Articles: Review Posts
The Villager Revolution in three acts: A sip and tell at Pen + Brush
By Avalon Ashley BellosPosted on December 17, 2025 Pen + Brush hosted Revolution in Three Acts: A Sip and Tell last week. Photos by Gary Miranda For 131 years, Pen + Brush has done more than maintain a door—it has insisted it remain open. Open to women, non-binary, and trans artists and writers long before inclusion became […]
The Diaspora is too Hauntological: Breaking My Art Writing Hiatus with Talkin’ Bout a Revolution by Pyaari Azaadi
On deities sporting animals from their privates and mysticism for Jackson Heights Vriddhi Vinay Dec 02, 2025 The Backdrop, The Introduction, The Show, The Setting, The Scene – Lemme Paint You A Picture After Pyaari Azaadi Has Painted You One On a late September evening, where an A/C was needed more than ever, sweating through […]
Pyaari Azaadi’s Epic Mission to Mend the World
Our relationship as artist and critic deepened in a profoundly unexpected way as we faced darkness together. Hrag VartanianNovember 12, 2025 Subscribe to our newsletter DailyThe latest stories every weekdayWeeklyEditors’ picks and top storiesOpportunitiesMonthly list for artists and art workersSign in with Google OrSign up Sign in to an existing account Privacy Policy We rely […]
‘No Matter What’: The unshakable pulse of Pen + Brush
By Avalon Ashley Bellos Banality by Dana Ellyn is one of the paintings on display at Pen + Brush, a cultural sanctuary with a lineage so rich it hums beneath the floorboards. Founded in 1893 by painters Mary and Janet Lewis—visionary women who dared to organize at a time when the world had yet to grant […]
Alida Wilkinson Interview with Christopher Squier
Interview by Christopher SquierJune 29, 2025 Original Post Link Pen + Brushpresents The Now: Materiality April 24 – June 7, 2025 Alida Wilkinson is one of three artists included in Pen + Brush’s exhibition The Now: Materiality. I met Allie through friends this past year and was excited to catch the show in its final […]
‘Free, Fearless, Fantastic’ featured on GothamToGo
Pen + Brush is thrilled to announce our first exhibition of 2025 Free, Fearless, and Fantastical, a group exhibition at Pen + Brush, curated by Bina Sarkar Ellias. The exhibition, which prominently features both art and poetry by a notable group of international artists and writers, evokes an exhilarating sense of liberation as a call out to […]
Michela Martello featured in Art Spiel
Art Spiel Posted onOctober 30, 2024 by Eva Zanardi All you need is JUST LOVE: Michela Martello at Pen + Brush In the heart of Manhattan’s Flatiron district, Pen + Brush, a 130-year-old nonprofit dedicated to championing women in the arts, proudly presents JUST LOVE, an immersive, large-scale installation and exhibition by Italian-born Brooklynite Michela Martello. Drawing inspiration from […]
Michela Griffo: The Price We Pay Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail
By Ksenia Soboleva Falling between the cracks of history is a common side effect of queer identity. Few of the queer elders that fought for LGBTQA+ rights in the 1960s have received their due recognition, and as time goes on, less and less of them are still around to receive it. Seasoned activist Michela Griffo was […]
Prism Review: Review of In The Foam of the Blue Waves
In the Foam of the Blue Waves, by Kathleen Wakefield (Pen And Brush) rev. by Lauren Lancaster In the Foam of the Blue Waves is a fiction book published by Pen And Brush in October 2015. Kathleen Wakefield captures Irma’s search for her father, Nicholas, through landscapes and sceneries in California. The author incorporates childhood memories […]