I didn’t realize that denim jeans were so damaging to the environment until I saw Libby Newell’s sustainable art on the walls of a gallery. The cotton plant consumes a lot of water, and then the process of dying the jeans — including any specialty washes— is reliant on […]
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Straight-Line Block-In is a Spiritual Mindfulness Practice and a Life Philosophy
When I first learned straight-line block-in drawing, in a workshop with Juliette Aristides in 2007, I felt like dark clouds had parted and a golden ladder had descended, leading to drawing abilities I never before thought I could attain. I felt like I had been given a tool like fire, […]
Into the life of New York art advisor Sarah Stein-Sapir
Sarah Stein-Sapir is a New York art advisor specializing in contemporary art. Her clients are both private and corporate with among others no less than Central Park Tower, the world’s tallest residential building. She shared about her path from working in art galleries, to auction houses and private dealers which […]
Gift Guide for the Artist in Your Life
To make your holiday shopping easier this year, we’ve created a gift guide to cover all of the artists in your life. We hope you love shopping for your artist as much as they love what you pick out. For the artist who loves to experiment and play with different […]
For William Kentridge, Art and Life Animate One Another
MILWAUKEE — William Kentridge is a stout man with a prominent nose, a high forehead, and a silky South African accent. He often wears a button-down white cotton shirt, somewhat wrinkled. Reading glasses dangle from a cord, moving to and fro from chest to bridge, with the fluid animation for […]
RedDot Podcast | An Interview with Franny Moyle, Author of Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner
An interview with Franny Moyle, Author of Turner: the Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of JMW Turner. I picked up Franny’s biography on Turner earlier this year and thoroughly enjoyed learning more about this important artist’s life. Turner is one of the United Kingdom’s greatest artists, and is, perhaps, its best […]
The intense life of abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell
“Possibly if I hadn’t experienced to battle, I would have stop,” the artist Joan Mitchell the moment reported. “I will not know. I question it, though.” Mitchell’s operate might have been born out of wrestle, but there is no query that she was capable to prevail, developing paintings now thought […]
Matthew Wong’s Life in Light and Shadow
Wong had been nursing a developing apprehension about his do the job. He knew that his abstractions ended up good, but also that they had been not specially distinguishable from abstractions by innumerable other artists. He regarded the praise he acquired on the net as “a comforting mirage.” For an […]
Ukrainian mom and her three kids seek new life in Philly, where even the water tastes different
Veronika Pavliutina informed her little ones to pick out 1 distinctive belonging. And to choose rapidly. They wanted to go. Explosions shook their Odesa hometown as Russia begun its invasion of Ukraine. Yegor, 8, grabbed two tiny toy automobiles. Nina, 11, took her driving helmet. She enjoys horses. And Polina, […]
The Life of Roman Painting‘
“Painter at Perform,” Dwelling of the Surgeon, Pompeii, First Century CE. Fresco. Nationwide Archaeological Museum of Naples: MANN 9018. Impression ©Photographic Archive, Nationwide Archaeological Museum of Naples. By James D. Balestrieri NEW YORK City – I never know if “Painter at Do the job,” the To start with Century CE […]