Artist : Anila Quayyum Agha Show : All the Flowers Are For Me Location : Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew Gardens : London, England Date Seen: 14 April 2023 Price: Included with Entry Admissions to Kew Gardens Run Time: 1 April 2023 - 17 September 2023 Sponsors: Curators: “Build your own stories. The title All the Flowers Are for Me means if you’re walking around here, it’s for you.” – Anila Quayyum Agha This show consists of three pieces - All the Flowers

Artist : Ai Weiwei Show : Making Sense Location : Design Museum : London, England Date Seen: 11 April 2023 Price: £16.80 Run Time: 7 April 2023 - 30 July 2023 Sponsors: Reuben Foundation CQS Ai Weiwei Supporters Circle : David and Debbie Stileman, Bianca and Stuart Roden, John Burban, Anne-Lindsay Makepeace, Tarun Jotwani Curators: Justin McGuirk (Chief Curator), Rachel Hajek (Assistant curator) Website: https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/ai-weiwei-making-sense ​​“Tod

Artist : Various Show : Portraits of Dogs : From Gainsborough to Hockney Location : Wallace Collection : London, England Date Seen: 11 April 2023 Price: £14 Run Time: 29 March 2023 - 15 October 2023 Sponsors: HM Government Indemnity Scheme Bilbo and Fredi Bloomberg Christian Levett Kate de Rothschild Agius, Marcus Agius CBD and Sable The Alexander P.S. McKeon Charitable Foundation Danny and Gry Katz Jessica Pulay Ivetta Rabinovich Tavolozza Foundation The A&O New Change Gr

Artist : David Hockney Show : Bigger and Closer (not smaller & farther away) Location : The Lightroom : London, England Date Seen: 21 March 2023 Price: £25 Run Time: 22 February 2023 - 1 October 2023 Sponsors: Curators: David Hockney & Lightroom “ It gives my art a new breath of life and a reinterpretation. And that, for me, is very exciting. ” - David Hockney David Hockney is a British artist who has been making art for sixty years. Hockney has developed and explored a ran

I teach a ceramics class at a local arts non-profit. As part of my class I try, every few weeks or so, to give them some updates about things happening in the local arts scene. I figured I might as well share it here as well! Jeffrey Gibson, Powerful Because We’re Different on view at MASS MoCA Art Happenings Coming Up… Worcester Center for Craft 25 Sagamore Rd. Worcester, MA 01605 Gallery hours: Tues- Sat 10-5 Flux & Form: Worcester Public Schools Art Teacher Show Opening

Artist : Grace Ndiritu Show : The Healing Pavilion Location : Wellcome Collection : London, England Date Seen: 21 February 2023 Price: Free Run Time: 24 November 2022 - 23 April 2023 Sponsors: Curators: Janice Li, Emily Sarget “Repair and Restitution. Two sides of the same coin.” – Ndiritu The Healing Pavilion by Nadiritu was specifically commissioned for the Wellcome Collection. It works to reimagine a space built and burdened by its colonialist history. It connects to

Artist : Various Show : The Horror Show : A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain Location : Embankment Galleries, Somerset House : London, England Date Seen: 17 February 2023 Price: £16.50 Run Time: 27 October 2022 - 19 February 2023 Sponsors: Curators: Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard and CLaire Catterall Website : https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/the-horror-show From The Witch section of the Horror Show Exhibition The Horror Show at the Somerset House was broken into thr

Artist : Jenkin van Zyl Show : Surrender Location : Edel Assanti Gallery : London, England Date Seen: 7 February 2023 Price : Free Run Time: 19 January 2023 - 4 March 2023 Surrender by Jenkin van Zyl is an immersive exhibition which was built around a 49 minute film Zyl created in 2023 titled Surrender . Surrender , the film, focuses on the plot of four rat-people couples in a hotel as they compete in increasingly strange tournaments that push the body’s limits through a p

In 2023 I was studying in London, getting my Masters in Art History and Visual Culture. While there I kept a comprehensive Curatorial Notebook. Below are general observations I made after going to 23 Exhibitions from December 2022 through April 2023. A work by Sarah Sze at the Tate Modern in London, England Below is an all inclusive list of all the exhibitions I viewed. This list includes ones that were not written about in depth, and thus some will not have a comprehensive

As we approach the New Year, I'm determined to make blog posts more consistent in 2026. In this regard, I'll be sharing a backlog of old notes, thoughts and critiques from exhibitions 2023 to current. I'm going to title this series of old notes : The Curatorial Backlogs. Postings in this series will come out every three weeks on Thursdays at noon starting January 1 and continuing until I run out of old exhibition reviews. In addition to The Curatorial Notebook Backlogs, I'm h

Recently I had the opportunity to travel to Mexico City. Aside from eating delicious foods and wandering the streets of the city, I indulged in viewing some art exhibits. One of the exhibits I saw was Lilia Carrillo: Everything is Suggestion at the Museo Del Palacio De Bellas Artes. Carrillo, Jubilo neutro, 1959 As Mexico is a Spanish speaking country, all of the wall texts were in Spanish (obviously). Unfortunately, as someone who only speaks the smallest amount of Spanish,

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts' 59th Annual Conference, Formation , took place in Salt Lake City, Utah at the very end of last month from March 26th to March 29th - and I had the honor to attend for my first time! The conference was chalk full of panels, talks, demonstations, exhibitions booths and ceramic goodies galore. The line-up of presentations varied from conversations about clay communities, problem solving glazes & clay bodies, anthropological an

Realities: Latin American Figurative Art MFA Boston - Art of the Americas: Gallery 335 Visited: 20 March 2025 Gallery 335 in the Museum...

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