To celebrate the museum’s recent acquisition of Soutine’s stunning painting La Soubrette, c. 1933, the exhibition, From Russia to Paris: Chaïm Soutine and his Contemporaries, recently unveiled this important portrait together with a small selection of work from the Ben Uri collection by a number of Soutine’s peers: all either […]
The few paintings I own by Joan Griswold invite me into other rooms, other spaces than the ones where they hang in my home. Griswold’s paintings evoke place and settings that are intimate and rich with light and color, yet never overly-done or sentimental. While the scenes she paints are […]
“I f I were to do a series of portraits on one famous person in history,” mused Sanibel Island artist Myra Roberts one day in February of 2010, after reading an art story in the Wall Street Journal, “who would it be?” The answer came at once: Anne Frank. Taking […]
The bridge between public and private space requires a delicate balance of aesthetics and transforming lobbies, hallways, and amenity spaces with a creative flair is a specialty of Susan Lauren, Partner and Principal Designer of Lauren & Chase Design Group, Inc. Lauren often combines natural elements with site-specific visual art […]
I f you are an art-lover, artist, parent, teacher, student of aesthetics or of human perception, you must go to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City as soon as possible! Multiple viewings are indeed advisable. This exploration of Henri Matisse’s painting process is a great gift to […]
A rtists have always been drawn to the East End of Long Island, to its broad fields, its wild ocean-front, to its infinity of lovely bays, coves and inlets. They have been drawn for centuries to this storied region that juts far out into the Atlantic, where the constantly changing […]
Alandmark exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York is, amazingly, among the first explorations of the graphic arts of the Surrealist movement. Co-curated by Leslie Jones at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Isabelle Dervaux at the Morgan, it is organized, interestingly, by technique. Surrealism […]
From the Cultural Revolution to Cultural Landscape” explores the lives and art of Duoling Huang and George Xiong from inside the work/education camps of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution through their re-emergence as powerful cross-cultural artists in the United States. This historically significant exhibition curated by Cheryl McGinnis for her TriBeCa […]