Author: Bernice Salazar
Bernice Salazar
Bernice is an art writer and editor based in Chicago whose work focuses on contemporary painting, artist-run spaces, and the social history of Midwestern art communities. She is particularly interested in how artists build careers outside major institutions and how local scenes shape the way art gets made, shown, and discussed. Her writing combines close attention to individual works with an interest in the people, places, and peculiar circumstances behind them.
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and one of the most influential and revolutionary artists of the 20th century. He co-founded the Cubist movement, which revolutionized art by breaking objects into geometric shapes. Picasso’s…
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, organized by the Natural History Museum in London, has released a sneak peek of 16 images from its 62nd edition. The contest received 65,403 entries from photographers worldwide,…
Support WBUR The Cape Ann Museum added its first Mark Rothko painting to the permanent collection on Thursday, thanks to a gift from the artist’s son, Christopher Rothko. “We’re just absolutely thrilled to be able…
At Ánima Village in Los Cabos, a long ramp leads from the plaza and drops four meters into the ground, revealing Arte Abierto Baja—a 180-square-meter open-air gallery designed by Sordo Madaleno. The gallery features large-scale…
Anne Imhof unveils ‘House of Swans’ at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong on September 25. The exhibition, her first major solo in Asia, includes painting, installation, sculpture, video, and a ballet performance with Hong…
I n the early 1970s, the Korean artist Ha Chong-Hyun had a simple but novel idea: why not apply oil paint to the back of a surface rather than the front? Instead of canvas, he…
Selling most of his camera collection sounds like a crisis. For Noe Alonzo, it became a way to shoot more freely and reignite a hobby he had abandoned for over a decade. He now owns…