Recent headline events taking place in Vieques make it eminently clear that the movement for Puerto Rican independence is still very much a political reality. The printmaking of Juan S�nchez not only embodies that politicalconviction, but extends to the ...
Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique San Francisco Fine Arts Museum Legion of Honor February 7, 2009–May 31, 2009 http://www.famsf.org/legion/index.asp Just the names Fabergé, Tiffany and Lalique conjure up images of the Gilded Age- opulent decorative objects, exquisite ...
Sculpting a fantasy world out of the mundane, cardboard that is. Ann Weber creates shapes of pods, gourds, Russian samovars and sky-high cornucopias and fantastic personages using the ubiquitous material. “Wonderland”, her recent exhibit (2008) at the Triton suggests ...
Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery University of Nevada, Las Vegas January 22 - February 28 Joe Brainard (1942-1994) said he drew his images from "magazines or TV or landscape or painting by other people. I'm influenced by ...
On a long-ago birthday, a friend gave me a washcloth embroidered with the monogram “YSL.” It was a nice washcloth, but I was puzzled: “Why did you give me a Young Socialist League washcloth?” I asked. Today, ...
American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum Darger: The Henry Darger Collection at the American Folk Art Museum Completed in 2001, the current home of the American Folk Art Museum, by ...
Should you choose to approach Venice’s Collezione Peggy Guggenheim by gondola—the Peggy Guggenheim museum, is located, like so much else in Venice, on the Grand Canal—the first work of art you would see would be Marino Marini’s 1948 sculpture, ...
Although her paintings are in the collections of many of the world's leading art museums, Judith Rothschild's is not exactly a household name. In part this might be attributed to the pervasive cultural slight long the bane of women artists, ...
At the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art through March 10, 2007 is a solo exhibition of works by Vidya Gastaldon, entitled, “Stop Believing, Start Knowing.” The title alludes to something one discovers on the journey through her world, that there ...
