Jul 29, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
Before Lucy Liu hit television big time in 1997 on Ally McBeal, and big screen fame in Charlie’s Angels in 2000, she was showing her art in major galleries in New York and Los Angeles. She’s worked in collage, photography, mixed-media works, and sculpture...
Jul 22, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
Charles Ross has been toiling away in the New Mexico desert for nearly 50 years, since his mid-30s. Now 84, the artist is finally almost finished with his life’s work.
Ross and his wife, the painter Jill O’Bryan, began Star Axis in the summer of 1971....
Jul 14, 2020 | Art, Culture, News & Trending
In the early morning of July 1, 2020, Albuquerque news station KRQE got the first of a flurry of emails, reporting a new statue erected in front of the doors of Albuquerque’s city hall. Apparently bronze, life-sized, and frowning, it was a statue of the late disgraced...
Jul 7, 2020 | Art, Gallery, News & Trending, Organizations
The German submarine base in Bordeaux, France, was built in 1941 under the orders of Admiral Donitz, to establish a protective base from which Nazi submarines could patrol the Atlantic. After its completion in 1942, it housed a significant fleet, including 42 u-boats....
Jun 29, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
Everyone remembers the extraordinary damage done to the painting of Christ titled “Ecce Homo” by a well-meaning but over-confident parishioner in Borja, Spain in 2016. In her attempt to ‘restore’ the 1930 painting, Cecila Giménez made it into something...
Jun 17, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending
While Art Basel, the international fine arts fair founded in 1970 by Ernst Beyeler, Trudl Bruckner, and Balz Hilt has three major events a year, spaced around the globe, it is its eponymous event, Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, that is the gem of the set. At Basel...
Jun 5, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
The “Scarecoronas” in Northside, Cincinnati may seem silly and casual, just a bunch of scarecrows and monsters made of whatever the residents of the neighborhood had at home. But they are heirs to quite a long artistic history. Gargoyles, the grotesques carved in...
Jun 3, 2020 | Art, Gallery, Museums, News & Trending
Ordinarily, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy is a sea of art-lovers and tourists, bodies packed wall to wall as everyone vies to get a view of Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” that doesn’t include a dozen selfie-sticks. The art museum, which is housed in...
May 27, 2020 | Art, Culture, News & Trending
Seattle Artists Satpreet Kahlon and Matthew Offenbacher launched New Archives, their new journal of critical arts writing for the Pacific Northwest art scene on March 1st. A few hours later, Seattle announced the second COVID-19 death in the United States, just a few...
May 22, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
Anat Ronen is a muralist, which seems a very small word for her very large art. An immigrant from Israel to the United States, Ronen travels the world on talent-based visas, spreading color and thought everywhere she goes. Entirely self-taught and working in a variety...
