Archive for May 2011
Strange Fires
Valton Tyler’s visionary Paintings are some of the most mysterious—and oddly alluring—images anywhere on the contemporary scene.
Read MoreMay Slideshow: Creature Feature
Even though the giant king cobra who, in a flurry of news coverage and twitter posts, escaped the Bronx Zoo in March was found a few weeks later, it seems like otherworldly beasts and mythic creatures are sweeping the country. This month we serve up 12 images from around that art world that prove that THEY are taking over.
Read MorePetal Mettle
With May flowers out in spring’s last burst of color, it’s a good time to look at Charles Burchfield paintings. And through the 27th, Debra Force Fine Art in New York will be showing a major private collection of Burchfields, consisting of 11 large-scale watercolors and one conté crayon drawing that relates to one of the paintings.
Read MoreMay’s Auction Action
This month is rich in auctions, especially in New York, with sales of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art in the offing, as well as American paintings and assorted other fields.
Read MoreA Leica Like That
Digital photography has all but killed off film, and even professional photographers are running around snapping pictures with their iPhones, but there’s still a place in this world for a classic mechanical film camera—especially if it’s a Leica.
Read MorePre-Raphaelite Drawing
Released in conjunction with the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery’s major exhibition “The Poetry of Drawing,” the book reproduces the most comprehensive assembly of pre-Raphaelite works on paper to date.
Read MoreWe’ll Always Have Paris
“For the perfect flaneur,” wrote Charles Baudelaire in The Painter of Modern Life (1863), “for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite.”
Read MoreLucien Pissarro in England: The Eragny Press
Sons of famous fathers have a hard time. Typically the old lion cuffs the cub for daring to innovate, but in the case of Lucien Pissarro (1863–1944) the problem was just the opposite: His father, Camille, the West Indies-born Franco-Jewish Impressionist, repeatedly scolded him for being old-fashioned.
Read MoreMr. Deeds Goes to Town
At the Outsider Art Fair in New York this past February, a new artist made a much-heralded debut appearance. Of course, he wasn’t exactly new, considering that the drawings were obviously made before World War II, but his work had remained outside the Outsider scene until quite recently.
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