Jacoba Urist

3 days ago | smithsonianmag.com | Jacoba Urist

In Rashid Johnson’s largest show of art yet, the power of mixed media is on full display A constellation of oversize plants suspended in the atrium of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum creates a luscious urban terrarium. Natural light shines from the oculus of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic spiral building.

1 week ago | galeriemagazine.com | Jacoba Urist

Che Lovelace in his Chaguaramas studio. Photo: Kibwe Brathwaite Throughout most of his career, Che Lovelace stayed as far away as possible from painting coconuts and palm fronds—Caribbean flora felt too obvious for a Trinidadian artist. But in recent years, the viridescent glow of home has become inspiration for Lovelace’s rich, tropical language, themed around local rituals, interiors, and figures.

3 weeks ago | smithsonianmag.com | Jacoba Urist

The stunning vessels from the H. Wilson & Company were forgotten for generations, only to gain new appreciation for the craftsmanship that went into them In 1856, the Reverend John McKamie Wilson Jr., a Presbyterian minister and entrepreneur interested in clay science, relocated from North Carolina to Texas. There in the Capote Hills—a rural, sparse enclave in Guadalupe County, 12 miles from the town of Seguin—Wilson opened a business called Guadalupe Pottery.

2 months ago | galeriemagazine.com | Jacoba Urist

Tonia Calderon in herLos Angeles studio. Photo: TONIA CALDERON, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles talent employs an unusual mix of mediums, fusing flower pigment, resin, acrylic, grout, sand, and fuel April 2, 2025 Artist Tonia Calderon begins each painting not by making a sketch or a study but by writing poetry.

2 months ago | smithsonianmag.com | Jacoba Urist

To mark its bicentennial, the Brooklyn Museum highlights the pieces that have shaped its collection—and the foundational art made in the borough In 1823, civic-minded merchants met in a tavern to establish a public library, later soliciting book donations with a wheelbarrow. They aimed to provide education for the youth of the village of Brooklyn, then a community of over 7,000 people.