I visited Baltimore on Thursday, and checked out Mount Vernon Place. It's a historic area of the city, with four rectangular parks, arranged around a ...
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.15.2008 | Living
As an artist, I consider art on a sort of spectrum in my mind by the manner in which it is rendered. I picture two opposing ends: one a chemist, who ...
Paige Donner | Posted 03.14.2008 | Living
Art in harmony with Nature is what the G2 Gallery in Venice Beach, CA, is all about. The gallery opened March 11th and is housed in its very own eco-friendly building.
Jan Herman | Posted 02.21.2008 | Media
The 79-year-old graphic designer perhaps most famous for creating the I Love NY logo had a dose of surprising advice last week for the propagandists among us.
Nina Kotick | Posted 02.13.2008 | Entertainment
If Eli Broad has his way, LA will be the contemporary art capital of the world.
moreintelligentlife.com | Ariel Ramchandani | Posted 02.04.2008 | Living
She's lovely of course, Parmigianino's "Antea." Standing alone in the centre of the Oval Room at the Frick, surrounded by portraits that somehow pale ...
Ben Rosen | Posted 01.20.2008 | Business
So, the best music in the world performed by the best performers can be easily and inexpensively enjoyed and owned by anyone anywhere. Not so in the visual arts.
Barry Yourgrau | Posted 12.30.2007 | Entertainment
From 2007 encounters, some of the film, books, art, blogs, etc. that linger in my own mind:
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.11.2007 | Entertainment
There is an established art machine that isn't going to change. But there is plenty of room for artists, operating as individuals or in groups, to strive to make a difference.
Elizabeth Bard | Posted 12.04.2007 | Living
There are still places on this planet where art does something other than sell.
Stephen Burt | Posted 11.28.2007 | Media
Young Americans who put down books and pick up computer games are turning from one art form to another, but they're also neglecting a legacy they might later miss.
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 11.16.2007 | Living
n Joel Tauber's latest series, "My Lonely Tree," he falls in love with and cares for, a tree. Yet unlike the sad polar bear sitting on a diminishing icecap, his images are right in our backyard, something we might drive around and miss otherwise.
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 11.10.2007 | Living
Like Kubler-Ross' five stages of death--Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance--I divide the creative process into eight stages.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 11.09.2007 | Entertainment
Encyclopedic without being boring, any artist's biography, or really any biography, will inevitably have to step over Richardson's very high bar.
AP | Posted 11.07.2007 | Business
An Henri Matisse painting was auctioned at Christie's for $33.6 million, a record for the artist, during a sale devoted to Impressionist and modern ar...
Justin Hudnall | Posted 11.07.2007 | Entertainment
Thankfully, there are artists like Dan Hoyle, a white guy who went to Nigeria on a Fulbright Scholarship to make a play about oil politics and globalization.
Michael Simmons | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics
Hitler dabbled in watercolors and was twice rejected by the Academy of Arts in Vienna, but he was the exception. Generally speaking, artists create and rarely destroy.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.26.2007 | Living
James Watson isn't the first gene devotee who subscribes to the crude notion that biology is destiny. Such a belief runs contrary to even the most basic kind of wisdom.
AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 10.23.2007 | Business
A painting stolen 20 years ago was found lying in trash along a street, and now it could fetch up to $1 million at auction. Elizabeth Gibson didn't k...
Julia Mandle | Posted 10.12.2007 | Entertainment
My new performance-installation is a portrait of us, right now. It is about our citizens' lost participation in American democracy.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 10.04.2007 | Entertainment
Like suburban sprawl, Chelsea creep is upon us; there are so many new "found" spaces, annexes of galleries already there that one must put blinders on and then some kind of sustenance is required midway.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 09.25.2007 | Living
Perhaps in anticipation of a downturn in the white hot art market to dovetail with our subprime woes, artists are once again dipping their toes into n...
Amir Bar-Lev | Posted 08.31.2007 | Entertainment
In the Q&A sessions after screenings of my film, My Kid Could Paint That, I'm often asked, "Isn't it the same painting whether a four-year-old or a 40-year-old made it?"
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Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 03.29.2008 | Living