NYC James Cohan Gallery’s ‘All Watched Over”: Art, Science, Technology and...
Richard Brautigan, in a vintage photo Art, Science, Technology and 1960’s poetry are odd bed fellows in Martha Schwendener’s New York Times piece “‘All Watched Over’ Contemplates Art’s Relationship to...
View ArticleThe Many Faces of Contemporary Sculptor, Shelly Fireman
Miss Hospitality (2014), Bronze, 60 x 40 x 38” Bronx-born Shelly Fireman is an artist, restaurateur, raconteur, occasional lecturer, and—as I like to tease him—a mini-god. Other than granting me two...
View ArticleRe-opening of Washington, DC’s Renwick Gallery: “Wonder,” A Feast of Eye Candy?
The newly-renovated Renwick Gallery, part of Washington, DC’s Smithsonian American Art Museum. The long anticipated reopening of the Renwick Gallery came to pass on 13 November. This is the oldest...
View ArticleCopenhagen in the Footsteps of Painter, Wilhelm Hammershøi
Amagertorv Central Square, Copenhagen, Denmark What better way to see a city than through the eyes of a painter? For everyone knows that great painters see life not as it is for an ordinary person,...
View ArticleSmithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries- ‘Sotatsu: Making Waves’
Tawaraya Sohatsu, ‘Waves at Matsushima’ (detail), early 1600s. Collection Freer Gallery of Art The Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries are currently presenting a “once-in-a-lifetime exhibition”...
View ArticleThe Art of Killing: ‘Arts of War’ at Cambridge’s Harvard Peabody
To the cynic, humankind is, at its very core, drawn towards cruelty and brutality. Even before our ancestors mastered the art of metalworking we were inventing more efficient ways to annihilate those...
View Article‘Palm Beach Panache,’ Luxury from the Inside, Out
Recently published, Palm Beach Panache, by inveterate design fashionista, Carolina (pronounced, Caro-lee-na) Fernandez, plunges headlong into a world few get to see. Behind the gates and curving drives...
View ArticleMemory Networks: Interview with Contemporary Artist, China Blue
China Blue, ‘Mind Draw,’ video still (2014) Editor’s Note: Artist, China Blue, lives and produces art in the New England region. She is founder and executive director of The Engine Institute, an...
View ArticlePeabody Essex Museum’s ‘Asia in Amsterdam’: Borrowed Inspiration
Gerrit Adriaensz. Berckheyde. The “Golden Bend” in the Herengracht, Amsterdam, 1671-1672. Oil on panel. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Courtesy of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Creativity cannot exist in a vacuum....
View ArticleWashington’s National Gallery of Art@75: 300 Years of American Prints
Michele Fanoli after Richard Caton Woodville, ‘Politics in an Oyster-House,’ 1851, hand-colored lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Estate of William...
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