Contemporary Art and Culture Magazine
Opening November 16: The Art of French Wallpaper Design and The Road Less Traveled: Edo’s Nakasendo. Opening December 7: From Pineapple to Pañuelo: Philippine Textiles. On view: Listen! Selections made by the RISD Art Circle and Brighten Up! Contemporary Enamels.
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Through January 12, 2025: Wild Imagination: Art and Animals in the Gilded Age. During the Gilded Age (1865–1914), Americans’ relationship with animals transformed in lasting ways. Wild Imagination explores how this exciting, tumultuous era shaped our modern attitudes towards animals, from pampered pups to wondrous sea creatures. A broad range of artworks, photographs, scientific specimens, and other objects reflect vital period developments including the dawn of the animal rights movement, the surge in pet keeping, the popularization of natural history pursuits like birdwatching, and the golden era of zoos and circuses. They also reveal the stories and experiences of individual creatures who continue to capture our imagination.
Read moreThrough November 6: Silver Linings at NE 48th Ave, Kate Copeland and Ayumi Ishii. November 21–December 17: Water Ways, Mo Kelman. Reception: Thursday, November 21, 5–8 p.m.
Read moreNovember 7–December 6: Richard Whitten: Objects of Wonder. Richard Whitten creates paintings which transport the viewer through the surface of the painting into a world of imagined architectural spaces. There, the viewer finds similarly imagined machines and is invited to bring the worlds inside the paintings to life—to propel the machine into motion—through sight and thought alone.
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