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increase font size Portland Museum of Art celebrates David Driskell, as a painter and a person The part-time Falmouth resident was helping to plan the exhibition of his paintings before he died last year. Share David Driskell’s “Self-Portrait,” a 1953 oil on board painting (15-1/4 inches by 11 inches) will be on view as part of a major David Driskell painting exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art beginning in June. Photograph by Luc Demers. © Estate of David C. Driskell, courtesy DC Moore Gallery, New York Nobody knew how sick David Driskell was when he arrived at the hospital ne...

Friday at Frieze New York Digital talks, screenings and highlights from Frieze New York's programming Begin the day by browsing Frieze Viewing Room. Accessible from anywhere in the world and connecting you to the best of contemporary art. Explore virtual booths by galleries from all around the world, including a solo presentation of Esther Pearl Watson (Vielmetter Los Angeles), works by Chinese artist  Ding Yi (Timothy Taylor) and Helina Metaferia (Addis Fine Art); murals by Victoria Lomasko (Edel Assanti), ceramics by  Erin Jane Nelson (Chapter NY), alongside many ot...

Colby Chamberlain on the art of Dave McKenzie Bobblehead from Dave McKenzie’s While Supplies Last, 2003, performance, poly-resin figures, 7 × 2 1⁄2 × 2 1⁄2". “I KNOW YOU ARE DAVE, but who is Dave?” Sixteen years ago, in these pages, the artist Glenn Ligon recounted how a stranger once posed this question to Dave McKenzie’s face. Or rather, she posed it to a papier-mâché approximation of his face, which McKenzie wore while he handed out bobblehead figurines of himself during an opening at SculptureCenter in New York. Ligon floated a fe...

EATONTON — Here in the heart of Georgia’s Piedmont, Native American history has been said to date back as much as 3,000 years — long before the first dairy farm came about in Putnam County, and long before Joel Chandler Harris began writing folk tales which were popular in his day, but not so much anymore. Although it would probably be politically incorrect in these times to create an Uncle Remus narrating stories, the lessons and logic of those tales remain celebrated and useful for their insightfulness. Our world is abundantly populated with folk slugging the tar baby today. Harris w...

Berry Campbell is pleased to present Lilian Thomas Burwell: Soaring. This exhibition marks the esteemed Maryland-based artist’s first solo exhibition in New York. The exhibition title, Soaring, is an homage to the late Dr. David Driskell’s essay,  Soaring With a Painterly Voice, written on the occasion of Burwell’s 1997 survey exhibition at Hampton University Museum, Virginia. Driskell described Burwell’s work as, “transcendental in showing stylistic diversity of earthly beauty and cosmic vision.”   Lilian Thomas Burwell: Soaring, organized by guest curator, Melissa Messina, h...