The American artist Ansel Adams is one of the world’s best known landscape photographers. He was born in 1902 in San Franciso. He died just south of his place of birth, on the beautiful coast of Monterey, in 1984. He was the most celebrated American photographer of the twentieth century, whose photography spans over 60 […]
Clothes Shoes
May 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Holly Morrison, Planet Aid (detail), 2013. Ultrachrome print, 8 x 9 inches, Courtesy Holly Morrison. Clothes Shoes, a re-appropriated urban re-signing found on a Richmond thrift-recycling bin, describes not only the context, but perhaps the demographic of current graduate artists’ work. The found marker resonates with a generations’ zeitgeist—the urgency of creating and presenting their […]
Paradise Found: Summer in California
June 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It opened just a few days ago and you can enjoy it till the very end: the art exhibition ‘Paradise Found: Summer in California’ will close as late as September 20, truly at the end of summer. It is a show featuring selected paintings from Californian Impressionists (period 1890-1930). The show will be in […]
Photographer Cindy Sherman, 1 more week in MOMA, NYC
June 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
American artist photographer and film director Cindy Sherman (1954, –) is currently being celebrated at home. Let me clarify this : celebrated in the lead museum of New York, the MOMA. Till mid-June. Sherman, Contemporary Master of Socially Critical Photography Cindy Sherman is recognized as one of the most important and influential contemporary artist of […]
Eve Leader, Canadian Artist Extraordinaire
June 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Represented (currently) by Granville Fine Art gallery, Contemporary artist Eve Leader has stood her ground on the Canadian passage of change toward truly innovative art. Canadian art has been so long synonym with either Aboriginal Art or
Georgia ‘O Keeffe
April 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Georgia ‘O Keeffe (1887-1986) sample work Bella Donna, 1939; oil on canvas; private collection, loan to ‘O Keeffe museum Representing the flower ‘Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. we haven’t time – and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. if i could paint the […]
American Vanguards Graham, Davis, Gorky and De Kooning
January 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Graham, Davis, Gorky, De Kooning and their circle, 1927–1942. Sometimes the best shows are not on Manhattan, but not too far away. Like this show in the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase NY that’s on now. There are more than sixty works of art from America’s most inventive artists between late 1920s and early […]
NY Art Book Fair, Sept 30–Oct 1
September 20, 2011 by 1 Comment
Printed Matter, Inc. Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference The NY Art Book Fair September 30–October 1, 2011 MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue Long Island City, NY The Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference is a dynamic, two-day event focused on emerging practices and debates within art-book culture. For the first time, the Conference […]
Ansel Adams Photographs :: Video Documentary PART 1
June 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
This post today could be considered a present to butting artists and lovers of the photos of Ansel Adams. It entails an Artist Documentary on Ansel Adams which was created in 1981, in his last final years. This seven part documentary offers great insights in both the person and the photographer, called Ansel Adams, as […]
Art Education is not art education is not art education
May 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment
3 art education opportunities + 3 countries + 3 art focal points + 3 art faculty = 3 totally different learning experiences: 1. MA Curatorial & Critical Studies; Frankfurt, Germany 2. Gwangji Bienanale Int’l Curator Course, China 3. MFA Graduate Programs, Maryland Institute College of Art, US The opportunities to study art are […]
