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A Different 'Little Mermaid'

2012-05-26T08:44:43Z

Mark Moore Gallery describes Allison Schulnik's paintings as "distinctively textured," which may be the understatement of the year. Schulnik's painted...

Read more: The Little Mermaid, Women, Video, Mark Moore Gallery, Hans Christian Andersen, Impasto, Salty Air, Slideexpand, Female Artists, Painting, Ariel, Allison Schulnik, Arts News

Bobby Elliott: Change: On Kehinde Wiley's 'An Economy of Grace' at Sean Kelly

2012-05-25T18:33:44Z

On the surface, "An Economy of Grace" is a well-timed game-changer for painter Kehinde Wiley. After making a name for himself by exclusively painting men, "An Economy of Grace" presents Wiley's first series of portraits featuring women.

Read more: Brooklyn Museum, Kehinde Wiley, Painting, New York City, Sean Kelly Gallery, African American Art, Kehinde Wiley Sean Kelly Gallery, Kehinde Wiley an Economy of Grace, Arts News

60 Years Of Light

2012-05-25T11:15:35Z

Lois Dodd is not interested in telling stories. Just as snapshots transport us back to forgotten feelings, physical states, and even temperatures, so ...

Read more: Alex Katz, Video, Kemper Museum, Lois Dodd, Rene Magritte, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Painting, Female Artists, Paul Cezanne, Slideexpand, Henri Matisse, Arts News

O'Keeffe As An Outsider

2012-05-24T14:04:00Z

Georgia O'Keeffe referred to herself as an "outsider," and in many ways she was, being one of the first women to demand serious attention in a male-ce...

Read more: Color Field, Georgia O'keeffe Southwest, Video, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Slideexpand, Mark Rothko, Female Artists, Painting, Paul Cezanne, Feminism, Faraway Georgia O'keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arts News

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: Street Art, Bomb Scares, and Times of Anxiety

2012-05-23T11:35:00Z

Last Friday morning all was going normally on the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn as the cool, crisp breeze of a sunny May day made New York as it ...

Read more: Nyc, Jean Seestadt, Conceptual Art, Revs, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Street Art, Olek, Painting, Xam, Street Art, Dark Clouds, Jaime Rojo, Welding, Williamsburg, Stikman, Steven P. Harrington, Stencil, Leviticus, Takeshi Miyakawa, Crochet, Aerosol, Darkclouds, Rae, Bzbd, Arts News

Family Secrets Get Surreal

2012-05-23T07:47:00Z

Margo Selski's paintings -- with ball gowns made of eyes, braids of hair with agency of their own and the pointiest feet you've ever seen -- look like...

Read more: Jan Van Eyck, Glass Garage Gallery, Video, Fairy Tales, Renaissance Painting, Flemish Painting, Kentucky, Surrealism, Margo Selski, Slideexpand, Female Artists, Painting, Arts News

Gustav Klimt's Spectacular 150th Anniversary

2012-05-22T07:45:00Z

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Gustav Klimt's birthday, and museums around the world are celebrating the Austrian Secessionist's work. You c...

Read more: Symbolism, New York Art Exhibitions, Video, Neue Galerie, The Kiss Klimt, Slideexpand, Pre-Raphaelite, Adele Bloch-Bauer, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, Painting, Klimt, Vienna, Arts News

Take a Mary Cassatt Birthday Quiz!

2012-05-22T08:08:38Z

Today is the birthday of American artist and early feminist Mary Cassatt. The long time friend of Edgar Degas and influential member of the Impression...

Read more: A Child's Bath, Mary Cassatt Birthday, Video, Quiz, Edgar Degas, France, Mary Cassatt, Female Artists, Painting, Artist Birthday, Salon, The Boating Party, Arts News

'Antiques Roadshow': Painting For $2.50 Worth How Much?

2012-05-22T02:37:55Z

It's that fantasy that so many people have had. Let's face it, the general public doesn't know a lot about fine art, and certainly doesn't know a lot ...

Read more: Pbs, Reality TV, Antiques Roadshow, Video, William Victor Higgins, Original Art, Tv Replay, TV Canada, Painting, TV News

Tad Spurgeon: An Oil Painter's Process

2012-05-21T13:54:08Z

As an oil painter, I had always been interested in the craft of the materials. But after fifteen years of painting, it began to seem like I was workin...

Read more: Oil Painting, Painting Tips, Painting, Artistic Process, Starch Gel, Art History, Process, Turpentine, Rembrandt, Solvent Safety, Arts News

John Seed: Janice Nowinski: Naughty Postcards and the Man by the River

2012-05-13T23:07:26Z

Janice Nowinski's "Seated Girl II" -- a blocky little nude with dun colored thighs and heavy umber fingers -- is a bit of a flirt. She is, in fact, th...

Read more: Janice Nowinski, Painting, Slidepollajax, Painting Yale, Shrouded Male, Contemporary Art, Female Artists, Naughty Postcards, Arts News

Caught In A Bad Romance

2012-05-12T16:00:46Z

When Edvard Munch created "The Scream" in 1893, it became a symbol for modern anxiety. Munch's pale-faced protagonist is in agony, while the blood-red...

Read more: Guernica, Ryan Trecartin, George Condo, Video, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Slideexpand, Brooklyn Artists, Paul Gauguin, Painting, Female Artists, Dana Schutz, German Expressionism, Piano in the Rain, Arts News

John Seed: A Conversation With Siddharth Parasnis

2012-05-11T13:42:38Z

Siddharth Parasnis, "Two Houses in the Country #4," Oil on canvas, 50' x 40"

Siddharth Parasnis, who was the subject of a one-person show at Dolby...

Read more: Laguna Beach, Siddharth Parasnis, Painting, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Slidefreestyle, Arts News

Brett Baker: Painters' Table -- Top 10 Best Posts: April 2012

2012-05-11T12:35:13Z

April's top painting posts reflect an interest among contemporary artists in a broader narrative of painting.

Read more: Slidepollajax, Frederick Hammersley, John Yau, Avigdor Arikha, Charles Seliger, Tom Goldenberg, Tomory Dodge, Katherine Bradford, Painters, Art, Fine Art, Painting, Arts News

New Facial Recognition Technology Aims To Identify Fine Art Subjects

2012-05-09T14:37:00Z

What happens when facial recognition technology moves from studying terrorism to works of art?

With a $25,000 startup grant from the National Endow...

Read more: Facial Recognition Technology, Mona Lisa, Facial Recognition Software, Video, Art Meets Science, Art Facial Recognition, Facial Recognition, Conrad Rudolph, Amit-Roy-Chowdhury, University of California Riverside, Painting, Facial Recognition Faces, Facial Recognition Art, Jeanette Kohl, Arts News

Massachusetts Trooper Immortalized In Rockwell Painting Dies

2012-05-09T00:10:04Z

BOSTON -- A retired Massachusetts state trooper who was a model for Norman Rockwell's 1958 Saturday Evening Post illustration, "The Runaway," has died...

Read more: Art, Norman Rockwell, Video, The Runaway, Ed Locke, Richard Clemens Jr., Obituary, Marian McGovern, Painting, Saturday Evening Post, Arts News

Hypnotic Op-Art Makes You See Double

2012-05-08T07:41:00Z

Daniel Aksten's new exhibition asks you to not just to look at shape and color, but to experience them. As the show's title "Support, Edge, Variation"...

Read more: Los Angeles Art Exhibitions, Video, CB1 Gallery, Finish Fetish, Slideexpand, Julian Stanczak, Daniel Aksten, Painting, Minimalism, Daniel Aksten Cb1, Arts News

Cause Of Death Determined For Painter Thomas Kinkade

2012-05-07T21:55:00Z

LOS ANGELES, May 7 (Reuters) - "Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade died of accidental acute intoxication from alcohol and an anti-anxiety medication, ...

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How To Recycle Your Paint

2012-05-07T14:44:25Z

There’s really no way around it. Virtually zero paint retailers offer an option to buy only as much paint as you need.

That means, after your roo...

Steven Zevitas: 10 Must See Painting Shows: May 2012

2012-05-07T08:05:10Z

May is traditionally the last month of the art world "season." As summer looms, rhythms change and many galleries choose to mount group exhibitions in...

Read more: Slidepollajax, Tom Mcgrath, Lucian Freud, Art, Ryan Mrozowski, Ned Vena, Xylor Jane, Abstraction, Contemporary Art, Lower-East-Side, Gabriel Hartley, Painting, Dana Schutz, New American Paintings, Tauba Auerbach, Chuck Webster, Arts News

Robert Maynord: Art Practice: Goodbye to Turpentine

2012-05-04T17:59:45Z

In the last painting class I attended, two students left on the first night because of the fumes. As we become more aware of environmental and health issues, more artists will say goodbye to the fumes.

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Edward Goldman: Medicine for Your Eyes

2012-05-02T18:07:24Z

The first time I heard about the importance of having really good works of art displayed in hospitals, I thought to myself, what a strange idea.

Read more: Cy Twombly, Art, Kenny Scharf, Painting, Murals, Alexander Calder, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Hospital Art, Arts News

Vicky Tiel: The World Is Divided Into Two Groups: Artists and Everybody Else

2012-05-02T13:05:39Z

How many award winning dress designers do anything to be noticed, to get fame, yet sell next to nothing? Then we wonder why they self destruct! Fashion-art is meant to be profitable.

Read more: Art, Painting, Julie Saul, Art Scene, Ed Baynard, Sculpture, Robert De Niro Sr., Chelsea Gallery, Jeff Liao, Culture News

Domenico Gnoli's Rarely Seen Paintings Now On View

2012-04-30T08:11:00Z

There is an undeniable magic to Italian Renaissance paintings, where fabric ripples with a supernatural grace, and hair cascades with both abandon and...

Read more: Italian Renaissance, Domenico Gnoli, Luxembourg & Dayan, Slidewide, Surrealism, Italian Art, Mc Escher, Rene Magritte, Painting, New York Exhibition, Fresco, Video, Arts News

John Seed: Mitchell Johnson: "Are You Going With Me?"

2012-04-29T15:57:42Z

The Italian colors, the clay earth, the buildings, the vast quilts of man-made fields really overwhelmed me. I was clueless as to how to make the shiny saturated colors coming out of my tubes comment on the experiences I was having discovering a new world.

Read more: Mitchell Johnson, Painting, Landscapes, Aix-en-Provence, Res Ipsa Gallery, Peter Selz, Oakland, Colors, Video, Arts News