The foremost reason that artists create, and the rest of us value their art, is because art forms a priceless living bridge between the everyday psychology of our minds and the universal spirit of ...

What to do when, in the words of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “All that is solid melts into air?” Times of upheaval inspire a search for alternative understandings of reality. This was as true a ...

“A lot of people have been turning to art, needing space to process,” says the artist Edgar Fabián Frías, who, along with Hayley Barker, Julie Weitz, and Patrisse Cullors, has been discussing their ...

It’s the United States of America in the late 19th century, a moment of industrialization and urbanization contributing to a heightened concern for deceased kin and bereaved Americans questioning the ...

If nothing else, ”The Non-spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1985- ???” and its larger complement at the Museum of Contemporary Art, ”The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985,” have already ...

Crows gather in cottonwoods by the Rio Grande River, down from the nearby Sandia Mountains that tower a mile above the city of Albuquerque. A community-operated irrigation canal, or acequia, threads ...

The exhibition called “The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890–1985,” which Maurice Tuchman has organized with the assistance of Judi Freeman at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is the kind ...

In 2016, shortly after Heather Ferrell became curator and director of exhibitions at the BCA Center, Seven Days asked her whether she found it important to bring in outside artists. Having spent the ...

The irony of the Black arts being one of the most widely reproduced, shared and appropriated forms of art in the modern era — despite centuries of exploitation, maltreatment and oppression — serves as ...