Shared Los Angeles Studios Nurtures Emerging Artists

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES – Their dogs play together between canvases, drop cloths and spray cans. They get into cars on their journeys to each other’s exhibitions far away. Sometimes they share paint supplies. In an often competitive art world, the painters who come to share a studio in the Boyle Heights neighborhood represent an unconventional …

Shared Los Angeles Studios Nurtures Emerging Artists

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES – Their dogs play together between canvases, drop cloths and spray cans. They get into cars on their journeys to each other’s exhibitions far away. Sometimes they share paint supplies. In an often competitive art world, the painters who come to share a studio in the Boyle Heights neighborhood represent an unconventional …

Review: ‘What Artists Wear’ by Charlie Porter

[ad_1] Jean-Michel Basquiat liked his clothes the way he loved his art: “oversized, unusual, chaos under control.” His dyed, burnt clothes were elaborately crafted and often expensive—he favored Rei Kawakubo’s designs for Comme des Garçons—but they never lost the spirit of their former homelessness: “Dress just in case,” he said. d tell me. “I may …

Color and Female Artists Rise at Christie’s Contemporary Sale

[ad_1] As the usual suspects continue to charge the highest prices at the auction – as Monday night proved Warhol’s Marilyn sells for $195 million — the art market continues to catch up with the potential next hot thing. On Tuesday, Christie’s focused on some of those prospects in its 21st century contemporary evening sale …

Saving Ukrainian Art and Helping Artists, One NFT at a Time

[ad_1] Lika Spivakovska closed two art galleries in Kyiv, Ukraine hours after Russia invaded her country, and felt helpless as she and her two children traveled across Europe seeking refuge. Artists stranded in Ukraine had been texting him all week saying that their home ateliers and studios had been destroyed by the attackers. According to …

Museums Are Changing Their Approaches to Showing White Male Artists

[ad_1] This article is part of our latest article Special section on museumsfocusing on new artists, new audiences, and new ways of thinking about exhibitions. WinslowHomer At the Metropolitan Museum of Art. jasper johns and Edward Hopper in Whitney. in Matisse Museum of Modern Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art. At a time when cultural …

Six Artists Balance Creativity and Motherhood. Results Vary.

[ad_1] BABY IN FIRE EscapeCreativity, Motherhood and the Mind-Baby Problemby Julie Phillips “Where do I want my vitality to go?” Susan Sontag wrote in her diary in 1962, 10 years after the birth of her only child. “Is it books, sex, ambition, love, anxiety or lust? It can’t be both.” In “Baby on Fire Ladder,” …

‘Charlotte’ Review: An Artist’s Short Life

[ad_1] In the animated biopic “Charlotte” about the German Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, the film’s most telling moment may be its last. Concluding with an audible image of a Nazi gathering on the French Riviera, directors Éric Warin and Tahir Rana come closest to capturing Salomon’s short life, with tensions between creative and nihilistic. Actress …

Eleanor Munro, Profile of Female Artists, Dies at 94

[ad_1] The book was part travelogue, part meditation on what inspired pilgrimages and what those who made them sought. “This is a meditative, reflective book,” Merle Rubin wrote in her review for The Christian Science Monitor, “a careful blend of objectivity and subjectivity, written in an open-minded spirit delicately balanced between belief and disbelief.” Eleanor …