I find portraits so intriguing because you can choose to capture someone in any manner. A painting can express so much more about the subject than a photo, as it is up to the artist's creativity.
Posted 03.15.2012
Amanda LaMunyon, a talented 16-year-old artist, has Asperger's Syndrome. Instead of being a setback, however, this allows her to concentrate on her pa...
Michael Kaiser | Posted 04.14.2012
While not every child today has the opportunity to dance, act, sing or play an instrument, there will always be a group of extraordinary people who have a need to express themselves and the have ability to do so. We need to continue to provide vehicles for these young artists.
The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 01.24.2012
Artist Janice Wu says that she believes inanimate objects "can become playful and even precious" with a little simple re-imagining. Her intricate ...
Rachel Schwartzmann | Posted 03.11.2012
Art, unlike us as humans, is immortal. No matter how much others try to censor it, question it, criticize it or destroy it, art is a central part of this world -- and it should be.
Mat Gleason | Posted 03.06.2012
It is 2012, but in the art world it is often still 1966. Some of the "traditions" underlying the business side of the gallery and museum world date back decades. Don't let 'em fool you that they are hip.
AP | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Posted 03.05.2012
WARSAW, Poland — Art student Andrzej Sobiepan didn't want to wait decades for his work to appear in museums. So he took matters in his own hands...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 12.01.2011
This is the fourth in an occasional series examining the recession's impact on culture, The Recessionary Arts. Find out more about the series here. ...
Posted 11.20.2011
(Via Beautiful/Decay) Micah Ganske’s paintings will give you a headache….in a good way. The unbelievable amount of detail that goes into his of...
Posted 09.09.2011
Houston artist Natalie Irish paints, or rather kisses, portraits of cultural figures using only her lipsticked lips. According to Irish's website, she...
Posted 05.25.2011
To play the piano well is a challenge in and of itself. Pianists study diligently for years and consider themselves students even well into illustrio...
Andrew Gorin | Posted 05.25.2011
Review of The Open: an exhibition of thirty works by thirty-one emerging artists at Jeffrey Deitch's satellite location in Long Island City
Danielle Lauder | Posted 04.23.2012