MadSilence did a great post on scary art in honor of Halloween.
This particular painting is was painted in 1892 by Allen C Gilbert at the age of 1...
Michael Stravato for the New York Times
Cy Twombly at Cy Twombly Gallery in Houston in front of the gallery's largest painting, "Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor."
I would...
The Metropolitan Museum in New york has just closed a show called Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
Francesco Colonna Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (The Strife of Love in a Dream of Poliphilo) Cou...
This documentary movie from 1955 enables us to see the process of the work as Picasso starts with a relatively simple painting and turns it to a masterpiece.
Thanks to the art corner for r...
Have you ever had the slightly unpleasant pleasure of wondering around art galleries? walking into a space full of beautiful (or not so beautiful) art, only to want to turn around and run right b...
I read about the Ashok Bhowmik exhibition at Tamarind Art in New York City till August 15th, in Art News Blog.
The Insect and The Angel Ashok Bhowmik
the gallery says:
"Ash...
A New Paul Paiement Show will open at the Peter Blake Gallery Laguna Beach, CA.and run September 4-27, 2008. Seems definitely worth a visit. Paul's work is both visually pleasing and intriguing...
If you don't live in NYC, and didn't go especially then you, like me missed the Affordable Art Fair, where everything was priced between $100 to $10,000.
Judging by Sunil from Simplistic Arts , p...
Giorgio Morandi (Italian, 1890-1964) Still Life (Natura morta), 1954 Oil on canvas; 10 1/4 x 27 1/2 in. (26 x 70 cm) Mart, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Collection o...
Kesha Bruce has her own gallery space which she shares with another artist. It seems that other than the up sides of having your own gallery space there are some downsides to, for example a lot of ...
Susan Lowe who is probably who comes to mind when thinking about someone who has done it all, or pretty much so. She has been an Actress, factory worker, professor - in short a well rounded multi e...
It is so hot and dry right now, that I feel the water content in my bodies is slowly vanishing just as it is everywhere else on the planet. We have stopped watering our grass to save water, and inste...
I don't often write about personal things on this blog, but I was thinking about how one turns into whatever it is one becomes, and the influences and drives that make choose a certain direction.
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Sometimes the most surprising things inspire me.
Elizabeth Perry
OK, not the most surprising things, I just seem to run into them when I least expect to, and there effect on me is immense...
This is my first time seeing Amy Bennett's work, and unfortunately, it is not in person. She will be showing through February 14th at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica.
Amy Bennet...
Red Riding hood with a twist. (Slightly of topic but delightful non the less)
This is a Tex Avery cartoon from 1943.
From Wiki
He also created a series of racy and ...
Finding your muse is never as romantic as it seems, and when I was a student, I had a difficult time with the whole terminology of finding subjects to work on. Muses, seemed to me to only be things t...
So - from both sides of the table, applying to a job, or on the other hand a juried art show could look like this.
Out of the two people in this picture, I must say I least envy the lady with ...
When I was younger everything was in books, if you wanted to know an artist you had to buy or in many occasion you received from some uncle instead of the present you always wanted an album of thi...
I couldn't very well pass this day without posting something at least partially related to the election.
SFMO posted a great post called SFMOMA Red Blue Study: Chris Sollars which is the perfe...
One of the great things about the Internet is that you can run into a whole lot of wonderful stuff without intending to.
Some Such stuff, for me, is the Art of Cable Griffith , which I was unfami...
This book may not be all the way relevant right now, as Sarah Thornton's Seven Days In the Art World, was written before the current economic break down, when the art market was booming, and contempo...
No way to avoid the international economic meltdown, and clearly the art market is going to be hurt as well. According to TAN Dealers will be hurt most.
The theory: speculation in art (and yo...
One of the blogs I like to visit on a regular basis Is Color Chunk. The blog of artist John Tallman, Is a never ending source of visual inspiration. Color chunks from differnt sorces - most of them s...
I found this very disturbing Pig Skin Portraits by Heide Hatry .
It immediately brought to mind the old argument of the validity of Duchamp, and shock art...
I am not saying that her work isn...
"Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper."
Pablo Picasso
After reading this great quote in Alla Prima I d...
No matter what your finacial situation, whether you were severly hurt by this current ressesion or not, it is not a situation to be ignored. Everyone is rethinking there choices and lifestyles ...
This is not quite news but I still thought it was worth posting about Poster Boy Remixes MoMA Subway Ads along with Doug Jaeger, the marketing executive who created the campaign for MoMA, and unlik...
Rosemary Cosentino Mapping Journey IV,Oil on wood panel,12" x 12", 2003
This painting, which I find absolutely wonderful is one of a group of stolen pieces by the artist Rosemary Co...
Julie Beugin is a young artist whom I just discovered through Leah Sandals blog - Unedit My heart. Sometimes, when I am surfing aimlessly around on the Internet, a word or the composition of web ...
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