Category — Art

Starting Saturday, March 15th thru the 24th , forty- six galleries and museums across New York City will be particStarting Saturday, March 15th thru the 24th , forty- six galleries and museums across New York City will be participeting in the Fifth Annual

Asian Contemporary Art Week.

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offers a variety of free cultural programs that range from art shows to musical performances, from author talks to film screenings . WordBridge Fair currently invites you to commemorate Black History Month and celebrate the significant contributions of African American artists, writers, innovators and inventors, with Stoop Dreams, (eight known and not so known New York artists), an art opening reception @ Salomon Arts Gallery 0n Saturday, February 16th from 6 to 9 pm.

Panel of artists from 6pm to 7 pm.
This is sure to be a crowd pleaser, rsvp @ didreyfus@yahoo.com

Come celebrate Black History Month with Stoop Dreams and WordBridge Fair.

On December 8th, the First WORDBRIDGE FAIR is being held in NYC.

Plant consciousness crosses roads with speculative fiction and a contemporary art show. It’s set to be an all day program with authors, artists and plenty of fun. Relaxed ambiance and music for art viewing, book signings, along with scheduled readings which are sure to be a delight!

FREE OF CHARGE
All day from 3 to 9 pm,
Saturday, Dec 8th 2007.

Salomon Arts Gallery, 83 Leonard Street, 4th floor. 212.966.1997

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Elegy for the Summer of Love

In the ’60s, Alain Dister took his camera and long hair hitchhiking across the country to capture communes and clinics in the age of psychadelica.

“When I first took some pictures in America, during the summer of 1966, I had no proper photographic education. After spending some time in Madagascar, I had bought an SLR Canon camera on my way back, with the intention of shooting landscapes. I was still drawing and painting, probably thinking I would photograph what I couldn’t paint. When I landed in New York, I tried to focus more on people. The street action in the Village blew my mind. It was the beginning of [Read more →]

The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama

Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) Hosts The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama
Exhibition runs through September 3, 2007

One of my favorite museums in NYC is running a fantastic exhibition currently. The Rubin Museum of Art is hosting The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, an exhibition that reflects artists’ interpretations of the Dalai Lama. A popular, beloved figure, the Dalai Lama has evolved to represent a range of different meanings. This exhibition explores the Dalai Lama’s multiple roles and iconic status, and how his work and identity resonate with people everywhere. [Read more →]

Artist, Heather Jansch Artist Heather Jansch was born in Essex in 1948 and studied fine art at Walthamstow and Goldsmiths College in London. Jansch has always had a passion for horses and it is this passion that led her to buy a hill farm in Wales. Having spent several reclusive years breeding Welsh cobs, she then set out to establish herself as a successful painter - a period she describes as her “apprenticeship.”

Taking a sabbatical from commissioned work, she moved to Devon in 1980. Eventually however, wanting to sculpt again, she was drawn back to her roots: the horse. Her earliest pieces of wire and plaster are reminiscent to pieces by Giacometti; followed by her series in copper wire — reminiscent to Da Vinci’s drawings. Yet, they still did not possess the unique quality she was seeking.

You’re probably wondering, “How is this art ‘green?” [Read more →]

From the acclaimed author of The Epicure’s Lament, comes a grand new novel of literary contention in which two competing biographers collide in their quest for the truth about a great artist.

Oscar Feldman, the “Great Man,” is a New York city painter of the heroic generation of the 40s and 50s. Rather than focusing on abstract canvases like Pollock and Rothko, he stubbornly holds to painting one subject alone—the female nude. Upon his passing in 2001, he leaves behind a wife, Abigail, an autistic son, and a sister, Maxine, herself a notable abstract painter. [Read more →]

A derelict multi-storey building has become a major work of art in Liverpool city centre. A 26ft diameter egg-shape cut from the front of a former Yates’s Wine Lodge building opposite Moorfields Station has been made to rotate on an axis. The revolving facade of the building rests on a specially crafted giant rotator, usually used in the shipping and nuclear industries, it acts as a huge opening and closing window, offering recurring glimpses of the interior during its continuous cycle during the day.The piece, entitled “Turning the Place Over” has been created by sculptor Richard Wilson for Liverpool’s Capital of Culture Year. It is set to be in place until spring of next year when the building is set to be demolished. Wilson, who is known for his works on architectural canvases which draw heavily for their inspiration from the worlds of both engineering and construction said, “We don’t often associate these materials with movement but we’ve made a piece of architecture as an event or as a performance to attract people’s attention and prove that Liverpool will be the centre of culture in 2008.”
(cost:$900,000)

Turning the Place Over by Richard Wilson

Interview with Richard Wilson