The Ecstatic Music Festival at Kaufman Music Center is known for presenting unexpected musical collaborations. The collaboration between Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Wye Oak on March 21st certainly fit the bill. The distinct sound...
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...
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,...
When I first heard about the BAM Pregame program from an OOA email, I knew I wanted in. BAM is one of my favorite New York City cultural institutions. Every performance and film I’ve...
As the weather continues to get cooler and Thanksgiving grows near, this week’s Artist Inspiration is a fall mood board, courtesy of French post-impressionist painter Édouard Vuillard. Vuillard’s warm, intimate paintings often depict domestic...
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:...
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....
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...
