Art in America

Photographer Takes An Adventurous Image A Day For 13 Years And Counting

The Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 01.06.2012

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In 1999, Toronto-based photographer Jeff Harris began taking a photo of himself each day as an alternative to all those diaries he started but couldn'...

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In Conversation With Wilfredo Rosado

Adriana Teresa Letorney | Posted 03.06.2012

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Adriana Teresa Letorney

Three years later, I came across this beautiful, edgy jewelry collection stamped with his name, and at that very moment, I saw Wilfredo Rosado -- the man, the artist and his vision -- exposed in each unique piece.

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The Front Line Photographer

Tom Christie | Posted 03.06.2012

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Tom Christie

A grenade was thrown over the wall, its shrapnel catching both the soldier and the photographer. Anja Niedringhaus was evacuated to a military hospital in Kandahar. A few days later, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning photographer flew to India for another assignment.

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When High Met Low In 2011

The Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 12.26.2011

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The increasing proliferation of available outlets with which to celebrate, lampoon, meme-ify, discuss, and criticize every aspect of culture has offic...

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PHOTOS: Picasso's Drawings Travel The US

Posted 12.26.2011

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Picasso's iconic works are embedded permanently in our collective art memories, yet there are so many pieces just as mesmerizing and innovative which ...

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Amy Lee

Does Shakespeare's Bleakest Play Work For Children?

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 12.26.2011

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"So great is the suffering depicted in Shakespeare's 'King Lear' that one has trouble finding the words to write about it," begins the Folger Shakespe...

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75-Year-Old Theater Forced To Take 1-Year Hiatus

| Posted 12.21.2011

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This is the eighth in an occasional series examining the recession's impact on culture, The Recessionary Arts. Read more from the series here. By A...

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Christina Ricci Will Star In This Shakespeare Play

AP | Posted 12.21.2011

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NEW YORK -- Christina Ricci's stage debut last year apparently didn't scare her off – she's going back. Producers said Tuesday the "Pan Am" sta...

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Gazelle Emami

Will We Have A 'Migrant Mother'?

HuffingtonPost.com | Gazelle Emami | Posted 12.21.2011

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This is the seventh in an occasional series examining the recession's impact on culture, The Recessionary Arts. Read more from the series here. Of ...

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Moving? Take Care When Transporting Works of Art

Daniel Grant | Posted 01.25.2012

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Daniel Grant

Works of art and antiques are frequently a casualty of do-it-yourselfers or those who hire movers who don't have specific expertise in transporting art.

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PHOTOS: Painter Depicts 'Gods And Mortals', Beauty And Death

Posted 08.14.2011

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In Zsolt Bodoni's second solo show at the Mihai Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles, "Gods and Mortals," he further explores the world of figurative painti...

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Time for Recess in Soho

Liza Weisberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Liza Weisberg

At Recess, the studio and exhibition space converge, providing emerging artists with a flexible platform to produce, display and collaborate with the public, often all at once.

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His Name Was Craig: Growing Up as an Artist With Craig Kauffman

Lisa Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lisa Adams

Though Craig will best be remembered for his 1960's Finish Fetish work in vacuum-formed three-dimensional plastic, I remember him best for his manner and quality of drawing.

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Painter Julio Valdez: In the Same Path as the Sun

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

Rarely have I been speechless when I walk into an exhibition, but the latest aqua paintings of Julio Valdez really touched me.

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