Author Archives: jolanta
100 Ways of Looking at a Corot (and Other Forms of Leisure) – David Markus
Among the great painters of leisure, Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot stands out as one of the finest. Bathers enjoying the dying light of a late August swim, or figures crouched in a moment of intimate contemplation, distracted by their reveries from the day?s chores?in the languorous pastors of Corot, even the peasants have time to daydream. […]
Clocks, Chocolate… Basel – Ian Green and James Westcott
Basel for dummies Basel, Switzerland, a small town bisected by the Rhine and tucked in along the border of Germany and France, is an unlikely home for the biggest art fair in the world. Aside from Pope Felix V?s Council of Basel, from 1431-49, a brief rebellion in 1831 and Dr. Albert Hoffmann?s accidental discovery […]
Bodies Moving: The Independent Performance Group and Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel with Egon Schiel
A large survey of Egon Schiele?s drawings and paintings closed this weekend at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. It was the first ever exhibition in Holland devoted to Scheile, the Austrian expressionist who died of Spanish flu in 1918, but the event was most notable for a bold, and apparently unprecedented interdisciplinarity: live performance […]
Birds of a Feather – Laurie Blum
While traveling in Iran, the American painter Laurie Blum set out to create her own unique Persian paintings drawing inspiration from the natural landscape. Hafez, which literally translates to "one who memorizes the Koran," was the pen name for Iran’s 14th century poet, Mohammad Shirazi. His mystical verses were loved as much for their unfailing […]
Now Acknowledged: Homosexuals Exist in China – Olek Borelli
With a mixture of denial and acceptance, discomfort and support, Chinese society is recognizing that homosexuality exists. A notable change occurred during the late 1990s and early 2000s, when sodomy was decriminalized in 1997 and the new Chinese Classification and Diagnostic Criteria of Mental Disorders removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses on April […]
Emily Bicht
Emily is an active artist based in Astoria, Queens. She has worked as an art educator and administrator in the non-profit sector and has been involved in arts communities Emily is an active artist based in Astoria, Queens. She has worked as an art educator and administrator in the non-profit sector and has been involved […]
Emily Bicht
Emily is an active artist based in Astoria, Queens. She has worked as an art educator and administrator in the non-profit sector and has been involved in arts communities Emily is an active artist based in Astoria, Queens. She has worked as an art educator and administrator in the non-profit sector and has been involved […]
Eric Many Waters Brock
Original artwork by gallery owner/artist Eric Many Waters Brock, an enrolled member of the Cherokee of Georgia Tribal Council, Original artwork by gallery owner/artist Eric Many Waters Brock, an enrolled member of the Cherokee of Georgia Tribal Council,a State of Georgia recgonized tribe. Traditional Native American art influenced by artist’s Cherokee heritage. Contemporary Native American […]
Eric Many Waters Brock
Original artwork by gallery owner/artist Eric Many Waters Brock, an enrolled member of the Cherokee of Georgia Tribal Council, Original artwork by gallery owner/artist Eric Many Waters Brock, an enrolled member of the Cherokee of Georgia Tribal Council,a State of Georgia recgonized tribe. Traditional Native American art influenced by artist’s Cherokee heritage. Contemporary Native American […]
Frances Borden
There are two portrait traditions, one the Sir Joshua Reynolds school with swaggering beauties, heroes and magnates There are two portrait traditions, one the Sir Joshua Reynolds school with swaggering beauties, heroes and magnates who, despite their accoutrements of fashion, power and wealth, we never know at all. The other is the Rembrandt tradition, an […]
