Pick of the week American Made Tom Cruise and Sarah Wright in American Made. Photograph: Imagine Entertainment/Allstar With Top Gun: Maverick blasting into cinemas soon, this is the perfect opportunity to revisit Tom Cruise’s practice run. Doug Liman’s 2017 action comedy is – by Cruise standards, at least – relatively […]
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A Singular American Painter and His Perennially Disregarded Wife
HARTFORD, Conn. — There has always been a certain fluidity in our appreciation of the American modernist maverick Milton Avery (1885-1965). And this is not just because of the light, airy, daringly simplified, almost abstract paintings of sand, sea and sky that characterized his last decade. Avery was artistically unaffiliated, […]
Largest Native American cave art remained hidden for more than 1,000 years
Massive Native American drawings — which remained unseen in an Alabama cave for more than 1,000 years — have been unveiled by a team of scientists. It’s the largest known cave art ever discovered in North America. The art was practically invisible until researchers investigated the cave and used 3D […]
Sophisticated artifacts of a long-gone Middle American civilization, at the Dallas Museum of Art
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Most of us are at least vaguely aware of elaborate Aztec, Mayan and Incan civilizations predating — and tragically doomed by — European explorers. Far less known are bygone civilizations in the eastern half of what became the United States. One former center is just a four-hour drive northeast of […]
Native American art exhibit in Massillon is both provocative, subtle
MASSILLON – Entering the main gallery of the Massillon Museum, visitors likely will be struck by a large, vivid image of Chief Wahoo that is clearly visible from across the room. The rendering of an authentic Native American is juxtaposed with the former logo of the Cleveland Indians professional baseball team (renamed the Cleveland Guardians last year). Long […]
Austin’s only Black-owned art gallery hosts ‘American History’ exhibit
In East Austin, high-rise apartments and newly built complexes are signs of gentrification in the historic area. But nestled inside the ever-evolving district is RichesArt Gallery, a Black-owned creative space that aims to redefine American history with a new exhibit. On the gallery’s walls are the faces of Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Jean-Michel Basquiat and […]