Jori Finkel

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Jori Finkel

From the time she entered her prison cell Thursday morning (5 June), it only took Nadya Tolokonnikova, a co-founder of Pussy Riot, about 15 minutes to start screaming. It was a high-pitched guttural shriek—the sound of a wounded animal or, considering her particular history, a political prisoner who refuses to be silenced.

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jori Finkel

The work of the African American quilters Laverne Brackens and Sherry Byrd, who continue the thread of the family tradition, will be on view at the Berkeley Art Museum. Still living cheerfully in her own home in Fairfield, Texas, at age 98, Laverne Brackens likes to entertain a steady stream of visitors. She has a fast-talking health-care aide who comes by three times a week.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Jori Finkel

Artemisia Gentileschi scholars and fans alike have reason to celebrate. After an extensive conservation by the Getty in Los Angeles, a major painting now attributed to the proto-feminist Baroque artist, which depicts a playful battle-of-the-sexes scene, is going on view at the museum (10 June-14 September). Experts say it has not been exhibited in public for at least a century—and possibly two or three.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jori Finkel |Ariel Fisher

Nadya Tolokonnikova previews her stamina-testing performance in a mock prison cell at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Nadya Tolokonnikova previews her stamina-testing performance in a mock prison cell at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Credit... Nadya Tolokonnikova, the founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, has long experienced the threat - and reality - of government surveillance.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Jori Finkel

Of all the exhibitions in PST Art: Art & Science Collide, the $20m, Getty-funded initiative now wrapping up, the most ambitious in many ways was For Dear Life: Art, Medicine and Disability at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD). The show told a story about visual art that emerges from physical pain and vulnerable bodies that defy social norms.