FRACTURED: Artist Graupe-Pillard Tackles Environmental Threats
Graupe-Pillard delivered the cautionary note, “The paintings are a precursor to a devastating scenario if individuals remain uninvolved.”
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“Wrath — Force of Nature” at Wave Hill
“Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath — Force of Nature” at Wave Hill in the Bronx brings together twelve artists who have their fingers on the pulse of climate change and extreme weather.
Shifting Sands: New Dynamics in the Bronx Art Scene
The dialogue went far deeper than a mere discussion of the current landscape of the Bronx art scene. It raised questions, and some hackles, about competing community needs, gentrification, constituencies that are too frequently powerless, and big money.
“Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life”
Adriana Zavala, guest curator, qualified Kahlo’s home as an “extension of her personal cosmology,” saying, “There are still things to learn about Kahlo.”
Ellen Weider: Drypoints in a Digital Age
Weider is preoccupied with an examination of domestic objects. Her visual terrain is repeatedly populated with diaristic contemplations of ordinary furniture: dressers, chairs, tables, beds.
A Conversation with Grace Graupe-Pillard
“The work is a commentary on the age I have lived in. I am a documentarian, recording the critical moments of my life and those of society.”
A Conversation with Freddy Rodríguez
Discussing his early years with me, Rodríguez’s narrative was laced with the realities of the challenges he faced as a person of color.
Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937
The attack against “Degenerate Art” struck free thought and artistic expression at its core.
A Conversation with Irene Hardwicke Olivieri
Her diaristic approach to personal history such as a failed marriage or the death of a loved one are what Olivieri called, “emotional hurricanes that are fodder for my work.”
A Conversation with Dudley Charles
“Once you are involved in making art, everything seems secondary.”
