Exhibit Reviews

The first survey in around fifty years of the artwork of Swiss-born French artist, Felix Vallotton (1865-1925), who in the words of art critic Roberta Smith sat out modernist abstraction preferring representational styles, is currently on exhibit (until January 26, 2020) at the … [Read more...] about Food Related Fine Art On Exhibit In The Big Apple

Sometimes savored, food is too often not mindfully consumed, especially during the holiday season. Chew: Food as Muse, the current exhibition at the Opalka Gallery in Albany, New York, is an imaginative, playful and sometimes daring look at food through the lens of contemporary … [Read more...] about A Timely Art Exhibit In Upstate NY During The Season of Holiday Feasting

The end of the academic year means student art exhibits mounted by colleges to showcase the creative energies of their graduating seniors. Three years ago, we praised the playful and insightful designs for edible food-like substances created by Meredith Kill and Annemarie Dolfi, … [Read more...] about Graphic + Design Students Artfully Critique Coffee Addiction & Sugary Sodas and Spotlight the Banana Fungus

What becomes apparent as you examine the exhibition, Like Sugar, is that the exhibition is all around us, all the time. What Skidmore College’s Tang Museum has done is isolate a number of elements – sweet, bittersweet, and merely bitter – to resonate with our sugar-infested … [Read more...] about Spotlight On Sugar At Provocative & Popular Exhibition At Skidmore College’s Tang Museum

More than 50 paintings, drawings and watercolors of the British landscape artists, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) and  John Constable (1776-1837) are on display this winter at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown (Berkshire County), Massachusetts. The exhibition, … [Read more...] about An Artful Escape From 21st Century Industrial Agriculture