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8 East 76th Street, Manhattan Through Dec. After leaving art school in the 1960s, Fred Holland embarked on a long and substantial career as a performer, collaborating with writer-choreographers like Meredith Monk and Ishmael Houston-Jones and creating...
Tags: Mr. Holland, Mr. Fischer, Marcel Duchamp, unique form, United Kingdom, London, Art, Dada, Piet Mondrian, Sculpture, Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor from the December 10, 2009 edition Take a saunter through an import store or museum with Asian art. There's a moment when your vision seizes upon an object so color saturated, so replete with multiple stories...
Tags: India, Marwar, Art, Indian art, Decorative arts, Folk art, Craft, Atul Dodiya, Arts and crafts
In the conclusion of his keynote address at the 2006 Oil Painters of America Meeting, collector and art historian Fred Ross urges artists to use their best skills to explore the great themes of the human condition. Without a dynamic, living coterie of...
Tags: Oil Painters of America!, fine art, Frederick Leighton, lord frederick, Colombia, Plato, Modernism, Art, Art movements, Academic art, Frederic Leighton 1st Baron Leighton
Standing in Tate Britain's Turner Prize 2009 exhibition and confronting the sprawling, elongated, distorted sock-puppet of Enrico David's Absuction Cardigan I would answer the above question with a resounding "Yes". But before God gets too smug about...
Tags: Ruskin, Artists, Art, Art history, Iconography, Religion Belief, Aesthetics, Humanism
by Mridu Khullar NEW DELHI, INDIA — Forty years ago, after amateur puppeteer Ramdas Padhye had finished performing for then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, she applauded his effort and gave him a piece of advice. What you're doing for entertainment...
Tags: puppetry, tsunami, puppets, India, New Delhi, art, rehabilitation
Arie Levit is full of chutzpah. “No one can paint like me,” he says without wavering. “I have more skill than any painter who holds a brush. There is nothing like [my art].” Calling himself “the greatest artist in the world”, the Israeli-born artist speaks...
Tags: Arie Levit, Double Bay Art Gallery, greatest artist, artist arie, Israeli, Australia, Sydney, Artists, Art, Aesthetics, Human Interest
These days, nobody looks askance if a high-end artist is also the owner of a fashionable restaurant. Think Damien Hirst and Pharmacy – his erstwhile Notting Hill trough for the trendy. It was adorned by the artist's own pill paintings and fell foul of...
Tags: Neil Bartlett, David Edgar, Pentecost, Royal London Hospital, Mark Rothko, New York City, Contemporary art, Modernism, Art, Modern art, Abstract expressionism, American art, Art movements, Entertainment Culture
In other canvases, Jackson is portrayed as King Arthur, a superhero, an angel, and even — you guessed it — some sort of Peter Pan incarnation that included sister Janet painted in as a miniature fairy. Photo via Michael Jackson Opus. Scoop via PopEater.com....
Tags: Michael Jackson Opus, Michael Jackson Painting Everyone, Michael Jackson, Los Angeles, Entertainment Culture, Jackson, D.S., Art, Michelangelo, Angel, Year of birth missing, Homoeroticism, Ian Halperin
We just need to be catalysts on one end of the spectrum, and on the other, we need to be condensers of information. I don’t think that there’s a division between art and information. Everything in the 21st century relates back to how we think about the...
Tags: DJ Spooky, Los Angeles, Environment, Spooky Tooth, Art, We, Illbient, Entertainment Culture, Disc jockey
The “Carts for Hunger” golf car parade Saturday may have lacked numbers, but it was not short on creativity...Mary’s Food Bank Alliance, which also had a decorated car in the parade. The Luke Air Force Base color guard presented the colors at the start...
Tags: Sun, Beatles for Sale, Art, Cardinal direction, Walking, Festivals, Parade