Last Friday morning all was going normally on the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn as the cool, crisp breeze of a sunny May day made New York as it ...
As an oil painter, I had always been interested in the craft of the materials. But after fifteen years of painting, it began to seem like I was workin...
Janice Nowinski's "Seated Girl II" -- a blocky little nude with dun colored thighs and heavy umber fingers -- is a bit of a flirt. She is, in fact, th...
Siddharth Parasnis, "Two Houses in the Country #4," Oil on canvas, 50' x 40" Siddharth Parasnis, who was the subject of a one-person show at Dolby...
April's top painting posts reflect an interest among contemporary artists in a broader narrative of painting.
May is traditionally the last month of the art world "season." As summer looms, rhythms change and many galleries choose to mount group exhibitions in...
In the last painting class I attended, two students left on the first night because of the fumes. As we become more aware of environmental and health issues, more artists will say goodbye to the fumes.
The first time I heard about the importance of having really good works of art displayed in hospitals, I thought to myself, what a strange idea.
How many award winning dress designers do anything to be noticed, to get fame, yet sell next to nothing? Then we wonder why they self destruct! Fashion-art is meant to be profitable.
The Italian colors, the clay earth, the buildings, the vast quilts of man-made fields really overwhelmed me. I was clueless as to how to make the shiny saturated colors coming out of my tubes comment on the experiences I was having discovering a new world.
One of Japan's most celebrated cultural treasures, "Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings" by Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800) is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington through April 29.
Why One Brooklyn Stick Up Kid is Worth Watching Sometimes on the street you get an inkling of the future. It could be an overheard excerpt from a cel...
Untitled (Poppies Against a Storm), 2011 oil on canvas 30 x 30 inches © Bruce Cohen, Courtesy of Louis Stern Fine Arts In Bruce Cohen's...
He has discovered that chaos has an aesthetic, but you cannot impose an aesthetic on chaos -- you just keep rolling the dice until you get an outcome you like.