Dazzled by Art

If you’re an art lover in Detroit, September is heaven. It’s the city’s annual Month of Design, featuring over 80 exhibits, studio tours, activations, workshops, and panels happening across Detroit. This year’s theme, “Creative Currents,” honors Detroit’s legacy of artistry and innovation. If you’re an art lover in Detroit, September is heaven. It’s the city’s annual Month of Design, featuring over 80 exhibits, studio tours, activations, workshops, and panels happening across Detroit. This year’s theme, “Creative Currents,” honors Detroit’s legacy of artistry and innovation. It emphasizes the need for collaboration and creating spaces where information, opportunities, and creative solutions flow freely, in an effort to shape an equitable future for all. Choosing from all the great art shows and events that Detroit’s creative minds produce can be overwhelming. We’re here to help. We compiled a list of our top picks for upcoming exhibitions and art events. Read on for our reco...

Ahead of a major retrospective at the Royal Academy, the veteran artist and mentor to Hirst, Lucas et al talks about his nomadic early years, halcyon days at Goldsmiths – and the moment he stopped being ‘frightened’ of colour In 1961, aged 20, Michael Craig-Martin enrolled at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture and immediately found himself all at sea. “Back then,” he recalls, “abstract expressionism was still lingering and painting was painterly. The first thing I realised was that I was the only person on the course who really couldn’t do it. I was just not given to that kind of painting. I remember thinking, ‘That’s it. It’s all over for me.’” Now 83, and about to have his first full British retrospective at the Royal Academy of Art, Craig-Martin sees that moment of panic and self-doubt as a necessary part of a creative epiphany that has underpinned his subsequent journey as an artist. “That’s when I learned what I later passed on to my students in my years as...

The Joslyn‘s spectacular new Snøhetta designed building will receive all the headlines as the museum reopens following a two year closure, but what's contained inside makes a bigger statement. Dyani White Hawk painting (right) alongside Cecily Brown painting in contemporary art gallery at Joslyn Art Museum. Chadd Scott The Joslyn Art Museum has done it. Completely integrating Native American art into its broader American and contemporary galleries. Plains beadwork work side-by-side with Mary Cassatt and Childe Hassam paintings in the American gallery. Thomas Hart Benton and the Kiowa Six as neighbors. Oscar Howe (Yanktonai Dakhóta) and Grant Wood. The Omaha museum’s contemporary galleries place Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk) with Mickalene Thomas, and Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw) with Simone Leigh. A signature alcove given to Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke). The Joslyn‘s spectacular new Snøhetta designed building connecting its ori...

Looking to create NFT art but are unsure of how to go about it? We lay out simply what NFT art is and how to go about creating it. Click to read more. NFT: Non-Fungible Token, Digital Art Protected by the Blockchain Table of Contents What Is NFT Art? History and Evolution of NFT Art Why Create NFT Art How to Create NFT Art Basics Mint Your NFT List and Sell Your NFT Art The Future of NFT Art Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Non-fungible tokens have transformed the art world, offering artists innovative ways to create, sell and profit from their digital creations. This blockchain-based technology has sparked significant interest among artists, collectors and investors, reshaping how we perceive and value digital art. What Is NFT Art? NFT art is a digital creation tokenized on a blockchain, providing verifiable ownership and scarcity. These tokens represent unique digital assets like images, videos or audio files, allowing artists t...

Culture across New York City shakes off the doldrums following Labor Day, roaring into fall, its busiest time of year. Alvin Ailey. Photo by John Lindquist. © Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University Art Exhibitions and Fairs New York may never sleep, but summer feels like nap time. At least in the art world. Culture shakes off the doldrums following Labor Day, roaring into fall, its busiest time of year. The highlight of the season feels like the Whitney Museum of American Arts’ celebration of artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey (b. 1931, Rogers, TX; d. 1989, New York, NY). “Edges of Ailey” marks the first large-scale museum exhibition celebrating his life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy. The landmark showcase brings together visual art, live performance, music, a range of archival materials, and a multi-screen video installation drawn from recordings of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater repertory to explore the full range of his pers...

It’s real. But it isn’t revolutionary. AI and Art Artists and writers all over the world have spent the past two years engaged in an existential battle. Generative-AI programs such as ChatGPT and DALL-E are built on work stolen from humans, and machines threaten to replace the artists and writers who made the material in the first place. Their outrage is well warranted—but their arguments don’t always make sense or substantively help defend humanity. Over the weekend, the legendary science-fiction writer Ted Chiang stepped into the fray, publishing an essay in The New Yorker arguing, as the headline says, that AI “isn’t going to make art.” Chiang writes not simply that AI’s outputs can be or are frequently lacking value but that AI cannot be used to make art, really ever, leaving no room for the many different ways someone might use the technology. Cameras, which automated realist painting, can be a tool for artists, Chiang says. But “a text-to-image generator? I th...

U.S.-based Friends-of organizations commonly handle the philanthropic transfer of artworks from domestic collectors to foreign museums. Donation Process and Tax Deductions Noel Levine, a real estate investor and photography collector, was a long-time patron of the arts, providing photographs and millions of dollars to both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art (both of which have galleries named in his honor), as well as to other cultural institutions in the United States. However, in 2008, eight years before he died at the age of 95, he and his wife Harriette decided to donate their entire collection of fine art photography—which included works by Man Ray, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Andre Kertesz and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, August Sander, Cindy Sherman and William Wegman—to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. They also contributed $1 million to the museum’s endowment fund, adding to the $12 million that the co...