Author: Penelope Roy
Penelope Roy
Penelope is a London-based art critic and cultural writer whose work focuses on contemporary art, photography, and visual culture. She is interested in the ways artists respond to technology, consumer culture, and changing ideas of authorship, and frequently writes about exhibitions, artists, and books through that wider cultural lens. Her criticism is known for being attentive to the details of an exhibition without taking the art world quite as seriously as it takes itself.
by WHAM Mon, August 24, 2026 at 4:28 PM Artist Jim Kiselica paints a mural at Parkleigh on Park Avenue in Rochester, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. Rochester, N.Y. — One of the city’s signature stores,…
From pre-dawn Vietnam to cats scaling walls, the prize-winning photographs in LensCulture’s street photography awards 2026 showcase how the everyday can transform into something mysterious, poetic, and surreal. Photographers like Levi Goldbaum, Vica Bogaerts, Bouwe…
The construction of the new pavilion is part of a larger urban project to reclaim and enhance a large green space called PARCOBROLO, which extends to the southern part of the town of Bonate Sotto…
Arte Povera originated in the 1960s in Italy. The term, coined by the art critic Germano Celant, referred to artists using cheap non-artistic materials like metal scraps, rags, foil, earth, or wood. It was a…
Mother Nature smiled on the final days of the 11th annual StrawFest Sculpting Contest in Mt. Morris on Aug. 22-23. Five teams of two competed in the Straw Bale Races on Wesley Avenue, with Jake…
Joy Machine is thrilled to present *The Peace of Wild Things*, a duo exhibition by Chicago-based American artist Emmy Star Brown and San Jose-based Korean artist Danym Kwon. This marks Brown’s second exhibition at Joy…
SUFFOLK, Va. — A peanut sculpture has been created for Suffolk, marking the beginning of the Suffolk Peanut Project. This initiative seeks to install peanut statues throughout the city, celebrating Suffolk’s historical ties to peanut…
The Dutch artist and designer Maarten Baas has created a monumental, participatory clock at Schiphol Airport called People’s Clock. This work replaces the previous video clock in Lounge 2, where a lone figure painted and…