Material Evidence is the inaugural exhibition for the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts. Curated by the Birmingham Museum of Art, the exhibition features works culled from the impressive ...

Books are objects of art, like visual artworks, their content hopefully more relevant and impactful than their presentation. Still, the object itself is, by design, meant to be handled with care ...

Material culture in the digital age One of ... and art are in shaping cultural consciousness. Visual art, in this sense, is ...

How artists look to non-traditional materials to create innovative artworks that inspire us to think, ask questions, and start dialogue… In conversation with Larry Ossei-Mensah, Curator and Co-Founder ...

In 2014, UAB’s Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts opened its doors to the public and forever changed the landscape of contemporary art in Birmingham, Alabama. AEIVA’s inaugural exhibition ...

The issue of the materiality of visual productions of the distant past, which in archaeological theory has attracted much attention recently and has stimulated much conceptual debate, is addressed ...

Shanay Jhaveri, the Barbican Centre's new head of visual arts, is mapping out his future ... wider programme also promises a renewed focus on materiality, especially for site-specific commissions.