Bravo’s Work of Art Doesn’t work for Anyone

At some point last winter my mother sent me a link to the BravoTV casting website. She suggested that I audition for Sarah Jessica Parker’s new show “Work of Art”. In my post-college waitressing haze I decided that it seemed like and interesting opportunity...

Review: American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity

American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition was concurrently on view with its sister exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection(closed August 1st, 2010). The exhibition focuses...

Review: Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art was set to close August 1st of this year, but has been extended to the 15th due to its extreme popularity. Even given the extension, the Picasso exhibit was swarmed with tourists this past Saturday struggling to catch a glimpse (what they believed would...

Review: Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids

Andy Warhol’s Big Shot Polaroids are currently on view at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC. This show includes roughly 300 Polaroids and 70 gelatin prints taken by Andy Warhol from 1970-1987. The exhibition works come from the permanent collections of three university art museums in...

Iran as the Promised land of Loss

The Arario Gallery is now having one of the most exciting exhibition in New York, one of the reasons of this fact is the controversial subject of this exhibition: Iran nowdays and its social complexity. In the context of highly diplomatic tensed relation between United States' governement and...

The Possibility Of A Humatopia

James de Blas has a special way to share with us his psychedelic visions: he cherishes representating half human half animal people- like Ancient Egyptians did to represent their gods- dancing in apocalyptic landscapes which picture the strengh of nature, the mystery of wilderness.

Textures As Life Itself

John Williams gives life to textures on his canvases, like the painter Jean Dubuffet did with his series of Texturologies, creating landscapes where gouache in thick layers was used as an element to create a third dimension. Frottage technique, work on the..

The Surrealistic truth of our bodies

Ansen Seale's photographs play with the limits of our perception, to desorientate us, by body distorsions. As if these bodies were genetically modified, or of an other human reality Ansen Seale roots his art in the contemporary research done on body and the limits of its representation.

The Dyonisian Pleasures of Landscapes

The Lohin Geduld gallery exhibits up until the 13th February 2010, landscapes paintings by Albert Kresch. Albert Kresh's paintings linger in our memories because his colors are shaped as a vibrant clay. More over, Kresch's thick color patterns and technique, using mixed media, give his pieces...

The Value of Social Values

Currently on view at the Deitch Gallery in Tribeca is Keith Haring's 70 foot long mural painted in 1985 for the South Market Childcare Centre in San Francisco. The mural features restrained simple black figures painted onto a yellow background in Haring's signature style.

Erotic Voyeography

Tichy would probably look quite out of place wandering around the ICP. An outsider to not only the art world but in his own small town in Czechoslovakia. He was discovered almost accidentally only four years ago and propelled into the spotlight by his clandestine photography of voyeurism. Every aspe

The Female Control of Art

It is an important fact in the history of the arts for the last century or more that in England and America, if not elsewhere, the chief interest in all the arts, including literature, has been taken by women rather than by men.

FUGACITY

Martine Thoelen's paintings illustrate her own poetical vision of the world. She wants reveals the mysterious beauty, the inner beauty of her models. By creating apparently unfinished paintings, Martine Thoelen leads us to the full sense of fugacity.

Ellen Von Unwerth's "Fräulein" at Staley and Wise Gallery

The Staley and Wise Gallery exhibits works from the German photographer Ellen Von Unwerth. This exhibition titled "Fräulein", which means young woman in German, is a collection of photographs showing an ideal erotic image of young beautiful women.

Nancy Halbert's art focuses on the figurative form of the body and the expression of the l...

Nancy Halbert's art focuses on the figurative form of the body and the expression of the line of the figures captured within the canvas. Having had a successful career as a choreographer and dancer, her work echoes the movement and form of the body in motion and stillness.

Fraternity in a world that is disunited

Anastasia Mariana Hansen has through her art developped the theme of universal symbols as a wish to proove to us the unity of our humanity. Star of David, heart, circles, rings, flowers are as many symbols that characterise Anastasia Mariana Hansen's works.

From A Kaleidoscope

Davor Vukovic is an artist that finds his inspiration in the amazing beauty and richness of nature. His art reveals harmonic influences of late impressionist artists, Fauvism, and painters such as Cezanne, Vlaminck or Soutine.

A Psychedelic Scope

John Ruby's art celebrates the power of colors in order to create a sensuous world, where colors, shapes, various materials such as metal, oil, photography are poetically combined.

What Is Consciousness

The center of the earth is what Professor Lidenbrock was looking for in Jules Verne’s 1864 novel "A Journey to the Center of the Earth," and it is also what Larry Poons was looking for in 1969 with his encrusted topographical paintings. What Lindenbrock and Poons have in common, is that they are...

Charles Swenson featured at Ico Gallery

Ico Gallery is proud to present artist Charles Swenson as part of “The Rhythmic Figure”, a group exhibition which will run through the month of December. Mr. Swenson will bring a dynamic energy to the show with his mixed media figurative pieces. Charles Swenson’s figures cross the boundaries...