Smith College Museum of Art lecture series calander below: Finnegan Shannon on Fantasy, Access, and Sensory Pleasure in " Leaning How to Desire".

Artist Finnegan Shannon to Deliver Miller Lecture on Fantasy, Access, and Sensory Pleasure Finnegan Shannon by Marissa Alper “Learning How to Desire” lecture on March 26 explores the role of fantasy in Shannon's practice, rooted in SCMA's exhibition Don't mind if I do The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) will present “Learning How to Desire,” a lecture by artist Finnegan Shannon, on March 26, 2026, at 5 p.m. at the Smith College Alumnae House, 33 Elm Street, Northampton. The talk will be followed by a conversation with curator Lauren Leving, moderated by Charlotte Feng Ford '83 Curator of Contemporary Art Emma Chubb. There will be a public reception at the museum following the lecture from 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Rooted in SCMA's exhibition Don't mind if I do, which has been expanded to include drawings from architect Phyllis Birkby's archives in the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Special Collections, Shannon will give a talk about where fantasy lives in their practice. They'll touch on sensory pleasures, the luxury of options, and the ways that Birkby's notion of the "messiness of life" makes fantasies richer and more potent. Finnegan Shannon (b. 1989, Berkeley, CA) is an artist experimenting with forms of access. They intervene in ableist structures with humor, earnestness, and rage. Some of their recent work includes Alt Text as Poetry, a collaboration with Bojana Coklyat that explores the expressive potential of image description; Do You Want Us Here or Not, a series of benches and cushions designed for exhibition spaces; and Don't mind if I do, a conveyor-belt-centered exhibition that prioritizes rest and play. Shannon has done projects with MUDAM Luxembourg, the Queens Museum, moCa Cleveland, the High Line, MMK Frankfurt, MCA Denver, and Nook Gallery. Their work has been supported by a Wynn Newhouse Award, an Eyebeam fellowship, a Disability Futures Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellowship, and grants from Art Matters Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Disability Visibility Project. Shannon’s work has been written about in Art in America, BOMB Magazine, the Believer, and Out Magazine. They live and work in Brooklyn, NY. SCMA requests that all attendees wear masks during this event. Masks will be available. For disability access information, accommodation requests, or to request a sign language interpreter, contact artmuseum@smith.edu. About the Miller Lecture The Miller Lecture in Art and Art History is an endowed program established by Dr. Michael Miller in memory of his wife, Dulcy Blume Miller, who was a member of the class of 1946. Each year, SCMA invites a distinguished artist, art historian or curator to deliver a public lecture; previous lecturers have included Isaac Julien, Asma Naeem, Amanda Williams, Anne Pasternak, Maya Lin, William Kentridge, Shahzia Sikander, Lorna Simpson, Robert Rosenblum and Philip Pearlstein.  Event Details Thursday March 26, 2026 Time: 5 p.m. Location: Smith College Alumnae House, 33 Elm Street, Northampton Public reception: 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. at Smith College Museum of Art Free and open to all.  Upcoming programs affiliated with Don't mind if I do: Reading and Q&A – Visiting poet Rob Macaisa Colgate Thursday, February 12, 2026, 5-6 p.m. Hardly Creatures: Poems on Access Intimacy and Collective Care Klingenstein Browsing Room, Neilson Library Free and open to all.  Don't mind if I do: Disabling the Poem Friday, February 13, 2026 4-6 p.m., Second Friday, Smith College Museum of Art Free and open to all.   In this drop-in workshop, participants will write their own poem in response to the SCMA’s newest exhibit Don't mind if I do. Then, participants will work with visiting poet Rob Macaisa Colgate to write a new version of their poem inspired by caretaking practices. Photo credit Finnegan Shannon by Marissa Alper.  Link to high-res Images and credits. About the Smith College Museum of Art As a teaching museum affiliated with Smith College, SCMA (Smith College Museum of Art) is dedicated to connecting people to art, ideas and each other by engaging people with firsthand experiences of art, artists and museum practice; collecting, researching, presenting and preserving an expansive collection of art in the service of learning, teaching and critical dialogue; and by fostering an inclusive and accessible environment that welcomes diverse perspectives and inspires imagination.  SCMA and the Museum Shop are open to the public year-round, Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m.–4 p.m., except for select holidays.  In SCMA’s galleries and classrooms, visitors experience a world-class collection of art spanning ancient times to the present and encompassing the arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The Cunningham Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs houses and hosts the study of a comprehensive collection of works on paper.  In November 2023, SCMA was awarded support from the Art Bridges Foundation through its “Access for All” grant initiative. Joining a generous gift from Smith College alumnae Jan Fullgraf Golann ’71 and Jane Timken ’64 that enabled the museum to eliminate all admission fees, this funding will be used to provide further access to art through a wide range of initiatives.  An accredited member of the American Alliance of Museums and a founding member of Museums10, a regional cultural collaboration, SCMA is also a member of the College Art Association and the New England Museum Association. #smithcollegemesumofart#learninghowtodeaire#finnefineartmagazineblog.blogspot#finneganshannonart#sunstormartmagzine#sunstormartmagazing.com#artfuneverywgere#makeartfun

Hi Happy Valentines Day form the Cafesjian Center for the Arts. Catch the Music Cascade concert with the Tiezerk Band promoting love and harming!!!

 Hi All our Fine Art Magazine blog readers. WE represent art forms form around the world. The post below is a Cafesjain Center of the Arts Music Cascade concert series on February 14 promoting love and harmony performed by the Tiezerk Band. You have to scroll down to read the English translation. I left the original written  perspectives for "love and harmony" for all peoples worldwide. You can read both languages. Ours is an art platform for all!!!! Jamie Forbes Fineartmagazineblog,blogspot.  

«Երաժշտության Կասկադ» համերգաշարը ներկայացնում է.   Please scroll down for English. «Երաժշտության Կասկադ» համերգաշարը ներկայացնում է.   Տիեզերք բենդ Փետրվարի 14-ին Տիեզերքը հրավիրում է ձեզ հատուկ երեկոյի՝ լի սիրով և հարմոնիայով և մտերմիկ միջավայրով։ Տիեզերքը հանդես կգա որպես տրիո՝ երեք ձայն և անթիվ սիրո պատմություններ՝ մեղեդիների միջոցով։ Կատարողներ՝ Լուսինե Մլքե-Գալստյան - վոկալ, ֆլեյտա, դաշնամուր Էլիզա Բաղդիյան - վոկալ, էլեկտրական կիթառ Շուշան Թամանյան - վոկալ, բաս Փետրվարի 14, ժամը` 20:00, Տոմսի գինը՝ 3,500 ՀՀ դրամ Տոմսերի ամրագրման և մանրամասն տեղեկությունների համար խնդրում ենք զանգահարել +374 10 567262: Դուք կարող եք պատվիրել Հատուկ միջոցառումների սրահի Ձեր նախընտրած սեղանը: Նշեք դա տոմս գնելիս, և մենք կամրագրենք սեղանը հատուկ Ձեզ համար:  Հեռախոսազանգով սեղան կարող են ամրագրել միայն ԳԱԿ անդամները: “Music Cascade” concert series presents:   Tiezerk Band On February 14, Tiezerk invites you to a speical evening filled with love and harmonies. Tiezerk will perform as a trio: three voices and countless love stories through sound. Performers: Lusine Mlke-Galstyan: vocals, flute, piano Eliza Baghdiyan: vocals, electric guitar Shushan Tamanyan: vocals, bass February 14, at 20:00  Ticket price: 3,500 AMD For reservations and inquiries please call +374 10 567262. Please remember we have a special reservation service – you can SELECT YOUR FAVORITE TABLE at the Special Events Auditorium! Just stop by the Visitor Center to select the table you prefer as you buy tickets. We shall make sure your favorite table is reserved for you!  Only CCA Members can reserve a table through a phone call. http://www.cmf.am This message was sent to info@fineartmagazine.com by info.cmf.am@19DDA5.clients.bmsend.com Cafesjian Center for the Arts, 10 Tamanyan str, Yerevan, Yerevan 0009, Armenia View this email in your browser #cafesjaincenterforart#loveandharmony#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot#sunstormfineartmagazine#artlove#artforpeace#artfuneverone

Historical to the present Textiles are exhibited in " Made in Tension" , opening March 12th, 2026, at the Soloviev Foundation Gallery, NYC.

The Soloviev Foundation Gallery Presents Made in Tension, Opening March 12, 2026

The Soloviev Foundation Gallery is pleased to announce Made in Tension, curated by Angela H. Brown, and opening March 12, 2026. Located on the ground floor of Soloviev Group's iconic tower at 9 West 57th Street, the installation brings together selected historical works in textile from The Soloviev Foundation collection alongside modern and contemporary paintings, sculpture, and fiber art. The exhibition poses the notion of tension as both a physical making process and a framework for the conceptual enmeshment of social and artistic form.

Considering a range of cultural sites from antiquity to the present, Made in Tension examines the use and representation of textiles as a stage for technical and aesthetic ingenuity. Striking mantles woven before the rise of the Inca Empire in present-day Peru dialogue with contemporary weavings by Ximena Garrido-Lecca and Cristina Flores Pescorán, interlocking marble forms by Henry Moore, and a photograph of intertwining limbs by Elle Pérez. An Ancient Roman sculpture of cascading garments meets Kevin Beasley's fabric manipulations. Across time and space, the show unfolds a series of convergences and imprecise translations that convey thread's manifold artistic possibilities.

"It is an honor to share Made in Tension," said Stefan Soloviev, Principal of The Soloviev Foundation and Chairman of Soloviev Group. "The extraordinary range of textiles and fiber art on view paints a fascinating picture of human creativity and technological inventiveness."

The mobility of textile structures and processes challenges conventional distinctions between art and craft, revealing how seemingly unrelated media and social positions cross and intertwine. For example, a selection of patterned appliqué Kuba textiles from the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo are installed alongside a large-scale screenprinted work by Henri Matisse, who hung similar Kuba cloths on the walls of his studio to inspire his late work.

Made in Tension also features living artists who turn to traditional modes of making to address social questions in the present. For instance, Nengi Omuku transforms strips of sanyan cloth into a canvas for an oil painting, repurposing this traditional Yoruba textile to meditate on injustice in Nigeria. Ximena Garrido-Lecca weaves recycled copper thread to call attention to the use of indigenous weaving motifs in the graphic logos of multinational corporations who continue to extract the region's natural resources through mining.

Throughout Made in Tension, artistic media and lived experiences push and pull against one another like fibers under strain. A number of works make use of loom technologies, which require weavers to negotiate states of tautness and loosening in the interlocking of warp and weft. Works by Lenore Tawney, Sarah Sze, and Olga de Amaral use the loom form both to fabricate their works and to investigate relations between structure, line, and movement. In returning repeatedly to actions of fraying and entanglement, Made in Tension conceives of the curatorial process as the creation of a web of disparate elements through friction. Collectively, the included works trace a cycle of construction and disintegration: fibers twist into thread, thread stretches into a surface, surfaces are draped, fragmented and adorned, and fibers eventually break down, returning to their original state. The exhibition leverages the life of textiles to rethink political and historical tensions—to seek a textured understanding of social conflict rather than pursuing seamless resolution.

Made in Tension includes works by Olga de Amaral, Patricia Ayres, Kevin Beasley, Diedrick Brackens, weavers from the South American coast, including Chimú weavers, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Porfirio Gutiérrez, Elana Herzog, Ade Kassim, fiber artists of the Kuba Kingdom, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Senga Nengudi, Raúl de Nieves, Nengi Omuku, Elle Pérez, Cristina Flores Pescorán, Pablo Picasso, Ancient Roman marble carvers, Analia Saban, Sarah Sze, Lenore Tawney, and Yoruba beadworkers and woodcarvers.

The Soloviev Foundation is pleased to share its collection with the public through guided tours and exhibition viewing hours. Guests are encouraged to visit the gallery's website to reserve a time. Made in Tension will be on view from March until December 2026.

Curator Angela H. Brown is a writer and art historian and PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, focusing on textiles, modern craft practices, and anticolonial pedagogies. Brown's recent writing can be found in the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Zwitscher-Maschine: Journal on Paul Klee, and e-flux architecture.

ABOUT THE SOLOVIEV FOUNDATION
The Soloviev Foundation is the charitable giving arm of the Soloviev Group, dedicated to supporting the efforts of those working across humanitarian, environmental, and educational causes. The Foundation's gifts go to both large, long-established institutions addressing global crises and concerns, and smaller, hyperlocal organizations serving the populations in need within their communities. For more information, visit solovievfoundation.org.

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Exciting News from The Van Gogh Museum: Yellow. Beyond Van Gogh's Colour. Opens Febuary 13, 2026, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 Hi All My Funeartmagazine Blog fans, and just when you thought the news was all bad catch the:Yellow. Beyond Van Gogh's Colour. exhibition. The Opening is February 13th,  2026 at the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam,  Netherlands. Van Gogh's use of colour is cited and defining the emotional experience engendered eliciting a response from viewers for over 150 years. Jamie Forbes, FineArtMagazine Blog. 

Yellow. Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour. New exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum The Van Gogh Museum presents Yellow. Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour, a new exhibition that will open on 13 February 2026. Using Vincent van Gogh’s iconic Sunflowers (1889) as a point of departure, the exhibition shows how the colour became a powerful means of expressing emotions, ideas and ideals – from warmth and energy to modernity, rebellion and spirituality – in the period around 1900. Cuno Amiet (1868 - 1961), The Yellow Hill, 1903, 1903, tempera on canvas, 98.0 x 72.0 cm, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Dübi-Müller-Stiftung. Foto: ©Kunstmuseum Solothurn/David Aebi   Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1889, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) Van Gogh was fascinated by the intense light of the South of France. In Arles, he found the colour he sought. He wrote to his brother Theo: ‘Sunshine, a light which, for want of a better word I can only call yellow – pale sulphur yellow, pale lemon, gold. How beautiful yellow is!’ Thanks to the discovery of new pigments, Van Gogh and his contemporaries were able to use yellow with unprecedented intensity. It was as if their paintings glowed. Contemporaries of Van Gogh Yellow. Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour brings together some fifty artworks and objects dating from approximately 1850 to 1915. In addition to work by Van Gogh, the exhibition presents works by more than fifteen other artists and kindred spirits, including Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Hilma af Klint, Édouard Manet and William Turner. Drawing on a range of themes, Yellow. Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour reveals the significance of yellow to artists. Traditionally the colour of the sun, yellow has also carried a range of meanings beyond the visible reality. For Kandinsky, yellow has a musical, energetic and almost intrusive character; for Af Klint, the colour signifies inner growth. Wassily Kandinsky, Large Study, 1914, oil on canvas, 101 × 79.3 cm. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Literature and fashion Yellow also had distinct significance around the turn of the century outside of painting. In literature and fashion, it became a symbol of modernity and independence, while also provoking controversy. This is evident in the striking yellow book covers of the avant-garde periodical The Yellow Book, designed by Aubrey Beardsley.   Ramon Casas, Decadent Young Woman (After the Dance), 1899, Oil on canvas, 46 × 56 cm, Museo de Monserrat, Barcelona, donation Josep Sala Ardiz, 1980 Olafur Eliasson Contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson (1967) created a light installation especially for Yellow. Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour. He states: ‘I see red, I see blue, but I feel yellow,’ describing an experience of colour that invites viewers to look beyond the reality and the visible world. Olafur Eliasson, installation in the exhibition Yellow. Beyond Van Goghs Colour at the Van Gogh Museum. Photo: Michael Floor Collaborations The Van Gogh Museum collaborated with a range of remarkable partners to create a truly special experience. These include students from the Conservatory of Amsterdam, who composed contemporary pieces inspired by works in the exhibition; olfactory experts at Robertet in Grasse developed three scents that enrich the experience of the colour yellow, including Summer Sun – a solar burst of citrus. The exhibition was designed by design agency Raw Color. Publication The exhibition is accompanied by a lively and richly illustrated publication that addresses a wide range of themes associated with the colour yellow. The bright yellow book is presented in a slipcase containing six individual decorative cards. #vientvangogh#vangoghmuseum#sunstormfineartmagazine#sunstormfineartmagazine.com#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot#vangoghartfun#yeallbeyond#artfunnow

L'Space Exhibits artists Bobby K. Hill, and Coby Kennedy in Conditions of Inheritance

NEW EXHIBITION Conditions of Inheritance Bobby K. Hill and Coby Kennedy Feb 19th - Apr 11th, 2026 Opening Reception:  February 19th, 6 - 8 pm L’SPACE Gallery, in collaboration with ARTMoney Society, will present Conditions of Inheritance, an exhibition featuring works by Bobby K. Hill and Coby Kennedy that engages questions of cultural inheritance, material legacy, and the systems that shape both. Conditions of Inheritance brings together two distinct yet resonant artistic practices rooted in figurative language and material intelligence. Working across layered narratives of family, memory, and inheritance, the artists construct complex visual languages that engage questions of lineage, pressure, and continuity. Shaped by lived experience and cultural inheritance, these narratives reflect the power of ancestral legacy and family to withstand ongoing systemic pressures—revealing resilience as constructed, not assumed, and creating space for empowerment and celebration. This inquiry finds distinct expression in the practices of Bobby K. Hill and Coby Kennedy, whose works approach inheritance through personal history, material experimentation, and symbolic form. MORE INFORMATION GALLERY HOURS Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 6 pm and by appointment You received this email because you subscribed to our list.  You can unsubscribe at any time. Powered by EmailOctopus Copyright © L'SPACE, All rights reserved. 524 w 19th st, New York, Chelsea 10011, USA #l'spacegallery#sunstormfineartmagazine#sunstormfinearmagazine.com#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot