Anja Marais: A Cacophony of Dreams By Carla Rover  08/04/10 More articles like this >>

It is a point of rare contention that storytelling is a child's right. Clever children are thought to play pretend frequently; to dwell, on some level, in a world in which creativity is both boundless and necessary. Once school-aged, we are shamed for our meandering thoughts and break, of social necessity, with the life of the mind which had before instinctively sought pleasure. Robbed of our childhood innocence to both cost and consequence, we submit to the tyranny of the feasible and the allowed. Art as well becomes bound in our thoughts to expectation, spirited away from grandiosity and multivariate premise. Anja Marais’ work forcibly drags the consciousness back to the precipice where we first left our ability to wonder. It is rare that a body of work stuns without gore or prostrated flesh. Marais' sculptures are technical marvels of form and quality; yet that which is its appeal is not the elaborate nature of its construction. It is instead the narrative of its ethos; there is a story, yes, but the story is also the medium itself. Surrealist, perhaps, post-modern, in a way, but it is also folk art and child-like. It is most assuredly indefinable- with great effort. The beauty of Marais' work is that the level of effort and meaning infused within its presentation is worn on the front of the work. There is no pretense that it is an easy piece to define or to place within a collection and to draw it into line with other salient pieces. Her sculptures define the room; coloring the whole of a collection. Art on the scale of these concepts do not retreat into trend or the morass of a "mixed media installation". It is rather an idea of a movement which might be brokered with the future. Marais’ work is in part homage to contemporary art visionaries; those who yet work for the art itself; creating with the honor of a craftsperson’s pieces, which represent moment-defining shifts in artistic consciousness. After graduating from the University of South Africa, Anja Marais immigrated to the United States where her work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally, and held residencies like Mino Art in Japan. She has also been a recipient of the Florida Individual Artist Grant and has been in publications such as the Florida International Magazine, Art in America and Artnews. Marais works and resides in South Florida. Anja Marais website Image Credits: Artwork by Anja Marais Learn more about Carla Rover >>

 

Melbourne Art Fair 2010 By Neil Winfield  07/30/10 More articles like this >>

Melbourne’s World Heritage site, the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens will play host to the premier, Australian art fair from August 4th through the 8th. This prestigious event provides art lovers with an opportunity to come and view the works of over 900 artists on display at 80 national and international gallery stands. The Royal Exhibition Building, a listed, Victorian edifice, is an excellent, old, majestic site to showcase such a diverse and accomplished presentation from leading and emerging modern and contemporary artists. The shows reputation and pedigree is well established and exhibitors come from all over Australia, as well as New Zealand, the United States, South Korea, and Indonesia. Also artists from across Europe, India and Canada also expected to display their latest creations. The 2010 Melbourne Art Fair will be the 12th biennial and gives visitors the chance to view, appreciate and purchase works from a varied collection of artists, sculptors and photographers. The exhibition will have over 3,000 works on display, in the ten gallery areas and organizers have also prepared a series of events to complement the four-day fair. The opening night Vernissage provides a chance to party and mingle with the good and the great, speak to some of the visiting artists and listen to keynote speakers. During the remaining three days there will be lectures by Australian artist Bill Henson, while a discussion forum on artist collaboration will feature Melbourne artists Marco Fusinato, Jess Johnson, Jon Campbell and Neil Kelly. Guest speakers will also include Robert Storr, Director of the Venice 2007 biennial. Another of the novel elements at the Melbourne Art Fair is the Project Rooms, which allow artists to present performance and larger pieces in a more accessible environment. Experimenta will showcase their own unique forms of urban street art, and New Zealand’s Artspace will premier the works of Campbell Paterson and Seung Yul Oh. What the Melbourne Art Fair has developed over its 21-year history is the importance of connecting with the audience and the show, and always provides a great melting pot of ideas, styles and media and the chance for gallery owners and artists to interact with the public. The fair gives the art world the space to operate as a community and share and celebrate together. The 2008 art fair saw over 30,000 visitors take time to experience the offerings of contemporary art. As those who attended will attest, it offers a chance like few others to see such a wide and rare collection of works without the need to walk miles between venues. The 2010 offerings will stay true to form and be as varied, challenging and inspiring as previous shows. Melbourne Art Fair Image Credits: Melbourne Art Fair 2010 Learn more about Neil Winfield >>

 

Calder/Miro by Elisabeth Hutton Turner By Claude Reich  07/21/10 More articles like this >>

This is a wonderful catalogue that accompanies the landmark exhibition that was held at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland in 2004, and at the Phillips Collection in Washington. Apart from the groundbreaking comparative study of both artists, which is very well written and highly informative (a trove of previously unpublished documents), the illustrations are fantastic. One of the most moving series by Miro, the Constellations, some 40 watercolors painted in 1941, are wonderfully echoed in a three-dimensional space by Calder's delicate mobiles of the same period. Highly recommended. Learn more about Claude Reich >>

 

Gallery One By Claude Reich  07/21/10 More articles like this >>

Gallery One is the natural progression for Gallery Directors Leanne Pearce and Jasmine Smith who started as joint directors of the 'Picture This' stores which first opened in 1986. During this era Leanne and Jasmine frequented the New York Art Expos and exhibited art at the World Trade Centre in Dubai. Following their passion and wanting to support Australian Artists, in 1995 Leanne and Jasmine opened the Gallery and Art Consultancy, 'Corporate Art Centre', for the architectural and interior design industry, which continues to operate at Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast. Corporate Art has designed and supplied artwork and sculpture to over 60 Australian and International Hotels, including Palazzo Versace and Jupiters Casino. As the art consultancy business grew so did the Corporate Art Gallery and Leanne realised the need for a contemporary fine art gallery on the Gold Coast. When a prime position became available at the busy Brickworks Centre opposite the Ferry Road Markets, Leanne knew this was the ideal location for a new prestigious gallery that would service the growing demand for collectable investment artwork in Queensland. Gallery One now houses a stable of collectable and established multi award-winning Australian Artists, including Archibald, Wynne and Sulman winners and finalists. The state-of-the-art design of the Gallery One space allows for a major exhibition to run in conjunction with the general viewing of all represented artists. The annex area will continually exhibit all Gallery One represented artists throughout the year. Gallery One's philosophy is to showcase the best of Australian Investment Art and support mid-career and established artists through an exciting exhibition schedule and events calendar. The benefit to the public is a heightened exposure to collectable investment pieces and guidance in the selection of artwork via the art consultation process. Gallery Directors Leanne Pearce and Jasmine Smith's aim is to realize the vision of Gallery One becoming one of Australia's premier galleries. Image Credits: Gallery One, Works On Paper Featuring an Afternoon with Garry Shead 31st July 2010 Learn more about Claude Reich >>

 

Otto Dix by Otto Dix By Claude Reich  07/14/10 More articles like this >>

This book is the catalogue for the Dix exhibition currently held at the Neue Galerie in NYC, which will later travel to Montreal, Canada and which is the first one dedicated to this major artist in North America. Without being a comprehensive Dix retrospective (a fact which is readily acknowledged by the authors)since it concentrates on a 20-year timespan (1919-1939), it is a high-quality publication with top-class illustrations and a very interesting text that tends to divide Dix's works into four areas, the images of war (Dix is frequently compared to the great Goya in this respect), the portraits, the representation of sexuality and Dix's production during the Third Reich, a production all the more moving as Dix was one of the few German artists of the Weimar avant-garde who had chosen to remain in Germany after 1933, even though he obviously was an opponent of the Nazi regime. The low-key landscapes which he painted during that period are metaphoric criticisms of totalitarianism, and this is very well shown in the book. There are several groundbreaking essays in this book and anyone interested in the New Objectivity movement of the 1920's in Germany should read the last one, which dwells on Dix's 1928 masterpiece "Metropolis" (now in Stuttgart)and analyses the artist's ability to represent the ugly "not as a symptom of a hopeless pessimism, but rather as an indication of the will to power of the artist (who) heroically said yes to brutal life in an art of the sweetest cruelty" (those last two words coming from a text by Nietzsche, whose philosophy was one of the main sources of inspiration for Otto Dix). Another essay studies the theme of sexual murder, a theme that is recurrent in Dix's art (especially in two missing masterpieces that disappeared during WWII), in German and Austrian art and literature in general (Grosz, Beckmann, Musil...). Highly recommended. Learn more about Claude Reich >>

 

Michael H. Lord Gallery By Claude Reich  07/08/10 More articles like this >>

An Oasis of Contemporary Art Established in 1978, the Michael H. Lord Gallery is located in the Palm Springs Uptown Design District at 1090 North Palm Canyon Drive. Housed in an architecturally-significant building built in 1929 as the garage for the landmark El Mirador Hotel, the 6,000 square foot gallery showcases the finest in contemporary art. Opening in 1928, the El Mirador was one of the most fashionable resorts of its day, catering to movie stars and captains of industry. The Spanish Revival styled garage was necessitated by the number of hotel guests and their automobiles. The second floor of the two-story building located on Tachevah Drive housed the chauffeurs while office space, service, and fueling occurred on the first floor building on the North Palm Canyon Drive side. The El Mirador Hotel and its facilities remained an active part of the community serving as a world-renowned hostelry and military hospital until it closed in 1971. Most of the original hotel buildings were demolished in 1979 to make way for the expansion of Desert Hospital. The tower and lobby building were destroyed by fire in 1989, leaving the garage as the only remaining portion of the El Mirador legacy. Learn more about Claude Reich >>

 

Art in the Hamptons By Neil Winfield  06/30/10 More articles like this >>

Escaping to the Hamptons sumptuous playground where New Yorkers gather to enjoy the glorious weather, landscape and beaches is a popular choice with many, especially art enthusiasts. July in the Hamptons will witness two inspirational art fairs that will treat the New York faithful to the exhibited works of talented painters, sculptures and filmmakers from around the world. ArtHamptons and Scope Hamptons both aim to explore the best in modern and contemporary art, comprising an extensive line-up of internationally renowned galleries. The shows are a celebration of the wide diversity art has to offer, with a vast range of works to explore. Whatever your preference in style, medium, size or price, these two excellent art fairs are sure to please. ArtHamptons, now in its third year, will run from the July 9th through the 11th and has moved its location to the luscious surrounds of Sayre Park. These five acres of beautiful pastoral countryside will provide the temporary site for the 50,000 square foot modular museum that will feature 90 galleries from 7 countries in an exciting show. The parklands themselves will also serve as a wonderful, tranquil sculpture garden, complete with welcome hospitality tents dotted around, where you can relax and have a break. Along with the exhibited, gallery works there are a series of awards, specialist shows and guest appearances to make the weekend an exhilarating event. David Burliuk, (1882 – 1967) Russian Modernist painter and local Hampton’s artist is celebrated with a solo retrospective of his revolutionary work. There is also a show dedicated to the works of another artistic son of the Hamptons, Syd Solomon (1817 – 2004) with an exhibit of his bold, vivid abstract works from the 1950’s - 70’s. New York Graffiti artist “Crash” and photographer Andrew Levitas are also represented at the fair, while there is a chance to see the lifetime achievement winner, Donald Sultan’s dedication wall and enter the show through Hans de van Bovenkamp’s breathtaking sculpture “The Sagg Portal.” Two weeks later, Scope Hamptons returns from July 22nd through the 25th July to The Marders, Bridgehampton for its sixth successive year. Scope will feature a series of international, cutting edge exhibitions showing the best of current and emerging contemporary artists. The fair, in a museum style environment, provides a rich and dynamic setting for the galleries to show off the best up and coming artists and display many existing talents. At The Marders’ 33 acre nursery site in the Hamptons, Scope will continue its mission to present innovative curators, galleries and their artists in the same spirit that is done throughout the year in other contemporary art markets such as, New York, Miami, London and Basel. Scope Hamptons will feature 65 galleries from 20 countries and will include the bright and often provocative work of Bert Rodriguez with his neon poetry. As part of extending the art experience, Scope will also include cinema and performance works and with Scope Sound they will promote the latest in music and sound art. Also being featured is a Kid-Scope program of events aimed at encouraging the next generation of talent to explore their creative skills. July in the Hamptons will definitely prove to be an excellent time to see what the good and the great of the world of art has to offer at these two successful and thought provoking art fairs. Image Credits: Courtesy of Elisa Contemporary Art showing at Art Hamptons Kimber Berry Liquid Landscape 628.0713 , 2007 painting 18" x 12" Mixed media on canvas Learn more about Neil Winfield >>

 

The Art of Glass: Transcending From Craft to Art By Kristin N. Carlson  06/30/10 More articles like this >>

Glasswork has had an arduous journey over the infamous divide of art and craft. In Providence, Rhode Island, glass legend Toots Zynsky and newcomer Harue Shimomoto are working together---mentor and emerging artist---to keep pushing the medium and raising the bar. The two first met at a glass workshop in Japan where Shimomoto was assistant and translator to Zynsky, whose work is found in major museums throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. “Harue spent into the wee hours of the morning working with students as long as they wanted to work; she was so onboard. I really liked her intellect, and encouraged her at the time to come and do graduate work in the States,” said Zynsky, who studied at RISD with another famed name in glass, Dale Chihuly. Shimomoto, who received her BFA in Tokyo, recently completed an MFA at the University of Wisconsin Madison and also studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art. The appeal and challenge of the medium lie largely in its translucent quality, unlimited color palette, and innate fragility. Originally drawn to glass by the dance-like physicality of the work, Zynsky has a passion for color and texture. Her unmistakable vessels have rich painterly color and a distinct sculpted character which could not have been attained with blown glass. She pioneered her signature filet de verre technique, the process of pulling glass threads from hot cane, to give her work a quality never before achieved. Working with thicker, hand-pulled and slump-formed threads as her building blocks, Shimomoto’s work has a definite direct relationship to Zynsky’s filet de verre, incorporating the knowledge to accomplish a style uniquely her own. “I have learned a lot about being a professional artist since moving into Toots’s studio, and I’m also learning a lot just watching her create her work,” said Shimomoto. Both artists have a deep fascination with textiles that is reflected in the thread-like texture of their methods. From an early age, Zynsky felt a connection to the great-grandmother she had never met through the grandmother’s own Russian tapestry weavings in her family home. As an artist, Zynsky continues to find herself drawn to the colors and patterns of textiles in her travels around the world. Likewise, Shimomoto describes her own objective as “weaving with glass.” Through a labor-intensive process, Shimomoto pulls straight threads of various lengths and colors, arcs each one over kiln bricks and re-fires to create bend, then fuses numerous threads together into weblike panels. The panels are grouped and hung differently onsite for every exhibition. Because each thread is carefully and individually formed, there is a varied, hand-spun quality to the finished work which is immediately evident to the viewer. Zynsky and Shimomoto’s collaborative goal? Work bigger. “I want to work larger to capture the impact inspired by nature, the small beauties of daily life. I want people to forget the work is fragile glass, and to walk through experiencing the sculpture as an environment,” said Shimomoto. The potential weight of creating anything large with glass and the bearing of that weight on its own fragile material is something Shimomoto has researched and tackled head-on. Her thesis exhibition created a total environment of glass rods and delicate woven glass panels, departing the walls and filling the entire room from floor to ceiling. “She would send me images [of her graduate work in glass] and it was really exciting to see that some of the things I had taught her in Japan had blossomed. Harue was creating such large sculptures, these totally new ideas, out of such small pieces. She had figured out how to do it,” said Zynsky. Shimomoto’s experiments with scale combined with Zynsky’s technical prowess and love of color create a wonderful symbiotic relationship in the studio, one which both hope will allow them to develop large public commissions. Zynsky and Shimomoto are represented at SOFA WEST: Santa Fe 2010 by David Richard Contemporary. “We curate to show artists who deconstruct and comment on a concept, and who are working through a medium’s technicalities. I feel strongly about contemporary abstract, and work that is conceptually challenging and technically proficient. More and more artists are crossing the boundary between art and craft, and the medium is chosen to fit the message,” said gallery co-owner and director David Eichholtz. The gallery itself rejects definition by medium as well, and shows a variety of contemporary abstract painting, mixed-media, ceramics, and glass. This year’s second annual SOFA WEST: Santa Fe is the newest branch of the nation’s premiere fair for outstanding contemporary arts and design, also held annually in New York City and Chicago since 1994. SOFA WEST takes place July 8-11 at the Santa Fe Convention Center, 12pm-6pm daily. Image Credits: Harue Shimomoto Ame no ato (after the rain), 2010 Glass 34 x 18 x 10 inches Fused glass cane with braided stainless steel wire and stainless steel support for wall mounting. Toots Zynsky Candela, 2010 Glass 12 7/8 x 13 3/8 x 11 3/4 inches Learn more about Kristin N. Carlson >>

 

THINK Creative By Kristin N. Carlson  06/29/10 More articles like this >>

Santa Fe has attracted artists, poets, and photographers for generations and is an ever-increasing contender in the contemporary art scene. The draw of “the city different” continues to bring newcomers from New York, Los Angeles, and other urban hubs. With them came Kristin Carlson in 2005, who has found a niche for success in a thick-walled adobe with brick-on-sand floors and split wood ceilings tucked behind a growth of aspens. As founder of THINK Creative Consulting, the 29 year old Kristin runs a buzzing office three blocks from the historic plaza downtown Santa Fe. Working projects locally, across the U.S., and internationally, THINK offers full strategy marketing and public relations, as well as graphic and website design, with a mission toward appeal, access, and a sense of invitation. The portfolio ranges from visibility and identity for American arts organizations to international public relations campaigns, and includes branding for renowned galleries, architects, performing artists, and designers. Since moving to New Mexico from New York City, Kristin has acquired clients such as Clark + Del Vecchio (formerly Garth Clark Gallery), S.O.F.A Sculpture Objects and Functional Art Fair, The American Lung Association, Eileen West, and UrbanGlass. “With my own arts background and permanent love of art, dance, music, all things beautiful?I’m a big believer in using my skill set and my company to support and connect with creative people. Moving to Santa Fe, I found a unique city with a wonderful history and unbelievable natural setting, plus arts and cultural opportunities so much enhanced by the involvement of the community. I have a personal and professional enthusiasm, and dedication, to helping arts organizations carry out their vision in business. Where I live keeps me inspired everyday,” said Kristin. “In regard to websites, I’m committed to raising the technical and aesthetic caliber, and providing a cohesive online experience in a unified, elegant, and interactive way.” A case in point: THINK has designed, programmed, and managed implementation of robust CMS (Content Management System) websites in both open source and proprietary software including Yahoo! Stores Merchant Solutions and WordPress. In 2009, acclaimed modern and contemporary ceramics gallerists Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio relocated their headquarters from New York City to Santa Fe. In tandem, the gallery’s name was changed from Garth Clark Gallery to Clark + Del Vecchio. The team needed a web solution which would be simpler for clients to navigate, more flexible for the owners to update, and have a look congruous with THINK’s new branding for the gallery. THINK conceptualized, organized, and blueprinted a scheme, working closely with Managed Artwork’s programming and hosting for personalized customization which allows total design control, ongoing updates of the home page, news items, inventory, and other databases, and photos which can be changed at anytime. The emphasis is on ease of access to information, as well as discovery and exploration of the new Clark + Del Vecchio identity and offerings Kristin Carlson founded THINK Creative Consulting in Santa Fe in 2005 to offer interdisciplinary services incorporating expertise in graphic and website design, marketing and public relations. THINK provides comprehensive branding, messaging, and image development through art direction, cross-media campaign creation, events-based promotions, web presence improvement, software, and technical skills. Attending design and innovation conferences and providing onsite campaign management annually in various cities, owner Kristin Carlson is a regular contributor to art and travel columns and blogs. She studied art history and visual arts at Columbia University in New York City; worked in marketing and design at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and W Architecture in Manhattan; and has been a guest reviewer at the University of New Mexico’s graduate school of design since moving to Santa Fe. THINK Creative Consulting is a preferred designer for customization of the Managed Artwork hosting solution. Image Credits: Photo of Founder Kristin N. Carlson Learn more about Kristin N. Carlson >>

 

Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection by Laurence Kanter By Claude Reich  06/24/10 More articles like this >>

Richard Feigen has been one of the most respected old-masters art dealers in NYC for nearly 50 years, but few people also imagined him as one of the most important art collectors in the U.S. This book, the catalogue for the current show at the Yale University Art Gallery focuses on the Italian works from his collection, from the medieval ages to the XVIITH century (a wonderful 1622 Danaë by Orazio Gentileschi)with 59 works wonderfully illustrated and documented. Often by little-known artists (the XIVth century Allegretto Nuzi, the XVth cenury Niccolò di Pietro Gerini...), it offers a rare glimpse into the taste of a connaisseur of old masters pictures, with many religious paintings of Saints or crucifixions. None of those are masterpieces, but all are high-quality pieces and the reproductions are very good. Recommended to anyone with an interest in Italian "petits maîtres" whose works are often kept hidden in museum reserves. Learn more about Claude Reich >>

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July 21, 2010		Gallery Spotlight Gallery One    Gallery Directors Leanne Pearce and Jasmine Smith's aim is to realize the vision of Gallery One becoming one of Australia's premier galleries. Gallery One is currently presenting Works On Paper ...Read More >>
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July 14, 2010		Books Otto Dix by Otto Dix     The painter of modern life (and death) This book is the catalogue for the Dix exhibition currently held at the Neue Galerie in NYC, which will later travel to Montreal, Canada and which ...Read More >>
July 08, 2010		Gallery Spotlight Michael H. Lord Gallery    An Oasis of Contemporary Art Established in 1978, the Michael H. Lord Gallery is located in the Palm Springs Uptown Design District at 1090 North Palm Canyon Drive. Read More >>
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June 30, 2010		Art Fairs Art in the Hamptons    Escaping to the Hamptons sumptuous playground where New Yorkers gather to enjoy the glorious weather, landscape and beaches is a popular choice with many, especially art enthusiasts. Read More >>
June 29, 2010		The Business of Art THINK Creative    Santa Fe has attracted artists, poets, and photographers for generations and is an ever-increasing contender in the contemporary art scene. The draw of “the city different” continues to bring newcome...Read More >>
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June 17, 2010		The Business of Art Caffeinating Your Gallery Website    The latest search engine marketing buzz seems to center on what Google’s newest search engine algorithm and infrastructure revision, Google Caffeine, is searching for. The new architecture was desig...Read More >>
June 17, 2010		Diversions Passages: Gorky and Graham    Each day is a passage in our lives. Each day multitudes of people brush against one another without a thought of who was inside the anonymous skin they just touched. Read More >>
June 17, 2010		Gallery Spotlight Watts Fine Art    Meet with Sculptor Wayne Salge At Ease - Wayne Salge Join us for an evening with Colorado sculptor, Wayne Salge. Wayne will be displaying several unique works and will be with u...Read More >>
June 16, 2010		Art Fairs Art Basel: International Reunion of Art    As summer begins, a close-knit family of more than 60,000 art lovers will gather in Basel, Switzerland for their annual reunion in celebration of art. Taking place from June 16th through the 20th, th...Read More >>
June 15, 2010		Books Magritte by David Sylvester    The Magritte bible Originally published in 1992, this is an updated version of the monumental monography written by one of the best art critics of the XXth century, the late David Sylves...Read More >>
June 03, 2010		Books Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works by David Kaufmann    "Wanted to tell stories..." Being a long-time Guston fan, I have read about everything that has been published about the artist over the last 20 years. This book, whose title is based on ...Read More >>
June 03, 2010		Gallery Spotlight The Bohemian Gallery    MISTAKEN IDENTITY, by The Hilton Brothers. Curated BY Virginia Robinson and Robert Lococo October 08 - November 08, 2010 Location: Subte Municipal, Plaza Fabini, Montevideo, Uruguay ...Read More >>
June 03, 2010		Diversions ‘Summer of Color’ erupts across L.A.’s coastline    Have you ever envisioned an art project so enormous, that it could stretch the length of an entire shoreline? Read More >>
June 03, 2010		The Business of Art The Dollars and Sense of Art Fairs    Art, by its very nature, does not stand still – nor does the business of selling art or the climate that business exists in. In this volatile economic world, a note of optimism (much like the stock m...Read More >>
June 01, 2010		The Biennale of Sydney Opens    May 12th sees the opening of the seventeenth Biennale of Sydney. Over the next ten weeks, the Australian city will open itself up to the contemporary art world and show everyone what is currently maki...Read More >>
May 27, 2010		Books Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 (Art Institute of Chicago) by Stephanie D'Alessandro     Matisse reinventing himself and modern art. This book is the catalogue for the current exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, which will then travel to Moma in NYC. Read More >>
May 26, 2010		Art Fairs No Holds Barred at Art Amsterdam    The internationally renowned Art Amsterdam fair has taken on the theme of “No Holds Barred” for the twenty-sixth edition, which will run from the May 26th through the 30th. The historic city of Amste...Read More >>
May 20, 2010		Gallery Spotlight Michael Berger Gallery    Michael Berger Gallery is a not-for-profit enterprise underwritten by the Michael and Sherle Berger Foundation. The Foundation’s educational mission is intended to increase public awareness of this ge...Read More >>
May 20, 2010		Books Alice Neel: Painted Truths (Museum of Fine Arts) Alice Neel: Painted Truths (Museum of Fine Arts) by Alice Neel     Very good, but not great. The visibility of figurative painter Alice Neel has increased lately, with a record price paid at auction last year by the Cleveland Museum of Art for one of he...Read More >>
May 19, 2010		Art Rouge Gallery    Five year old Art Rouge Gallery is a bright tear of color across an often insolently, vanilla Southern art scene. Read More >>
May 18, 2010		Blogging Basics with Blogger    Blogging is an online diary, short for web log, where the author annotates their personal thoughts, news, favorite links and any content of interest. The blogger has the ability to imbed video and aud...Read More >>
May 18, 2010		Haughton International Fairs Presents The Inaugural Art Antiques London    The fortunes of an artist rise and fall on the stormy seas of fashion. A successful art dealer must walk on the waters of personal integrity and business savvy. Read More >>
May 13, 2010		Gallery Spotlight Alysia Duckler Gallery     Alysia Duckler Gallery Established in 1996, the Alysia Duckler Gallery specializes in contemporary fine art, including sculpture, painting, works on paper, and photography. Read More >>
May 06, 2010		Books The Invention of Paris: A History Told in Footsteps by Éric Hazan     Walking around Paris and its history This book is a very interesting study of the history (and the story) of Paris, how its arrondissements were formed and the famous people who have wal...Read More >>
May 06, 2010		New Directions in Custom Frame Moulding    The artwork is the cake and the frame is the frosting. One is not complete without the other; each highlighting and accentuating the other. ...Read More >>
May 06, 2010		Diversions The Arts of Seeing Healing and Beginning    On May 22nd and 23rd, 2010, four hundred artists and thousands of art lovers will unite in a unique event to raise funds for the Venice Family Clinic, the largest free clinic in the country. Read More >>
April 29, 2010		Diversions Q+A: POPLOCK Gallery’s Lexie Gehrke on curating through the storm.    Bringing art to the public is a constant challenge for artists, curators, and gallery owners alike, but it’s rare to hear about an art scene where the challenge lies in separating the partiers from th...Read More >>
April 29, 2010		Books CY Twombly: Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings 1996-2007 CY Twombly: Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings 1996-2007 by Cy Twombly     The Twombly bible This is the fifth volume of the monumental catalogue raisonné of Cy Twombly's paintings, this one covering the years 1996-2007.
April 29, 2010		Gallery Spotlight Springbox    Springbox is currently featuring New Sculpture: Travis Pond. April 09 - May 06, 2010. Read More >>
April 28, 2010		Traits of Success: Robert Berman Gallery    Another Nude Show, the title of one of Robert Berman Gallery’s three current exhibitions, is part tongue-in-cheek, part inside joke. Read More >>
April 28, 2010		Art Chicago Preview    Starting April 30th through May 3rd, the 30th edition of Art Chicago will take place on the 12th Floor and Main Lobby at The Merchandise Mart. Read More >>
April 22, 2010		The Business of Art Traits of Success: Being with Ambroise Vollard and Gertrude Stein    Sex, jazz, men on the run, women on the loose, revolution on the wind, a tango of passion danced by life and art - welcome to The Paris School, welcome to the social and creative revolution that shape...Read More >>
April 22, 2010		Art Fairs NEXT 2010 Preview    NEXT, The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art will be holding its 2010 fair at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. The fair showcases works from living artists, both mature and up and coming and disp...Read More >>
April 22, 2010		Gallery Spotlight okaioceanikart    okaioceanikart - say it: "o kai ocean i kart" okaioceanikart was established by Marilyn Kohlhase and Bridget Marsh in December 2006. "We wanted to create a different art dealership that honours a...Read More >>
April 22, 2010		Diversions The Plastiki Launch: Art on a Global Scale    Art, by definition, questions the consciousness. What do we see? What are we "meant" to see? It likewise demands judgment, are we indeed moved by the object or left untouched. Read More >>
April 15, 2010		Art Fairs Art Brussels Contemporary Art Fair Preview    The 28th Edition of the Art Brussels Contemporary Art Fair will be held on April 23rd through April 26th. This fair is a European stage for new contemporary artists, with a focus on several prominent ...Read More >>
April 14, 2010		Diversions Zadok Art Gallery    The maelstrom of activities surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach 2009 last December included an open house, one evening at Zadok Art Gallery in the Wynwood Art District north of downtown Miami. Read More >>
April 11, 2010		Books Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe    Abstract, not blurred This is unquestionably a brilliant book. In six consecutive lectures given at the National Gallery in 2003, the last one three months before his untimely death, Kirk...Read More >>
April 07, 2010		The Business of Art What do the Search Engines gods want?    The behaviors of search engines can seem quite mysterious. The mechanics of search engines include algorithms, bots, meta tags and alt tags, and to top it all off, the rules seem to continuously chan...Read More >>
April 07, 2010		Art Fairs SOFA NYC - Preview    The 13th International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair, SOFA, will be taking place this year in New York City at the Park Avenue Armory. The founding Director and President of SOFA, Mark Lyman...Read More >>
April 07, 2010		Diversions The Rubell Family Collection    One afternoon, I wandered through a startlingly comprehensive collection of contemporary art. I was not in Berlin or Paris - I was in downtown Miami. Comprised entirely of pieces from the private coll...Read More >>
April 05, 2010		Gallery Spotlight Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art    Since 1978, Jonathan Novak has been a source for Contemporary American and European art specifically representing artists Sam Francis and Jim Dine. Read More >>
April 01, 2010		Gallery Spotlight Blackfish Gallery     Blackfish Gallery is proud to present Rosemary Powelson & Theresa Redinger Backroom: Carol Benson March 30 - May 0...Read More >>
March 31, 2010		Art Fairs Arteamericas - Review    Galleries and artists from all over the world came together for the Arteamericas Fair at the Miami Beach Convention Center from March 26th through 29th. Read More >>
March 31, 2010		Diversions Paul Davies – Hanmer, March 24 - April 11, 2010    Landscapes are part of the backbone of the painting canon, so there can be a certain expectation sometimes, when visiting a gallery, to see a landscape exhibition. Everyone has their ideal of the land...Read More >>