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Kimberly Brooks

Fear And Faith: The Art Of Rebecca Campbell

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe Gallery, La-Louver-Gallery, Kimberly Brooks, Ghosts, Rebecca Campbell, Said the Lady to the Man, Painting, The Inner Life, LA Louver Gallery, Poltergeist, Memories, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

There is a passage in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables that makes me think of Rebecca Campbell's installations and paintings -- both are at once familiar and menacing.

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Marilyn Minter Splashes Los Angeles (PHOTOS)

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Salon 94, Gavlak Gallery, Billboard Art, Regen Projects, Marilyn Minter, Kimberly Brooks, Video Installations, Green Pink Caviar, Fashion, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Luscious. Naughty. Saturated. Decadent. Such is the moment we are immersed in when we stand in front of the art of Marilyn Minte

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The Man Who Attended His Own Funeral

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Synagogue, Funeral, Death, Leonard Shlain, Goddess, Kimberly Brooks, Evolution, Tiffany Shlain, Green Buriel, Shrine, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

There was my father on a huge screen next to the platform in the center of the synagogue. He said, "I always wanted to attend my own funeral. Well...I'm here!"

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A Vigil for My Father, Leonard Shlain

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Leonard Shlain, Einstein, Albert Brooks, Dying, Physics, Picasso, Vigil, Kimberly Brooks, Jordan Shlain, Ina Gyemant, Living, Tiffany Shlain, Heisenberg, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

I asked him the other day while I was helping him add quotes to his newest book: "Are you afraid to die?" "No" he said." I'm not afraid to die. I just want to live."

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Curb The Swine Flu: Lose The American Handshake

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Dan Fishel, India, Custom, Handshake, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, Handhakes, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

With global travel, chronic antibiotic overuse and an ever greater means by which a virus can spread across the globe, why must we touch hands every time we meet or greet someone?

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The Art Of The Headshot: Everyone's A Real Estate Agent

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Bijan, Albrecht Durer, Branding, Marketing, Kimberly Brooks, Real Estate Agent, Picasso, Maureen Dowd, Einstein, Ken Goldberg, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Whether an activist, writer, blogger, student or artist, everyone has a headshot. Now, let us examine a couple rules, shall we?

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Michelle Obama, Master Colorist and Me

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Matisse, Cezanne, Michelle Obama, Oscar De La Renta, Picasso, Kuchner, Michelle Obama in Turkey, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

As I look at the bold strokes of Michelle's color sense, I reflect upon Michelle's journey in fashion as one that might parallel that of my own and other women like her.

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Rebecca Bird Paints the Explosion

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Rebecca Bird, Alan Greenspan, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, Paul Kopeikin, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

In her current show, "Everything that Ever Existed Still Exists," Bird delicately -- even preciously -- petrifies images of infamous nuclear explosions in paint.

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Dancing With Divorced Men: Allison Kaufman

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Art, Divorce, Allison Kaufman, Kimberly Brooks, The Artists Life, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

In her "Divorced Men Series," Kaufman traveled into divorced men's homes and took portraits with them and danced with them. I find the work humorous, deeply explorative and touching.

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America Still Screams: The Art of Liz Markus

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Iraq War, George Bush, De-Kooning, Liat Yossifor, Kimberly Brooks, Liz Markus, Will Farrell, Election, Painting, War in Iraq, George Bush Legacy, The Artists Life, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

For most artists I know, it has been impossible to not let the war seep into our thoughts and work. Which is why I was relieved to discover the works of Brooklyn-based artist Liz Markus.

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Painting A Gilded Age: Artist Rachel Kaye

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Jean-Honore Fragonard, George Condo, Painting, Rachel Kaye, Kirsten Dunst, Artists, Kimberly Brooks, Jean Etienne-Liotard, Rococco, Takashi Murakami, Treaty of Versailles, Damien Hirst, The Gilded Age, Pine Plains Ny, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

We are fresh from the loud popping noise of yet another bubble. I recently discovered the works of artist Rachel Kaye in Miami this December, as the crash had started to sink in.

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Facebook And The Death of Mystery

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Facebook, Generation Y, Generation X, Google, Mandelbrot, The Artist's Life, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

What struck me as so odd about the request for 25 secret things about me was I instantly envisioned that I could be creating a white paper on my entire spiritual, intellectual and life DNA.

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B.A. Szerlip: Books As Sculpture

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Art, B.A. Szerlip, Books, Sculpture, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

We've come a long way since books were hand copied treasures mostly locked behind the libraries of the monastaries by the clergy before Gutenberg set ...

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Vee Speers' Birthday Party -- Bring Balloons!

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.09.2009 | Style

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Photography, ARt Exhibition, Vee Speers, Madeline L'Engle, Children, Style News
Kimberly Brooks

VS: My mother was a singer, and we grew up watching her sing in public, so it seemed obvious that I should include an image of my daughter -- who also sings -- performing.

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Miami Basel Reflections

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 01.14.2009 | Style

Read More: Miami Basel, Kimberly Brooks, Art, Painting, Art Fair, Miami, Careers, Art Basel Miami, Style News
Kimberly Brooks

In seven short years Miami Basel has become America's most important art fair with a huge international audience and it turns out that the art is not the only worth staring at.

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The Election and Art Swimming in my Head

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 12.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Shay Kun, Election Anxiety, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Larissa Bates, Election, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

As an artist, I have, like the rest of my species, huge antennas and right now I find it simply impossible to make or write or think about art and not think about the election.

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Electric Kool-Aid Art Test: Mike Quinn

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 10.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Drug Addiction, Tom Wolfe, Painting, Fine Art, Sculpture, Addiction, Kimberly Brooks, Drugs, Mike Quinn, Disney, Lsd, Fantasia, Living News
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...

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The Artist, The Exhibitionist And Blogger Emily Gould

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.22.2008 | Living

Read More: First Person Artist, The Inner Life, Creative Process, Emily Gould, Fine Art, Takashi Murakami, Damien Hurst, Kimberly Brooks, New York Times, Arianna Huffington, Kehinde Whiley, Living News
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.

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Artist As Second Career: The Wild World Of Kathy Taslitz

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.15.2008 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Spirituality, First Person Artist, Magritte, Henri Rousseau, Fine Art, Kathy Taslitz, Kandinsky, Snake Charmer, Kimberly Brooks, Henry Moore, Painting, Son of Man, Career Change, Living News
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

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Artist Porn: 10 Things That Turn Me On

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Mad Men, The Devil Wears Prada, Sex and the City Movie, Voss Design, Jaguar XKE, Tom Ford for Men, 15 Central Park West, Tom Ford for Gucci Vagina, The Tudors, Artist Porn, The Inner Life, Prada’s Trembled Blossoms Video, Marc Jacobs, Robert Stern, Target, Michael Graves, Prada, Iphone, Logen's Run, CoCo Chanel, Schiaparelli, Kimberly Brooks, Trembled Blossoms, Six Feet Under, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Writing a weekly column about artists that turn me on omits a gigantic portion of what turns me on as an artist. The truth is that more artists don't...

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Artist Angela Dufresne On Recreating History

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Angela Dufresne, The Inner Life, George Bush, Fine Art, David Park, Skull and Bones, Veronika Voss, Painting, Gus Van Sant, Cinema, Du Champ, Aristotle, Elizabeth Taylor, John Steinbeck, Werner Herzog, Grey Gardens, Kimberly Brooks, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Losey, Alice Neel, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Flag Pins, Of Mice and Men, Vuillard, Fassbinder, Giotto, Bacon, Ozu, Cassavetes, Haneke, Louvre, Antonioni, Living News
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...

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The Painting Whisperer vs The Anxiety of Abstraction: Annie Lapin

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.25.2008 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Charlie Sheen, Illusion, Still Life, Body Building, Kimberly Brooks, Abstraction, Figuration, Michelangelo, Painting, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Annie Lapin, Realism, Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone, Art, Abstract Art, Intuition, Apocolypse Now, Penicillin, Fine Art, Portraits, Oil Paint, Coppola, Godard, Living News
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...

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Being a Mother is the Ultimate Artist: Alexis Weidig

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Alexis Weidig, Mother's Day, Nancy Spero, Annette Messanger, Eva Hesse, Ann Hamilton, Sculpture, Louise Bourgeois, Artist, Painting, Fine Art, Kiki Smith, Kimberly Brooks, Living News
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...

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Photography Undergoes a Sex Change: The Art Of Tom Chambers

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Photoshop Art, Tom Chambers, The Inner Life, Photoshop Photography, Painting, Loretta Lux, Van Cleef Jewelry, Fantasy, Flickr, Henri Cartier Bresson, Kimberly Brooks, Andrew Wyeth, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Over the last ten years, the art of photography has undergone a sex change. The rather masculine act of capturing or "shooting" a moment ("the hunt")...

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The Last Lecture and Living in Technicolor

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Randy Pausch, Kimberly Brooks, The Last Lecture, Exhibition, Light, Nature, Earth, Landscapes, Painting, Fine Art, Illness, Death, Family, Living News
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...

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