Art

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 realism flexing its technical prowess, and it is impressive-- posing in the sun like a young Arnold Schwarzennegger. But once the painter leaves...

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Most art students learn to appreciate art by studying its history. Thus they're usually exposed to the figurative art of past centuries before they are to twentieth-century art, with its effusion of styles.

But some have a natural inclination for the avant garde. For example, jazz, with the homage it...

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 commercialization on par with Christmas. But one only need to discover the plastic mass twice the size of Texas in the middle of...

Knowing of my interest in matters of attention and inattention, my wife pointed me to this fascinating article by Natalie Angier on change blindness in Tuesday's Science Times section of the New York Times. It seems that there's an awful lot we miss, in the visual realm, even when...

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 towering marble monument to George Washington.

On Thursday, the parks were fenced off, as if the area was under construction -- but the...

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 has a pristine lab and measures everything in the most precise manner, conducting experiments in a white coat with...

Art in harmony with Nature is what the G2 Gallery in Venice Beach is all about. The gallery opened March 11th on Venice's chic Abbot Kinney Blvd., and is housed in its very own eco-friendly building. The passion project of Dan and Susan Gottlieb, the G2 Gallery will only...

I recently returned from writing an article in Oran, Algeria's second city. When the Algerian Ministry of Culture heard there was an American journalist coming, they wanted to give me a bodyguard. I'm an art critic -- I do canapés, not bodyguards.

On the eve of Art Basel Miami, where...

First Person Artist is a weekly column by painter Kimberly Brooks in which she provides commentary on art and the creative process and showcases artists' work from around the world. This week's artist is Los Angeles-based Joel Tauber.

When the sight of plastic bags twirling...

First Person Artist is a weekly column by painter Kimberly Brooks in which she provides insightful commentary on art and the creative process and showcases artists' work from around the world.

I made a great big canvas. For three weeks it sat in the...