Does the past matter anymore? In a fictional, present-day gathering in Venice of artists from many periods of history, the question of artistic lineage and other issues are addressed. Imagine Picasso's conversation with Velazquez... more
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Is "money laundering" really prevalent in the Art World? Take a 'boo at the recent FBI raid on a New York art gallery ... and a new book by a Brazilian judge revealing that international justice systems don't seem to be able to cope... more
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What the Most Successful People Do with their Weekends! And this could certainly apply to artists. don't you think? -- well, at least some of the time! .... more
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"The foods I draw and paint are universally relatable," declares Erin Rothstein, "approached in the right way, [toast, cabbage and fruit] can be a very powerful subject matter in art..." more
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Dutch portrait artist, Ben Lustenhouwer, talks about the important techniques of painting "hands," and reminding us that hands may very well unconsciously reveal what the subject's face would conceal... more
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UK's critic Jonathan Jones suggests, "Ask not what cubism can do for the Met, but what the Met can do for cubism," when talking of Lauder's great gift to NY City's Metropolitan Museum (& see pics)... more
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What's holding women back? "What kind of forward thinking do the arts need to encourage more women to take on the top jobs?" asks Sarah Crompton... more
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"Wax Room?" Yes, indeedy. Wolfgang Laib has installed one in Washington, DC. Wonder how many Bees it took to line it with beeswax?? If you need to meditate, that's the place to go ...may have to stand in line... more
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"After 100 years, has anyone been able to state conclusively just what 'Abstraction' is?" asks Barry Schwabsky. From Picasso to Szpakowski, is it "An artistic genre like any other? or a trendy product of network thinking?"... more
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Here's a chance for "feasting your eyes on some of the most beautiful paintings, sculptures, buildings and public spaces on earth" while the world waits for a new Pope in Rome... more
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£100m of Italian Baroque Paintings gifted to museums around the world--with viewing restrictions attached. See gallery of photographs here... more
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Vermeer really started something with his Girl With a Pearl Earring,
c. 1665: as well as inspiration for a film. Now it's setting new fashion statements, 'winking,' laughed at, or almost being copied -- by other famous painters... more
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Grayson Perry's "wry, self-satirizing humor"pays off -- but is his "reality" or "folk"-art? He hasn't been able to wear the same "dress" twice since winning the Turner prize in 2006... more
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France: During WW1, Henri Matisse headed south for his health, staying in various hotels around Nice "for the pleasure of painting nudes and figures in an old rococo salon" - and discovered a different manner of painting... more
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Despite new biographer Franco Mormando, critic Clive James lauds Baroque sculptor, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s amazing works - especially those masterpieces showing at the Borghese Gallery, in Rome... more
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Nathaniel Popkin explores urban life throughout the ages in Colored Consumerism -- suggesting it's all just a matter of mass popularity from a standardized palette... more
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Russia considering a request to re-establish the State Museum of Western Art in Moscow with its original collection of impressionist and early modern art, including Matisse, Degas & Picasso, which was closed in 1948 on Stalin's orders... more
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Mpho Moshe Matheolane discusses the question of future purpose and sustainability applying to art collections in South African public institutions... more
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"Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity": an ambitious partnership between US and French art galleries, illustrating how Impressionism, with its focus on light and motion, anticipated the birth of cinema by only a few years... more
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The 2013 edition of Gallery Hop in Vancouver set to start Apr 27 with talks & tours led by art-world experts, and special art exhibitions at numerous private and public galleries, plus receptions galore!... more
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Nigerian Artist Yinka Shonibare, MBE, creates contemporary sculpture striving to mimic globalization identity -- just have a 'boo' at his headless people showing in London... more
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Anything this exciting ever happen in your malls? Flash mob recreates Rembrandt's The Night Watch for museum reopening... more
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Does the current gallery system of editing an artist's work actually decrease the standard? New York dealer, Nicole Klagsbrun, thinks so!... more
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Hong Kong launches plan to exhibit/sell art via the Internet, focusing on contemporary Chinese works. A virtual gallery will feature pieces in 3D for a prospective buyer unable to travel to the gallery... more
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Young Futurists 2013 promoting "Black History Month" in the USA include gifted artist Darren Guest, from Baltimore, who doesn't let muscular dystrophy get in the way of his passion... more
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The Guggenheim re-frames (once again) it's classic collection of modernist works by the likes of Picasso, Manet, van Gogh, and Gauguin - all aimed to make those paintings "pop"!... more
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Dealing with a female's drooping breasts and an aging male’s paunch, Artists and Photographers face the truth while tackling the inevitable... more
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"Old Age may not be for sissies" ... BUT Paul Cézanne (at age 65) knew, "the knowledge and means of expressing our emotions is no less essential, and is only to be acquired through very long experience" more
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Fernando Botero wanted to be a bull-fighter, but soon began making successful paintings of them instead = lessons for finding successful (and artistic) career directions are out there lurking... more
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2013 Competitions CALL FOR ENTRIES : Richeson School of Art & Gallery have created the Richeson75 International Art Competitions.Next deadline: Feb 4th... more
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In Madrid's Ciaxaforum, Mind Mapping is the subject of the current exhibit Contemporary Cartographies where 75 artists have imagined new ways of organizing the world!... more
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Looking for a cure for post-holiday doldrums? Staffers at San Francisco MOMA offer playful ideas for creative inspiration in the new year -- quotes, start-up exercises and lots more... more
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Cameras: digital or phone ... frustrate every Art Gallery and Museum everywhere! Just ask a gallery manager or employee anywhere! Artists concerned about copyright should know all about this... more
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Browse "brush to block" (from painted hangings to a revolution of vibrant Edo-period woodblock-printed books), go to a Japanese bookstore at the Smithsonian.... more
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"A Billion dollars' worth of Cubism" -- now lauded "New Yorker" art critic, Peter Schjeldahl, illustrates and talks about collector Leonard Lauder's recent gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art... more
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Chinese accused of international plagiarism once again -- this time by prize-winning Italian sculptor, Claudio Capotondi, who believes his work was definitely illegally copied... more
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Exposure to "LED" light bulbs Does Not tend to discolour areas of bright yellow paint more than others -- Experts in Belgium have teamed up with experts in Amsterdam to now confirm that all light ages yellow pigment... more
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Re-opening Apr 17th in Amsterdam: the 'Rijksmuseum' is back - 'sliced and diced' by Seville architects! with 7,999 works on display! "Never has a national museum undergone such a metamorphosis"... more
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From Mermaids to Dragons ...some excellent drawing tips for would-be children's book illustrators from successful artists and cartoonists... more
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Do You Need an Agent?? Traditional artist--gallery relationships are changing and you may need financial advice and someone to deal with the galleries, like better promoting your work beyond sales to collectors... more
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"Art 13 London" attracts three South East Asia-based Galleries, raising Asian participation to 15% of the total galleries from around the world in this global art fair... more
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Exquisite Renaissance-era terracotta models, originally thought early studies for Michelangelo sculptures, have cost Canadians millions in tax credits... read all about it here... more
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Jed Perl questions that Chinese dissident, Ai Weiwei, is more than a political activist--but reasons that he has little aptitude for art... more
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"After decades under a Soviet stranglehold of rote learning, Lithuania’s schools are opening the doors to creativity," so claims Greg Klerlox, co-founder of Nimble Fish arts company, "creating openings for (new) ideas, and a revolution of the soul!" more
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Henri Matisse aka "Henry Hair Mattress" in 1913 -- as students in Chicago "tried" him for “artistic murder, pictorial arson, artistic rapine, total degeneracy of color, criminal misuse of line, general esthetic aberration, and contumacious abuse of title"... more
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Spontaneous icy but cultural and artistic "Warm Up" in Burlington, Vermont --(reported by Cathy Resmer) -- see for yourself... more
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Challenging contemporary art forms and exploring possibilities beyond the traditional, new postwar art exhibitions from Japan are showing around the world... more
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After a decade, new Artwork from the former East Germany has started to emerge -- both official State art and the work of dissidents -- allowing other folks around the world to join the debate.. more
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