Alice Coltrane: Artist’s Muse and Sonic Healer
Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition ...
In ‘Wicked,’ they’re silver. But at Academy Museum color show, the ruby-red shoes take center stage
In the hit movie “Wicked,” those famous magical shoes are silver. But if you want to see them in all their ruby-red glory ...
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How Christine Sun Kim’s Whitney Survey Reimagines Sound, Silence, and Expression
The Whitney Museum's Christine Sun Kim survey is a razor-sharp and thought-provoking meditation on communication and sound.
‘Paint Me a Road Out of Here’: Faith Ringgold’s Gift to Prisoners
In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...
Bees and brilliant blooms brighten Portage Park viaduct
Some Chicago murals “are political, and some are purely beautiful, and most are somewhere in between," artist Cyd Smillie says.
Iconic: a 'compact but brilliant' exhibition
Although it takes up just one room, this exhibition at Bath's Holburne Museum is a fresh and "fascinating rethink" of a much-mythologised artistic movement. There's "barely a conventional portrait in ...