Author RSSHennessy Youngman ART THOUGHTZ AT THE CHICAGO MCA by Pedro Vélez
Panel discussions in museums can be tedious excursions into failed utopias. The problem is that your typical artist is selfish by nature, only interested in hearing the sound of his or her own voice. Meanwhile, curators believe their true calling is acade...
WINKLEMANIA UP CLOSE by Charlie Finch
Dealer/blogger and self-created minor art-world phenomenon Ed Winkleman and his comrade-in-arms Murat, known on Winkleman’s blog as "Bambino," visited me in the hills of Westchester last weekend. New Yorker features writer Eric Konigsberg joined us for di...
Camille Pissarro THE IDEALIST IMPRESSIONIST by Alexandra Anderson
After those Tanglewood concerts, culture-vulture visitors to the Berkshires typically include a day trip to the Clark Art Institute on their itinerary, where they are guaranteed a museum visit without peer. This summer, the earnest, now distinctly graying...
The Art Carousel WHO'S TZARA NOW? by Charlie Finch
With the dread day of September 8 looming on the horizon, when hundreds of New York galleries open simultaneously, to be followed by the craziness of
Performa later in the fall, punctuated daily (now) by absurdist Ryan Trecartin films at MoMA PS1, lock...
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Choosing the right photography college can seem overwhelming at first. However, we will show you exactly how to turn one of the most important decisions of your life into an easy and sound process.
Firstly, you should think carefully about your particu...
BUILD AN ART FAMILY TREE by Jerry Saltz
Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens and getting temporary shelter from the storm. These mentorships and collaborations end up helping sh...
THINKING BETWEEN HIS LEGS by Jerry Saltz
Cy Twombly, a giant of post-war American art, died at 83 on July 5, 2011. Along with Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, he moved painting beyond the heroic domains of Abstract Expressionism. Where his predecessors worked in brawny swaths of paint, Twom...
THE WRITING ON THE WALL by Peter Plagens
It’s difficult to make a calibrated and semi-nuanced case in favor of a prominent artist who’s just died. Opinions at that moment -- and we have one here with the passing of Cy Twombly -- tend to fall emphatically either in the direction of praise (Twombl...
I WANTED MY OWN HIERARCHY
Michael Werner ranks among the most influential gallery owners in the world. Together with artists such as Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck and Jörg Immendorff, he assisted in bringing international acclaim to new German art, which today is repr...
The Benefits Of Using Custom Patches.
Clubs, groups, corporations and organizations have long used custom patches in order to come up with an identification
scheme, as well as to share whatever interests that they may have in common. As of today, there has been a spike in the
number of co...
What Is the Purpose of Embroidered Scout Patches?
Embroidered Scout patches are well-known symbols for the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of America. These troops over the years have done a lot of work to improve the community and children’s abilities to survive in nature, and one of the biggest features of ...
Art Market Watch RETURN OF THE RICH
In the last five years, at the big New York auctions of contemporary art in May and November, Christie’s New York had the higher sales figure seven times out of ten. So it is again this week, as Christie’s evening sale of contemporary art on May 11, 2011,...
ARCHITECTURE KILLED THE FOLK ART MUSEUM by Jerry Saltz
On May 10, 2011, the American Folk Art Museum -- that beloved, bedeviled museum on West 53rd Street -- confirmed what many of us had feared for years. Facing a crippling debt and low attendance, the museum (or rather, its board of directors) has decided t...
Art Market Watch ANDY WARHOL'S MAO
Andy Warhol is the measure of the contemporary art market. In 2010 alone, 1,646 works by Warhol were sold at auction, ranging from the exotic Liz Taylor homage from 1962, Men in Her Life, which went for $63 million, to a label from a can of Campbell's chi...
John Storrs MACHINE-AGE MODERNIST by N.F. Karlins
“Elegant” is the word for the work of American sculptor John Storrs (1885-1956). His Stone Panel with Black Marble Inlay (1920-21) has the grace of a ballet dancer, with upward thrust and elongated planar shape that recall both the human figure and majest...
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