As we are now a couple months into the Covid-19 quarantine, one of the clear trends in the art world is how exhibitions are happening online. Curator Ruben Natal-San Miguel has taken a unique tack and created four online exhibitions for various art venues based around...
The Viral Art Project is an initiative launched by by Wide Eye, Throughline Collaborative, The Soze Foundation, and artist Mark Kelner. YOU ARE NOT ALONEWe are all alone right now but remember everyone in the world from São Paulo to New York to Madrid is there with...
Hello dear readers! It’s been a year since I launched Thoughts on Art, and miraculously, I’ve managed to produce 52 posts in that time, leading to an average of a post a week. While it was perhaps a far-off goal to write something every week when I...
Tschabalala Self Tschabalala Self (b. 1990) currently has a solo exhibition entitled Tschabalala Self: Out of Body at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). Out of Body continues this up-and-coming artist’s exploration and empowerment of the black female by...
Some online art to visit during the coronavirus quarantine I was lucky enough to have decided to take an art writing course just as the quarantine started, and hence have been provided many wonderful online art resources over the last 6 weeks. No, it...
While I don’t use Thoughts on Art as a place for promotion of my gallery, I have worked very hard on putting up this latest show, as well as putting together an exhaustive virtual tour on the beacongallery.com blog despite the difficulties of current events. In...
(Above is a photo of my art gallery, Beacon Gallery, in Boston) I’m delighted to share that Thoughts on Art has made Feedspot’s list of art blogs. While you have to scroll down quite a bit to get to us, (#138) it’s a start! Feedspot aggregates blogs...
I just did a virtual presentation through SCORE via the Harvard Ed Portal, entitled “Everything Artists Need To Know About Gallery Representation” – we talked about a multitude of subjects, but a few questions were left unanswered at the end of the...
The clock inside the former train station Main alley of the Orsay Museum in Paris, France. Source: Wikimedia Commons As a resident of Paris for 6 years I made innumerable trips to the Musée d’Orsay over the years. This former train station turned museum is a...
Beacon Gallery has now shown at a couple of art fairs, including during Miami’s Art Week and at SPRING/BREAK Art Show New York. It feels like an opportune moment to share a bit of advice about what it’s like to apply for and show at an art fair. Greetings...