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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Hilarie M. Sheets
Poised under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Fort Point is the only remaining Civil War-era fortification on the West Coast and offers a compelling environment for the exhibition Black Gold: Stories Untold , opening today (until 2 November). Works by 16 contemporary artists and one collective explore 19th-century African American life in California, including stories of little-known entrepreneurs, human rights activists, soldiers and musicians, dating from the 1848 Gold Rush onward.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Hilarie M. Sheets
In Pacita Abad’s lifetime, the Filipina American artist made over 5,000 works—influenced by her travels in more than 60 countries—and exhibited in more than 250 shows, largely in Asia and Africa. But it was her posthumous travelling retrospective—which opened in 2023 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, almost two decades after her death in 2004 at age 58—that brought Abad’s exuberant, multifaceted, 32-year art practice to the attention of US institutions.
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1 month ago | 
1stdibs.com | Hilarie M. Sheets
Artist Ray Smith‘s studio and loft, sited near the head of the Gowanus Canal, in Brooklyn, has had many lives. Built in the 1800s, the structure was once a foundry producing engine heads for large electric turbines. In another incarnation, it was a blacksmith’s shop, where the horses of Brooklyn were shod.
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1 month ago | 
go.rutgers.edu | Hilarie M. Sheets
The busy calendar of fairs and auctions in May makes New York City an attractive hub of activity for the art crowd. But if a breather is needed or desired, a day trip may be in order. Here are a few art destinations worth considering.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Hilarie M. Sheets
Exhibitions and discoveries await in New Jersey, the Hudson Valley and the Catskills, and on the East End of Long Island. The busy calendar of fairs and auctions in May makes New York City an attractive hub of activity for the art crowd. But if a breather is needed or desired, a day trip may be in order. Here are a few art destinations worth considering.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Hilarie M. Sheets
After a two-year closure, the Yale Center for British Art has reopened with its historical collections in lively conversation with contemporary art. A glowing sculptural installation by Tracey Emin in the lobby of the Yale Center for British Art serves as an "invitation," said Martina Droth, the center's director. Credit... Jane Beiles for The New York Times This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Hilarie M. Sheets
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City has selected the New York-based firm Weiss Manfredi Architecture Landscape Urbanism as the lead architect for the encyclopaedic museum’s future campus transformation, projected to cost between $160m and $170m. An architectural competition launched last year by the museum to design its expansion attracted submissions from 182 firms in 30 countries.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Hilarie M. Sheets
An ambitious citywide exhibition will feature 20 public art commissions at outdoor venues and partnering museums. This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. Boston holds an important place in the public imagination for many things: claims to fame include its entrenched Colonial-era stories, like Paul Revere's midnight ride and the Boston Tea Party, and its array of world-class academic and research institutions.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Hilarie M. Sheets
Step into the artist's fantastical "Empathic Universe" at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, where everything seems moving and alive. Detail of "Star Compulsion," 2012, in the exhibition "Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe" at the Museum of Arts and Design. Credit... Ramona Jingru Wang for The New York Times In a science-fiction cosmology imagined by the multidisciplinary artist Saya Woolfalk, a group of people discover bones from a future race sent back in time.
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2 months ago | 
clarin.com | Hilarie M. Sheets
SAN FRANCISCO — Si hubieras atravesado la puerta sin llave y el extenso jardín que daba a la casa de Ruth Asawa en Noe Valley entre 1966 y 2000, la artista japonesa-estadounidense de 1,5 metros de altura probablemente te habría convencido de tumbarte en la mesa de la cocina o en el suelo de la sala y dejar que te cubriera la cara con yeso.
