From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism 1969 to Today According to the ancient historian Pliny the Elder, two rival artists, Zeuxis and Parrhasius, once had a public competition to determine which of the two was the better painter. When Zeuxis unveiled his painting of a bowl of grapes, the story goes that they were […]
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Ubhule Women: Bead Work and the Art of Independence at the Flint Institute of Art In 1999, two South African women, Ntombephi Ntobela and Bev Gibson, established an artist’s community on a former sugar plantation in the rural outskirts north of Durban. The goal of the Ubuhle (Ub-buk-lay, Zulu for “beauty”) community was to use traditional […]
An exhibition, Ethics of Depiction: Landscape, Still Life, Human opens at Oakland University Art Gallery Rather than a Detroit-based solo artist or group show, Dick Goody, Chairman of the Department of Art and Art History, and Director Oakland University Art Gallery has curated an exhibition that draws on artists from various parts of world that provide an experience […]
The Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center kicked off its 2017 fall season with exhibitions in all of its galleries, highlighting painting, sculpture, photography and ceramic work. For a non-profit that was established in 1957, the BBAC continues to connect people of all ages with art from every part of the Detroit Metro Area. These new exhibitions […]
Jennifer Junkermeier Curates and Michaela Mosher Designs an Exhibition: Round in Circles. For a gallery owner to ask someone to curate an exhibition is both exciting and a little risky. But George N’Namdi has been in this business for more than thirty-five years, and he knows exactly what he’s doing. By inviting a guest curator […]