London: A Danish artist, a Canadian shoemaker and a British textile manufacturer stage a mini-fantasia where fine art, luxury goods and classic design feeds off of and bestows particular kudos upon each other... more
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Fish Forms: Luminous Lamps, a fantastic blending of idea and material with translucent shards designed by internationally renowned architect, Frank Gehry are being displayed at The Jewish Museum in New York... more
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Whatever happened to the indispensable "quicksand" consuming bad guys in the movies? Looks like the quagmire has been sucked under by modern dragons, monsters and tsunami waves... more
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Australia's Freya Blackwood has snaffled one of the world's most coveted prizes for book illustration. Rosemary Sorensen interviews the artist... more
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Interested in a "near metaphysical experience--while checking out the fleeting nature of something?" Francine Keifer explains her fascination with the "wrapper" work of artist, Christo... more
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At National Gallery, Edvard Munch's 'Prints' reveal artist's methodical process. What's harder to recognize is that the craftily organized constructions worked out over years, sometimes decades, until Munch had exhausted the options they offered... more
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What is meant by "visual culture?" Being creative is not enough. As Karen Stanworth says, "Visual experiences are... open to a wide set of interpretations"... more
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Bucharest: Behind the Iron Curtain will showcase European artists headed by Romanian, Stefan Constantinescu, re-interpreting their memories of the cold war. Opening is planned for mid-2011... more
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"Rhythms of Modern Life," also at The Wolfsonian in (Miami Beach, Florida,) a print exhibition that showcases the speed and technology involved in everyday life... more
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Architect Frank Gehry proclaimed the greatest renegade plus authentic genius in modern architecture, and top spot winner of the last 30 years with the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. View bonus slide show... more
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The Bellagio Hotel Gallery of Fine Art in Las Vegas will feature the
exhibition "Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form"
showcasing figurative works from the late 19th, 20th and 21st centuries whose traditional and contemporary perspectives on figurative art helped to define the genre... more
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Fine Art presented with theatricality and panache! Guy Cogeval's conception of "drama and desire" at Toronto's AGO: dramatic staging of 1789-1914 artworks with readings by Stratford actors, provide a refreshing change... more
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Are books your memory theatre? As paper and print drift into obsolescence, what will the loss of libraries or even a personal bookshelf mean to you? Read Nathan Schneider's provocative essay... more
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Listen to the story of Eugene Boudin, a forerunner to the impressionistic movement and the man who inspired Monet... more
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Italian photographer Angelo Musco's next solo show Tehom in Chicago will feature a fascinating underwater world of nude bodies, see stills here... more
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Dead or Alive--New York's Museum of Arts & Design focus is on natural history, creating art from real birds, bugs and bones--read and see for yourself... more
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This fall, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria presents Todd Tremeer's Little Wars (Make Me) installation, inviting visitors to collaborate (read "play") with 16th century woodblock designs on the gallery's mural-sized background... more
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Collector Marek Roefler has opened an unique private art museum in a Warsaw suburb to show his extensive collection of Ecole de Paris works, mainly by artists of Polish descent brought back to Poland... more
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Psychogeography: a term coined by curator Richard Rhodes as he talks about the 2010 Alberta Biennale of Contemporary Art, "Timeland": a landscape where "pasts, presents and futures are in motion all at once." At the Art Gallery of Alberta... more
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St. Petersburg: Costumes designed for Nureyev and ballet partners on display at Sheremetyev Palace allow fine art of fabric and design to shine... more
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Visual Highlights of the 2010 Edinburgh Art Festival provided by Agnieszka Gratza; plus a review by Jonathan Jones...and his explanation of why artists must fight as rivals!... more
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Dead or Alive? Apparently, "creating art from birds, bugs, and bones" is all the rage. So claim over 30 artists at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York... more
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Encounter with Art Blogs: Puerto Rico and Beyond is set for July 29th in San Juan, celebrating the Museo de Arte de Ponce's 50th Anniversary. Check out current attitudes and expectations of blogs and art journalism... more
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Matisse-designed religious vestments and large-scale drawings will be featured by the Vatican Museum in a room specifically designed for this purpose... more
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"Art and Design in the Modern Age 1885-1945" at The Wolfsonian (Miami Beach, Florida) explores the way design of art, furniture, and appliances have evolved for the modern world... more
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Realizing that we're sharing this with the culturally converted, here are some thoughts from Robert Hewison on Why the Arts Continue to Need Funding--even in an era of austerity... more
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A decades-long gender bias at MOMA in New York seems over with this summer's exhibits by women artists, bringing the "art history narrative to life in ways it never has before"... more
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Drawing from the heart, sort of. Man acquires drawing skills through heart transplant... more
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How's this for an art studio?! Behind the Scenes at England's National Theatre lies the scenic workshop (known as "the paint frame")--take a tour... but you'll have to use your imagination for the range of smells... more
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. will present 120 German watercolors and drawings from 16th century mannerism to 19th century realism... more
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Beg, borrow and steal! Young Australian visual artists and writers challenged to generate new ideas from work originally created by others at Perth Contemporary Institute for the Arts... more
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Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries--an exhibition of incompetent copies, botched restorations and outright fakes is revealed at The National Gallery in London, forged signatures, synthetic pigments and all... more
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Winnipeg's Kenton Smith discovers that the narrative art form of "comics" provides a unique form of visual communication. Perhaps comics have never been as diverse, vibrant and exciting as now... more
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Certainly Not Boring: here's a wonderful gallery of winning entries to The Jake and Dinos Chapman G2 Colouring Competition for kids 6-13. Each won a colouring book signed by the artists!... more
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The main technical problem of watercolour is the "reserve," the use of the white paper as an element in design. Rediscover watercolour with Robert Linsley, featuring Cézanne and David Milne... more
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Correggio's Io (or Jupiter and Io) (1530), is celebrated as one of the masterpieces of European erotica. Read critic Tom Lubbock on this great work at Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna... more
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Minor Shockwave? Steven Shearer's work selected by the National Gallery to represent Canada at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Bryne McLaughlin thinks this may be smartly subversive... more
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Food portions have became increasingly generous over time in still life paintings--even in the case of those depicting the Last Supper. Ann Landi questions the trend... more
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British printmaker Sir Peter Blake's works are for sale at Christie's in London. His 60-year interest in print media and technological advances is legendary ... more
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A video shortlisting architects for the Stirling Prize (£20,000 ), shows off the best new building designs in UK & Europe 2010... more
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Exhibition Offers Unprecedented Reassessment of Pivotal Moment in Henri Matisse's Career. This article provides a thoughtful analysis of Matisse's development as an artist... more
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"Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917," an exhibition that opens next week at the Museum of Modern Art, offers a new understanding of how Matisse made significant revisions as he painted... more
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Wonder "how to" authenticate a masterpiece? Sometimes a single fingerprint can make the difference...it helps if you are an art connoisseur and have a "sixth sense," like Martin Kemp, the late Thomas Hoving, or Peter Paul Biro... more
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The current debate over BP's sponsorship of the arts is becoming hotter--take the Tate Gallery's stated ambition to demonstrate "leadership in response to climate change" for example... more
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Claude Monet often moved in the middle of the night to avoid angry landlords... until he spotted the village of Giverny, and made it his home... more
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A place to visualize and create art in: the Svalbard archipelago islands just north of Norway "where the sun never sets!" Hurry, before the Arctic ice melts... more
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Reality TV (Bravo) finally spotlights art and artists. American art auctioneer Simon de Pury mentors 14 emerging artist contestants on Work of Art: The Next Great Artist with host Sarah Jessica Parker... more
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The extraordinary architectural design of the UK's Norman Foster is applauded around the world. Here are some photos of buildings from Kazakhstan to Barcelona, and there's a new Bio... more
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