Modern Art

The Unjuried Art Show

Kristen Hotham Carroll | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Art Gallery, Art Show, Key West, Traditional Arts, Artist, Thomas Kinkade, Modern Art, Unjuried, Arts News

As the visual arts teeter on the edge of irrelevance, perhaps our best next step is to let our consumers have more of a voice. Inclusion is almost always a better strategy than exclusion, isn't it?

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Willing Suspension of Belief

Brian D. Cohen | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Education, Modern Art, Art Appreciation, Arts News

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been concealed by the answers. -- James Baldwin Art does not reproduce the visible; rather,...

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Artist Yevgeniy Fiks Asks the Question, Once More, "Is Modern Art Communistic?"

ARTINFO | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Communism, Artinfo, Modern Art, Paris, Galerie Sator, Art, Arts News

Yevgeniy Fiks Galerie Sator, Paris January 14-March 3 The two decades that have passed since the Soviet Union's demise have rendered many aspects of ...

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Insightful Photo Portraits by Dutch Master in Retrospective at SFMOMA

Leo Stutzin | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Photography, Portraiture, Rineke Dijkstra Retrospective, Modern Art, Dijkstra, Sfmoma, San Francisco, Dutch Master, Dijkstra Portraiture Exhibit, Moma, MOMA Photography Exhibits, San Francisco News

To look at Rineke Dijkstra's images of a teen-aged girl on a beach or a Portuguese bullfighter who has just emerged from the ring is to see the subject. The person in front of the camera is all that matters, not the person who released the shutter.

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The Steins' Avant-Garde Collection Shows At The Met

Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Juan Gris, Maurice Denis, Cubism, Tender Buttons, Jacques Lipchitz, Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henri Manguin, Elie Nadelman, Francis Picabia, André Masson, Metropolitan Museum of Art Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, UK Arts, Stein Salon, Matisse, Henri Matisse, Steins Collect, New York Art Exhibitions, Midnight in Paris, Met Steins Collect, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Marie Laurencin, Female Artists, Arts News

Anyone who has seen "Midnight In Paris" knows that the Stein house was the place to be if you were an aspiring artist, writer, musician or socialite. ...

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David LaChapelle on the Downfalls of Modern Art (VIDEO)

Crane.tv | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Photography, Exhibition, Rihanna, Courtney Love, Whitney Houston, Lachapelle, S&M, David Lachapelle, London, Andy Warhol, Michael Jackson, Art, crane.tv, Fashion, Celebrity, Gallery, Interview Magazine, Elton John, Earth Laughs in Flowers, Modern Art, Glamour, Sex, Contemporary Art, Portrait, Video, Arts News

The photographer David LaChapelle needs little introduction. Since Andy Warhol offered him his first job at Interview magazine back in 1984 he has bec...

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Art as Vocation: A Conversation With Camille Saint-Jacques

David Galenson | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Camille Saint-Jacques, Art Today, Camille Saint Jaques, Pop Artists, Modern Art, Saint-Jaques Art, Modern Artists, Pop Art, Arts News

On a cold, sunny day in Paris, the Sunday before Christmas, I met Camille Saint-Jacques for lunch at a beautiful traditional bistro near the Drouot auction house. He agreed to talk about what it had been like to be a young artist in Paris.

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What "Liberty/Liberté" Tells Us About Slavery, Black History, and Raw Nerves

Louise Mirrer | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: American Revolution, Sojourner Truth, George Washington, Modern Art, Slavery, Venice Biennale, Founding Fathers, Fred Wilson, Toussaint L?Ouverture, Napoleon Bonaparte, Black Voices News

Why has a work by the African-American artist Fred Wilson -- an installation piece that riffs on the topic by assembling authentic slave shackles, slave chains and Revolutionary-era icons -- been such a sore point with critics? We must have struck a raw nerve.

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Art + Fashion = Life by Design for L.A. Couple

Tom Teicholz | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Los Angeles Artists, Moshe Elimelech, Shelli Segal, Art, Fashion, Modern Art, Arts News

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It's Art, But Is It a Book?

Jules Siegel | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Artist Books, Modern Art, Book Art, Slidepollajax, Conceptual Art, Post-Modernist Books, Books News

The works depicted here will be in museums and collections while Masters: Book Arts will be in libraries. Masters: Book Arts is a collaborative, corporate work of art.

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Artist Plans To Bury A Plane In The Desert

AP | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Boeing, Burying 727, Kern County, Modern Art, Burying Plane, Boeing 727, Christopher Buchel, California Art, Christopher Buchel Plane, Airplane Art, Arts News

Artist Plans To Bury 727 Jetliner In Calif. Desert

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The One-Percenter Art World

Brian D. Cohen | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Art Collecting, Art World, Modern Art, Art Market, Art Sales, Art Galleries, Art Auctions, Arts News

The analogy occurred to me: the Art World is to Art as Wall Street is to Democracy; the former no longer a vital contributor to the latter.

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Which Impressionist Painter Had A Lovechild With His Piano Teacher?

Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Art, Video, Edouard Manet, French-Impressionists, Modern Art, Impressionists, Impressionism, Contemporary Art, Manet, French Arts, Impressionist Art, French Art, Arts News

Today marks the 180th Birthday of Edouard Manet, the outspoken artist synonymous with forward-thinking movements such as Impressionism and Realism. Ma...

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Happy Birthday Cezanne!

Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, Art, Cubism, Art Quiz, France, Modern Art, Impressionism, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Paris, Arts News

Today marks the 173rd birthday of the French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne. If Impressionism is considered to be the first modern art moveme...

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WATCH: Art You Just Have To Touch

Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art, Video, New Art, Modern Art, Touchable Art, Sydney-Museum-of-Contemporary-Art, Postmodern Art, Arts News

You may be used to the hands-off vibe of most museums, but one exhibit at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art encourages just the opposite. In a fu...

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Phenomenal

Peter Clothier | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Art, Review, San Diego, Modern Art, Art Installation, Southern California, Arts News

As I've said, I'm a sucker when it comes to California Light/Space art. I arrived in California in 1968, when the movement was still at its height.

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Four Famous Artists in Stunning Exhibit at Getty Villa

Jay Weston | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Picabia, Picasso, Getty Museum, Leger, La Art, Marie-Therese Walter, Getty Villa, La Around Town, Dechirico, Modern Art, Los Angeles News

If you haven't been to the Getty Villa in awhile, now is the time to plan a quick trip there. The current show is an exhibition of four giants of the modern art world: Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Giorgio de Chirico, and Francis Picabia.

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Art Basel Miami Beach: Awesome

Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D. | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Miami Beach, Miami, Yves Klein, Florida, Art, Art Basel, ARt Exhibition, Art Museum, December, Collins Avenue, Modern Art, South Florida, Miami Around Town, Miami News

"Awesome" is a word I reserve for a few select things I have experienced, including walking on the Great Wall of China and my mom's Reuben sandwiches. Art Basel Miami Beach is also on that list.

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Yoko Ono's Next Stop: New Delhi

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: India, The Beatles, Video, Yoko Ono India, John Lennon, Modern Art, Yoko Ono, Vadhera Gallery, Beatles, India Art, Performance Art, Roshni Vadhera, Arts News

Yoko Ono is heading to New Delhi. The 78-year-old artist and widow of John Lennon hopes to find inspiration and view an exhibition of her artwork at a...

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Miami Art Week Showcases The Bold And Beautiful

JustLuxe | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Miami, Art, Miami Art Week, Culture, Lifestyle News, Artists, Philippe Starck, Nas, Modern Art, Museums, Slidepollajax, Damien Hirst, Art Basel, Travel News

Just 15 years ago, the creative works most strongly associated with Miami were the cop drama Miami Vice, the underworld epic Scarface and Will Smith's hit single "Welcome to Miami."

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Banksy In The Running For 'Bad Art' Prize

Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: UK, Mona Lisa, Jokes, Tate Gallery London, Spoof Art, Art, Turner Prize, Banksy Street Art, London Art, Modern Art, Street Art, Spoof, UK Art, Tate Gallery, Joke Art, London, Banksy, Turnip Prize, Arts News

Renowned street artist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Banksy is now seeking recognition for his awful artwork. The Turnip Prize, in contrast to the car...

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New York Art Critic Offers Money, Sex for Fake Painting

Lisa Derrick | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Eric Doerringer, Marian Goodman, Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock, Jerry Saltz, Abstract Expressionist, Modern Art, Gerhard Richter, Arts News

New York Magazine's art critic Jerry Saltz loves Gerhard Richter's paintings. A lot. So much so that the three-time Pulitzer nominee offered either $1,000 or a sex act to any artist who could make him a replica.

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Art in the Ownership Society

Sam Chaltain | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Brett Cook, Art, Occupy Wall Street Protest, MOCA Los Angeles, Moca, Marina Abramovic, Occupy Wall Street, New York Times, Modern Art, #Occupywallstreet, Los Angeles, Eli Broad, Maria Abramovic, Maria Abramovic Art, Arts News

The core questions animating the MOCA event weren't representative of any shared vision of the world; they were reflective of an ersatz veneration of the art of the spectacle itself.

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PHOTOS: Evil Cartoons Illustrated In Wood

Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Juxtapoz-Jeremy-Fish, Jeremy Fish, Mark Moore Gallery, Modern Art, Street Art, Woodcut, Contemporary Art, Woodcutting, Kenichi Yokono, Sf-Art, San Francisco Art, California Art, Arts News

Jeremy Fish is known for his intricate, fantasy-inspired juxtapositions of life and death, but lately, the artists has been expanding his repertoire t...

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7 Easy Ways To Make People Think You're A Millionaire

Vicky Oliver | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Thank You Notes, Slidepollajax, Valley Girl, Millionares, Manners, Pseudonyms, Modern Art, Books News

I believe it's possible to mingle with millionaires, party with plutocrats, and enjoy the good life, all while living on a budget. If one can dream it, one can live it. And be treated like an important person too.

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