Fine Art

New Show on NBC on Collecting

Reyne Haines | Posted 11.09.2009 | Style


Reyne Haines

Set Your DVR!: Art of Collecting with Reyne Haines and Jonathan Novack Premieres Thursday, September 10 on Channel 2, NBC Houston (Houston, Texa...

Kieron Williamson: Is This 6-Year-Old the Next Picasso?

Reyne Haines | Posted 09.15.2009 | Style


Reyne Haines

Kieron Williamson, a 6-year-old British boy has talent. Working in watercolor, he paints wonderful scenes of harbors, landscapes and more.

The Universal Rules of Framing

Gerald Sindell | Posted 07.01.2009 | Living


Gerald Sindell

Brilliant framing can be so effective in launching ideas that often the framing and the idea become intertwined forever.

Con Ojos Abiertos, Pinta Art Fair Opens in New York City

Sarah Greenwalt | Posted 05.19.2009 | Style


Sarah Greenwalt

Money may come and money may go, but the art world will always love a party. That couldn't have been more evident than at the lively opening of the Pinta Art Fair in New York City.

Electric Kool-Aid Art Test: Mike Quinn

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 10.07.2008 | Living


Kimberly Brooks

This week is the 40th Anniversary of Tom Wolfe's famous "Electric Kook-Aid Acid Test" and I thought it would be high time we take a small moment to re...

Forget Jeff Koons: Try a Pomegranate...

Victoria Lautman | Posted 09.21.2008 | Chicago


Victoria Lautman

Here is an installation that bravely and wildly exposes the creative process, throws it in front of your face, in all its messy, hand-made, stream-of-consciousness glory. It's literally like peering into the mind of an artist, and in this case an extremely talented, witty, thoughtful one.

The Artist, The Exhibitionist And Blogger Emily Gould

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.22.2008 | Living


Kimberly Brooks

What fascinated me most about the New York Times Emily Gould piece was the x-ray view inside the mind of someone who craves the attention of strangers.

Artist As Second Career: The Wild World Of Kathy Taslitz

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.15.2008 | Living


Kimberly Brooks

I am fascinated by artists who find themselves and their art careers later in life. Unlike, say, mathematicians and scientists who allegedly peak before 30, artists tend to mature and get better with age like a fine wine

Artist Angela Dufresne On Recreating History

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.01.2008 | Living


Kimberly Brooks

Angela Dufresne, The Bruno S Island Acting School and the S House, Paris, France, 2006, oil on canvas, 66 by 108 inches. Courtesy of the artist and M...

The Painting Whisperer vs The Anxiety of Abstraction: Annie Lapin

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.25.2008 | Living


Kimberly Brooks

Take for a moment the spectrum of Realism and the raucous jazz of Abstraction in painting and slide somewhere in the middle. Over to the left is real...

Being a Mother is the Ultimate Artist: Alexis Weidig

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.18.2008 | Living


Kimberly Brooks

As a mother and artist, there's no doubt that my greatest works of art, the magical moving 3D beings whose personalities evolve and grow each day, are...

Artist John Dahlsen: Making Lemonade Out Of Trash

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.17.2008 | Living


Kimberly Brooks

In the wake of Earth Day, green-bordered magazines and quivering news reports of Global Warming, it could be easy to dismiss the occasion as an over c...

The Last Lecture and Living in Technicolor

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living


Kimberly Brooks

Much has been made recently of Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture". He is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon and six months ago he was diagnosed with pancr...

First Person Artist: Chris Roth To The Rescue!

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


Kimberly Brooks

The fear of death is a massive subject for artists. Even the medium itself alleviates it. Almost every piece created promises to outlive us and we can enfold ourselves the warm fantasy of immortality.