Melissa Meyer was in her visiting artist’s studio at the School of Art, cutting up her squiggly abstract watercolors. She wasn’t planning rampant destruction — the paintings in their original form weren’t inspiring her, so
Chip and Gail Gamble’s love for Chautauqua Institution has grown in what Chip calls the “typical” way. They’ve been coming to the Institution since the early 2000s, when they visited for just a week their
Sangram Majumdar talks about paintings like C.S. Lewis wrote about wardrobes – as if whole worlds are waiting within them. “That world continues, beyond the frame of the painting,” Majumdar said. “You can go into
Shoji Satake will probably be “all over the place” in his lecture at 7 p.m. Friday in the Hultquist Center. In his case, that’s not a bad thing. “It’s the way that I think,” said
When Thomas Paquette was growing up, his family would leave their home state of Minnesota every summer and drive, spending a month or two camping around the country. He loved seeing how “amazingly different” parts
Bonnie Collura has never given up her childhood practice of seeing shapes in clouds — and one kind of image in particular tends to stand out. “I always see strange faces in everything,” she said.
For a man whose occupation requires him to study bones from thousands, even millions, of years ago, paleoanthropologist Lee R. Berger is remarkably future-oriented — and optimistic about humankind’s prospects, particularly as the millennial generation
Nearly 70 artists will sell their wares this weekend at Art in the Park. Organized by VACI Partners, the arts and crafts show will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday in Miller
Gideon Bok believes a painting should get more interesting the longer the viewer examines it. “I often think of paintings and poems in a similar way: how you read a good poem and you go
One evening in late summer, Judy Barie picked Erika Diamond up for dinner. Barie asked what Diamond, an artist, was working on. Diamond showed her. It was a tapestry titled “Mother and Child Inhale,” a
Art lovers interested in the process of organizing an exhibition can satisfy their curiosity at Tuesday’s Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution lecture, which will feature the curators of the show “Homage to Mango Street.” The
A sixth-grade student crossed the threshold of Fowler-Kellogg Art Center last week and looked at the displayed pieces with awe. “This is really cool,” he said. The show in Fowler-Kellogg, the 60th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition
All four art exhibits opening at Chautauqua Institution this Sunday are unique, but only one can claim to be the biggest. The 60th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art: 60 Works Celebrating 60 Years holds