“Sheetla” bears the weight of familial history as tethered to cultural destruction by Grant Phipps
Multidisciplinary artist Anamika Singh’s short documentary on leftist Indian newspaper Jan Morcha screens twice at the Chazen in June alongside her multimedia gallery exhibition “Corpus.” Among Madison cinephiles, the Chazen Museum of Art auditorium is not typically...
Paper Magic by Jody Clowes
Paper, scissors, rulers, and glue — Michael Velliquette MA’99, MFA’00 has built an international reputation working with materials you’d find in any school classroom. Although his mundane tools have a cozy familiarity, the magic Velliquette conjures with them will...
Artist Christina A West Mixes Sculpture and the Nude Human Form at MMoCA’s Triennial by 8 O’Clock Buzz
The image of the male nude has been captured in sculpture and other media from ancient Rome to Renaissance Florence to modern day New York City. Nevertheless, the female nude is more ubiquitous in the artistic canon, and the “male gaze” is a subject of social debate....
Canvas of politics: Expression and activism in art by Evan Randle
In the wake of the overthrow of Charles X, Eugène Delacroix gave life to his now-famous painting, “Liberty Leading the People,” to celebrate what he hoped was a new era of French freedom. A decade later, J.M.W. Turner’s “The Slave Ship” exposed the opposite — a lack...