I didn’t leave evangelical Christianity with a guns-blazing conviction. Instead, I had a lot of grief and a years-long journey to reclaim what I had lost. My relationship with my faith was very serious during high school and college. I spent nearly every evening and weekend on church activities. I enjoyed the shared sense of…
Art Gallery Ontario Announces Sweeping Expansion Project for its Modern and Contemporary Collections | Architectural Record This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or…
Pardon the binary thinking, but the multimedia Kenya-born artist Wangechi Mutu has turned the New Museum into a magical matriarchy. Or something close. It has become an enveloping, shadowy place shot through with flaming color, incalculable beauty, but also disease and violence. Hybrid creatures populate both the artist’s extravagant collages and startling sculptures, variously merging…
“I could comfortably say than I look at 10,000 or more objects before I find one that I bid on,” Dennis Scholl said, describing the amount of work he’d put into his ephemera-based art practice. “The objects have to feel authentic without being generic. They have to appeal to everyone, not just me.” For an…
A painter named CumWizard69420 is a modest sensation right now. Rising from almost nowhere, the colorfully named character is currently attracting some media heat with a painting show at Cheim & Read in Chelsea. If I were a struggling figurative painter, I might be thinking of changing my name to something like IEatPoops! or MilfManiac666…