The Art of Making People Uncomfortable
By Madison Neuner [caption id="attachment_10616" align="alignleft" width="300"] “Buffalo Jump” is an interactive piece that includes remote-controlled stuffed buffaloes that museum visitors can guide over a wooden ramp. Hyde based this piece on a Native hunting practice...
Super Bowls to Celebrate Super Bowl Sunday
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]While much of the country cheers on the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs at Super Bowl LVII, at the Everson we are celebrating in our...
Experimental Television Center at the Everson
Fifty years ago today, on September 19, 1972, the Everson Museum opened Work from Experimental Television Center, Binghamton, NY, an exhibition curated by David Ross that provided a comprehensive look at the Center’s involvement in...
Golden Splendor: Portrait of Alice Maud Allen Atwater by Abbott Handerson Thayer
Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921) was a New England painter known for his ethereal angels, landscapes, and floral paintings, as well as traditional Gilded Age society portraits of women and children. ...
Celebrating the ‘Unheroic’: Women Walking in a Subway Station by Isabel Bishop
The youngest in her family by over a decade, Isabel Bishop (1902-1988) was often lonely as a child. She filled her free time drawing and attending Saturday art classes, and after her family relocated from...
Beautiful Danger: Patterson’s Curse, Tanami Traces by Pippin Drysdale
Pippin Drysdale (b. 1943) is an Australian ceramist whose career spans over thirty years. Drysdale’s ceramics explicitly engage with the Australian landscape, which the artist represents through abstract color fields and subtle, ebbing lines of...
The Story Behind Peaches and Evangeline
Many years before news cameras were bringing images from the fight for Civil Rights to American living rooms, a young, reserved, soft-spoken school principal lived in Mims, Florida, a small citrus town near Orlando. In...
David MacDonald: Vessels For The Human Spirit
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy0IrSZ9Zoo"][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]This week, we revisit this Everson Up-Close Artist Series video featuring David MacDonald called "Vessels of the Human Spirit." In it, he...
Revisiting Dawn Williams Boyd Lecture, “Perspective of the Other”
In celebration of Black History Month, we are sharing a lecture given by Dawn Williams Boyd in 2021 called “The Perspective of the Other.” In it, Boyd discusses an ongoing series that she has worked...
Mastering “Material you can Squeeze:” Traipse by Alison Britton
Alison Britton (b. 1948) has always been interested in clay. Renowned internationally for both her craft and curatorial voice, Britton’s earliest experiences with clay involved digging deep into her family’s garden when she was a...
Still Life Drama: Teapot, Egg Carton by Reginald Case
Born in Watertown, New York, Reginald Case (1937-2009) was a multi-disciplinary artist who rooted his works in popular culture or social, political, and international events. ...
Glitter and Gold: Horse Headed Robot No. 10 by Toby Buonagurio
Toby Buonagurio (b.1947), a lifelong New Yorker, is known for her flamboyant sculptures of sci-fi robots, peculiar clowns, surreal bionics, and souped-up hotrods, many often festooned with rhinestones and glitter. ...