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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CAN’T STOP THE MELT
On Saturday, May 7th 2016, Buff Monster opens an exhibit at the brand new Galo Art Gallery in Torino, Italy.
10 PAINTINGS @ CCA WATTIS INSTITUTE
The artist’s wide-ranging iconography samples genres ranging from 11th-century Chinese landscape painting to Cubism, and draws on sources both high tech and mundane: spam emails, emoji, internet memes, newspaper classified ads, her own photographs, coloring book illustrations, fantasy environments, vintage embroidery patterns, and a host of whimsical plant and animal motifs. Owens has also appropriated […]
“MOUNTAIN FULL” BY ANDREW HEM
Hem elaborates, “I love creating worlds that do not exist. A world where people don’t care about others’ appearance, and nobody has to worry about fitting in or being an outcast. Where everyone is accepted. No necks, long arms, no nose, blue faces are all normal. This is a world that doesn’t exist, and that’s […]
The Wisdom of the Aging Brain
at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival premiere of You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, director Woody Allen was asked about aging. He replied with his characteristic, straight-faced pessimism. “I find it a lousy deal. There is no advantage in getting older. I’m 74 now. You don’t get smarter, you don’t get wiser … Your […]
DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES BY THOMAS CIAN
We always enjoy the graphite drawings and sketchbooks of Milan-based Thomas Cian. His more recent work has a translucent, double-exposure effect. Find more of his work here.
DIRTY DIRTY LOVE AND THIS HOUSE OF GLASS
Evolving from the photo-journalistic sensibilities of Dirty Dirty Love, his more recent series, This House of Glass, is an intimate exploration of what we keep hidden from others – and in many cases, what we hide from ourselves. Working with volunteers, I interviewed each model about the relationship between their public lives and personal history; specifically […]
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, ‘The Supper at Emmaus’, 1601
Caravaggio’s painting depicts the moment of that recognition – the two disciples are the men on either side of the table. The artist demonstrates that it is through their faith that they recognise Christ. The confused innkeeper standing behind them, in contrast, has failed to recognise Christ because he does not have faith. Although his […]
