Artist Spotlight: Dianne Smith Knows How to Paper a Room
MIAMI—With plain brown paper, Harlem artist Dianne Smith creates transporting environments and functional furniture. Her installations are composed of voluminous swaths of butcher paper, crumpled to create textured wall coverings, and packed tightly…
Studio Museum in Harlem Video: Artist Caitlin Cherry
The Studio Museum in Harlem‘s current exhibit “Fore,” presents the work of 29 emerging artists, including Caitlin Cherry who explains her practice of putting her nearly finished canvases at risk with interventions such…
Art in Flux: Pop-Up Gallery Features Harlem Artists
This month, Art in Flux Harlem is featuring “Street,” a group show that explores the daily vulnerability we all experience each day as we navigate public streets. The exhibition of photographs, sculpture and…
‘Creating Waves’: Indy TED Talk Comes to Harlem
NEW YORK—Harlem’s creative class was at Riverside Church yesterday. Thelma Golden, Marcus Samuelsson and many other innovators from Uptown and beyond were participating in “Creating Waves,” an inaugural TEDxHarlem event that was punctuated…
‘Spirit of Harlem’ Mural By Louis del Sarte Livens Up 125th Street
Harlem, NEW YORK—A colorful wall mosaic pays tribute to the arts scene in Harlem. Titled “Spirit of Harlem” the mural livens up the corner of Frederick Douglass Boulevard and 125th Street. The work…
