wouldn’t believe her. “She Dreams of the Desert” is a 43-page adult coloring book available through Amazon that features desert-inspired images — flowers, thunderstorms and lots of saguaros. But
Boi-1da releases a generative AI album with emerging artists, sponsored by Bacardi. The concept AI album from producer Boi-1da has finally launched on all digital music streaming platforms, backed by rum brand Bacardi. Announced in October, the five-track EP is the result of Bacardi’s annual Music Liberates Music program that champions up-and-coming artists, pursuing innovative
Jónsi. Photo: Paul Salveson. It’s a beautiful day in Los Angeles when I reach Jónsi over Zoom. Standing on the balcony of his apartment, the musician and artist spins his camera around to show me his view of the city, its perennially deep blue skies foregrounded by palm trees. “It’s nice and sunny,” he informs
Jeffrey Wilcox Paclipan in his studio. Photograph by Isadora Pennington. On one recent chilly morning, I hopped in my car and headed to Atlanta’s Westside. Rumbling across the gravel lot and weaving through a large metal gate, I made my way to the entrance of Murphy Rail Studios. A large metal door opened and artist
With most historical art movements, we find that there are scores of women whose influence and work have been overlooked or at the least undervalued for their contributions to the canon. The Surrealist movement is such an example, which has largely been defined by iconic male artists like Dali, Magritte and Miro. More recently, exhibitions, books
Nutty Violins, 2019, 214x152x2, Oil on Canvas, Courtesy the artist and gallery Liliya Art Gallery is opening the last exhibition of 2023 this Thursday, Abstracting Rhythms, a group show of five multidisciplinary artists whose work explores sound and movement in visual art. The exhibition takes inspiration from Walter Pater’s concept of Ander-Streben (‘other-striving’), the thought
The Kelly Fitzpatrick Center for the Arts in partnership with the Smoot Harris family, City of Wetumpka, and sponsors including the featured “Top Dog” sponsor Regions Bank, delivered a successful second annual “Art Gone Wild” exhibit and Wetumpka Wildlife Arts Festival (WEWA), during the month of November 2023. With Historic Downtown Wetumpka and the beautiful
You may have seen the photo before. It captures a group of 14 men and one woman clustered together in a sparse room, staring straight at the camera with scowls of varying intensity. The painter Jackson Pollock is perched on a stool in a suit and tie, holding a cigarette. Barnett Newman, seated in the
Kinetic Universe, the nonprofit organization that produces the Kinetic Grand Championship, is accepting applicants from artists to design the poster and merchandise for the 2024 Kinetic Grand Championship. This is a contracted position and is paid a flat fee upon completion of the work. In addition to creating the event poster, the artist will provide