A British archaeologist has proposed a revised account of the excavation of Hoa Hakananaiʻa, the moai better known as the Easter Island Head, arguing that its removal was not a unilateral act of imperial extraction but a collaborative effort between British explorers and Indigenous Rapa Nui islanders that ultimately led to its voyage to England. Hoa Hakananaiʻa was one of roughly 1,000 basalt statues scattered across Easter Island, a subtropical landmass about the size of Manhattan located off the coast of Chile. The Indigenous Rapa Nui people call these towering figures moai—monuments that serve as vessels for the spirits of their ancestors. The best-known of them, Hoa Hakananaiʻa, has been on view at...
A research team from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has announced new discoveries at Qubbet Al-Hawa, a well-known archaeological site in southeast Egypt, near the city of Aswan. The Upper Egyptian site is known for its sprawling necropolis. This latest mission, as reported in Ahram, focused on rock-cut burial shafts and chambers, most notably two chambers full of 160 pottery vessels, many of which are covered with text, that are believed to have been used to store grain and liquids. Many of these artifacts, in various shapes and sizes, are very well preserved. Another tomb’s outer courtyard was filled with bronze mirrors, kohl containers, beaded necklaces, and other jewelry items from the...
LOS ANGELES — Shuttered storefronts, parked cars, hand-painted advertising, power lines, graffiti, and bright signage are essential components of LA’s visual landscape, but what if they were the focal point?Over the past 40 years, artists Nib Geebles and Abira Ali have platformed the unspoken, day-to-day minutiae of their hometown in their locally celebrated calendar, gesturing with tongue in cheek to the politics of urban space in a rapidly evolving city. Urban decay is the muse of the 2026 calendar, “Unknown Landmarks,” from strip malls in Highland Park to flower shops in Eagle Rock. Gordon Henderson, who goes under the pen name Nib Geebles, and Ali began collaborating via letters exchanged when...
Sotheby’s is about to turn a pair of very polished lives into a two-part auction season. In April and May, the house will present roughly 135 works from the collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg, carrying a combined estimate of $67 million to $99 million. The first chapter arrives on April 22 with a dedicated design sale in New York, estimated at $30 million to $44 million and described by Sotheby’s as “the most valuable single-owner design sale in its history.” A selection of modern and contemporary art will follow in the May evening sales. The de Gunzburgs’ Upper East Side apartment has been widely admired for its blend of Parisian-chic detailing and museum-caliber art and design. Ornate...
BR-X3 Night Vision watch by Bell & Ross lights up
Bell & Ross introduces the BR-X3 Night Vision watch that lights up after dark through luminescent resin and green rubber cylinders. Inspired by aeronautical instruments, the design’s shape follows the style of cockpit tools used in aircraft with four screws at the corners and a square body. The case uses carbon fiber mixed with luminescent resin, called LUM-CAMO. On the side of the case, there are green rubber pillars, which also glow. As for the bezel, it is made from black rubber and adds details to the glow-in-the-dark feature of the timepiece design.
The crown is screw-down, which helps protect the watch from water, and the model is...
Bell & Ross introduces the BR-X3 Night Vision watch that lights up after dark through luminescent resin and green rubber cylinders. Inspired by aeronautical instruments, the design’s shape follows the style of cockpit tools used in aircraft with four screws at the corners and a square body. The case uses carbon fiber mixed with luminescent resin, called LUM-CAMO. On the side of the case, there are green rubber pillars, which also glow. As for the bezel, it is made from black rubber and adds details to the glow-in-the-dark feature of the timepiece design.
The crown is screw-down, which helps protect the watch from water, and the model is...
Activists affiliated with the Everyone Hates Elon campaign installed a framed photo of ex-Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, taken shortly after his recent arrest, at the Musée du Louvre on Sunday, February 22. Mountbatten-Windsor, stripped of his royal title last October following allegations of his involvement with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking ring, was taken into custody on February 19 on suspicions of misconduct in public office outlined in the latest batch of released Epstein files.“He's Sweating Now,” read the impromptu wall text accompanying the guerrilla installation, pointing to the ex-Prince's 2019 claim that he was medically unable to perspire as he fervently denied...
Iris Cantor, a collector and philanthropist who provided the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and other US art institutions with millions of dollars worth of support, died on Sunday in Palm Beach, Florida. She was 95, according to a release from her foundation, which did not state a cause. Cantor was a transformative force in the American art world, with her patronage significantly reshaping some of the nation’s top museums. She helped steward the legacy of her husband, B. Gerald Cantor, who died in 1996; through a foundation in her name, she also made donations to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and others. Met director Max Hollein said in a statement,...
As Winter Storm Hernando barrels across parts of the East Coast, museums are among the numerous institutions closing their doors to the public amid severe weather. In New York, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani has instituted a temporary travel ban, major museums have shuttered for the day, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which had remained open during the last major snowstorm in January.Among the other New York museums that closed for the day are the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, the Museum of the City of New York, the Jewish Museum, the Cooper Hewitt Museum, and the National Museum of the American Indian. Also closed today are Dia...
According to one 2017 study, museum visitors on average spend about 27 seconds looking at a work of art, which is barely enough time to squint, nod thoughtfully, and move on. But if you ask AI artist Refik Anadol about how long people spent with Unsupervised, the controversial artwork he showed at the Museum of Modern Art in 2022, he’d say he got people’s attention for much longer—about 38 minutes per person, to be precise. To make the work, Anadol fed AI metadata related to more than 138,000 works owned by MoMA and let the system reinterpret the museum’s art history as a continuous flow of morphing abstractions. Think van Gogh dissolving into Monet dissolving into de Kooning dissolving into…...
Artforum revisits Naumann’s 2022 interview with Cassie Packard
"Soprano Aleksandra Kurzak will sing the role of Cio-Cio-San in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, replacing Sonya Yoncheva, who has withdrawn from the run due to family reasons," says the Met press office.
Countries including the UK and Denmark have pledged to contribute to the new Ukraine Cultural Heritage Fund
shanghai’s monumental opera house takes shape
New images document the Snøhetta–led Shanghai Grand Opera House as it approaches completion along the Huangpu River, with an opening anticipated in the second half of 2026. Following its winning proposal in the 2017 international competition, Snøhetta joined forces with East China Architectural Design & Research Institute, Theatre Projects, and Nagata Acoustics in 2019 to deliver the project as a consortium from concept through construction.
Positioned on the convex bank of the river, the opera house occupies a prominent site within Shanghai’s emerging cultural masterplan. Its spiraling, climbable rooftop traces a continuous sweep around the...
New images document the Snøhetta–led Shanghai Grand Opera House as it approaches completion along the Huangpu River, with an opening anticipated in the second half of 2026. Following its winning proposal in the 2017 international competition, Snøhetta joined forces with East China Architectural Design & Research Institute, Theatre Projects, and Nagata Acoustics in 2019 to deliver the project as a consortium from concept through construction.
Positioned on the convex bank of the river, the opera house occupies a prominent site within Shanghai’s emerging cultural masterplan. Its spiraling, climbable rooftop traces a continuous sweep around the...
For the first time since 2007, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is reinstalling its African American galleries to showcase new works in its collection in concert with existing favorites. The exhibition Reimagine African American Art traces the evolution of African American culture, providing a powerful lens into the lives, achievements, and resilience of Black artists. Located in a central gallery adjacent to Diego Rivera’s iconic Detroit Industry Murals, the reinstalled galleries span nearly two centuries of artistic production — from the 1800s, when a small number of African Americans overcame tremendous obstacles to become professional artists, to the 1980s, when broader national and international...
The Bell Gallery at Brown University debuts Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom, an exhibition by internationally renowned sound, video, and installation artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Co-curated by Kate Kraczon, Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator of the Brown Arts Institute (BAI)/The Bell, and Associate Curator Thea Quiray Tagle, PhD, this show marks the project’s only presentation in the United States. It’s on view in Providence, Rhode Island, through May 31.Drawing on interviews with former political prisoners recorded on location in Palestine, Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom explores poetry, music, and other creative practices as tools of collective survival,...
Joyce DiDonato makes the most of Kevin Puts's trite new Emily Dickinson monodrama.
That Trump opera at the Staatsoper Hamburg is lazy activism at its finest, we fear.
David Kaminsky
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We need to reframe the subject as one worth knowing about, rather than focusing on its use
In the 1970s, the residents of three streets in Bethnal Green, London, were evicted. Their homes were due to be demolished to make way for the London Ringway motorway scheme, which intended to make a series of high-speed roads within the capital city. The plan was eventually scrapped, and the empty houses were seized upon by young people seeking an inexpensive and alternative way of life. The original “Triangle” squatters formed the Grand Union Housing Co-operative, a sustainable housing model. Their determination persuaded the Greater London Council (GLC) to allow them to restore their homes, and to formally purchase the 63 properties in 1981. Today, the community continues to thrive. Photographer Joyce...
A renowned expert reveals the range of techniques and aesthetics of rock art, and what it tells us about human development
The Ukraine-born artist died of a heart attack, less than two years after being convicted for placing anti-war slogans in a shop in the Leningrad region
Fitzwilliam Museum’s new show "War Craft" examines art made on or near the front lines, often from materials found on the battlefield
XXXI.studio shapes front-cooking restaurant in lisbon
BAZ is a front-cooking restaurant in Lisbon by XXXI.studio that stages culinary service as a live performance. Rooted in the studio’s philosophy of transparency, the spatial concept intentionally dissolves the boundary between chef and guest along a 15 meter long charred wood counter, transforming the dining room into an immersive environment. The architectural narrative begins at the entrance with a sharply incised facade. A minimalist stainless steel box marks the threshold and establishes a controlled transition from street to interior. Stainless steel surfaces meet raw wood elements in a restrained material palette, emphasizing texture, tactility,...
BAZ is a front-cooking restaurant in Lisbon by XXXI.studio that stages culinary service as a live performance. Rooted in the studio’s philosophy of transparency, the spatial concept intentionally dissolves the boundary between chef and guest along a 15 meter long charred wood counter, transforming the dining room into an immersive environment. The architectural narrative begins at the entrance with a sharply incised facade. A minimalist stainless steel box marks the threshold and establishes a controlled transition from street to interior. Stainless steel surfaces meet raw wood elements in a restrained material palette, emphasizing texture, tactility,...
Meet attachable commi board for electronic prototypes
Kevin Yang designs concept Commi Board, an attachable board that allows engineers to make their electronic prototypes behind their phones. A way to let people learn and practice electronics, the magnetic device brings prototyping, coding, and testing into a single system centered on a smartphone. Instead of asking users to buy computers, microcontrollers, and displays, Commi Board uses the phone as the main interface and processing unit. The attachable board for electronic prototypes also connects through USB-C or Bluetooth.
Commi Board is modular, as users place electronic components directly onto the board. Connections are guided through a dedicated...
Kevin Yang designs concept Commi Board, an attachable board that allows engineers to make their electronic prototypes behind their phones. A way to let people learn and practice electronics, the magnetic device brings prototyping, coding, and testing into a single system centered on a smartphone. Instead of asking users to buy computers, microcontrollers, and displays, Commi Board uses the phone as the main interface and processing unit. The attachable board for electronic prototypes also connects through USB-C or Bluetooth.
Commi Board is modular, as users place electronic components directly onto the board. Connections are guided through a dedicated...
Hale’s magnetic inhaler case made from polymer
hale uses colorful polymer and CNC-machined aluminum to create magnetic cases with personal engravings for inhalers. Comprising two parts that snap together, the accessory brings colors to the clinical-looking and traditional canister. The brand, led by Matthew Conlon, creates two designs. The classic one is made from solid aluminum using a CNC machine. It is only at 1mm, so it doesn’t add much size or weight and feels solid and light in the hand.
The reflective or mirror-like surface catches light and the sight of the surroundings, making the magnetic inhaler case by hale appear disguised. The second design, hale flow, has a more colorful twist to it....
hale uses colorful polymer and CNC-machined aluminum to create magnetic cases with personal engravings for inhalers. Comprising two parts that snap together, the accessory brings colors to the clinical-looking and traditional canister. The brand, led by Matthew Conlon, creates two designs. The classic one is made from solid aluminum using a CNC machine. It is only at 1mm, so it doesn’t add much size or weight and feels solid and light in the hand.
The reflective or mirror-like surface catches light and the sight of the surroundings, making the magnetic inhaler case by hale appear disguised. The second design, hale flow, has a more colorful twist to it....
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Architecture signals how we are meant to navigate, gather and inhabit a space. The threshold of a museum can command awe whilst inviting curiosity; a public square might encourage gathering or enforce distance. Take the Guggenheim Bilbao, designed by the late Frank Gehry, with its sweeping titanium curves, transforming an entire city. In Paris, the Centre Pompidou collapses the boundaries between interior, exterior and street. These buildings endure because they change how people feel, move and relate. That belief underpins Maggie’s: Architecture that Cares at V&A Dundee, an exhibition marking the cancer charity’s 30th anniversary. Here, thoughtful building design comes to the fore, foregrounding spaces...
In che modo è possibile rappresentare concretamente il suono? La sua inafferrabilità è così profonda e invalicabile come sembra? Le opere di Jacopo Mazzonelli (Trento, 1983) sono sicuramente molto pertinenti a questo ambito di indagine. Il suono, in mostra presso il Museo Lercaro a Bologna, è rappresentato con Persistence sotto una luce concreta e concettuale allo stesso tempo, creando una sintesi evocativa che interagisce attivamente con lo spettatore.
Jacopo Mazzonelli, “Persistence”, 2026, installation view, ph Marco Parollo, courtesy Galleria G7
Entrando nello spazio espositivo è possibile notare diverse canne di organo ribaltate e appese dalla più piccola alla più grande all’interno della...
Jacopo Mazzonelli, “Persistence”, 2026, installation view, ph Marco Parollo, courtesy Galleria G7
Entrando nello spazio espositivo è possibile notare diverse canne di organo ribaltate e appese dalla più piccola alla più grande all’interno della...
Hungarian Conceptual artist Dóra Maurer, whose fascination with movement and change undergirded a diverse practice marked by bright hues, simple shapes, and uninhibited experimentation, died on February 14. She was eighty-eight. The Art Newspaper reported that her death was confirmed by Budapest’s Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Art, of which she had been president since 2017. Deeply respected in the […]
Artists and photographers have always played with perception. They use cropping, extreme close-ups, motion blur, unusual lighting and digital manipulation to dissolve recognisable subjects into simple colour, texture and form. Practitioners throughout the 20th century, from Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy to Wolfgang Tillmans and Barbara Kasten, expand the medium’s traditional role as recording of reality. In this round-up, we spotlight five artists longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize, who join this illustrious list. Each one plays with materials and form to create mesmerising scenes of abstraction. David Parfitt Colour Correction (2024) David Parfitt is a London-based photographer whose commercial...
A new book by gestalten reveals how Japanese homes, understated yet radical, show that even the everyday can be transformed into something unexpected. A House in Japan: Lessons in Living explores how a thoughtfully designed home can fundamentally transform how we live. The featured houses prioritise clarity over excess, intent over display. They adapt to daily rhythms, whilst proposing fresh ways of living. The book is a showcase of unbridled creativity, from A Cat Tree House, which is a multi-level residence built around the perspective of the owners’ two cats, to Building Frame of the House, which sees seven floor plates stagger and float to create a single, fluid room. Aesthetica spoke to...
For all his undeniable precision and discipline, I still find Toscanini’s tempi rushed and unyielding and his lack of rubato a chilly turnoff.
Con Niji hajimete arawaru: Appare il primo arcobaleno, lo spazio IE propone un confronto che si sottrae all’idea di dialogo come semplice accostamento. La mostra di Michelangelo Consani e Giovanni Ozzola si costruisce piuttosto come un campo di prossimità instabile, fatto di risonanze e disallineamenti, in cui le opere sembrano misurarsi con un tempo lento, quasi sospeso. L’immagine evocata dal calendario tradizionale giapponese – l’apparizione del primo arcobaleno – non allude a un evento spettacolare, ma a una soglia: un cambiamento minimo, percettibile solo a chi è disposto a sostare.
Michelangelo Consani / Giovanni Ozzola, “Niji hajimete arawaru: Appare il primo arcobaleno”, installation...
Michelangelo Consani / Giovanni Ozzola, “Niji hajimete arawaru: Appare il primo arcobaleno”, installation...
Portraiture has always carried an enduring authority, shaping how individuals are remembered and how communities understand themselves. To look at a face is to encounter a convergence of history, politics and desire, where visibility becomes a form of power. In a visual culture dominated by speed and repetition, the considered portrait still insists on slowness, presence and attention. It proposes recognition as an ethical act rather than a passive exchange. At its most potent, portraiture asks who is seen, who is excluded and who decides the terms of that visibility. These questions sit at the heart of Catherine Opie’s work. Catherine Opie is widely recognised as one of the most influential photographers of...
Nel cuore storico di Bologna, alla Galleria de’ Foscherari, la mostra Continental, personale di Eva Marisaldi, realizzata in collaborazione con Enrico Serotti e curata da Leonardo Regano, si presenta come un progetto che dichiara fin dall’inizio di non volersi concentrare sullo spazio territoriale o sui confini geografici europei e asiatici, ma piuttosto rivolge la sua attenzione «alla politica, alla storia e all’identità» di quella determinata area geografica. In questo senso, Marisaldi sembra muoversi lungo una traiettoria che richiama il pensiero di autori come Edward Said[1] o Homi Bhabha[2], per i quali i confini non sono linee precise che separano in modo netto, ma spazi di incontro.
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A first date, a shared kiss: This is how plenty of college romances begin. Yet, far fewer of these scenarios forge an internationally recognized pop-art brand. Read the full article on DABS MYLA but clicking above!
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Winter exhibitions from CAC Brétigny to Le Crédac
Nella pittura di Alice Neel, il volto non coincide mai con un luogo di riconoscimento, ma diventa territorio di attrito simbolico. Le figure rifiutano adesioni immediate e sfuggono a qualsiasi convenzione rappresentativa, mostrandosi come campi attraversati da incongruenze politiche e relazionali. Alla Pinacoteca Agnelli, I Am the Century riattiva questo dispositivo metodico, sottraendo le opere ad appropriazioni storicizzanti e proponendole come strumenti di esplorazione visiva. La ritrattistica di Neel non celebra la stabilità dei caratteri né organizza ciò che appare secondo gerarchie prestabilite. Ogni creazione nasce dall’incontro irregolare con il soggetto, talvolta conflittuale. Il volto si...
"I want to do with carpets anything that I can with all the instruments that exist, so no one can even do anything with them in the coming 100 years,” boldly declared Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed in an email, as if penning his personal manifesto... Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
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A South African court ruled against artist Gabrielle Goliath in her effort to reinstate her pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale after it was abruptly canceled by South African Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie earlier this year. Judge Mamokolo Kubushi of the country’s North Gauteng High Court issued the verdict without explanation following a February 11 hearing, and […]
The organizers of Art Basel today named the 290 galleries slated to participate in the Swiss fair’s flagship edition, to take place June 18–21 with preview days June 16 and 17. The exhibitors represent forty-three countries; twenty-one galleries will make their inaugural appearances at the event. The fair will unveil two major commissions: a work by Nairy […]
Sterling Hundley
La pratica artistica di Yichun Yao, in mostra fino al 25 febbraio 2026 nella collettiva Rose Jail[1] alla Tache Gallery di Londra, fonde videoarte e narrazione episodica in modalità mockumentary e art comedy. Ricco di idee immaginative e di un’autoironia che ricorda Woody Allen, il suo approccio alle nuove tecnologie oscilla tra lo sviluppo di app all’avanguardia e performance interattive a bassa fedeltà che svelano la “scatola nera” degli algoritmi dell’amore. Utilizzando sé stessa come medium sperimentale, l’artista indaga l’ansia diffusa nella società contemporanea di sfuggire alla condizione di single. Di recente, in veste di curatrice, ha organizzato la mostra collettiva online Coded...
As part of Shutter Hub OPEN 2026, we’re pleased to be hosting the Shutter Hub OPEN 2026 Curator’s Talk and Tour alongside a series of in-person portfolio reviews at the Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge, on Thursday 26 March 2026.
We’re starting off the day at 10.30am with the Shutter Hub Portfolio Review – a small number of one-to-one portfolio review sessions with Shutter Hub Founder and Creative Director Karen Harvey MBE.
These focused sessions provide photographers with constructive, practical feedback on their work from an industry professional with extensive experience of curating exhibitions, publishing books, judging international awards and reviewing portfolios across the UK,...
We’re starting off the day at 10.30am with the Shutter Hub Portfolio Review – a small number of one-to-one portfolio review sessions with Shutter Hub Founder and Creative Director Karen Harvey MBE.
These focused sessions provide photographers with constructive, practical feedback on their work from an industry professional with extensive experience of curating exhibitions, publishing books, judging international awards and reviewing portfolios across the UK,...
Olivier Lavenac
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3D Drawing has been at the core of Morling’s artistic practice for roughly a decade. Read all about the artist's work by clicking above.
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“The world I build has no constraint, no logic. Everything is possible,” says Pontiroli. “My objective is to shake our imagination by developing a universe based on the absurd and the senseless.” Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
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Their presence is implied. They’ve built gravity-defying structures from shopping carts, stacked newspapers, and plywood. They’ve hung laundry and left crushed beer cans scattered across surfaces, and yet the real subjects of Alvaro Naddeo’s paintings are never seen. Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
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From Do Ho Suh’s ethereal architecture to Kimsooja’s irridescent mirrors to Lauren Halsey’s fringed tapestry, a new book from Monacelli celebrates a broad spectrum of light and color. Rainbow Dreams features more than 200 installations, sculptures, paintings, photographs, and more that revel in the possibilities of pigment. Bound in a smooth gradient that extends to the pages’ edges, this vivid survey is a celebratory, playful object in itself. Rainbow Dreams features numerous artists previously featured on Colossal, from Nina Chanel Abney and Nick Cave to DRIFT and Katharina Grosse, among many others. The book is slated for release on April 2, and you can pre-order your copy in the Colossal Shop....
Hieu Chau compares his dense, dynamic compositions to his always active mind. Playing with scale and proportion, the Vietnamese artist renders surreal scenes in which flora and fauna converge and figures interact with the outside world as if in a dream. Chau, who was trained as a painter, now works digitally, although his pieces capture the grainy textures and gestures of a physical medium. The artist recently published a book collecting his projects from the last decade, and you can find explore an archive of these pieces on Instagram. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Surreal Dreams...
Daniel Dorsa
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We’re thrilled to invite you all to the Chicago premiere of Paint Me a Road Out of Here, the award-winning documentary from Aubin Pictures directed by Catherine Gund. Along with Intuit Art Museum and the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at DePaul University, Colossal is co-hosting a screening of the film followed by a conversation between film participant Leah Faria and our editorial director Grace Ebert on March 25. This event is free to attend, but seating is limited. Featuring artists Faith Ringgold and Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Paint Me a Road Out of Here uncovers the whitewashed history of Ringgold’s masterpiece, “For the Women’s House,” following its 50-year journey from Rikers...
Szilveszter Makó’s enigmatic photographs carry layers of mystery and introspection. Standing inside curious block-like backdrops and lain against two-dimensional fields of color and texture, his subjects seamlessly meld into stories in which every detail carries intention. Taking inspiration from art history, the Milan-based artist references Surrealism and grotesque art through his use of chiaroscuro effects via light exploration and contrasting earth tones. Similar to 20th-century Surrealist paintings, Makó’s images delve into uncanny realms and evoke a dreamlike sense of unfettered imagination. It’s no surprise that the photographer was once a painter and has suggested that these impulses may be a...
