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Fabelo: Art Review
We had been impressed by the work of the Cuban artist Roberto Fabelo in Havana, both out in public in the Plaza Vieja and in the Museo de Bellas Artes, so we were keen to attend the opening of his solo...
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To Hype Or Not To Hype: That Is The Question
As the King of Siam once said: "Is a puzzlement!" Bloggers, filmmakers, and arts administrators are all faced with the challenge of capturing people's attention. Depending on their respective budgets...
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Moving On: David Armstrong at Casa de Costa
Tucked between the ever-shifting tectonic plates of New York’s bustling urban landscape on the Upper East Side, Casa de Costa is an oasis of calm: a moment in the city’s history, frozen in time. A...
View ArticleIves Maes on the ImageBlog
Title: 50°18'57'' x 5°22'20'' Material: 3D print in Titanium Year: 2014 50°18'57'' x 5°22'20'' is the first photograph that has been converted from 2D to 3D. It is a 360° x 180° panoramic photograph of...
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Vivian Li Debut Goes Eclectic-acoustic
The mandolinist-composer Vivian Li thrives between bluegrass and classical music. No two genres are more hard-set in their ways, but Li and her Pickled Campers apply heat to tradition and the walls...
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Margot Fonteyn: An Enduring Magic and Majesty
Margot Fonteyn was a simple dancer. She wanted urgently to live up to the expectations of others, placing no limit on how hard she would work to do that. In 1935, just 16, she danced her first leading...
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Hockney Is App'd to Paint: This Artweek.LA (July 7, 2014)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 30 May, iPad drawing printed on four sheets of paper, mounted on four sheets of Dibond, 96 x 72 in. (244 x 183 cm) framed,...
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'Daniel Sprick's Fictions: Recent Works' at the Denver Art Museum
Daniel Sprick, Beijing Man, Oil on board, 20 x 16 inches There is a well-known story about the painter Richard Diebenkorn that goes like this: One day in the early 1950s, when Diebenkorn was living...
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Q&A With Retired Firefighter Doug Bailey, Lightfinder Photography
Photo Credit: Doug Bailey Last year Doug Bailey, a Southern California firefighter, put down his firefighting gloves and jacket one last time. Now, as a retired firefighter, Doug spends his days...
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Paint, Glorious Paint...
I know, I was supposed to be following along with the theme, the argument, if you will: how the shocking intensity of Van Gogh's work opened up a path for the Post-Impressionists, the brilliant Fauves,...
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Perry Brass: The Manly Pursuit of Desire: Life Is A Show, Old Chum!
(Alan Cumming as the Em-Cee in Cabaret, courtesy Polk and Company.) I went to see Alan Cumming in Cabaret at the Roundabout Theater Company's venture at Studio 54 last night [July 3; Michelle Williams...
View ArticleExcellence and the Romance of Risk: The Hard Work of Embracing Creative Tension
Risk is not risk if failure is not a possibility. Failure is not failure if there is no pain. We don't just live in good times, we live in beta times, where it seems everybody, at least aspirationally,...
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Nerdrumklanen
Nerdrumklanen, a new exhibition of paintings and prints from the members of the Nerdrum School is opening this weekend at Raugland Atelier in Norway. Because the Nerdrum clan represents a philosophy, a...
View ArticleWhen Government Breaks the Fourth Wall
You're at the theater. You're sitting in your seat, paying attention to what's going on in front of you. If the play is any good, you've completely forgotten that you're sitting in a theater. You are...
View ArticleOn Seeing Online: Archive and Artifice
Created with support from Curatorial Intern Sapira Cheuk This edition of On Seeing Online mines the realms of artifice and archive. More than a fun alliteration, these ideas represent polarities of...
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Spanish Guerrilla Street Photography
Sergio de Arrola is a Spanish guerrilla artist and photographer who is uncomfortable with the moniker "artist." His work ranges from portraits taken in South America to a photo essay of American life...
View ArticleWrestling With the Wrath of Writer's Block
Staring at a blank page and not having the words flow the way they did last week, or even yesterday, is every writer's nightmare. Writer's block can feel paralyzing, especially with a deadline fast...
View ArticleTo the Met, From the Heart
The Metropolitan Opera, formed in 1880 and the standard bearer of the art form in the United States, is in negotiations with 15 unions whose contracts expire July 31. Some of these represent the...
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Paris's Newest Galerie Glitter
Here's the problem: Whadya do when you own the most elegant department store in the world, which happens also to be the second biggest tourist draw in Paris, and you're stuck with a non-descript 19th...
View ArticleThe Emotional Stages Of A Septum Piercing
I woke up one morning and decided that I wanted a septum piercing. Just like that, with no hesitation or long-time thinking.* Sporting my big, fluffy curls, I knew this badass piece of jewelry would...
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