Welcome to Thoughts on Art!
This blog focuses on the intersection of art and social justice while meandering into other areas of interest from time to time as well.
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Social Justice List
In which author Christine O’Donnell expounds upon how to make changes that will hopefully promote social justice, as well as a list of posts to read.
What’s your next chess move? How about chess paintings and drawings? Chess In Art
Chess in Art brings together an extensive collection of images of artworks that depict individuals playing this game of strategy.
The Arcade Project and Ruben Natal-San Miguel’s Spring Forward
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 – Art inspired by the coronavirus
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...
Top Thoughts on Art – 5 Most Read Pieces
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 started, and I...
Tschabalala Self: Out of Body at Boston’s ICA
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...
Online art to visit during coronavirus quarantine
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 hasn't...
A Tour of Perception Abstraction at Beacon Gallery
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...
Bonus Post: We are listed on Feedspot’s list of top art blogs
(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 from around the...