Tag: Art
Artists Respond to Jan. 6 With Brushes and Ballots
Late Wednesday evening, Jan. 5, dozens of art world insiders received a fund-raising message from Nancy Pelosi. “I’m in disbelief,”…
Hugh Hayden, Surrealist Sculptor, Addresses the Education Debate
“Just watch your eyes,” the sculptor Hugh Hayden warned as he circumnavigated the wooden school desk he had made from…
In ‘African Origin’ Show at Met, New Points of Light Across Cultures
Object for object, there isn’t an exhibition in town more beautiful than “The African Origin of Civilization” at the Metropolitan…
In the Lower Ninth Ward, an Artist Renews His Purpose
NEW ORLEANS — The cookout in the new garden, guests agreed, upheld the cultural and convivial traditions of the Lower…
In Turkey, an Exhibit Meant to Highlight Kurdish Suffering Provoked a Furor
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Dozens of brightly painted coffins marked with the initials of dead Kurdish civilians were laid out on…
When a Master Printer Picks Up the Camera
PHILADELPHIA — Is technical wizardry enough to make someone an artist?Richard Benson was unrivaled as a printer of photographs before…