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Zoya Cherkassky’s ‘Lost Time’— Memories and Daydreams amid Disaster

It’s a Wrap: R.I.P. Amazing Christo

Michelangelo Lovelace Finds Dignity and Grace in These Fraught Times

It’s a Wrap: R.I.P. Amazing Christo

June 06, 2020

The awe-inspiring art journey of Christo (b. Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, June 13, 1935, Bulgaria; d. May 31, 2020, New York …

Artists Exhibitions

Michelangelo Lovelace Finds Dignity and Grace in These Fraught Times

June 04, 2020

One of the most shocking things the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed is the cavalier attitude that some people have expressed …

Artists News

Christo, Co-creator of The Gates and More, Has Died

June 01, 2020

Christo, the conceptual artist, known for his massive site-specific art installations, died on Sunday, March 31, at his home in …

Artists Instagram

#Artistsoninstagram: Couch-surfing the Painted City

June 01, 2020

Part of the fun of browsing art on Instagram for both cognoscenti and laypersons is perusing diverse art without a …

Artists

La Belle Noiseuse Finds Joy and Conflict in the Artistic Process

May 31, 2020

For fine-art mavens looking for a change of pace from all the virtual exhibitions that have been proliferating in the …

Artists Exhibitions

Tapping Into the Subconscious with Mariah Robertson

May 19, 2020

How much does artistic intent matter? Many critics over the years have used an artist’s written statement along with …

Artists Instagram

#Artistsoninstagram: Viewing New Art at Home

May 14, 2020

Through the postwar era, so-called visual culture has enveloped fine art— its forebear, if you will. Today images are central …

Artists Exhibitions

Sara Cwynar Questions the Images That Comfort Us

May 13, 2020

Much about the world right now has changed, but judging by anecdotal evidence and news stories such as this, our …

Artists

Cade Martin—Cinematic Eye with Surrealist Flair

May 12, 2020

Cade Martin (Instagram: @cademartinphoto), is an award-winning photographer specializing in portrait and location photography. Driven by belief that one must …

Exhibitions Museums Performance

Thinking About Time, Fashion, and the Met’s ‘About Time: Fashion and Duration’

May 07, 2020

This should have been a banner week for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Costume Institute would have kicked off …

Artists Exhibitions

Outside Art Waves on the North Fork: The Sculpture of Arden Scott

May 07, 2020

One interesting social effect of the Covid-19 era is new circuits of networking borne not only of proliferating media forums …

Artists Exhibitions News

PART II: Travel the Globe With Radio Garden While Stuck at Home in Quarantine

May 04, 2020

Last week, I wrote about “All the Minutes”, an online installation created back in 2014 by Amsterdam-based graphic designer and …

Artists Museums News

Part I: Counting Down ‘All the Minutes’ While Stuck at Home in Quarantine

April 30, 2020

It’s been about six weeks now since most New Yorkers started quarantining themselves amid the global coronavirus pandemic, and about …

Artists News

Quarantine Forces Art Students to Get Creative at Home

April 28, 2020

In mid-March, New York called for all colleges to go remote. Instructed to leave campuses as soon as possible, students …

Artists Curators Exhibitions

Zoya Cherkassky’s ‘Lost Time’— Memories and Daydreams amid Disaster

April 24, 2020

In “Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming” (1908), Freud theorizes the creative impulse as memory triggered by recent incidents and distilled through …

News

Ognjen Simic, 1965-2019

November 17, 2019

The Fine Art Globe lost a family member today. Our great writer, Ognjen Simic, has died by suicide, at age …

Museums

Woman! Rachel Feinstein Poses Deep Questions Through Sculpture

December 26, 2019

She is masturbating while lying on her belly, bigger than body size, sensitive to every brush of the skin, enjoying …

Auctions Conceptual News

AI Gahaku: Your Latest Artificial Intelligence Art Obsession

April 06, 2020

Remember Google Arts & Culture’s Face Match? Back in 2018, Google’s Arts & Culture app—which primarily exists to give users access …

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The 2019 Whitney Biennial – Catalyst for a Political Stance

July 29, 2019

This past week Eddie Arroyo, Christine Sun Kim, Augustina Woodgate, and the collective Forensic Architecture joined Korakrit Arunanondchai, Meriem Bennani, …

Artists News

Banksy—He’s Just Like Us!

April 16, 2020

Yesterday, Banksy, a street artist with notoriously disputed identity, posted on Instagram the images of his trademark rats that are …

Artists Exhibitions

Outside Art Waves on the North Fork: The Sculpture of Arden Scott

May 07, 2020

One interesting social effect of the Covid-19 era is new circuits of networking borne not only of proliferating media forums …

Artists Exhibitions

Jean-Michel Basquiat at Brant Foundation: ‘Every Single Line Means Something’

April 17, 2019

The solo exhibit, which spans four floors and features nearly seventy of the artist’s works, celebrates the inauguration of The …

Exhibitions Museums Performance

Thinking About Time, Fashion, and the Met’s ‘About Time: Fashion and Duration’

May 07, 2020

This should have been a banner week for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Costume Institute would have kicked off …

Artists Exhibitions Museums Uncategorized

A Half-Century of Political Painting Packing Powerful Partisan Punch

March 20, 2020

“At 100, I shall be a marvelous artist.” Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) In the 1980s —I can vouch—the mean age …

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Cary Hill Sculpture Park Offers Abstract Art in Nature (and It’s Safely Socially Distant)

April 16, 2020

Though terribly missing my diehard downtown tribe along with a plethora of art at my fingertips, my lucky stars have …

Artists

Cade Martin—Cinematic Eye with Surrealist Flair

May 12, 2020

Cade Martin (Instagram: @cademartinphoto), is an award-winning photographer specializing in portrait and location photography. Driven by belief that one must …