Pelham Art Center (PAC)’s current Mental Fragments exhibition, on view through May 7, dives into themes that look at how people grow and experience change throughout school to adulthood. Appropriately, the show was curated by members of the Center’s Teen Arts Council.
After Hurricane Irene destroyed its original building 12 years ago, the GARNER Arts Center in Garnerville has finally opened its new exhibition space, Building 35.
Pelham Art Center recently announced Haley Hasler as the winner of its biennial Alexander Rutsch Award for painting.
Matrix: Prints by Women Artists, 1960–1990, on view at the Hudson River Museum (HRM) through April 2, explores the role that women played in evolving the democratic art form of printmaking. The decades covered in the exhibition were ones of great social upheaval, and women artists employed printmaking to create…
The allure of dark romanticism, the macabre and the supernatural has fascinated writers, artists and composers for centuries. Creative energies that capture the Gothic spirit allow entry to the dark sides of fantasy and irreconcilable levels of reality. Rye Arts Center (RAC)’s current exhibition, Artists of the Night: Gothic Literature…
“To be sure, there are many ways to use fabric in search of artistic meaning,” says ArtsWestchester CEO Janet Langsam. “In this exhibition, we are encouraging artists to use fabric as a way to point out issues of social consequence.” The exhibition Langsam refers to, The Social Fabric, on view…
This fall, two Westchester museums celebrate picture book art and the artists who use stories to imagine new worlds for children. Rye Arts Center (RAC) and Katonah Museum of Art (KMA) elevate picture book art with their current exhibitions, delving into themes like folklore and justice. For its The…
For our Roving Directors feature, we ask Westchester arts professionals to go into the community and give us their take on another institution’s on-view exhibition. This month, Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe, incoming Executive Director of Katonah Museum of Art, looks at “Cloud Wanderings of Wang Mansheng,” currently on display at the Hammond Museum…
by Michelle Falkenstein What does a 19th century memorial wreath made from human hair have in common with a wall hanging woven from synthetic hair extensions by contemporary artist Nafis White? Everything. Women’s Work, an exhibition at Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, draws a thread from the domestic…
by Taylor Michael The first thing to notice about artist Vinnie Bagwell’s latest project isn’t the landscaped park and waterfront views, the sensuous details carved into each sculpted figure, or even the thought-provoking backstories. To understand the Enslaved Africans’ Rain Garden, start with the name. For one, “Africans’” is possessive….
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