Kimberly Brooks

What Climate Change Might Look Like: Chris Larson's Deep North

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Global Warming, Deep North, North Atlantic Current, Chris Larson, Gulf Stream, Magnus Muller, Climate Change, The Artists Life, First Person Artist, Arts News

Every now and then an artist so vividly articulates a quiet fear that it takes my breath away. Fresh from the celebration of Earth Day, I wanted to share "Deep North" by artist Chris Larson.

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PHOTOS: Celebs Get Creative

Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Express Yourself, Wolfgang Puck, The Bell Family Foundation, Express Yourself 2011, Laura Dern, Steve Carrell, Kimberly Brooks, Ps Arts 2011, Ps Arts, Los Angeles News

On a cozy Sunday afternoon, celebrities escaped the rain storm in the Barker Hanger at the Santa Monica Airport for Express Yourself 2011 hosted by P....

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Wake Me Up When September Ends: This Artweek.LA (September 5-11, 2011)

Bill Bush | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Photography, La Art, Adi Da Samraj, Kimberly Brooks, La Around Town, Kimberly Brooks Artist, Painting, Femininity, Digital Art, Tony Berlant, Arts News

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Street Art Stories: A MOCA Symposium From Brooklyn Street Art And HuffPost Arts

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: LA MoCA, El Sol 25, Tats Cru, Specter, Becki Fuller, Kimberly Brooks, Los Angeles, Elbow Toe, General Howe, Jaime Rojo, Ethel Seno, WK Interact, Steven P. Harrington, Ahmanson Auditorium, c215, Ken Harman, Chris Stain, Keith Haring, Street Art Stories, Martha Cooper, Cake, Slidepollajax, Swoon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marsea Goldberg, Shepard Fairey, Qrst, Bast, Neckface, Ed Templeton, Fauxreel, New Image Gallery, Spoke Art, Nohjcoley, Hi-Fructose, Carlos Gonzalez, Art of Obama, The Date Farmers, Judith Supine, Faile, Arts News

HuffPost Arts and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) hosted a presentation and panel discussion given by Brooklyn Street Art founders ...

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Happy Anniversary, HuffPost Arts!

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Huffpost Arts, Arianna Huffington, Huffpost Aol, Aol, Black Swan, Takashi Murakami, First Person Artist, Arts News

Today marks the first year since we launched HuffPost Arts. What a long way we've come.

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Huffington Post Arts: Celebrating Bloggers and Design Thursdays

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Josephine Meckseper, Huffpost Arts, Doreen Remen, Jacob Slevin, Art Production Fund, David Coggins, Yvonne Force Real, Slidepollajax, Kimberly Brooks, Liz Markus, Dror Benshetrit, Richard Phillips, Design, Design Thursdays, Arts News

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 ...

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PHOTOS: 12 Paintings of Women, 12 Studio Visits

John Seed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Betty Shelton, Simon Hennessy, Bernardo Torrens, Painting, Ginnifer Goodwin, Women, Cynthia Sitton, Margaret McCann, Kathryn Jacobi, Kimberly Brooks, Nicholas Petrucci, Rebecca Campbell, Patricia Cole, Slidepollajax, Duma, Heather Neill, Arts News

Each of this week's diverse paintings is accompanied by a studio photo: in some cases it is the artist's palette along with some technical information, and in some cases the artists have provided studio views.

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Miami Basel: This is Your Brain on Art

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Huffpost Arts, Black Friday, Miami Basel, Kimberly Brooks, Artists, John Baldessari, Mri, Painting, Joan Mitchell, Arts News

What would it look like if we could all walk around with MRI scans hovering above our heads as we took in art? Do different parts of our brains light up when we're taking in a beautiful painting or coveting a cashmere coat?

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Artforum: Slowly Sinking in a Sea of Bloggers? Not Quite...

John Seed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Art Criticism, Blogging, Bloggers, Huffington Post Arts, Artforum, Magazines, Arts News

Embarkation from the Island of Artforum (with apologies to Watteau...) Magazines are in trouble, right? Readers are migrating to the web, where i...

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The Gap Logo, New Coke and the Legendary Walter Landor

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walter Landor, Design, Kimberly Brooks, Art, Design Thursdays, New Coke, San Francisco, The Gap Logo, Arts News

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

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Introducing Haiku Reviews

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chekhov, David Coggins, James Scarborough, Dana Hanson, James Elkins, Angel Corella, Kimberly Brooks, Ballet, Huffpost Arts, Murakami, Debra Levine, David Galensen, Haiku Reviews, Huffington Post Arts Section, Stephen Malkmus, Arts News

Haiku reviews are a quick and easy way for our bloggers to express their opinions -- a series of Tweet-able art reviews coming to you every Friday.

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HUFFPOST EXCLUSIVE: A Painter and a Poet Walk into a Bar...

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rebecca Campbell, Nicole Walker, Poetry, 7 Rings, Art, Kimberly Brooks, Painting, Music, Arts News

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 aw...

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Angelina Jolie, Afghanistan, The New Arts Page

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afganistan, medici.tv, Art, Opera, Sculpture, Angelina Jolie, Kimberly Brooks, Theatre, Arianna, Opinion, Dance, Editorial, Painting, Film, News, Blogging, Arts News

We launched the Huffington Post art page only five weeks ago. Every time I see the tag line below the masthead saying "News and Opinion," I feel the phrase warrants some refinement and clarification.

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PAINTING EVOLUTION: Interview with Artist Liat Yossifor

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Anita Beckers, Paintings, Liat Yossifor, Kimberly Brooks, Icelandic-Eland-Volcanoic-Landic-Volcanoicelandic-Volcano-Eruption, Icelandic Volcano, Gulf Oil Spill, Painting, War in Iraq, Arts News

"Falling Into Ends" New Paintings by Liat Yossifor. June 11- August 30 Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt Germany | Frankenallee 74 | D-60327 Frankfurt...

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HuffPost Arts Week 2: It's Alive

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Seed, Work of Art, James Scarborough, Peter Frank, Kimberly Brooks, Patricia Zohn, Lisa Yuskavage., Huffington Post Arts, Arts News

I ask you, is it not refreshing to go to the Huffington Post, skip along the tabs and and go from seeing celebrities, politicians, oil spills, stock photography, the Kardashians and Sarah Palin to Art?

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Welcome to the New Huffington Post Arts Page

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bettina Korek, Lisa Adams, Peter Frank, Patricia Zohn, James Scarborough, David Coggins, Arts, Art, Kimberly Brooks, Joshua Elias, Dorothy Spears, Peter Clothier, Huffington Post, Nicole Campoy-Leffler, Allison Gibson, Suzanne-Booth, Arianna Huffington, Arts News

The Arts Section will cover the full range of arts and culture -- from painting to music to theater. By engaging artists, critics and arts writers with all the other Huffington Post conversations -- politics, media, style and more -- I hope to ignite even more sparks among readers.

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Kimberly Brooks' The Stylist Project Debuts In Los Angeles

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christina Hendricks, Jordana Brewster, Vanity Fair, Kimberly Brooks, Taylor De Cordoba, Dior, Marisa Tomei, Michael Govan, The Stylist Project, Arianna Huffington, Jessica Paster, Arianne Philips, Perrey Reeves, Art, Janie Bryant, Ginnifer Goodwin, Cameron Silver, Nia Vardalos, Rose Apodaca, Nancy Steiner, Arts, Slideshow, James Van Der Beek, Tracee Ellis Ross, Abbie Cornish, Norman Lear, Arts News

Imagine if you went to a museum, and all the people in the paintings were alive and interactive. That's exactly what happened Monday and it was fascinating.

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Plan ForYourArt, February 25-March 3

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Each Week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings throughout the week ahead to help you Plan ForYourArt, from post-feminist Mary Kelly to artist Mark Grotjahn.

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Kimberly Brooks Paints Stylists: 'I Use Paint, They Use Prada'

wwd.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Fashion, The Stylist Project, Style News

Stylists like Rachel Zoe, Arianne Phillips and Nancy Steiner are used to earning top dollar to make celebrities look camera-ready. But recently they h...

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Marilyn Minter Splashes Los Angeles (PHOTOS)

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Gavlak Gallery, Salon 94, Regen Projects, Billboard Art, Marilyn Minter, Kimberly Brooks, Fashion, Video Installations, Green Pink Caviar, Female Artists, Home News

Luscious. Naughty. Saturated. Decadent. Such is the moment we are immersed in when we stand in front of the art of Marilyn Minte

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Fear And Faith: The Art Of Rebecca Campbell

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe Gallery, La-Louver-Gallery, Kimberly Brooks, Ghosts, Rebecca Campbell, Said the Lady to the Man, Female Artists, Painting, The Inner Life, Poltergeist, LA Louver Gallery, Memories, Home News

There is a passage in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables that makes me think of Rebecca Campbell's installations and paintings -- both are at once familiar and menacing.

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The Man Who Attended His Own Funeral

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Synagogue, Funeral, Death, Leonard Shlain, Goddess, Kimberly Brooks, Evolution, Tiffany Shlain, Green Buriel, Shrine, Video, Arts News

There was my father on a huge screen next to the platform in the center of the synagogue. He said, "I always wanted to attend my own funeral. Well...I'm here!"

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A Vigil for My Father, Leonard Shlain

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Leonard Shlain, Einstein, Albert Brooks, Dying, Physics, Picasso, Vigil, Kimberly Brooks, Jordan Shlain, Ina Gyemant, Living, Tiffany Shlain, Heisenberg, Arts News

I asked him the other day while I was helping him add quotes to his newest book: "Are you afraid to die?" "No" he said." I'm not afraid to die. I just want to live."

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Curb The Swine Flu: Lose The American Handshake

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Dan Fishel, India, Custom, Handshake, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, Handhakes, Video, Arts News

With global travel, chronic antibiotic overuse and an ever greater means by which a virus can spread across the globe, why must we touch hands every time we meet or greet someone?

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The Art Of The Headshot: Everyone's A Real Estate Agent

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Bijan, Albrecht Durer, Branding, Marketing, Kimberly Brooks, Real Estate Agent, Picasso, Maureen Dowd, Einstein, Ken Goldberg, Female Artist, Arts News

Whether an activist, writer, blogger, student or artist, everyone has a headshot. Now, let us examine a couple rules, shall we?

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