Philip Pearlstein: I Love Mud

By Jessica Holmes

DEC 21-JAN 22 | ArtSeen

The accumulations of a sociable, cultivated, and well-traveled lifetime became the subjects of the watercolor paintings now on view in I Love Mud, Philip Pearlstein’s current exhibition at Betty Cuningham Gallery.

Tariku Shiferaw: It’s a love thang, it’s a joy thang

By Charles Moore

MAY 2021 | ArtSeen

Tariku Shiferaw’s It’s a love thang, it’s a joy thang embodies Black joy—but not in the sense that people might think. In his latest exhibition, the artist pays homage to quotidian pleasures: those often referenced in the jazz era, a time when the greats sang about their daily lives.

The Beauty of Friends Being Together

By Phong Bui

NOV 2021 | ArtSeen

Whatever we think of our love affair with Modernism, at times we think of our disdain for its ultimate objective being the constant rebuke of any previous art in order to claim a new birthright that would continue to do the same subsequently.

J. Nicole Jones’s Low Country: A Southern Memoir

By Yvonne C. Garrett

APRIL 2021 | Books

In her debut, a memoir, Jones catalogues family violence as a part of her remembering; violence becomes a framework and connecting thread for the 13 vignettes that explore her own, her family’s, and her hometown, Myrtle Beach’s troubled and collective past.