Andrea Kirsh visits two Swiss museums recently, in Bern and Zürich, both of which presented exhibitions documenting their work with Swiss collectors and questioning how to handle works that entered their collections under ethically-questionable circumstances.
Read MoreContributor Dereck Mangus knew a lot of taggers back when he attended MICA and he’s been studying the street art called graffiti ever since, fascinated by the phenomenon that many self-taught artists turn to to literally make their mark on the world.
Read MoreAll cities have their quirky old buildings, and Dereck Mangus rounds up five that stand out in Baltimore for their long upstanding facades, which stayed the same as the world changed around them and sometimes their “innards” were made fresh for the times.
Read MoreIn this essay, Chuck Patch recounts color photography’s commercial origins and history via the career of photographer Pete Turner.
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper argues that the late Dr. Samella Lewis’s advocacy for inclusion of those whose lives and art have been overlooked in the art history canon must be carried forward.
Read MoreMiles Orvell writes an essay diving deep into photographer Laurence Salzmann’s photo essays about humans and their relationships to animals– shepherds and sheep; dogs and their owners– select photographs from which are currently on view in “Creatures Real and Imagined” at Art on the Avenue, thru on April 30, 2022. The exhibit also features etchings by celebrated artist and friend of Salzmann, Holley Coulter Chirot.
Read MoreProvoked by the placement of Emma Amos’s art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, an exhibit at the same time as the Jasper Johns exhibit, which seemed to put the Black woman artist’s works subsidiary to the white male artist’s, our contributor Janyce Denise Glasper muses on the two concurrent museum exhibits of Jennifer Packer (at the Whitney Museum and at LA MoCA), and says “Jennifer Packer shifts the narrative to where they (Black artists) can land if given the opportunity.” We hope you enjoy this thoughtful essay by a passionate young writer thinking about the power imbalance in the art world today.
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