Artnet

In Pictures: The Museum of Arts and Design’s ‘Funk You Too!’ Exhibition Traces the Irreverent Roots of the Contemporary Clay Craze

The new show “Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture,” at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), articulates the links between groups of artists working in a once-neglected, now ...
Untapped Cities

Join a Curator-Led Tour of the MAD Museum’s Funky Sculpture Exhibit

The Funk Art movement began on the West Coast in the 1960s. It sprang from a group of artists who shared anti-establishment views of what makes “good art.” These artists found new ways to use clay and ...
Untapped Cities

See Funky Clay Sculptures at MAD Museum’s New Sculpture Exhibit

Humor and irreverence are the themes of the latest art exhibit at Manhattan’s Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). In Funk You Too!, visitors will see 50 different ceramic sculptures from the 1960s to the ...
Santa Barbara Independent

Art and Soul Among the Funk

Many art galleries in Santa Barbara go by the plan of a main-drag location, discoverable to walk-up traffic as well as regulars. The relatively young Art & Soul, one of the new galleries on (or off) ...
The Washington Post

Painter Roy DeForest; Tied to Funk Art Movement

Roy DeForest, a painter often associated with the Bay Area Funk artists who captured attention in the 1960s for their cartoon-like images, pop-culture themes and Dadaist-style irony, has died. He was ...
Hyperallergic

Looking Back at the Strange and Surly History of Bay Area Funk Art

View of the Funk show (1967) in the Powerhouse Gallery at U.C. Berkeley (image courtesy BAMPFA) SAN FRANCISCO — It was sometime after 8:15 pm on April 28, 1967, in the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall ...