Georgia O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Georgia O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community…
Edward Hopper is the quintessential American Painter. A Hopper painting is recognizable immediately from it’s signature style and character. While many painters of Hopper’s era were blazing paths into Abstract…
There is an incredible exhibition going on until March 17 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. "Henri Matisse: In Search of True Painting" is a true…
Jackson Pollock drank. He drank as a gut-punched boxer gasps for breath, as a starving dog gobbles food, compulsively, in fear and trembling. I use the past tense not because…
The story of Pisan traitor Ugolino della Gherardesca, imprisoned with his sons and condemned to starvation, is told in Dante’s Inferno (canto 33). Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux shows the anguished father resisting…
Crucifixion Corpus Hypercubus by Salvador Dali is one of the most beautiful works of the modern era. The painting is currently displayed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New…
If you haven't been to the Metropolitan Museum of Art lately, now is the time to go. There are some beautiful exhibitions going on right now, but you need to…
The Art of Reuse in Long Island City When: December 1 - February 29, 2011; Opening reception on December 1 from 6 – 9pm with a panel discussion at 7pm.…
This week, hundreds of artists from all over the world will begin assembling one of the largest and most dazzling group art shows in the United States, or anywhere. Approximately…
Call it a ragged fragment torn off from that unreal city once evoked by T S Eliot. This sad, claustrophobic urban scene by Edward Hopper, with its flat, rearing tenement…
