The Give Good Gift Guide

The Give Good Gift Guide

Robin Hauck
SPIRIT, LIFE

Warning: This is not a guide with “something for everyone.” This is a guide to help you find the right thing for the people you care about most. After all not everyone gets a present, just the ones who have been very, very good.

Sand T Kalloch's Meditative Energies of Motion

Sand T Kalloch's Meditative Energies of Motion

Robin Hauck
ART

Sand T Kalloch utilizes expressive materials, a disciplined vocabulary of line, point, surface and color and repetitive motion to create her mesmerizing, energetic canvases. But her greatest resource of all might be the element of surprise - that and her willingness to embrace it.

That First Light Feeling

That First Light Feeling

Robin Hauck
ART

From Tel Aviv to New York, Bucharest to Rotterdam, a cadre of rockstar, multi-hyphenate artists are working in the space between fine art and interior design, creating sculptural lighting inspired by nature. Abstract yet familiar, technically advanced yet always handcrafted, the work of these female artists bring the joys of natural light inside.

Kara Walker's History Lesson

Kara Walker's History Lesson

Robin Hauck
ART

In her huge body of work, Walker confronts the way culturally constructed myths deliberately whitewash historical truths and reframe events to benefit existing power structures. She shocks, prods, explodes, confronts and challenges.

Kara Walker’s work helps me see history as a swirling, unfurling, voracious cacophony rather than one long, drawn out note.

Cloud Cover: Karen LaMonte's Path to a Sustainable Practice

Cloud Cover: Karen LaMonte's Path to a Sustainable Practice

Robin Hauck
ART, SPIRIT

Sculptor Karen LaMonte gives shape and weight to subjects as amorphous as female identity and stratospheric phenomenon. With her cloud sculptures cast in marble and iron, she brings the consequential weight of climate change down to earth with a unique, material honesty.

But manifesting the weather is not the most complicated thing the Prague-based, multidisciplinary artist has done. She did something even more complex during COVID, which she hopes will be a model other artists can follow. She made her international artistic practice carbon negative.

Happy Earth Day, 2021.

Anger Issues

Anger Issues

Robin Hauck
LIFE

This year during Women’s History Month, I’ve thought a lot about women and anger. Throughout history and around the world, women have been socialized to doubt, fear and repress their anger, especially in periods of hyper masculinity or aggression. But in recent years women have shown incredible courage and creativity in honoring and channeling their anger and turning it into a catalyst for social justice.

As Good Excuse as Any

As Good Excuse as Any

Robin Hauck
ART, LIFE

Valentines Day is as good an excuse as any to binge on love-inspired art. This year for Valentines Day, give yourself the gift of enjoying some passionate, obsessive, transporting, heady, gorgeous and sexy works of art that make you feel something or learn something or do something that may come close to love.

Campo: Uruguay's Conscientious Art Institute

Campo: Uruguay's Conscientious Art Institute

Robin Hauck
ART, SPIRIT

If you go, you may never want to leave. Welcome to Campo, the innovative Creative Arts Institute in tucked away Garzón, Uruguay. Founder Heidi Lender has built a haven for connection, quiet and creativity, drawing artists and art enthusiasts from all over the world. Campo’s Artfest takes place December 28, 29. it just might be the answer to how to exit 2020 and start all over again.

She's a Goddess

She's a Goddess

Robin Hauck
ART

She’s speaking. Simone Leigh will be the first black woman ever to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2022. In collaboration with the ICA Boston who commissioned and will organize the show Leigh will bring her powerful unapologetic voice to issues of authorship, agency and understanding America through a black female lens.

Game. Set. Mask.

Game. Set. Mask.

Robin Hauck
STYLE

More than one of the world’s best tennis players, more than the world’s highest paid female athlete, Naomi Osaka is a force for social justice and a quiet style icon on the rise.

Pictures in Pixels

Pictures in Pixels

Grace Kenney
ART

Millennials have a native trust in technology, writes Grace Kenney, a recent college grad. Contemplating the meaning of her art history degree in light of new challenges to art institutions, hierarchies and traditions, she explores the role technology might play moving forward and the benefits that she believes will impact a wider, more diverse audience.

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