Seattle born, New York based oil painter and contemporary ceramic artist Jesse Edwards renders uncompromisingly contemporary depictions of imagery pulled from his laptop, vintage cartoons, models sourced through Craigslist, and clothing and paraphernalia staged in classical arrangements on a folding table in his studio. He blends the detritus of contemporary […]
American
Sean Decatur to Lead NYC’s American Museum of Natural History
Sean Decatur, the president of Ohio’s Kenyon College, will be the next director of New York’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), making him the first Black person to lead the institution. In April, Decatur will take over from Ellen Futter, who has been at the helm of the AMNH […]
BUSINESS MONDAY: American Art Marketing
Any individual who appreciates fantastic craft art currently knows to make an annual pilgrimage to the Berkshire Arts Competition that has taken put at Ski Butternut each July 4th weekend considering the fact that 1981 (this year’s dates are July 1,2 and 3) exactly where the operate of some 150 […]
A Singular American Painter and His Perennially Disregarded Wife
HARTFORD, Conn. — There has always been a specific fluidity in our appreciation of the American modernist maverick Milton Avery (1885-1965). And this is not just for the reason that of the light-weight, ethereal, daringly simplified, practically summary paintings of sand, sea and sky that characterized his past 10 years. […]
One Man’s Artistic Journey along the American Coastline: Architect creates maps by hand with pen & ink and watercolors
“Men are a shed tribe,” suggests architect Joseph Tarella. “That’s why we need to have maps.” The artist has had a lifelong fascination with maps of all kinds, but his major target has been on the coastline of the continental United States. He has drawn maps of that coastline from […]
Whitney Biennial Curators Seek American Art on the Border
TIJUANA, Mexico — The frontier shapes this metropolis, most obviously in the form of the omnipresent border wall that runs along the edge of downtown and alongside major roadways as it slices westward to the ocean. Yet if the border is a binary divider — Mexico on one side, the […]
Why So Many African American Artists Moved to Paris in the 1920s | Antiques Roadshow
With its stunning shades and pro use of point of view, seeing Quartier Saint-Hilaire, by the renowned African American artist Löis Mailou Jones, at the Sands Position ROADSHOW very last September was a unique treat for me. It is a gorgeous watercolor and a excellent example of the artist’s distinctive […]
The Appraisal: Why Does the Market for American Icon Robert Rauschenberg Lag So Far Behind His Contemporaries?
Final week, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation declared that it would deal with a mammoth activity about the future two many years: publishing a catalogue raisonné of the American artist’s paintings and sculptures. The very first of the prepared 10 volumes will be readily available in 2025. The foundation intends to make […]