"Don't move to New York," I told an audience of young students at the University of Georgia last week. To my surprise, most of the students were alre...
With a resident community of artists, Bed-Stuy, like Bushwick, has become a focal point for new forms of artistic expression.
As poor as he was, Vincent van Gogh didn't use 10 percent less paint on his canvases to save money, and Michelangelo didn't substitute quartz for marble. But the rising price of copper, the main component of bronze, has forced more and more sculptors to economize.
Murray's new body of work, entitled Dystopia, marks the artist's darkest most soul-bearing work to date. It's as though this newfound inner peace and strength enabled a large memory store of emotion to be unleashed.
Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita creates mesmerizing portraits made from a single, unbroken thread. We originally saw these on My Modern Met, and were d...
Johanna Goodman is an artist and illustrator who lives in Nyack, New York. She has been consistently crazily following her passion for decades.
Tom Murrin, the beloved New York performance art icon, passed away yesterday after a long struggle with cancer, The Village Voice reports. "The Ali...
Usually tape is used to connect surface A to surface B. But Brooklyn based artist Rebecca Ward lets tape's image hold supreme importance, bringing a n...
Huffington Post Arts is thrilled to present the first in a series of behind-the-scenes glimpses into the studios and private spaces of our favorite ar...
Huffington Post Arts is thrilled to present the first in a series of behind-the-scenes glimpses into the studios and private spaces of our favorite ar...
This campaign called "Emerging Face Of A Nationless World" is an international network of artists led by "son of Beijing, and a pupil of New York," Ji...
Lisa Yuskavage's latest paintings feature masterfully rendered portrayals of feminine playgrounds both overblown and ambiguous, sugary sweet and vulga...
Kickstarter, the online funding platform for creative projects, is one of the web's biggest success stories of late. For the uninitiated, the site...
Marcel Dzama is the most renowned draftsman of his generation. But that distinction is not enough: he also makes sculptures and dioramas, directs mus...
I entered the gallery and saw the photographs in the kind of perfect clarity only a personal viewing can provide. Before me were six achingly poignant moments of quotidian life frozen in time and rendered significant.
The day after Christmas, New York was hit with a massive snowstorm that blanketed parts of the state with nearly two feet of snow. Its sixth-worst on ...
A slightly different kind of street art has emerged in New York City. Rather than using the street as the canvas, artist Jason Polan uses the streets...
The neon signs that are so iconic from old New York have not vanished. Sure, the only thing you can see for miles at night is the new LED display in ...
When we think of violence and visual art, often what comes to mind are scenes documenting brutality and its aftermath in a linear fashion - a sh...
Do you remember? It was an unforgettable time. The kind that, in hindsight, you can say, "something really unique was happening then". But the late 19...
WHAT: DUMBO Arts Festival WHO: FREE to the Community WHEN: Friday, September 24 (3:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.) Saturday, September 25 Sunday, September 26...
CHATHAM, New York--The quaint, quiet town of Chatham in upstate New York, home to businesses like the American Pie Contemporary General Store and Ralp...
