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Can This Rolling Stone Rocker Really Paint?

Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Video, Kate Moss, Celebrity Artist, Painter, Mick Jagger, Rock-N-Roll, Lucien Freud, Ronnie Wood, Rolling Stone, Damien Hirst, Slidepollajax, Rolling Stones, Jack Nicholson, Rock Star, Arts News

As the guitarist of the Rolling Stones, Ronnie Wood seemingly indulged in a lifestyle of sex, drugs and rock-n-roll. Yet when it comes to art, the wil...

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Happy Birthday, Max Ernst!

Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Painters, Dada, Video, Painter, Germany, German Art, Sculptor, Marcel Duchamp, Contemporary Art, Abstract Expressionism, Wwi, Surrealism, Max Ernst, Dada Movement, Arts News

Happy Birthday to one of our favorite surrealists, Max Ernst. Ernst's attitude towards authority was affected early on by his strict, religious father...

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Kehinde Wiley's Take On Israeli Youth

Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Portraiture, The World Stage: Israel, Art, Paintings, Painter, Kehinde Wiley, The Jewish Museum, Contemporary Art, Israel, Painting, Portraits, Slidepollajax, Video, Arts News

Kehinde Wiley's paintings challenge our conventional views of portraiture by featuring black men in a mix of regal and street poses, using the brighte...

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National Medal Awards at the White House

Barbara Ernst Prey | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Classical Music, President, America?S Artists, Music, Writer, Arts, Award, National Medal of Arts, Charles Rosen, America, The White House, Author, Creativity, Painting, President of the United States, Rita Dove, Portrait, Pianist, National Medals, Economics, Mel Tillis, Contemporary Art, Artist, Al Pacino, Andre Watts, Sculptor, Washington DC, John Ashbury, United States, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The National Endowment for the Arts, Art Patron, Country Music, Nobel Laureate, First Ladies, Martin Puryear, Actor, Culture, Visual Arts, Painter, Philanthropist, Jim Watson, Printmaker, Arts News

Every visit to the White House is special, but there is something very exciting about witnessing this event. Perhaps it is because I am a painter and I understand the years of work that went into what they have achieved and I can rejoice with them in their successes.

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Debilitated Artist Finds Freedom In The Water

Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Painters, Video, Painter, Guillain-Barre-Syndrome, Alfredo De Batuc, Documentary, Documentary Film, Art Documentary, Film, Guillain Barre, Eric Minh Swenson, Arts News

Artist Alfredo de Batuc always felt at home in the water, but he never knew it would come to represent his freedom after a debilitating disease would ...

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Meet the Bad Boy of the Art World: Brian Ermanski (VIDEO)

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: New York Times, Art, Brian Ermanski, Vogue, Mtv, New York, Painter, crane.tv, Provocative, Artist, Video, Arts News

New York City just can't get enough of him. And that's not to mention some major collectors on either side of the pond whose interest is piqued by the artist in eyeliner and a top hat, toting a hand painted boombox wherever he goes.

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Johnny Depp: Artist?

Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Depp Richards, Actor Painter, Playboy, Painter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Depp, Johnny Depp, The Rum Diaries, Tim Burton, Keith Richards, Depp Painter, Arts News

We know the talented Mr. Depp for his eccentric caricatures, flamboyant swagger and uncanny ability to rock eyeliner. But in the vein of Hollywood boy...

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PHOTOS: Painted Mystery: Herbert Brandl's 'Mazes of Symbols'

Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Cezanne, Herbert Brandl, Painter, New Exhibition, Brandl, Portugese Painters, Contemporary Painting, Painting, UK Arts, Arts News

A haphazard description of Herbert Brandl's work might be 'abstract,' seeing as his forms are not quite recognizable as his shapes succumb to electrif...

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Astoria Characters: The Pane-Air Painter

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 12.25.2011

For three decades, Berch and his brushes have been beautifying Astoria, and for three decades, he's stayed pretty much behind the glass.

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Behind the Scenes With Muralist Jeff Zimmermann

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Fear No Art Chicago, Chicago Mural, Painter, Fear No Art, Murals, Chicago Murals, Chicago Muralist, Chicago, Muralist, Jeff Zimmermann, Chicago Artist, Chicago Around Town, Chicago News

The chances are pretty good that if you have seen a major mural in Chicago in the city or on the expressway, it was created by muralist Jeff Zimmermann.

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NASA Art/50 Years at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Perspectives from a NASA Artist

Barbara Ernst Prey | Posted 10.17.2011

I had a call from NASA to be their artist spokesperson for the opening of NASA Art/50 Years at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. NASA ...

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Florence: Art On and Off the Beaten Path

Barbara Ernst Prey | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Leonardo Da Vinci, Italy, Europe, Watercolor, Pitti Palace, Museum Exhibit, Rome, Museum, Contemporary Art, Artist, Still Life, Michaelangelo, Musei Capitolini, Tuscany, Rafael, New York, Art Exhibit, Harvard, Rijks Museum, Metropolitan Museum, New Yorker, Casa Buonarrotti, Painter, Williams College, Art, Florence, Art History, Amsterdam, Strozzi, Uffizi, Arts News

In a city overflowing with art and history, there are always under-appreciated works to be seen and enjoyed. Having visited this Mecca for art-lovers several times in the past, I returned for another look.

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Behind the Scenes with Painter Virginia Mallard

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Virginia Mallard, Fear No Art Chicago, Painter, Fear No Art, Painting, Chicago Painter, Chicago Art Leasing, Elysabeth Alfano, Chicago News

Painter Virginia Mallard's incredible enthusiasm and ingenuity, in both painting and life, are striking.

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Behind the Scenes With Musician and Artist, Jon Langford

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Jon Langford, Fear No Art Chicago, Painter, Punk Rock, Fear No Art, The Mekons, Skull Orchard, Rock N' Roll, Skull Orchard Revisited, Art Chicago, Painting, Musician, The Waco Brothers, Elysabeth Alfano, Chicago News

Has punk rock come and gone? Not exactly. I visited the music and painting studio of The Mekons' lead singer, Jon Langford, to see the life of an ongoing rocker.

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Neil Boyle, Molly Malone's and Pretty in Pink

Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Irish Bar, Ken O'Malley, St. Patrick's Day, Molly Malone's LA, Painter, Neil Boyle, The Mulligans, Fine Oil Paintings, Pretty in Pink, Tom Amandes, Scott Burdick, Fine Art, Arts News

Neil's most profound contribution to Molly Malone's was his art. His beautiful, evocative, incredibly special art. Over 70 of his oil paintings hang in that little bar to this day.

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Franketienne: Haiti's First Nobel Laureate - Hopefully

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marcel Duret, French, Voodoo, Unesco, Mario Benjamin, Emmelie Prophete, The Trap, Environmental Disaster, Literature, Sado-Masochism, Andre Breton, Gran Makout, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia, Memoire D'encrier, Jim Luce, Jacques-Stephen Alexis, CUNY Graduate Center, Chaos Theory, Haitian-Americans, Abstract Work, Tragic Clown, Thought Leader, Apocalypse, Baron Samedi, Artist for Peace, Surrealism, Carlton University, Rachel Douglas, Japan, Papa Doc, Cultural Area Studies, Vodou Pantheon, Nobel Prize, Noble Laureate, Ile en Ile, Thomas Spear, Brooklyn Public Library, University of Liverpool, Earthquake, Poetry, Kaiama L. Glover, Intellectual, Giulietta Masina, Kabuki, Creole, Galaxie Chaos-Babel, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, City College of New York, Author, Seanna Sumalee Oakle, Stewardship Report, Evens Anozine, Jlsr, Marie Coron, Port-Au-Prince, Vodou Priest, University of Nebraska, Baby Doc, Luce Index, Emmanuel Duogene, Duvalier Regime, University of Maryland, Alvina Ruprecht, Stanford L. Luce, Lewdness, Beatrice Coron, Artist, Death, Alessandra Benedicty, Haiti, New York City, France, Columbia University, Caribbean, Franck Etienne, Playwright, Painter, Global Citizen, Flowers of Insomnia, Mary Cobb Wittrock, January 12, Musician, Guede, Franketienne, Melovivi, Wordplay, Scatologu, Arts News

As a cultural area studies graduate, seldom do I feel over my head culturally. Standing in the home of possibly the next Nobel Prize recipient for Li...

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Painter Evelyn Twitchell Distills Nature On Canvas

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Gallery, Painters, Slideshow, Painter, New York Art Openings, Nature, Evelyn Twitchell, New York Art Galleries, Painting, Art Exhibitions, Arts News

WHO: Evelyn Twitchell WHAT: Drawn from Nature WHEN: September 7, 2010 to October 2, 2010 WHERE: Bowery Gallery 530 West 25th Street, 4th Floor Ne...

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Blague d'Art: Dix's Mix (No Quick Fix)

Peter Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Painter, Otto-Dix, Neue Galerie, New York Art Galleries, Exhibitions, Painting, Art Galleries, New York, Art Exhibitions, Arts News

OTTO DIX, Group Portrait: Guenther Franke, Paul Ferdinand Schmidt, and Karl Nierendorf, 1923, Oil on canvas, 15 3/4 x 29 1/8 inches, Nationalgalerie,...

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Victims In $3.6 Billion Ponzi Protest Court Process

Andrew Kreig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minnesota, Bankruptcy, Frost, Montgomery, Minneapolis, Ritchie, Kreig, Integrity, Ventura, Painter, Wellstone, Justice, Tom-Petters, Hillsman, Procida, Kelley, Merriner, Business News

Victims of the $3.6 billion financial fraud by Minnesota businessman Tom Petters are justifiably angry about the federal victim-restitution process th...

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PHOTO: Guess The Artist Responsible For This Masterpiece

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boston, Painters, Polls, Quiz, Artwork, Painter, Poll, Museums, Dancers, Velazquez, Art Museums, Painting, Portraits, Arts News

This painting, displayed large in the foyer of a Boston museum, is among the most famous works by this canonical American artist. HINTS: this painti...

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WATCH: Global Warming Graffiti Art

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Co2, Co2 Emissions, Co2 Reduction, Video, Painter, 350.Org, Environment, Environmentalism, Artists, Painting, Global Warming, Arts News

Take one lightning fast painter and pair him with a serious environmental threat and you've got 350.org's latest (and coolest) video. The environment...

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French Contemporary Artist and Legend CharlElie Couture in New York City

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Rock Manifesto, Switzerland, Local à Louer, Writer, French Contemporary Art, Thought Leaders, Island Record, Wikipedia, Global Citizens, French Embassy, Painting, Oiww, Russell Simmons, Photography, John Lee, Wynton Marsalis, Charlélie Couture, Tom Novembre, Editions Du Chene, Sculpture, Inner Landscapes, Damon Dash, New York City, Composer, 12 Songs in Sawdust, France, Art Search, Def Jam Music, Les Champs Paraboliques, The Big RE-Construction, Painter, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-Arts, Art, Global Citizenship Award, Orphans International Worldwide, Singer, Manifeste De L?Art Rock, Neo-Constructivism, Photo-Grafs, Dadaism, Multism, New York News

We first met French Contemporary Artist CharlElie Couture at the French Embassy in New York for the Wynton Marsalis ceremony in the fall of 2009. He ...

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Lifetime Paints a Picture of Georgia O'Keeffe

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photographer, Alfred Stieglitz, Jereny Irons, Georgia O'Keefe, Painter, Joan Allen, Art Impresario, Entertainment News

Georgia O'Keefe presents an interesting story but not a triumphant one. The interweaving of Stieglitz and O'Keefe's lives keeps the plot moving but never touches the heart or even the mind of the viewer.

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