Fine art photographer Diane Allison managed to stop summertime with her camera. In a salute to the season, she captured quintessential macro moments and digitized her images with her own brand of photographic fairy dust.
Interviews & Essays
Sculpture gardens are outdoor spaces that unify art and nature, allowing visitors to slow down and reflect while immersing themselves in a creative environment. We’ve chosen six sculpture parks and gardens all across New England that best exhibit the art that the Earth has to offer, alongside man made creations.
Three books— actually, exhibition catalogues— hint at the diversity of the art being exhibited, considered, and reconsidered today. Together, the following three publications reflect the intellectual range of art critics and artists themselves.
The Venice Film Festival lineup was announced earlier this week, and with it came a stir of anticipation.
In 1999, Friends of the High Line was founded by Joshua David and Robert Hammond, with the intention of preserving the greenery that had developed in the underused, elevated train tracks that ran above New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood.
When thinking of women in the arts, names like Georgia O’Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, or Hilma af Klint may come to mind.
Brazilian conceptual artist, Ilê Sartuzi, recently introduced a new artistic medium to the British Museum when he enacted “Sleight of Hand” with a circa 1645 silver coin from the museum’s collection.
The San Candido Baths ruins are the remains of a peculiar building located near the town of S. Candido, in Südtirol, Italy. It is possible to admire them after taking a relatively short walk in the forest east of the town— a suggestive hike at the foot of the Dolomites— at the end of which one may glimpse the remains of a building hiding beyond the trees.
Artist Nerys Levy feels that art is a “soft introduction” to climate change awareness, because viewer engagement presents the opportunity for dialogue. “People know very little about [the] polar regions and their real role affecting climate change,” she says.
Envisioning the ancient world as it truly was has always been archaeologists’ greatest dream and greatest struggle. After all, how do we conjure images of a world that is very often represented by little more than a few centimeters of soil?
