The last (discovered) painting by Leonardo da Vinci, has arrived in New York City and if you live within walking distance, or are a bicycle, train, bus or car ride away, you can come to our galleries in Rockefeller Center… Read the full article
“My paintings have the rising forms of the vertical necessity of life dominating the horizon. For in such a land a man must stand upright, if he would live. And so born and became intrinsic this elemental characteristic of my… Read the full article
Madison Square Park, Sunday, November 6, 2016. An almost impossibly beautiful Fall day in New York City. You can feel the blue of the sky, smell the chill in the air, hear the trumpet of the elephant. That is…if it… Read the full article
“I know these projects are totally irrational, totally useless. The world can live without them, nobody needs them, only me and Jeanne-Claude. She always made the point that they exist because we like to have them, and if others like… Read the full article
What does it mean to be relevant?New?Hip?Of the moment?Au courant?Visionary?With it?Edgy?Young? None of these things means anything. Do not care about being young and hip and au courant and with it and edgy. Instead, grow old like Arthur Kern and… Read the full article
The philosophy Make Art, not War is one I grew up with. My parents were surrounded by artists, artists who worked obscurely at their crafts in the deserts of Northern New Mexico, artists who took a long time to make… Read the full article
I wait for the light. Everything is beautiful, but only in my room, not in Gaza. I’m ready to die in this room unless I find a better place. – Gaza Artist, Nidaa Badwan, of her more than 100 Days… Read the full article
We are lying on our backs looking up into the pastel-hued interior of The Guggenheim spiral.
Red, Yellow and BlueRope Art, by Orly Genger Sublime, and many other things… Happy Memorial Day Weekend everyone… P.S. In case you are interested, here is a link to a New York Times article on this inventive artist. I wish… Read the full article
…Except that when the artist painted in obscurity his entire life in a small 8×8 foot studio and was therefore completely unknown his art cannot possibly become political or erotic or mystical. Unless his trove of thousands of paintings narrowly… Read the full article
It’s Sunday, and I’m inspired by the work of other artists. And today it’s the witty, sweet and whacky William Wegman, who has made an entire career out of taking pictures of his dogs. It all started with one named… Read the full article
Sitting here with a morning quadruple shot caffe latte reading the New York Times (some of us still do that) and came across this charming story about artist Shantell Martin, who lives in Brooklyn with generous friends who allow her… Read the full article
If you are anywhere near Philadelphia… Get Thee to the Barnes Foundation, to see the rather incredible collection amassed by Albert C. Barnes and always housed, until now, in the original mansion he built for his works of art by… Read the full article
Might you be feeling a little paranoid today, like the Light-Footed Clapper Rail? Maybe you have said something you wish you hadn’t, like the Mandrill? Or are you confused about which direction is really up, as is the Caribbean Flamingo?… Read the full article
I saw the fantastic Cindy Sherman retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art this week, which is a stunning collection of her fearless self-portraits. Repeatedly turning the camera on herself – tenderly, unforgivingly, coldly, dispassionately and often humorously – Sherman… Read the full article
I wanted to share Grace Glueck’s tribute to the life and art of painter Helen Frankenthaler. Glueck reviews the basic details of Frankenthaler’s life – her education in the intellectual environment of Bennington College, her marriage to painter Robert Motherwell,… Read the full article
At my home my walls and bookshelves are covered with art made almost entirely by friends, family and people I have known personally, although there are of course exceptions. I grew up surrounded by my parents’ artist friends, so “knowing”… Read the full article
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