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Brighter Days

Brighter Days

Robin Hauck
ART, LIFE

It seems spring is here at last. Let the season opener (Red Sox and otherwise) inspire you to get out and explore something new. Here are a few exhibition and reading selections to help you embrace the best of Boston and beyond.

The Radical Art of Hope

The Radical Art of Hope

Robin Hauck
POETRY, ART, LIFE, SPIRIT

Following a three month leave from Misstropolis to work on my book, I’m happy to be back. But in the time I’ve been away, the news has descended even deeper into depths of despair. Again and again, art gives me the courage to carry hope into the next day. Two things inspired this piece: Hank Willis Thomas’ instantly iconic Boston monument to Dr. Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King “The Embrace,” and the CDC report on mental health in the US, which found that suicide rates rose 5% for people between 25-44. My message? Embrace hope despite everything.

Ukrainians on the Cultural Front Lines

Ukrainians on the Cultural Front Lines

Robin Hauck
ART, SPIRIT

Ukrainian artists are using their work and platforms to defy Putin’s attempt to destroy their homeland, seize their country and erase their culture.

On every front, astounding courage. Now the upcoming Venice Biennale has become a meaningful stage on which to exhibit the immense solidarity, courage and pride of the Ukrainian people, as a small but mighty team transports a treasured sculpture to Venice, against impossible odds.

Mother Water | Father Land: Elements, History and Hope at Prospect.5 New Orleans

Mother Water | Father Land: Elements, History and Hope at Prospect.5 New Orleans

Robin Hauck
ART, SPIRIT

Almost seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, causing almost 1,800 deaths and over a billion dollars in damages, the impact is still evident. Add a global pandemic, a racial reckoning and a tumultuous political climate and New Orleans becomes a national site of change, creativity and invention. Prospect New Orleans, the Art Triennial which debuted in 2008 in response to Hurricane Katrina, seeks to address the racial, political, ideological and historical issues surfaced by the devastation and its aftermath. This year, after a year’s hiatus due to Covid-19, Prospect was back for its fifth iteration, titled Yesterday we said tomorrow.

Sand T Kalloch's Meditative Energies of Motion

Sand T Kalloch's Meditative Energies of Motion

Robin Hauck
ART

Sand T Kalloch utilizes expressive materials, a disciplined vocabulary of line, point, surface and color and repetitive motion to create her mesmerizing, energetic canvases. But her greatest resource of all might be the element of surprise - that and her willingness to embrace it.

That First Light Feeling

That First Light Feeling

Robin Hauck
ART

From Tel Aviv to New York, Bucharest to Rotterdam, a cadre of rockstar, multi-hyphenate artists are working in the space between fine art and interior design, creating sculptural lighting inspired by nature. Abstract yet familiar, technically advanced yet always handcrafted, the work of these female artists bring the joys of natural light inside.

Kara Walker's History Lesson

Kara Walker's History Lesson

Robin Hauck
ART

In her huge body of work, Walker confronts the way culturally constructed myths deliberately whitewash historical truths and reframe events to benefit existing power structures. She shocks, prods, explodes, confronts and challenges.

Kara Walker’s work helps me see history as a swirling, unfurling, voracious cacophony rather than one long, drawn out note.

Cloud Cover: Karen LaMonte's Path to a Sustainable Practice

Cloud Cover: Karen LaMonte's Path to a Sustainable Practice

Robin Hauck
ART, SPIRIT

Sculptor Karen LaMonte gives shape and weight to subjects as amorphous as female identity and stratospheric phenomenon. With her cloud sculptures cast in marble and iron, she brings the consequential weight of climate change down to earth with a unique, material honesty.

But manifesting the weather is not the most complicated thing the Prague-based, multidisciplinary artist has done. She did something even more complex during COVID, which she hopes will be a model other artists can follow. She made her international artistic practice carbon negative.

Happy Earth Day, 2021.

As Good Excuse as Any

As Good Excuse as Any

Robin Hauck
ART, LIFE

Valentines Day is as good an excuse as any to binge on love-inspired art. This year for Valentines Day, give yourself the gift of enjoying some passionate, obsessive, transporting, heady, gorgeous and sexy works of art that make you feel something or learn something or do something that may come close to love.

Campo: Uruguay's Conscientious Art Institute

Campo: Uruguay's Conscientious Art Institute

Robin Hauck
ART, SPIRIT

If you go, you may never want to leave. Welcome to Campo, the innovative Creative Arts Institute in tucked away Garzón, Uruguay. Founder Heidi Lender has built a haven for connection, quiet and creativity, drawing artists and art enthusiasts from all over the world. Campo’s Artfest takes place December 28, 29. it just might be the answer to how to exit 2020 and start all over again.

She's a Goddess

She's a Goddess

Robin Hauck
ART

She’s speaking. Simone Leigh will be the first black woman ever to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2022. In collaboration with the ICA Boston who commissioned and will organize the show Leigh will bring her powerful unapologetic voice to issues of authorship, agency and understanding America through a black female lens.

Pictures in Pixels

Pictures in Pixels

Grace Kenney
ART

Millennials have a native trust in technology, writes Grace Kenney, a recent college grad. Contemplating the meaning of her art history degree in light of new challenges to art institutions, hierarchies and traditions, she explores the role technology might play moving forward and the benefits that she believes will impact a wider, more diverse audience.