From community-minded installations, documentary photographs, confrontational mixed-media sculptures, to hyper-realist paintings, the following works force us to reconsider what basketball is on a local scale, who benefits, who is taken advantage of, and what fandom means today.
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Amy Laugesen sculpts horses and mules in homage to their roles in the history of Colorado. However, her rustic yet elegant ceramic and mixed-media equine sculptures look as if they could have been created on another continent in another millennium.
Installed alongside Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle, Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics invites a surprising dialogue between the two artists for whom music is central to the composition of their respective works. The synesthetic experience of encountering Jones’s art mirrors Kandinsky’s own.
Hollis Taggart presents a show featuring works inspired by nature from across more than five decades of artist Knox Martin’s career. The presentation includes paintings, works on paper, and two rarely displayed mixed-media sculptures.
Rovner's new works appear closer to painting than her past video pieces, and they reflect the unrest, challenges, and flux of the current moment. These works address urgent environmental and geopolitical crises.
Besides a play on her name that’s a little on the nose, Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks also represents the first North American retrospective of the British conceptualist and Turner prize recipient’s thirty-year career.
Although Takashi Murakami’s art typically appears happy and bright at first glance, the artist expertly wields cartoony symbols and fantastical imagery to make larger statements on topics such as technology, violence, and history.
Pairing the high production standards of leading publications such as Vogue and Life with the element of collage in zines and the text/image provocations of underground newspapers, alternative magazines introduced a hybrid publishing model.
In May 2022 the Virginia Museum of History & Culture will re-open after the most extensive and transformative renovation in its history. Reinvigorated, the VMHC will offer a dramatically expanded, welcoming and innovative museum experience for all visitors.
The 15 young, international, and emerging Black photographers in this exhibition blur traditional lines between art and fashion. See over 100 vibrant portraits, conceptual images and gorgeous fashion editorial photographs.
