Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 was a blast. Miami was buzzing, but whenever someone asked me, “How was Miami?” I could only answer, “How was the Convention Center?” Because when you work as a guided tour educator at Art Basel, your entire world contracts into those walls, those crowds, those artworks and the choreography of a fair that never stops. Uber prices were sky-high, traffic was impossible and despite more than 20 satellite fairs spread across the city, it was challenging to get to all of them. My week began with training on Monday and continued straight through until the crates were rolled out on Sunday evening. One of my favorite rituals happens only after the fair closes: watching the art leave. After six days of nonstop motion, an entirely different performance begins: packing, wrapping, lifting, wheeling and sealing. This year, I watched a team of handlers dismantle Maurizio … [Read more...] about ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2025

There are artists whose work you admire, and then there are artists whose work you feel. Donald Langosy belongs firmly in both categories. Encountering his work is not a passive experience; it is something that happens slowly, internally and with lasting effect. His art asks us to pause, to stay present and to allow meaning to emerge rather than be delivered. In a world conditioned for speed and instant clarity, this invitation alone feels radical. Langosy’s practice carries a quiet strength. His work does not shout or insist; it invites. It draws the viewer into a space where looking becomes thinking, and thinking becomes feeling. When we spend time with his work, the brain shifts out of rapid consumption and into sustained attention. Visual perception, memory and emotion begin to operate together. We are no longer simply seeing; we are processing, reflecting and connecting. This … [Read more...] about A CONTINUING JOURNEY

Behind imposing glass doors, just beyond the Currier Museum of Art’s antechamber, one is confronted with the culmination of a career. Eight large paintings of oil on canvas by the audacious painter Wendy Edwards hang as the first works museumgoers will see this winter and spring, less a primer of what lies ahead in the near-century old museum’s other galleries, than a reminder that challenging work is still being made, and that the work continues to evolve as the artist ages. Produced over the past decade, the paintings in “Flourishing,” which runs through April 5, will be the inaugural show in the Currier’s new Concourse Gallery space. Each deal in Edwards’ recurring subjects, the human body and florals, in their own unique ways. Her ability to translate aspects of the natural world into the abstract is a skill honed over a 40-year career; and if the works presented offer less context … [Read more...] about AN ARTIST WHO FLOURISHES