The Brant Foundation‘s spectacular East Village location in NYC is well suited for a surprisingly fresh and personal take on Andy Warhol’s work over four decades. Thirty Are Better Than One (named after the artist’s 30 silk-screened Mona Lisas) features more than 100 artworks, nearly all of which are from the collection of the foundation’s founder, Peter M Brant. The retrospective runs through 30 July …
Revolutionary, painter, writer, educator, activist, sculptor and feminist are just some of the words that begin to describe Faith Ringgold, a visionary from Harlem, whose artwork since the 1960s laid bare the racist and patriarchal underpinnings of the United States. Unafraid to fight for the representation of Black women during the Civil Rights era (in art museums and the country at large) Ringgold not only exposed …
A few weeks before the Upstate Art Weekend opening of William Accorsi‘s retrospective at Urban Cowboy‘s Lodge in the Catskills, the imaginative 90-year-old folk artist died. Leading up to the powerful, playful exhibition, Accorsi spent time developing new pieces and plotting his future. Accorsi knew that death wasn’t far, and yet his empowered vision was to continue crafting sculptures, complete an autobiography and reconnect with some …
