Art

Art, Politics, and 1968

Nato Thompson | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Students for a Democratic Society, Cesar Chavez, Art, 1968, Creative Time, Port Huron Project, Entertainment News
Nato Thompson

Reenactment is quite popular in contemporary art today, but in essence, art is simply a reflection of larger social currents operating in our daily lives. Contemporary politics, as well as art, seems to be in the grasp of the past.

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I Know It's Satire, But I Still Don't Like the Obama New Yorker Cover

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Art, John McCain, The New Yorker, Political Satire, Barack Obama, David Remnick, Cindy McCain, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

The New Yorker cover art depicts Obama in a way that McCain simply never could be. Obama is "the Other." Something "foreign" and "un-American."

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Warriors

Peter Clothier | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Art, Buddhism, China, Living News
Peter Clothier

When I went to see Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana -- I got something different from my expectations. No less valuable in its way, perhaps, but different.

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Theater/Art: London Calling

Michael Giltz | Posted 06.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Musical, London, Art, Tolkien, Play, Theater, The Lord of the Rings, Gay, Hayward, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Why do critics -- like Ben Brantley from the New York Times -- spend a month in London going to the theater? Because they can, of course. Happily, so ...

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Monet Painting Sells For Record $80.4 Million

AP | EMILY RISTOW | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Monet, Art, Art Auction, Monet Auction, Monet Painting Sets Record, Water Lillies Monet, Water Lilly Pond, Water Lily Pond Monet, Business News

LONDON — A water lily painting by Claude Monet sold for more than $80 million Tuesday, breaking the auction record for the French impressionist ...

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The Art Offends

Yazmany Arboleda | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: The Assassination of Barack Obama, Art, Nypd, Richard Prince, Secret Service, The Assassination of Hillary Clinton, Censorship, Art and Politics, Political Art, Barack Obama, Politics News
Yazmany Arboleda

My two installations, "The Assassination of Barack Obama" and "The Assassination of Hillary Clinton" made headlines when law officials detained me over the use of the word "assassination."

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This Hawk Flies High, But Alights on Terra Firma

Russ Wellen | Posted 06.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Extra-Terrestrial, Art, Zdzislaw Beksinski, Sculpture, Aliens, H.R. Geiger, Painting, Fantastic Art, Dmt, Living News
Russ Wellen

Artist Michael James Hawk mines our collective unconscious for imagery that's not only primitive, but alien.

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Whitney Biennial Jumps the Shark

Carolyn Castiglia | Posted 05.30.2008 | Business

Read More: The Gap, Art, Satire, Sweatshop Labor, Design, Designers, Artists, Whitney Biennial, Fashion, Modern, Business News
Carolyn Castiglia

If working class people can get t-shirts with prints created by artists, why should we complain that we don't have health care? Got an open wound? Take that Jeff Koons t-shirt, shred it up and use it as a tourniquet.

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Horsein' Around

Ryan J. Davis | Posted 05.29.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Art, Horse Race, Posters, Barack Obama, New York City, Hillary Clinton, Entertainment News
Ryan J. Davis

After the Kentucky Derby, the horse Clinton picked died on the track after finishing second, Gregory de la Haba took the bizarrely symbolic event as a sign to finish the piece.

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The Painting Whisperer vs The Anxiety of Abstraction: Annie Lapin

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.17.2008 | 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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An Evening of Music and Art Benefits Children with Special Needs

Priscila Giraldo | Posted 05.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Art, Children, Special Needs, Living News
Priscila Giraldo

If you love art and you love kids, you won't want to miss this exciting opportunity to own an original piece of very special art.

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Brad Howe: A Man and His Monumental Mettle

Tom Gregory | Posted 05.06.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Welding, Artist, Art, Modern Art, Metal, Sculpture, Entertainment News
Tom Gregory

In this segment, Malibu artist Brad Howe is feeding the world with his optimistic art while he enjoys every moment of his simple (television-free!) life.

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A Painter's Story

Peter Clothier | Posted 04.29.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Art Market, Pan Yuliang, Art, East-West, Jennifer Cody Epstein, Book Review, Huffpost Books, Books, Entertainment News
Peter Clothier

There's a huge amount of interest in the art world, these days, in what's happening on the art scene in post-Cultural Revolution China.

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The Artist Who Made His Ego Wait Outside His Studio Door

Russ Wellen | Posted 04.28.2008 | Living

Read More: David Hockney, Old Masters, Art, Painting, Figurative Art, Realism, Representational Art, Living News
Russ Wellen

Most art students learn to appreciate art by studying its history. But some have a natural inclination for the avant garde. Which is exactly the direction in which 27-year-old Michael De Brito is headed.

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Artist John Dahlsen: Making Lemonade Out Of Trash

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.26.2008 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Art, Australia, Earth Day, Totems, Plastic, Trash, Artist, Mass of Plastic, Fine Art, Global Warming, Living News
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...

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Change Blindness

Peter Clothier | Posted 04.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Art, Perception, Political Realities, Buddhist Teachings, How the Eye Works, Art History, How to Look at Art, Living News
Peter Clothier

It seems that there's an awful lot we miss, in the visual realm, even when we think we're seeing. So much passes us by, when we fail to pay attention.

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Baltimore's Golden Fences Come Down

Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 03.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Art, Baltimore, Controversy, Artist, Baltimore Sun, Travel, Air Travel, Dogs, Living News
Alison Stein Wellner

I visited Baltimore on Thursday, and checked out Mount Vernon Place. It's a historic area of the city, with four rectangular parks, arranged around a ...

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The Nudist, The Chemist and Artist Ethan Murrow

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.15.2008 | Living

Read More: First Person Artist, Howard Hodgkin, Ethan Murrow, Matisse, The Inner Life, Art, Wright Brothers, Drawing, Nudists, Kimberly Brooks, Painting, Chemist, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

As an artist, I consider art on a sort of spectrum in my mind by the manner in which it is rendered. I picture two opposing ends: one a chemist, who ...

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Where Art and Nature Align

Paige Donner | Posted 03.14.2008 | Living

Read More: G2, Art, Venice Beach, Gallery, G2 Gallery, Living News
Paige Donner

Art in harmony with Nature is what the G2 Gallery in Venice Beach, CA, is all about. The gallery opened March 11th and is housed in its very own eco-friendly building.

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Milton Glaser Loves Information, Not Persuasion

Jan Herman | Posted 02.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Graphic Art, Art, Milton Glaser, Graphic Designer, Media News
Jan Herman

The 79-year-old graphic designer perhaps most famous for creating the I Love NY logo had a dose of surprising advice last week for the propagandists among us.

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Los Angeles, Glitz, Glamour and Glory!

Nina Kotick | Posted 02.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: BCAM, Art, Renzo Piano, Eli Broad, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Entertainment News
Nina Kotick

If Eli Broad has his way, LA will be the contemporary art capital of the world.

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When You Fall In Love... With A Painting

moreintelligentlife.com | Ariel Ramchandani | Posted 02.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Falling in Love With a Painting, Parmigianino, Art, Painting, Antea, Culture, Lovely Painting, Living News

She's lovely of course, Parmigianino's "Antea." Standing alone in the centre of the Oval Room at the Frick, surrounded by portraits that somehow pale ...

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Democratizing Art

Ben Rosen | Posted 01.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Art Institute of Chicago, Annenberg, Harvard, El Prado, Art, Harper's Magazine, Edward Banfield, Seurat, Las Meninas, Business News
Ben Rosen

So, the best music in the world performed by the best performers can be easily and inexpensively enjoyed and owned by anyone anywhere. Not so in the visual arts.

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Best Prison Escape Movie Ever? And Other 2007 Pleasures

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 12.30.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Blogs, Lily Allen, Pop Music, Art, Books, Glenn Greenwald, Jacques Becker, 2007, Film, Scot Horton, Entertainment News
Barry Yourgrau

From 2007 encounters, some of the film, books, art, blogs, etc. that linger in my own mind:

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The Other Side of the Art World

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.11.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Art, Entertainment News
Marcia G. Yerman

There is an established art machine that isn't going to change. But there is plenty of room for artists, operating as individuals or in groups, to strive to make a difference.

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