"Technicolor Summer" 44 x 36 in. Oil on Linen. That summer my father was battling an invisible but terminal illness. His white blood cells were so low that we couldn't fly anywhere. The family took four vacations all around California, to anywhere we could drive. There were a lot of...

I'm thrilled today to unveil and launch the ImageBlog, a communal platform for artists from all over the world to share and engage. Featured artists submit images of their work -- in whole, in detail, or in progress -- with a caption of any length, but unlike a...

"Hot Faucet" Oil on Linen 20 x 20 in.
There used to be a flea market where there is now a shopping mall in Marin City, in between Mill Valley and Sausalito in northern California. In the late 1970s my mother would take us there and teach us...

If I were Queen, I would make everyone repeat after me:

"Technology is addictive and allowing children to attempt to regulate themselves is akin to helping them regulate their use of cocaine or alcohol."

I started to have the desire to be Queen when smartphones invaded my children's...

I'm lucky enough to have caught on video the exact moment when I was running along side my daughter's bicycle as she was learning how to ride for the first time and I let her free. As soon as she was balancing on her own, I had this huge beaming...

Although I had met her several times before at dinners, about two years ago Nora Ephron invited me to lunch next time I was in New York. Lunch. With. Nora. Ephron. It was the first of several. I'm still in shock over the news of her death. To console myself,...

This week marks the two year anniversary that we launched HuffPost Arts and I couldn't be more proud and amazed.

The real journey had began two and a half years ago when Arianna asked me, a painter, to launch it. I had been a regular contributor since HuffPost's inception --...

"The artist, with little or no awareness of what is going on in the field of physics, manages to conjur up images and metaphors that are strikingly appropriate when superimposed upon the conceptual framework of the physicist's later revisions of our ideas about physical reality. Repeatedly throughout history, the artist...

Today, June 16th, marks the first year since we launched HuffPost Arts. What a long way we've come. At the time, I was grateful to finally have a forum for artists and writers to share their work and ideas about contemporary art; to provide a platform...

In her most recent body of work, "hello stranger," Israeli artist Maya Bloch continues to set herself free from the tyranny of the literal world and creates this new one, in liquid silver, where she introduces a cast of characters that peer through the paint that, mask-like, encases them. A...

It was only nine months ago that the Arts page launched on the Huffington Post, and just five months that Huffington Post Arts' Design Thursdays went into full flight. We had yet to officially celebrate in New York and with so many designers gathered in New...

It's hard to believe we launched the arts section less than six months ago. I consider it such an honor to provide so much oxygen to so many artists and different kinds of art. As we approach end of this year, I've created a round-up of milestones and highlights since...

On what turned out to be "Black Friday" in the late afternoon, I headed east to Beverly Hills to see Joan Mitchell's The Last Decade show at the Gagosian Gallery. I found a parking space a few blocks away and fought my way through...

MOCA shot itself out of an artistic canon Saturday night as it celebrated it's entry into its fourth decade in a happening masterminded artist Doug Aitken. While last year's MOCA Gala had international flair featuring Italian Artist Francesco Vezzoli, Russia's Bolshoi Ballet and New York's Lady Gaga --with...

The introduction and subsequent rescinding of The Gap Logo unleashed a series memories of my younger self and the visionary designer Walter Landor.

I was a freshman at UC Berkeley. Being the always drawing-painting-coloring-designing "creative-type" kid, my father thought I might enjoy a lecture at SFMOMA by the...

I was lying in bed the other night thinking about all the art and performances overflowing out there and thought "I wish there was a quick an easy way for our reviewers to express their opinions-- a short review form" without having to agonize over a longer blog with images....

A transplant myself, I especially love recent New York immigrants to Los Angeles. Their pallor is still a bit pasty and a bright sharpened halo hovers about them like static electricity. Eventually the golden light, the horizon lines and all those "superficial vapid people"...

Great art can transform us. Great performance can transfix us. Great design can do both, and we can use it. I am proud (and humbled) to announce the launch of Design Thursdays, a new bi-weekly feature on the arts section, where we will concertedly splatter the page with articles and...

In Katie Roiphe's recent article "The Allure of Messy Lives" about Mad Men this past Sunday, Roiphe speaks of the current fascination and wistful awe for a world where stylish men and women think nothing of three martini lunches, smoking while pregnant,...

Shshshshshsh... Listen carefully. Hear that sound? The chainsaws and the hammers? There's a large pit where I'm standing where the theater and concert hall are going. And then of course the artist colony is over there, and the beautiful glass and wood dance hall...