Something remarkable has happened in art galleries over the past decade. Where once only idealized, narrow representations of beauty graced museum walls, we now see bodies of all shapes, sizes, ages, ...
Movements move people. Movements can activate purpose-based companies. Movements are based on ideas: Ideas that inspire bigger ambitions. Ideas that can be an explosion or contagion of truth telling.
Cubism, impressionism, expressionism and... Is there anything else? Many artistic currents did not achieve such renown, but were undoubtedly central to the development of 20th-century avant-garde art.
Our Streets is a column by writer and reporter Ray Levy Uyeda that highlights activists, artists, and organizers who are doing the work and reclaiming power for the people. One of the tasks of ...
Willemijn Stokvis, the preeminent art historian on CoBrA, considers it “the last avant-garde movement of the 20th century.” This radical group, active from 1948 to 1951, named itself for the home ...
Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. The National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, south Holland, concluded that an 800-year-old skull in its ...
Last semester, I visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — now my favorite art museum — for the first time. Built by Gardner and her husband to display their vast art collection in a dignified and ...
While the current social unrest protests racism and police brutality, artists depicted these subjects decades ago and are now one step ahead in imagining a new reality. Jean-Michel Basquiat, ...
It had been a hectic 24 hours for Third Coast Percussion. As ensemble member David Skidmore told Tuesday night’s audience at Harris Theater, the percussion quartet spent the previous day preparing ...
SATURDAY, PARK HEIGHTS FILLED WITH COMMUNITY CONVERSATION, ART, AND MUSIC. ♪ AN EVENT PART OF FORMERLY BALTIMORE CEASEFIRE, NOW BALTIMORE PEACE MOVEMENT’S FIRST PEACE PROMISE WEEKEND. AN AREA PARTNER ...
Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Karan Vafadari and Afarin Nayssari, the founders of Aun Gallery, were charged with “attempting to overthrow ...