Author: Eliza Norwood

Carolina Tabares Botero has been painting since 2005, developing an artistic practice shaped by personal experiences, cultural transitions, and a continuous search for creative freedom. Her journey began in Colombia, where she initially focused on reproducing classical works by renowned artists such as Degas and Rembrandt. Over time, her practice evolved significantly, moving away from traditional realism toward expressive abstraction and a more personal exploration of the feminine figure. Today, Carolina primarily works with acrylic on canvas, creating paintings that move between abstract and figurative forms. Her vibrant colors, expressive gestures, and dynamic compositions reflect an ongoing journey of self-discovery.…

New York City’s Cultural Institutions Group (CIG) has added five new cultural nonprofits to its membership: the Bronx Children’s Museum, the Louis Armstrong House Museum, the Noble Maritime Collection, Pregones Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (PRTT), and BRIC, a Brooklyn based arts space. It is rare for the city to add to CIG’s membership, the last expansion having taken place more than five years ago. The Weeksville Heritage Center became a CIG member in 2019 and the most recent addition before that was the Museum of Jewish Heritage in 1997. Mayor Eric Adams first promised the expansion in his State of the City address…

A self portrait by Clarence Heyward was vandalized last week by visitors to the Houston Museum of African American Culture, where the work by the Raleigh, North Carolina based artist is on view as part of a survey titled “Eden.” As reported by the Houston Chronicle, “the artwork was left with what appears to be a puncture and a horizontal gash in the canvas” after two museumgoers were seen walking around the museum. “Though staff did not witness the visitors in the act of damaging the artwork, they were seen giving an obscene gesture toward an art piece from another exhibition and leaving…

It’s a commonly held belief that Mark Rothko, not unlike his other Abstract Expressionist colleagues, worked best when he was painting dramatic abstractions that tower over viewers and engulf them in their rich tones. But a new survey coming to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., aims to show that a lesser known part of his oeuvre his paintings on paper is just as high quality as his monumental canvases. The 100 work show, which does not yet have a name, will open at the National Gallery of Art in November 2023. After a run in D.C., it will head to…

David Hockney, one of the 20th century’s most famous artists, best-known for his depictions of the sunny glitz of 1960s Los Angeles, has died at age 88. His publicist, Erica Bolton, confirmed he “passed away peacefully” at home in London on Thursday, June 11, just one month away from his 89th birthday. Hockney is one of contemporary art’s most influential and immediately recognizable figures in his signature cap, round glasses, and colorful, often checkered attire. Above all, he stands apart as one of the few artists in the last century to have captured the imaginations of both a wider public,…

A curator recently shared with me a digital folder containing scanned slides of Alice Shaddle’s art, a lifetime of sculptures, collages, paintings, and installations, some of them representational, many others almost unclassifiably baroque. As I browsed the works most constructed from paper, latex, or vinyl two words kept recurring in the captions: whereabouts unknown. An unnamed 1960s sculpture of an overdressed little girl jutting forward with sinister pomp: whereabouts unknown. Camel (1969), a work that looks less like a desert animal than a two headed bird in the throes of a delirious molt: whereabouts unknown. Gardener (1974), a sculpture that resembles a carnivorous flower that’s…

Like last year’s Pride celebrations, this year’s take place under the grim cloud of backlash. Trump 2.0 has made life for the transgender community seem increasingly precarious, but even “mainstream” gays and lesbians have to worry whether gay marriage will be overturned. One legal challenge made its way to the Supreme Court, though it was defeated; more are sure to follow. Meanwhile, polls have shown a dip in support for LGBTQ+ rights among Americans since the early 2020s. All in all, it’s not a great picture. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine now that there was ever a time when corporations…

The nonprofit Art21 has revealed the 12 artists and collectives who will be featured across three episodes in the tenth season of its Emmy-nominated television series Art in the Twenty-First Century, premiering on PBS and online on September 18. Each installment this season will be dedicated to a different location, focusing on London, Beijing, and the United States Mexico border, respectively. The first episode, which spotlights artists working in the English capital, will showcase the practices of John Akomfrah, Phyllida Barlow, Anish Kapoor, and Christian Marclay, offering viewers “a really intimate portrait of their processes through the development of new projects,” Tina Kukielski, executive director and chief curator…

A photograph by acclaimed Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov has been stolen from the Lithuanian National Museum of Art in what officials believe was a targeted theft. The work, part of Mikhailov’s 1993 series At Dusk, disappeared from the Radvila Palace Museum of Art in Vilnius on June 28 while on view in the exhibition Ukrainian Dreamers: Kharkiv School of Photography, according to museum officials. Police are investigating after the incident was captured on security cameras. According to reporting in Ocula, museum staff discovered the photograph missing from a second-floor gallery shortly after 1:30 p.m., but the suspected thief had already left the building. “We believe…

The National Gallery in London announced that it has acquired a significant history painting by 18th-century artist Angelica Kauffman. The work is now on view at the museum.  Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes (1787–88) is the first work by Kauffman to enter a UK national collection in nearly two centuries. Another painting by the artist was bequeathed to the National Gallery in 1835 but was later transferred to Tate Britain, as the museum is now known, when it opened in 1897. Tate Britain lent the work to Guildhall in Plymouth, and it is believed to have been destroyed during World…