Komal Shah at the opening of “Making Their Mark” on October 3, 2023, with an untitled Laura Owens work from 2016. Photo: Jason Crowley/BFA.com. Komal Shah is a collector who fully inhabits her advocacy for women artists. To the extent that, as she gave a preview tour of a new exhibition culled from her collection,

“This is very depressing, and it hurts,” writes Chinese artist Xiyadie, of living in a still “largely traditional sociocultural environment” as a gay man. Xiyadie, a pseudonym translating as Siberian Butterfly, documents through traditional-style papercuts his closeted life in mainland China’s rural, conservative north east before migrating to Beijing. In the second chapter of new

Why would folks want to visit the basement at Westbeth Artists Housing, which has been providing affordable places to live and work for artists and their families since 1970? The answer is bargains. It’s the twice yearly Flea Market featuring art work and many other items from residents at the nation’s largest artists’ community, which

Heading into Afterschool Art’s 20th year, greater support of local artists is needed. Without them, finding artists with experience teaching youth is often hard. Critical is higher afterschool teaching hourly rates. Artists should not be “volunteering” a large portion of their time to make programs work. By partnering with other nonprofits, salaries can be augmented.

Alvin Takamori holding his painting “Am I Just a Number?,” which won first place in the Torrance Artists’ Guild 2021 Members Art Show. Nov. 2, 2021. The Greater Los Angeles Chapter JACL presents a virtual program on Zoom, “Japanese American Artists of the South Bay,” on Sunday, Nov. 12, from 1 to 2 p.m. Featuring

Local neighbourhoods are the focus of a new art exhibition opening at Redland Art Gallery, Capalaba this Saturday, 11 November. In contrast to the mandated lockdowns and isolation periods of the COVID-19 years, the In Focus exhibition this year invited artists to step outside and capture their surrounds responding to the theme “My Street”. Redland

Online refurbished technology marketplace Refurbed has closed a $57 million (€54 million) fundraising round as it seeks to grow its business. The company, which has operated in Ireland since 2021, also said it expected to reach profitability here later this year. Ciara O’Brien has the details. It may have been a relatively minor amendment in

SARANAC LAKE — Three women will collaborate for a live event at the Adirondack Center for Writing in Saranac Lake on Thursday called “Replaying the Tape.” At 7 p.m., New-York based composer Dr. Jane Boxall, paleontologist Dr. Frankie Dunn and poet Penny Boxall will conjure an imaginary menagerie of animals which might have

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Rockford artists helped cover up the marks of vandalism in downtown Rockford. “It’s an honor to be asked to be part of it, and it’ll help to beautify something that was a complete and total blemish that happened,” said Pablo Korona one of the artists involved. On October 12 an act

An upcoming performance at Persephone Theatre highlights the impact of art and artists during wartime. Opening Thursday night, The Art Of War is a performance that combines real events and people with fictitious characters to highlight the role of war artists during the Second World War. The idea came to local playwright