Iran Art Festival First Call For Summer
Iran Art Festival First Call For Summer The first event of Iran Art Festival with the aim of introducing artistic elite to art communities inside and abroad officially began its work during a ceremony to announce the call for summer courses. In the first call the Festival is gathering artworks in painting and photography, and […]
YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK
Fresh on the heels and current run of KAWS’s beautiful show, Yorkshire Sculpture Park just opened another stunning show by Not Vital, the first major UK show of the Swiss and China and Rio de Janeiro and Niger-based artist.
NEON SCULPTURES BY MERYL PATAKY
Meryl Pataky is an alchemist of many mediums; she applies her passion for bending neon to an ever-progressive range of materials to create sculptures that relate to her concept of universal connectedness. From silver and copper to neon, iron and carbon, Meryl’s work utilizes its own materiality to make a statement about the material of […]
Art in the Mountains – “Premier Destination Workshops!” Since 1983
Art in the Mountains has 10-15 fine art painting classes each year, including studio and plein air classes. Our instructors are internationally known and published artists who enjoy sharing their knowledge and techniques in their workshops. We offer instruction in most media and genres. Art workshops include daily demonstrations, unique curriculum and one-on-one support. Class sizes […]
Tala Madani at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Painter Tala Madani’s show in St. Louis provided a concise primer on her work, featuring her hallmark subject: men, nude or almost so, perhaps Middle Eastern and probably middle-aged, in situations both abject and humorous. The small exhibition drew from a single body of work by the Iranian-born artist, one depicting individual protagonists against black […]
Arab Art in Tehran
A major fault line hugs the coast of the Persian Gulf, where the Arabian plate grinds up against Eurasia. The historic rivalry between Iran and the Arab nations across the Gulf underwrites today’s increasingly tense jostling for territory, religious influence, and geopolitical dominance. New fissures have emerged in the proxy wars currently playing out in […]
THE BITTERSWEET DREAMS OF DAVID CUNNINGHAM
This article inaugurates the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Art in America Arts Writing Fellowships, a joint project designed to foster art and culture writing in cities throughout the U.S. Here, Kevin Killian reflects on the San Francisco art scene. I met the late David Cunningham while straphanging on the 27 Bryant bus that runs west from […]
What It Means to Be Original
It’s something that has crossed all of our minds when we come up with a new idea, sometimes even stopping us dead in our tracks. It’s that little voice, saying, “It has already been done.” Upon hearing this voice, I go from the natural high of excitement at the possibilities of a project to a […]
THE J-POP SUMMIT FEATURING KAORI WAKAMATSU
The J-POP Summit, one of the world’s biggest Japanese pop culture events, will take place Saturday and Sunday, July 23rd and 24th at the historic Fort Mason Center located in San Francisco’s Marina district. They have also has announced that pop art creator – Kaori Wakamatsu – will be the Guest of Honor at this […]
THE PERFORMANCE ARTIST
When viewing art, we take in the final product—shapes and forms finalized, under-drawings covered by more accurate representations, little crimps smoothed out, the result of a method. In recent years, South Korean illustrator Kim Jung Gi has traveled the world drawing for an audience. His visual memory and ability to conjure complex scenes without references […]
In conversation with Ceramic Artist, Michael Boroniec
Michael Boroniec is an American artist, based in Massachusetts who studied at Rhode Island School of Design. The peculiarity of his art resides in the use of ceramic as a primary material. Boroniec’s Spatial Spirals series involves to create sculptural objects by modelling vessel thrown on the wheel, into open spirals. His body of work […]
The Future Now Symposium
There’s less than two weeks to go until Future Now: The Aesthetica Art Prize Symposium opens at York St John University. The event is an opportunity for you to meet the UK’s leading art organisations, publications and curators. Tackling key themes in today’s artistic climate, Future Now focuses on the arts ecosystem within a broader social […]
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Paul Delaroche, ‘The Execution of Lady Jane Grey’, 1833 The French painter Paul Delaroche may not be so well known today, but at the Paris Salon of 1834 he was extremely successful with this large canvas, and it sold for a handsome sum. Not surprising perhaps, considering it features everything that the French public of the 1830s […]
Architecture of Life
The question of what a particular museum aims to be is, today, so often preceded by the question of who’s behind its design. The recent construction boom among major American art institutions has resulted in the same kind of name-dropping that typically accompanies an Academy Awards red carpet: the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, […]
ORDER AND CHAOS
An artist whose short career was troubled by both psychological and physical trauma, Eva Hesse (1936–70) left journals and other written records of her tragic life and her intense commitment to her work. A documentary on the postwar sculptor, directed by Marcie Begleiter, is screening at Film Forum in New York this week. Below, some excerpts from these documents […]
