Artist of the Week: Carlo Crivelli
Now that finals are past, we can all take a leisurely trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the greatest art collections in the world and just a short walk from Hunter....
Project Tag: Artist Inspiration
Artist of the Week: Max Neuhaus
Neuhaus’s work explores sound’s ability to create a sense of space and a private connection with the listener. If you need a break from studying for finals, head down to Times Square to hear...
Artist of the Week: El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky, a Russian avant-garde artist whose work pushed the boundaries of both abstraction and propaganda. Lissitzky was in innovator in both the form of his artworks and the theory behind them. In his...
Artist of the Week: Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin’s work focuses on the undocumented aspects of human relationships. Goldin often photographs her family and friends as they navigate illness, addiction, sexuality, and LGBT identity. The raw emotion in photographs such as...
Artist of the Week: Edward Hopper
Fall days in the city always remind me of Edward Hopper paintings. Both Hopper’s paintings of people, of which Nighthawks is the quintessential example, and his landscapes and street scenes evoke feelings of quietude,...
Artist of the Week: Spooky, Creepy, and “Satanically Influential”
In honor of Halloween, here are two particularly spooky artists: First up is Louise Bourgeois, a French-American artist who used large-scale spider-like sculptures to illustrate familial relationships and the anxieties of motherhood. First Image:...
Artist of the Week: Carrie Mae Weems
This week’s #artistinspirationis Carrie Mae Weems, who uses text and her own image to explore issues of identity, race, gender, and societal roles through photography and video. Weems’s photographs are at once unsettling and familiar....
Artist of the Week: Orra White Hitchcock
Orra White Hitchcock’s vibrant renderings of geological formations and natural phenomena, created for her husband’s scientific publications, straddle the line between art and science. Closes tomorrow, 10/14 at the American Folk Art Museum. Follow...
