by Advocate Staff | May 11, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Leisure, News
Stories in Strokes The Abraham Project, developed by German artist Marlis Glaser over the past 10 years, contains more than 200 drawings and paintings of Holocaust survivors and their children in Israel. Glaser based each of these artworks on narrative...
by Chuck Shepherd | Mar 14, 2016 | Articles, News, News of the Weird
Seattle’s ambitious Office of Arts & Culture has allocated $10,000 this year to pay a poet or writer to create a work while present on the city’s Fremont Bridge drawbridge. The office’s deputy director told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in January that the city...
by Chuck Shepherd | Jan 25, 2016 | Articles, News of the Weird
The “public art” statues unveiled in January by Fort Myers, Florida, Mayor Randy Henderson included a metal structure by sculptor Edugardo Carmona of a man walking a dog, with the dog “lifting his leg” beside a pole. Only after inspecting the piece more closely did...
by Kristin Palpini | Dec 14, 2015 | Articles, Arts
For 38 years the A.P.E. Gallery has been showcasing off-beat and important works of art that can’t be found in other galleries. Their shows are edgy, punk, and loud as well as reflective and mesmerizing. This month, the gallery is celebrating its nearly four decades...
by Kristin Palpini | Dec 7, 2015 | Articles, Arts
There’s a lot of dick in the world, but it’s not always celebrated. The Taber Art Gallery is fixing that this month with a photography exhibit exclusively dedicated to dick. The show is a collection of photographs compiled by Easthampton’s Stacy Waldman, a collector...