One of the most delightful things to do in NYC on a sunny autumn day is to take a stroll around its diverse art districts, watch one art exhibition after the other on streets full of galleries, drink an exquisitely roasted coffee from some exotic country, and share with a friend what we saw and [...]
Surrounded by ancient city walls dating back to 1370s in central China, this year’s 13th Pingyao International Photography Festival opened on September 19 thru 25. Despite large-scale destruction of historical sites during the Cultural Revolution and beyond, Pingyao is a rare jewel that has succeeded in preserving intact the Ba Gua pattern (eight trigrams in Taoism) for its city layout. [...]
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum has opened a major exhibition of the work of award-winning Taiwanese photographer Chang Chao-Tang, who has chronicled the changes in his country over the past six decades. Time: The Images of Chang Chao-Tang presents more than 400 pieces from 1959 to 2013. These include prints, previously unreleased portraits, and images [...]
If you don’t like art or have never been to a museum, you probably would have still heard of Edward Hopper (1882-1967). He is often referred to as the greatest American artist in modern times. He was a master of realist paintings and yet, he inspired celebrated abstract painters like Willem deKooning and Mark Rothko. [...]
Who needs models anymore? At a time when working with models no longer seems to be relevant, a group of contemporary artists has joined a New York Lower East Side gallery to create an event to prove that the art made from models could actually be cutting-edge. It can also be fun. Invited by Mayson [...]
David Hockney became gripped by a desire to find out how the artists of the past had managed to depict the world around them so accurately and vividly. For two years, he sacrificed his own time as an artist to follow this mystery trail, obsessively tracking down the hidden secrets of the Old Masters. In [...]
By Light-man You have probably heard of James Turrell’s impressive solo exhibition currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. I was informed that this was the second most popular exhibition ever held at the museum, the first being a Picasso show. Some people might have told you they were dazzled by [...]
James Turrell’s “Skyspace” in Järna is the most northerly Skyspace in the world. 99.9% of the population lies below this city in Sweden. In summer, daylight lingers longer so the Sunset Session begins at 10:00 pm and the Sunrise Session starts at 2:00 am. Named “Outside Insight”, this is a round wooden structure placed on [...]
By C. C. Loch Hame is a band that I started with my friends, but now it’s just me. The American artist Tyler Loftis began his recent performance at the Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in Lower East Side Manhattan with these words in an introductory video. The gallery was packed and people waited [...]
When we went to see a major solo exhibition by the contemporary artist James Turrell at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, we saw a side show on the 4th Rotunda called New Harmony, Abstraction Between the Two Wars ( 1919- 1939). The show, named after a painting by Paul Klee in 1936, put together [...]
