One hundred life-size Indian elephant sculptures are slowly making their way across the United States. The Great Elephant Migration is an outdoor art exhibition created by The Coexistence Collective, a community of 200 indigenous Indian artists that advocate for human-wildlife coexistence as a way to combat ecological loss.
Art Galleries & Museums
John Mazlish is a native New Yorker whose Brooklyn homebase is a trendsetting center in today’s culture-driven marketplace. Not formally trained in the visual arts, Mazlish came to appreciate art and design via his interest in music.
Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri (b.1926-d.1998), Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri (b.1920-d.2008), Uta Uta Tjangala (b.1926-d.1990), John Mawurndjul (b.1951), Makinti Napanangka (b.1930-d.2011), Prince of Wales (b.1937-d.2002), and Gordon Bennett (b.1955-d.2014) may be unfamiliar names to even the most discerning New York art collector, but that is about to change.
Whether the outsourcing of an analog lifestyle came swiftly, or took its sweet time, it’d be difficult to argue against our dependency on technology that we collectively face today. By way of the screen’s ever-present conveniences— paired with their data-driven subliminal messages— the critique of overexposure to blue light has also become somewhat mainstream.
Skillfully designed by world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art highlights the beauty of its art and surroundings, nestled in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Conjuring Tenderness: Paintings from 1987, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Hugh Steers (1962–1995), recently opened at New York’s Alexander Gray Associates.
Twenty years ago, Los Angeles-based high school painting teacher Jennifer Rochlin accepted a $10,000 grant to teach ceramics, despite one minor setback: she had never touched clay. Yet, this summer, Rochlin adorns Hauser & Wirth’s 22nd Street location with a series of memory-laden terracotta vessels, each a heap of unabashedly spirited, cinematic recollections and testaments to her own bohemian actualization.
To the much overused truism about death and taxes, another certainty can be added: dig anywhere in Rome and you will find ancient ruins. Within the basements of modern city apartment blocks, restaurants, and churches, the walls and floors of earlier buildings are found in abundance.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum (The CJM), whose ultramodern blue steel superstructure— fused with a 19th century power plant— has become an iconic part of San Francisco’s skyline, recently launched its first open-call exhibition, the California Jewish Open.
“Tattoo. Tales from the Mediterranean” is a captivating exhibition currently on display at the MUDEC— the Museum of Cultures in Milan, Italy— that invites visitors to investigate the past and present of the art of tattooing in the Mediterranean basin.
