Aug 7, 2015 | Art, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
Holton Rower is known for his “pours,” artworks made by pouring successive colors of opaque, viscous paint onto a wood surface, letting a pattern be formed by the way the paints layer upon themselves and the way the imperfections of the wood shapes...
Jul 2, 2015 | Articles, News & Trending
Political art, good political art, remains powerful for decades, even centuries. Just think of the phrase “Napoleon Complex.” Everyone knows it means a man compensating for shortness via conquest, but Napoleon himself was no shorter than the average...
Jul 1, 2015 | Articles, News & Trending
Fan art has a long history. Every piece of artwork inspired by a story is fan art, from ancient frescos of still-more ancient legends through Da Vinci’s Last Supper to the explosion of television- and movie-inspired art that floods sharing sites like Tumblr and...
Jun 25, 2015 | Articles, News & Trending
Saturday Night Live, the sketch comedy and variety show on NBC, is a long-term jewel in New York City’s culture cred. Earlier this year, they marked their 40th anniversary with a huge, triple-length special and they have aired 787 episodes in all. A whole...
Jun 11, 2015 | Articles, News & Trending
Beginning Friday, June 26th, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City will play host to Doris Salcedo’s major collection of 122 works, in a massive exhibit titled Plegaria Muda. With a name that means, approximately, “silent or silenced...
Jun 6, 2015 | Articles, News & Trending
Joan Jonas is an American multimedia artist representing the United States at the 56th Venice Biennale this year. “They Come To Us Without A Word” is the title of her installation in the American pavilion. It features a career spanning selection of individual works....
