Ci troviamo a Syracuse, nello stato di New York negli Stati Uniti d’America, e più precisamente all’Everson Museum of Art che riporta sotto i riflettori americani una figura centrale della ricerca artistica italiana del secondo Novecento. Stiamo parlando di Nanni Valentini (Sant’Angelo in Vado, 1932 – Vimercate, 1985), artista che ha rivoluzionato il linguaggio della ceramica, sia da un punto di vista materico che concettuale....
Realities Within at the Everson Museum is expansive: an exhibition that displays well over 100 artworks and has an ambitious agenda. According to text accompanying the show, it seeks to “explore how artists shape, frame and inhabit the world.” The works, all selected from the Everson’s collection, are organized by genre. They include still-life pieces, cityscapes, landscapes, and artworks portraying the human body. That mode of organization encourages viewers to consider both individual pieces a...
Federico Solmi (b. 1973) has long veered away from subtlety. His current exhibition, Adrift, announces itself the moment you walk in. Solmi’s epic painting, The Ship of Fools (2024) occupies an entire gallery wall. It boasts 122 by 237 inches of deep blue ground covered in dense white lines, each figure rendered in a style that reads like three-dimensional wireframe geometry. It is a painting built to overwhelm, and it does, not only in terms of its scale, but through the saturation and forebodi...
Who created the Mona Lisa of American ceramics? And how was it stolen from under the noses of museum guards? In this episode Paul Greenhalgh and Stephanie Rozene travel back in time to the American Gilded Age, at the end of the 19th century, to discuss the life and work of Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the pioneering potter who fought to make her own work her own way, and went on to win the top prize at the prestigious World’s Fair, putting American ceramics on the map....
In an age when the stars and a machine can do the job, artist Joyce Kozloff wants us to look at maps as a tool, not just a means of finding our way around. Kozloff’s sweeping retrospective, Contested Territories, is on an acclaimed tour at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, where it will be on display until April. The exhibition spans four decades of her “activist cartography,” which uses maps not as neutral documents of geographers but as places for history, memory, and culture....
What medium could be a better choice to recreate the Everson Museum of Art’s blocky architecture at small scale than Lego bricks? Known for its presence as a local brutalist icon, the Everson has collaborated with the company BuildaMOC (Make your Own Creation) to create a 342-piece Lego model of the Syracuse museum and its grounds. BuildaMOC designs and packages custom kits using repackaged authentic Lego bricks....
“When I hit a beautiful porcelain vase with a baseball bat, I provoke a visual shock. There is a contrast between the beauty and luxury of the objects and the violence that is submitted to. I want to make people conscious of the fragility of our world.”— Laurent Craste...
Great art is so often found behind red velvet ropes, fragile artifacts from another time that are too delicate to handle. For children, said Marguerite Mitchell, that frequent reality is defined by words they begin hearing almost as soon as they are mobile. Look, but don’t touch....
Michael Cohen’s friends knew him for two things: making a life in pottery and being the life of the party. “He was very funny,” said Harriet Cohen, Michael’s ex-wife. “He could crack a joke … and he was much loved by everyone because he was a good boss. He was a wonderful father.” Cohen, a celebrated potter and longtime Pelham resident, died on Jan. 9 at the age of 89. He founded the founder of the Asparagus Valley Potters Guild and his work is in the collections of American museums, including t...
The Everson Museum of Art announced six new members to its board of trustees. The new trustees are Isaac Budmen of Budmen Industries, Louise Rosenfield, David J. Foor, Dirk Sonneborn, Gia Mahmoud, and Ed Cronk. Their appointments bring expertise spanning technology, business, philanthropy, nonprofit leadership, and energy infrastructure to the downtown Syracuse museum....
As the Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York, I’m one of a small handful of contemporary ceramics curators in the United States. Last June, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Furniture Society’s annual conference with curator and gallerist James Zemaitis. Our talk focused on peeling back the curtain on museums and their inner workings, and we tried to give practical advice for everyone in the audience, which included student...
Syracuse, NY — The Everson Museum of Art (Everson) is pleased to welcome six new members to its Board of Trustees: Isaac Budmen, Ed Cronk, David J. Foor, Gia Mahmoud, Dirk Sonneborn, and Louise Rosenfield....
Laurent Craste is exhibiting his historically accurate vessels, which have been displayed with weapons that have seemingly destroyed them. The juxtaposition of the delicate gold fleur-de-lis patterned porcelain attacked by actual baseball bats, axes, arrows, and the like, is jarring. It’s just the oddest thing and yet it speaks to the anger that peasants of the past had towards their regal governments. ...
The Everson Museum of Art is proud to help put the “A” in STEAM by welcoming students from the Syracuse City School District to its auditorium for a historic moment: STEAM High School’s first-ever fine arts performance. On Friday, January 16 at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday, January 17 at 2:00 p.m., STEAM High School students will present Roald Dahl’s Matilda: The Musical, bringing music, movement, storytelling, and technical theater into one of Central New York’s most iconic cultural spaces....
Laurent Craste’s “Iconoclasts” sculpture show at the Everson Museum of Art features porcelain vessels apparently attacked with axes, crowbars and bats. The violence is faked, Craste told Syracuse.com. For example, he created his sculpture of a porcelain vessel pierced by an axe in several stages. First he made the vessel on the wheel, in the traditional manner, and then — while still wet — he pressed the axe into the vessel. He removed the axe before firing the porcelain — as the wooden handle w...
Artist Frank Buffalo Hyde, whose work was featured in a 2023 solo exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art, is featured on an episode of "Enable: The Disability Podcast"...
I first learned of Joyce Kozloff’s diverse artistic practice and alignment with feminist art during the late 1990s, and her work continues to inspire a contemporary generation today. Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023 at the Everson Museum of Art reflects her tenacious spirit and politically charged art. The centerpiece of this show is her “Targets” (2000) sculpture, a walk-in globe with aerial maps of locations bombed by the US military between 1945 and 2000 painted on the inside....
The results are in! After four months of open calls for submissions, weeks of review, and hours of deliberation, the 2025 Best of Design Awards have arrived. Best of Design was inaugurated 13 years ago as a way to honor the impactful and meaningful work of architects and designers. Since then the program has blossomed as a way to not only give props to some of the thankless work of the community, but also as a way to survey the built environment....
In Relapse, the penultimate number of Erin Cuevas’s Ouroboros, three dancers appear suspended within a field of projected digital images. Striped vertical lines mark each body. As they begin to glide up and down the thirty-six dancing poles installed in the Everson Museum of Art’s lower-level gallery, the lines contort, producing languid contour maps across the surface of each warped figure....
Memory and Time is a beautiful virtual reality (VR) tour of painter Joyce Kozloff’s powerful new art installation at the Federal Courthouse in Greenville, SC, commissioned by the U.S. General Services Administration’s Art in Architecture Program....
