Pelham Art Center Announces Winner of 12th Biennial Alexander Rutsch Award
Pelham Art Center recently announced Haley Hasler as the winner of its biennial Alexander Rutsch Award for painting.
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Women Printmakers and Social Upheaval
Matrix: Prints by Women Artists, 1960–1990, on view at the Hudson River Museum (HRM) through April 2, explores the role that women played in evolving the democratic art form of printmaking. The decades covered in the exhibition were ones of great social upheaval, and women artists employed printmaking to create…
Gothic Ambience Abounds at Rye Arts Center
The allure of dark romanticism, the macabre and the supernatural has fascinated writers, artists and composers for centuries. Creative energies that capture the Gothic spirit allow entry to the dark sides of fantasy and irreconcilable levels of reality. Rye Arts Center (RAC)’s current exhibition, Artists of the Night: Gothic Literature…
From Quilts to Durags: Fabric Works Encourage Social Change
“To be sure, there are many ways to use fabric in search of artistic meaning,” says ArtsWestchester CEO Janet Langsam. “In this exhibition, we are encouraging artists to use fabric as a way to point out issues of social consequence.” The exhibition Langsam refers to, The Social Fabric, on view…
Picture Book Art: Connecting Children to the World Around Them
This fall, two Westchester museums celebrate picture book art and the artists who use stories to imagine new worlds for children. Rye Arts Center (RAC) and Katonah Museum of Art (KMA) elevate picture book art with their current exhibitions, delving into themes like folklore and justice. For its The…
Wang Mansheng and the Restorative Power of the Natural World
For our Roving Directors feature, we ask Westchester arts professionals to go into the community and give us their take on another institution’s on-view exhibition. This month, Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe, incoming Executive Director of Katonah Museum of Art, looks at “Cloud Wanderings of Wang Mansheng,” currently on display at the Hammond Museum…
We Can Do It! Women’s Work at Lyndhurst
by Michelle Falkenstein What does a 19th century memorial wreath made from human hair have in common with a wall hanging woven from synthetic hair extensions by contemporary artist Nafis White? Everything. Women’s Work, an exhibition at Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, draws a thread from the domestic…
Enslaved Africans’ Rain Garden: 13 Years in the Making
by Taylor Michael The first thing to notice about artist Vinnie Bagwell’s latest project isn’t the landscaped park and waterfront views, the sensuous details carved into each sculpted figure, or even the thought-provoking backstories. To understand the Enslaved Africans’ Rain Garden, start with the name. For one, “Africans’” is possessive….
Friends of Neuberger: Capturing a Contemporary Spirit
What is contemporary art? This is a question not to be answered in a word, but pondered and defined in one’s own terms. Today’s contemporary art differs vastly from the contemporary art that existed in the time of Roy N. Neuberger, the founder of the Neuberger Museum of Art (NMA),…
Rising From the Ashes
The male-rock-star smashed-guitar cliché is nothing new. But in Naama Tsabar’s internationally acclaimed 2018 Melodies of Certain Damage installation, the artist uses this same cliché as a device to explore connections between destruction and creation. Tsabar begins by breaking a guitar in her studio, alone. Then she reassembles new instruments…
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