Established in 1966 and housed in the historic Button Mansion on State Street at Prospect Avenue, The David Barnett Gallery is one of Wisconsin’s oldest and largest purveyors of fine art. This collection of over 6,000 works by more than 600 artists was started on a shoestring by the indomitable David Barnett, who now, at the age of 91, is still the driving force behind this laudable enterprise.
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Lauded Austrian graphic designer and longtime music scene collaborator Stefan Sagmeister is receiving a retrospective in his honor after many years of being an instrumental figure within his community. There’s a chance you’re more familiar with Sagmeister than you might realize, as his work may sit on your shelf in a beloved vinyl collection or on the cover of your Lou Reed lyric book.
“I am in Memphis, Tennessee at the Metal Museum installing Bracelets, Bangles and Cuffs.
One hundred life-size Indian elephant sculptures are slowly making their way across the United States. The Great Elephant Migration is an outdoor art exhibition created by The Coexistence Collective, a community of 200 indigenous Indian artists that advocate for human-wildlife coexistence as a way to combat ecological loss.
John Mazlish is a native New Yorker whose Brooklyn homebase is a trendsetting center in today’s culture-driven marketplace. Not formally trained in the visual arts, Mazlish came to appreciate art and design via his interest in music.
Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri (b.1926-d.1998), Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri (b.1920-d.2008), Uta Uta Tjangala (b.1926-d.1990), John Mawurndjul (b.1951), Makinti Napanangka (b.1930-d.2011), Prince of Wales (b.1937-d.2002), and Gordon Bennett (b.1955-d.2014) may be unfamiliar names to even the most discerning New York art collector, but that is about to change.
Whether the outsourcing of an analog lifestyle came swiftly, or took its sweet time, it’d be difficult to argue against our dependency on technology that we collectively face today. By way of the screen’s ever-present conveniences— paired with their data-driven subliminal messages— the critique of overexposure to blue light has also become somewhat mainstream.
Conjuring Tenderness: Paintings from 1987, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Hugh Steers (1962–1995), recently opened at New York’s Alexander Gray Associates.
Twenty years ago, Los Angeles-based high school painting teacher Jennifer Rochlin accepted a $10,000 grant to teach ceramics, despite one minor setback: she had never touched clay. Yet, this summer, Rochlin adorns Hauser & Wirth’s 22nd Street location with a series of memory-laden terracotta vessels, each a heap of unabashedly spirited, cinematic recollections and testaments to her own bohemian actualization.
“Tattoo. Tales from the Mediterranean” is a captivating exhibition currently on display at the MUDEC— the Museum of Cultures in Milan, Italy— that invites visitors to investigate the past and present of the art of tattooing in the Mediterranean basin.
