Few museum curators have had as big an impact on a city’s cultural life as William A. Fagaly. The internationally renowned scholar, who died last year aged 83, built up important museum collections of Outsider, African and contemporary art during his 50 years at the New Orleans Museum of Art. He also made a substantial contribution to the understanding of southern Outsider art. Fagaly — universally known as Bill — was known for seeking out and championing self-taught African American artists from the surrounding region, including David Butler and Sister Gertrude Morgan, bringing them to national and international attention. The New Orleans curator pioneered mainstream acceptance of work by self-taught artists.
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After half a century, the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais has been reunited with a first-century Bacchus statue. First unearthed by archeologists in 1894 at the Roman Vertillum site, the bronze figure has long been considered a French treasure.
The latest issue of Sekka Magazine is dedicated to Creative Giants from Gulf Arab states. Here are five stories from that issue.
Looking Up - D’Arcy Simpson Art Works is pleased to feature new work by Jeremy Bullis and Michael Larry Simpson in Looking Up, opening on Saturday, February 12th, 2022. The large scale color field paintings by Simpson shown alongside Bullis’ ethereal kinetic mobiles fashions an immersive atmosphere of movement filling this intimate gallery with music for the eyes. In this exhibition, each artist explores ideas of movement, balance, tension and harmony within their own practices of composition and construction.
There have been many famous, artistic love affairs and partnerships over the years. These relationships run the gamut from inspirational muses to creative partners to lovers and friends.
At 130 pounds, Brie Ruais is equal in weight and material substance to her collaborator: clay. Each work they embark on involves pulling out the partner’s guts and pushing them into a shape.
The upcoming exhibition Assembly Required features eight artists who engage the public as co-producers of their artworks. Visitors are invited to build, use, and shape the works of art both individually and collectively.
This February, the nonprofit Friends of the Desert Mountains will present Paula Crown's HEALING NATURE: The Aspen Maps. Crown’s vibrant abstractions informed by trail maps represent the conservation’s mission to preserve and restore land in the Coachella Valley.
The first female Haitian artist to exhibit at the Met, Fabiola Jean-Louis was commissioned to create a piece for its groundbreaking current exhibition, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, inspired by nineteenth-century Seneca Village.
Although Sotheby’s sale of Sandro Botticelli’s The Man of Sorrows was proceeded by considerable hype and still managed to close with an impressive bid, the sale was not as grand, nor the painting as ultimately expensive, as pre-sale estimates had led many to expect.
