Art Platform-Los Angeles and Leila Heller Gallery, New York will present a group exhibition of contemporary Middle Eastern artists living in the Diaspora. The presentation will create a dialogue amongst expatriate artists, and the result will be a rich and dynamic exploration of nine artists, all at various stages in their lives and careers. Four […]

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I chickened out and never went to Woodstock in 1969. There was no art there then—only cows. August 2011, finally made it up to this authentic artist’s colony that has the feel and look of a college town with its organic vittels and good strong coffee. You can get almost anything you want but don’t […]

 Opening on September 14th at New York’s Film Forum is showing renowned artist Lech Majewski’s newest feature length film, “The Mill & The Cross.” Majewski will be present during the opening weekend to participate in discussions with the audience. From one of Poland’s most adventurous and inspired filmmakers, comes a visually ravishing recreation of Pieter […]

  Johnston Foster brings a long-lost sensibility of hand-craftedness to his sculptures, which open a window into humankind’s obsessions and follies while demonstrating a sheer love of making something out of what is wastefully consigned to the dustbin. His signature style is to create work out of discarded, cast-off materials he finds strewn across highway […]

  I am primarily interested in the symbolic content of images. I use objects and scenes familiar to me from my home and neighborhood. The images are embellished from memory and imagination. These settings, along with the formal elements of value, texture, and form, especially symmetry, are combined to expresses my feelings about my surroundings. […]

And as the season of art fairs goes, the summer has well been reserved for Art Hamptons set in Bridgehampton, Long Island. But this year the people of New York had a second reason to take the 2.5 hour drive out East – artMRKT Hamptons. This was the fair’s inaugural year in the Hamptons following […]

It is no secret that New York City is currently in the throes of a heat wave that show no signs of letting up. Faced with a forecast of endless ninety-degree days, thoughts naturally drift to vulnerability—namely our own at the hands of this severe summer. For those seeking commiseration, this theme of vulnerability—with the […]

Leah Oates: What is your background and when did you know you would be an artist? Rebecca Morgan: I am from a conservative farm town in Western Central Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny/Appalachian Mountains. I grew up with a very limited scope and basically non-existent understanding of art and its precedents, even though I drew still […]

Comics and comic books have long been thought of as belonging to the realm of children, deemed immature as literature and amateur as art, summarily dismissed and denied any serious consideration. Granted, the recent Green Lantern film does little to dispel those notions, but merely with its multi-million-dollar existence it cements the tremendous leaps comics […]