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A Timeless Conversation on Colors

2021-03-02T13:08:51-05:00

By C.C They are both painters, both in love with colors. They both have deep feelings for nature that triggers out an artist’s whims and wonder. They are 50 years apart in age and experience, but New York’s Leigh Morse Fine Arts gallery has seized an extraordinary opportunity and brought them together for a show, [...]

A Timeless Conversation on Colors2021-03-02T13:08:51-05:00

Magic and reality found in translation

2021-03-02T13:08:51-05:00

The art world of Chelsea in New York has greeted this spring with exhibitions of a great variety of art work in terms of mediums, concept and intention. Fred TomaselliHead2013Mixed media and resin on wood panel90 x 66 in. (228.6 x 167.6 cm) At the James Cohan gallery, the wizard of image combining [...]

Magic and reality found in translation2021-03-02T13:08:51-05:00

Sorrows at the Guggenheim, 1909-1944

2021-03-02T13:08:53-05:00

An essay by Elaine Smollin   Renato Bertelli,Continuous Profile of Musillini, 1933 Last night, I quickly scanned the spiraling galleries for works that would outpace Renato Bertelli’s, 1933, rotating heads of Mussolini for a formal embodiment of psychic imprinting of modernization- the kind we now take for granted as imprinted on our collective [...]

Sorrows at the Guggenheim, 1909-19442021-03-02T13:08:53-05:00

Going ape (naked) for one day!

2021-03-02T13:08:53-05:00

Remember when we were kids, we had so much fun drawing, painting, playing with everything that we got hold of? We did not care if the art we were making was fuzzy, stupid, or good. We just wanted to have fun. But having fun like that as adults, professional artists, and gallery organizers seemed unlikely. [...]

Going ape (naked) for one day!2021-03-02T13:08:53-05:00

CHAOS + SANCTUARY Chaim Soutine

2021-03-02T13:08:53-05:00

From the Series of EssaysRitual Practices by Elaine Smollin   Soutine knew it. The materialization of feeling can preserve a fleeting world. While he cultivated this affect, Soutine found sanctuary in a series of cities and towns, ultimately fleeing even Paris. While intensifying chaos institutionalized Diaspora as a way of life, for him, Expressionism became a [...]

CHAOS + SANCTUARY Chaim Soutine2021-03-02T13:08:53-05:00

Sandro Chia “Sator Arepo” at STEVEN HARVEY FINE ART PROJects

2021-03-02T13:08:53-05:00

James Kalm caught up with Sandro at the recent opening of his works on paper show "Sator Arepo" at Steven Harvey. The show is a collection of intimate gem like works on paper that the artist has laboured on for years. For one opinion of why Chia's work should be relevant to today's art cognoscenti, [...]

Sandro Chia “Sator Arepo” at STEVEN HARVEY FINE ART PROJects2021-03-02T13:08:53-05:00

Playing with Duchamp

2021-03-02T13:08:56-05:00

by C.C. The image of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) playing chess clearly reflects a decisive moment in art history. We are familiar with his famous urinal in Fountain (1917) that infuriated many and stirred up discussions and interpretations that changed the course of art history, bringing the focus of art onto its relationship [...]

Playing with Duchamp2021-03-02T13:08:56-05:00

Paper

2021-03-02T13:08:59-05:00

Paper, the summer exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London, will be open until September 29, so you still have time to appreciate the work of artists from around the globe that have succeeded in showing us that even though paper is considered an ephemeral product  it can be transformed into multiple objects of artistic [...]

Paper2021-03-02T13:08:59-05:00
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