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Last Friday, Paul Kasmin Gallery and Artspace.com hosted a Hurricane Sandy Benefit Party at NYC’s Hotel Americano, kicking off their long-term collaboration to help raise funds for the ADAA Relief Fund aiding galleries impacted by the storm....
The Louvre has recently launched a major fundraising appeal to acquire two 13th-century ivory statuettes, which would complete a permanent part of its collection. Its “Tous Mécènes!” or “Everyone a Patron!” project invites the public to donate funds to...
Watercolor has long been dubbed the most difficult medium among artists. British artist Alexander Creswell is a contemporary master of the medium, having traveled the world painting some of the largest works in watercolor to date. He has even invented custom...
Mickalene Thomas, a painter, photographer, and collagist best known for her colorful, '70s-retro portraits of sexually confident and self-possessed African American women, is having quite the moment. The artist — anticipating a major one-woman survey at the...
The Liverpool Biennial is back, and in keeping with this summer's Olympic spirit the 2012 edition is dedicated to the concept of hospitality. What does it mean to welcome, to host, or to arrive somewhere new? The exhibition "The Unexpected Guest" explores...
Thomas Houseago's monumental figures have taken the art world by storm. He goes against the standard obsessions with shiny collectables, witty art-historical riffs, and an understated sculptural language. Houseago does big and messy. His beasts and humanoids...
Rio-born, London-based artist Alexandre da Cunha has a unique knack for turning banal objects into intriguing and poetical visual statements. In his hands, a parrot-printed beach towel stands as a flag for a fantasy faraway (and a tongue-in-cheek critique of...
Founded in 1990 by Sybil Albers and Gottfried Honegger, the Espace de l’Art Concret or Concrete Art Space boasts educational studios, an art center, and a building housing the Albers-Honegger collection, on its campus near Nice on the Côte d’Azur. Its...
Though most drawing teachers discourage students from drawing from a photograph, some of us don’t have a choice.As a producer in the Visualization Technologies group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Doug Ellison is an illustrator of places and...
Walking into Haunch of Venison's Eastcastle Street outpost feels a bit like stepping inside a giant sketchbook at the moment. Simon Patterson has filled the place with photographs of equestrian monuments, loosely hung on the walls as if hastily pasted on...
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