Niki De Saint Phalle At Atlanta Botanical Garden
Forty sculptures by French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle are featured in “Niki in the Garden” at the Atlanta Botanical Garden from May 9 to Sept. 6, 2026. A revival…Continue Reading →
‘Worldbuilders’: A Generational Change In Disney Worlds
“Oh my god, this is unbelievable. … I can’t believe this. It’s real. This is Arendelle,” “Frozen” writer and director Jennifer Lee exclaims, and chokes up, as she tours the…Continue Reading →
‘L.V. Hull: Love Is a Sensation’
“Do not try to understand me, just love me,” said L.V. Hull (1942–2008). In small town Kosciusko, Mississippi, the Black, female, self-taught artist used televisions and toys and bottles and…Continue Reading →
‘Baby Animals Festival’ At Hancock Shaker Village
On a recent sunny Saturday morning, Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, launched one of the great rites of spring in the Berkshires: the village’s annual “Baby Animals Festival,” running…Continue Reading →
Goodbye, Pearl Fryar, Topiary Gardener
In the early 1980s, Pearl Fryar began transforming his home in Bishopville, South Carolina, into a fantastic topiary garden, often using plants rescued from the compost piles of local nurseries.…Continue Reading →
Goodbye to Isaiah Zagar, Creator Of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens
Saddened to hear that Isaiah Zagar—creator of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, one of the great visionary art spaces of the world, as well as the creator of many mosaic murals across…Continue Reading →
Dazzling Light Restoration Of 1936 Art Deco Cambridge Storefront
Wow! You need to check this out in person: Newly restored architectural lights delineating the facade of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Reading Room at 23 Church St., Cambridge, turn the…Continue Reading →
Dirt Palace: Providence’s Feminist Art Collective Celebrates 25 Years
Twenty-five years ago, in a derelict library in Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood, a group of women came together to found a feminist art collective / feminist artist-run space that they came…Continue Reading →
Steve Plattner’s Photos Of Visionary Art Environments
Cincinnati photographer Steve Plattner is showing his portraits of visionary artists and their environments in the exhibition “Persistence of Vision” at the Outsider Art Museum & Gallery in Louisville from…Continue Reading →
Backyard Wonderlands: Photo Exhibit Documents People Who Transform Their Homes Into Visionary And Folk Art Worlds
For a decade, Greg Cook has been making pilgrimages to visionary art sites, folk art environments, and “yard shows” from Maine to Georgia to Louisiana to Minnesota—to photograph these places…Continue Reading →