It is a simple truth that in any given month, if you added up all of the available space in commercial galleries around the country, the amount dedica...
Karl Benjamin's reputation preceded him as one of the four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists. For many who knew him closely he was regarded as a ...
During my drive to his house I had gone through a "Cowardly Lion" phase: What exactly would the portrait show? I felt extremely vulnerable and clueless concerning the final result.
View image The Date I remember a drunken date in my 20s. He was handsome and glamorous. I don't think he thought the same. ...
Flexible, observant, and pleasingly eccentric in her brushwork, Julia Schwartz creates images that are just a little bit off balance; just as she intends them to be.
The purpose of analyzing and taking things apart is to put it all back together and see the whole anew (arriving where we started and knowing it for the first time, to borrow from T. S. Eliot).
The heat has been turned way up on the East Coast, which is all the more reason to duck into a few galleries as you trudge through the city. As is typ...
After taking a short vacation last month, the "...Got ART?" blog is back for July. It may be hot out, but there is still plenty of art to see and things to do if you're willing to brave the heat
Norwegian press sources reported yesterday that artist Odd Nerdrum, 68, has been sentenced by an Oslo appeals court to an increased term of two years ...
Nora casually reminded me about that little cooking movie she had just made with Meryl Streep. Of course! Then she started telling me about this chicken recipe that she had made the night before. In honor of her memory, I thought I'd share "Nora's Famous Chicken" with all of you.
Here and there, we eventually run into snippets of the history of painting reacting to photography: Degas, reference photograph and painting, see im...
I have been looking through the recently issued "Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946 - 1994", and finding myself wowe...
Rodney Dickson's paintings are more like a performance of nature rather than a representation of nature.
Many art lovers reach a moment when their artistic taste has become too sophisticated for posters but original fine art is still financially out of reach.
