Arts and crafts do not always get along. Many craftspeople would rather look to history for inspiration than engage with contemporary art practice; some visual artists do not master traditional skills ...
FARGO — Practice might make perfect, but practice is entirely the point, according to lessons gleaned at a new Plains Art Museum exhibit, “The Practice is the Point,” running now through March 2024.
Installation view of Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery, London. Pictured: Takuro Kuwata, "Untitled" (variously 2015, 2016), porcelain, glaze, pigment, steel, gold, ...
CATSKILL, N.Y. — On a white porcelain plate with gilded edges, the life cycle of the magnolia flower blossoms, from early blooms to furry seed pod. Crafted from careful study and painted with a ...
For much of human history, the ancient medium of ceramics may have been associated, as much as anything, with Ming vases, women’s work, decorative arts, and humble utilitarian objects. Yet the art ...
PARIS — Conversations about art and medium-specificity are almost always conversations about history. Yet in our postmodern, postmedia times we have tended to shy away from the Greenbergian concept of ...
Porcelain lives in our collective memory — we grow up with it in our homes and daily rituals — so it already carries meaning before I touch it.” ...
Heritage and identity emerge as major themes in the first traveling museum exhibition to focus on Black ceramic artists working today. “A Gathering: Works from Contemporary Black American Ceramic ...
Although often relegated to the margins of art history, ceramics have long stood as an aesthetic and cultural expression of depth and resonance. From Grayson Perry’s narrative sculptures and Beate ...
Adelaide’s creative buzz doesn’t stop when the Fringe packs up each year – it lives on in studios, galleries and creative ...