The annual commission for Tate Modern’s capacious Turbine Hall has tended to go to established artists at the height of their careers: Louise Bourgeois for the first edition in 2000, Anish Kapoor in 2002, and Bruce Nauman in 2005. This year, though, Tate said that the closely watched exhibition will be staged by the daring…
This Black Queer Community Is Starting A Revolution Of Self-Love The Blackyard Collective allows people recovering from an addiction to show up just as they are. by Delano BurrowesPublished Feb. 13, 2024 Twenty-five Black queer folks walking down a Provincetown street come with celebrity-level attention. The Massachusetts tourist town is a queer wonderland and also…
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art announced Friday it is canceling its exhibition planned for the summer and fall of 2025 and is permanently shutting down the project. Cleveland philanthropist Fred Bidwell, the founding CEO of FRONT, shared the news exclusively with cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer Friday afternoon. Source…
Ellen Gilchrist, a Southern writer with a sharp, sometimes indulgent eye for her region’s foibles and eccentricities, died on Jan. 30 at her home in Ocean Springs, Miss. She was 88. Her son Pierre Gautier Walker III confirmed the death. He said Ms. Gilchrist had breast cancer. Ms. Gilchrist, who published some 26 books —…
Approximately 5,000 murals across the UK will be recorded, photographed, and added to a free public database as part of a three-year-initiative by the art education charity, Art UK. The announcement from Art UK, made on February 6, said that the murals documented by volunteer researchers and photographers will include a large number of painted…