Tess Thackara

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Tess Thackara

An exhibition in the Bronx offers community support to Latino artists, undaunted by a hostile climate.

1 month ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Tess Thackara

Share Ruddy Mejia was sitting in a compact studio in the South Bronx, putting the finishing touches on a set of small, brightly colored brass foil plates embossed with images of body parts.His take on popular Mexican religious charms, or “milagros,” they draw from a tradition of toiling for hours to indent an image — a heart, leg or other body part that needs healing — into a plate of metal.They are about sacrificing “time, and your hands, in order to ask for a little prayer of help from...

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Tess Thackara |Deborah Obalil |Daniel Grant

Universities in the US are facing a barrage of attacks from President Donald Trump’s administration, some of which could deal a death blow to smaller arts colleges and programmes around the country.

Nov 27, 2023 | theartnewspaper.com | Tess Thackara

After Hamas brutally attacked Israel on 7 October, killing around 1,200 people and taking more than 240 hostages, the painter Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi fled with her eight-year-old daughter from Tel Aviv to Berlin. There, as a full picture of the attacks began to emerge, she started drawing scenes of the atrocities in a visual language that has roots in her childhood growing up in the Soviet Union. Cherkassky-Nnadi was born in Kyiv and emigrated to Israel with her family as a teenager.

Oct 6, 2023 | infobae.com | Tess Thackara

Nueva York — Cuando la artista colombiana Delcy Morelos creó un gigantesco laberinto de tierra en la Bienal de Venecia de 2022, observó cómo algunos visitantes respondían a la estructura de una manera que la inquietaba. Te puede interesar: DogTV es televisión para perros, excepto cuando es para la gente. “La gente pateaba la obra”, comentó, sentada en las galerías de Dia Art Foundation en Chelsea, sobre una pila de heno destinada a su próxima instalación colosal hecha de tierra.