Khalid Qasim, “Untitled” (2016) (all images courtesy DePaul University Art Museum) In 2022, the DePaul University Art Museum hosted the exhibition Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, & Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo. Its curators, Amber Ginsburg and Aaron Hughes, have made art about Guantánamo together for a decade. For their […]
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Houston’s natural beauty transformed into walking art exhibit
Houston may seem like an urban art paradise, but just 40 minutes northeast, at the edge of the Sam Houston National Forest, is a massive 177-acre compound and gallery space founded by two of the city’s most influential artists of the past 50 years. That compound, known as the Locke-Surls […]
Art in Bloom bringing beauty to Okla City Museum of Art
Often the most gorgeous artwork can be the most fleeting. Paintings, tracks, and films can endure for many years or even generations, but the finest floral artists know that it can be just as effective to practical experience something beautiful for just a number of short times, figuring out that […]
5 Online Art Classes to Help You Celebrate the Beauty of Spring
When the doldrums of winter finally shake away, we’re treated to the beauty of spring. From the blooming flowers to warmer weather that brings us back outdoors, there’s a lot to celebrate. One of our favorite ways to do it is through arts and crafts. You can convey the brilliance […]
Aesthetic, economic beauty in arts | Opinion
At about the identical time in 2019 that President Donald Trump proposed doing away with the Countrywide Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Companies and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the organization journal Forbes defined why that would be a […]
Art, Beauty, and the Soul of the University
Valparaiso College, a Lutheran faculty in Indiana, just lately announced ideas to sell three parts of artwork that are described as the “cornerstone” of the College museum’s collection. The sale—to incorporate paintings by Ga O’Keefe, Childe Hassam, and Frederic Edwin Church—is prepared to fund renovations to the freshman dorms, the […]