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2 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Valentina Di Liscia |Lisa Zhang |Alexandra Thomas |Sophia Stewart |Albert Mobilio |Lauren Ford
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. It feels both eerie and stabilizing to read Octavia E. Butler’s books in the year 2025, when the realities she prophesized have come true. But the exhibition catalog American Artist: Shaper of God grants us a welcome opportunity to reflect on the lessons we can glean from her legacy, which critic Alexandra M.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
glasstire.com | Lauren Ford
A lot can happen at Rolando Briseño’s table, and thanks to his excellent current exhibition in San Antonio, we’re lucky enough to have a seat. Curated by Ruben C. Cordova, Dining with Rolando Briseño: A 50-Year Retrospective surveys the artist’s innovative and engaging output in more than 75 paintings, drawings, lithographs, photographs, public artworks, and sculptures from the late 1960s to today. In Briseño’s expansive opus, the dining table represents culture, connection, and even the cosmos.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Lauren Ford
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider supporting us as a member. Join Us Bea Lema does not shy away from the vulnerability of autobiography. The Galician artist and writer’s moving new book El Cuerpo de Cristo (The Body of Christ) parallels her own life growing up with a mother who suffered from severe mental illness.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Lauren Ford
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider supporting us as a member. Join Us Published in the late 1990s, a purportedly definitive history of photography in Japan featured zero women across its 40 volumes. In the first 25 years of its existence, the country’s prestigious Kimura Ihei Photography Award was granted to only three women.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Lauren Ford
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider supporting us as a member. Join Us On a snowy day in February 1903, a new kind of museum opened in Boston. Despite its plain gray exterior, the institution then known as Fenway Court held a staggering cache of international antiquities and art ranging from Roman times to the present day.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
glasstire.com | Lauren Ford
Editor’s note: This article is also published in English on Glasstire. Find that here. Nota del editor: Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés en Glasstire el 19 de junio del 2024. Traducción de Yolanda Fauvet y Paulina H. Marroquín“El artista chicano no puede aislarse de la comunidad, sino que se encuentra en medio de su gente creando arte por y para la gente”. Esta declaración de Louis Carlos Bernal durante una entrevista de 1984 resume el ímpetu central detrás de su vida y obra.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
dfwliving.com | Lauren Ford
Editor’s note: This article is also published in English on Glasstire. Find that here. Nota del editor: Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés en Glasstire el 19 de junio del 2024. Traducción de Yolanda Fauvet y Paulina H. Marroquín“El artista chicano no puede aislarse de la comunidad, sino que se encuentra en medio de su gente creando arte por y para la gente”. Esta declaración de Louis Carlos Bernal durante una entrevista de 1984 resume el ímpetu central detrás de su vida y obra.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Valentina Di Liscia |Natalie Haddad |Lakshmi Rivera Amin |Lauren Ford |CM Campbell
If you’re struggling to do anything beyond basking in whichever air-conditioned spaces or cooling centers you can find this summer, let alone picking up a heavy text, know that you are not alone. Our editors and contributors have a short, sweet list of captivating books to nudge you out of a reading slump this month, or to keep in your back pocket for the future.
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May 26, 2024 | 
glasstire.com | Lauren Ford
In 1968, Anni Albers gave up weaving. The German-American artist and designer had been weaving since her student days at the Bauhaus school in the early 1920s and had spent the following decades of her career making a name for herself as a master of bold and balanced tapestries. She worked hard to elevate the status of weaving within the fine arts, and she was the first textile artist to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1949.
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May 26, 2024 | 
dfwliving.com | Lauren Ford
In 1968, Anni Albers gave up weaving. The German-American artist and designer had been weaving since her student days at the Bauhaus school in the early 1920s and had spent the following decades of her career making a name for herself as a master of bold and balanced tapestries. She worked hard to elevate the status of weaving within the fine arts, and she was the first textile artist to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1949.
