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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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Autistic Artist Stephen Wiltshire Draws NYC From Memory

Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 10.26.2009 | Impact

Read More: Dubai, Stephen Wiltshire, Jerusalem, Rome, Hong Kong, Art Therapy, Photographic Memory, Painting, New York City, Frankfurt, London, Art, Madrid, Drawing, Autism, Tokyo, Impact News

Stephen Wiltshire was mute when he was diagnosed with severe autism at the age of three. He began communicating through his drawings after being sent ...

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Lessons for the President on the Art of Diplomacy

Mark Lamster | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books

Read More: European Painters, President, President Obama, Belgian Painters, Belgium, Politics, Flanders, New Books, Obama, Barack Obama, Painting, Art, Peter Paul Rubens, Books, Painters, Rubens, Books News
Mark Lamster

The painter Peter Paul Rubens has a good deal in common with Barack Obama, and the Old Master's life offers lessons that the president might well find instructive.

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Did Jackson Pollock Secretly Write His Name In His Mural?

artnewsonline.com | Kate Taylor | Posted 09.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Jackson Pollock Signature, Art, Jackson Pollock, Art News, Jackson Pollock Name, Peggy Guggenheim, Mural, Nyc Art, Painting, Jackson Pollock Mural, New York Art, New York News

Among the reasons that people continue to be fascinated by Jackson Pollock's paintings is their Rorschach quality. Viewers have perceived many things ...

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Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Afrika Bambaataa, Tommy Boy Records, Rapper's Delight, Spray Paint, Urban Culture, South Bronx, Salt -N- Pepa, Female Rappers, Music, Mc's, 1970's, Spinderella, Angie Stone, Planet Rock, Aerosol Paint, Africa, Graffiti, Soul Music, Martial Arts, African-American, Women, Sugar Hill Gang, Rap, Brazil, Sugar Hill Records, Hip-Hop, Mc Lyte, Jazzy Joyce, Dancing, 1981, Microphone, Breakdancing, Soul Sonic Force, Capoiera, Dj, The Sequence, 1979, Monica Lynch, Sylvia Robinson, Turntables, Costumes, Black Women, Clothing, Harris Publications, Whitney Museum of Art, Business, Vh1, Stylist, Hip Hop Records, The Oscars, Photographers, Spotlight, Image Makers, Editors, DJ Beverly Bond, Publicist, Behind the Scenes, Magazines, Music Careers, Queen Latifah, Bet, Hip-Hop Films, Fox Network, Denise Dee Barnes, Wendy Williams, Female Graffiti Artists, Fetish, Art, Mtv, Choreographers, Subways, Living Single, Pump It Up!, Hot 97, Multi-Tasking, The Source Magazine, The Wendy Williams Show, Photography, Guidence, Murals, Mentoring, 1990's, Cover Girl, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Flip Mode Squad, Images, Apparel, Wild Style, Lady Pink, Sarah A. Friedman, Eve, New York City, Music Videos, Dancers, Black Girls Rock Inc!, XXL Magazine, Costume Design, Entrepreneurers, Vibe Magazine, Art Museums, Viacom, June Ambrose, Leadership, Alumni, Jennifer Lopez, Elements, Michelle Spaise, Minneapolis, TV Shows, Curator, J-Lo, Exhibitions, Rosie Perez, Making the Band, Future, Past, B-Girl Be, Living Color, Festivals, B-Girl, Painting, Tv, Fly Girls, Unleash, Theresa Sweetland, Politics, Video, Political Activism, Female Artists, Art Festival, Laurie Ann Gibson, Education, Tv Sitcoms, Spike Lee, Midwest, Deanna Cummings, Minnesota, Expression, Mama, Television, Activism, Mama Said Knock U Out, Brewing, Do the Right Thing, Concerts, Lauri Lyons, Social Activism, Visual Art, Women in Hip-Hop, Mother, Communication, Intermedia Arts, Sculpture, Commissions, faith47, Sound, Cinema, Music Downloads, Arts Education, Installations, Mixed Media, Art Commistions, Roxanne Shante, Martha Cooper, Marketplace, Fashion, Museums, Art World, Block Parties, Albums, Textiles, October, Youth, Film, Streets, Records, September, Girls, Youth Programs, Cd's, Recording Technology, History, Technology, College, Balls, Music History, Belle, Music School, Universities, Money, Comeback, Scholarship, Undergraduate, School, Diploma, Language, Hip-Hop Studies, Fellowship, Mcnally Smith School of Music, Recording, Music Business, Author, Fab Five Freddie, Flag International, Video Music Box, Yo! Mtv Raps, Flag an American Story, The Bridge, Ralph Mcdaniels, Vinyl Records, Prince, Juxtaposition Arts, Stefskills, Sarah White, Jennifer Rasinski, Corinne Santiago, C-Rocka, Keegan Xavi, Jessica Kitzman, Janelle Olson, Toofly, Tiffany Smith, Niz, Lichiban, Katrina Knutson, Jamel Shabbaz, Tamiko Mitchel, Erotica 67, Motel 7, Ladykfever, Monica Kelly, Amanda Lopez, Abeni Garrett, Desdamona, Catiesha Pierson, B-Fresh, Wendy Williams Show, Alice Mizrachi, Niz Graphics, Kanye West, Chanel Kennebrew, Shannon Joyce, Manifesto Festival, VH-1 Hip-Hop Honors, MTV VMA, Michaela Angela Davis, Essence Magazine, Dream Hampton, Amsterdam, London, South Africa, Charlie Ahearn, Henry Chalfant, Japan, Jamaica, Walker Art Center, Toronto, France, Cuba, In the Frame, Harvard, Rhode Island School of Design, Zimbabwe, Barcelona, Argentina, San Francisco, Represent Inc., International Center of Photography, Berlin, Germany, Belgium, Spraycan Art, James Prigoff, Puerto Rico, Powerhouse, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Mexico, Sao Paulo, Norway, Paris, Star Tribune, Kulture Klub, Tokyo, Mexico City, Bronx, Zulu Nation, Hip-Hop Degree, Kimora Lee Simmon, Baby Phat, U.K., Russell Simmons, Phat Farm, Getty Images, Icp, Somalia, Somalis, Bling a Planet Rock, Raquel Cepeda, Entertainment News
Lauri Lyons

When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

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Painting the Dream

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Aging, Grandfather, Alzheimer's, Sandwich-Generation, Empty Nest, Parenting, Twenty Something, Van Gogh, Painting, Empty Nest Syndrome, Living News
Stephanie Gertler

Several months ago, before she died, I found a picture of my mother and myself. In this picture, the camera loved us both. If I take a piece of paper and cover parts of our faces, I see that I have her mouth.

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New Show on NBC on Collecting

Reyne Haines | Posted 11.09.2009 | Style

Read More: Fine Art, Art Auctions, Collecting, Antiques, Christie's, Painting, Collectibles, Sotheby's, Style News
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...

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

Reyne Haines | Posted 09.15.2009 | Style

Read More: Contemporary Art, Fine Art, Picasso, Museum of Modern Art, Painting, Kieron Williamson, England, Style News
Reyne Haines

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

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How to Green Your Art Collection

Avital Binshtock | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Artisans, Sculpture, Green, Earth, Conservation, Artists, Painting, Paper, Soy, Recycling, Art, Diy, Environment, Sustainability, Endangered Species, Climate Change, Global Warming, National Parks, Ink, Green News
Avital Binshtock

If you're an art collector, aficionado, or appreciator, these four tips should help you shift your collection (or simply the way you see art) into a more earth-minded endeavor.

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Scott Moore's Bailout Art (PHOTO)

Posted 08.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Scott Moore Bailout Art, Art, Bailout Art, Bailouts, Scott Moore, Painting, Business News

Via The Big Picture comes the interesting artwork of Scott Moore. One of Moore's most recent projects has been depicting the financial crisis and res...

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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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Mr. President, Tear Down This Painting

Jonathan Melber | Posted 03.05.2009 | Style

Read More: Art, White House, Oval Office Decor, Obama White House, Oval Office Art, Oval Office Obama, Contemporary Art, Obama, Video Installations, White House Decoration, Painting, Portrait, Obama White House Art, Style News
Jonathan Melber

We are long overdue for a coherent arts policy and a new approach to supporting the country's cultural institutions. Putting some contemporary art up in the White House would be good start.

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Space Savers

Tess Ghilaga | Posted 02.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Tracie Martyn, Sarah Tomlinson, Yantra Painting, Planets, Colors, Painting, Hindu, Hinduism, Decorating, Meditation, Decorating Tips, Meditation Practice, Spirituality, Inner Peace, Living News
Tess Ghilaga

Yogi Sarah Tomlinson delves into in ancient Indian artistic form to promote healing and centering effects, which includes Radiance, Nourishment, Passion, Intellect, Expansion and Bliss.

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Andrew Wyeth, "Christina's World" Artist, Dies At 91

AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 02.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Andrew Wyeth, Obituary, Art, Painting, Christina's World, Andrew Wyeth Christina S World, Brandywine River Museum, Helga Testorf, Helga Paintings, Wyeth, Home News

PHILADELPHIA — Although some critics deride his art as drab and kitschy, Andrew Wyeth's melancholy paintings were praised by others as profound ...

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Out of the Ordinary

Suzanne Deal Booth | Posted 02.13.2009 | Style

Read More: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art, Lacma, Museums, Sculpture, Contemporary Art, Painting, Los Angeles, Style News
Suzanne Deal Booth

it's not surprising that LACMA has come so far. Its director, Michael Govan has transformed the institution he once called a "sleeping giant." The evolution started where it should, with the art.

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Why Art Matters

Mary Boone | Posted 01.16.2009 | Style

Read More: Art, Artwork, Paintings, Works of Art, Public Art, Museums, Sculpture, Painting, Arts Education, Style News
Mary Boone

Art matters because looking at a beautiful painting or sculpture gives us an experience that nothing else can.

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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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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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Gone, But Not Forgotten

Victoria Lautman | Posted 09.29.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Painting, Muriel Newman, Metropolitan Museum, Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionists, Art Collectors, Sculpture, Art, Art Institute, Muriel Kallis Steinberg, Chicago News
Victoria Lautman

It seems like the end of an era: Chicago's own art-collector and bon vivant Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman died last week at age 94.

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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 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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