Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on Prime-Time Star opens today at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane. The exhibition “brings together more than 40 works including paintings, photographs, collages, sculptures, film, and a site-specific installation that broadly engage the subject of portraiture through an interplay of different media. “Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) is an internationally renowned artist recognized for lush works celebrating the …

The Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) has announced that Audrey Flack ’52 will be the recipient of a 2017 Lifetime Achievement (LTA) Award. The Awards were first presented in 1979 in President Jimmy Carter’s Oval Office to Isabel Bishop, Selma Burke, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, and Georgia O’Keeffe. In the following year, Audrey Flack nominated Lee Krasner, who was presented with …

A huge portrait of the former director of the National Portrait Gallery, Sandy Nairne, is to be the first important work by American artist Chuck Close ’64MFA to enter a public collection in Britain. Close is one of America’s most influential portrait artists, known for his gigantic mosaic-patterned works, which he paints from photographs. But his subjects are mostly American, …

Scratching the Surface, a new design podcast hosted by Jarrett Fuller, has highlighted numerous Yale alumni over the past two months. For the weekly podcasts, Fuller “interviews designers, writers, critics, educators and those that operate between these fields about how writing, criticism, and theory informs individual practice and the graphic design profession at large.” The podcast has highlighted Rob Giampietro ’01, Alexandra …

Kellie Jones ’99 has been named a 2016 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. This year the honor, commonly referred to as a “Genius Grant”, was bestowed on a select 23 individuals, each exceptional in their respective field. Jones is an art historian and curator deepening our understanding of contemporary art of the African Diaspora and securing its place in the canons of …

James Cohan is pleased to present Mud Root Ochre Leaf Star, Byron Kim’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Featuring a selection of stain paintings, the exhibition will open at the gallery’s Lower East Side location on Friday, December 9, with a reception from 6-8 PM and will be on view through January 22, 2017. Byron Kim fills his works …

SOPHEAP PICH RANG PHNOM FLOWER DECEMBER 8, 2016 – FEBRUARY 4, 2017 OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, FROM 6 – 8 PM Sopheap Pich: Rang Phnom Flower will mark the debut of Tyler Rollins Fine Art’s newly expanded gallery space and will feature Sopheap Pich’s large scale Rang Phnom Flowersculpture. Around 25 feet (7.5 meters) in length and extremely complex …

Nathan Carter ’99 MFA has a solo exhibition at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art. The show is on view from September 24, 2016 – January 29, 2017 at MCA Denver. “Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet the Dramastics” presents sculpture, drawings, installations, and miniature stage sets that were used in the production his film, The Dramatics are Loud AF. “With the combination …

Joe Wheelwright ’70 died of cancer on September 28th in his Dorchester Massachusetts. Joe is known for his sculptures of large heads carved from immense stones. He also made large human figure from pine trees that had grown into two trunks; he inverted them to display a human form. After a brief stint in Vietnam in the early 70’s working for …