Ritchard Rodriguez was a realist painter for a good fifteen years before deciding to make the dramatic switch to abstract art. He attributes the change to a trip to Germany in 1981 to see the Neue Sachlichkeit paintings especially those of Otto Dix. Being in Germany pried his eyes open and made him hungry for […]

The European Fine Arts Fair (TEFAF) is now regarded as one of the most, if not the most influential art and antiques event in the world. Several factors have contributed to this. The exhibitors are very international. There are some 200 leading art and antiques dealers from fourteen countries. Although the fair takes place in […]

Anna Socha VanMatre’s paintings scream at the viewer–expressing VanMatre’s shock and fear and hope. Her post-September 11 works act as a cry for sanity, their emotional content even more penetrating then VanMatre’s previous works. VanMatre, a Polish born artist who has been painting since 1978, constructs graphite paintings on monumental three-dimensional surfaces. Her works have […]

"Just as Kandinsky and Miro strove to create visual interpretations of jazz and classical music with line, shape and color, so my focus is to visualize the essence of Latin music in texture and color. I integrate primary colors, as well as tropical colors and shapes into harmonies that explode into saucy riffs and spontaneous […]

Transmediale presents new and outstanding projects in the field of digital culture and provides reflections on the role of digital technologies in contemporary society. It is a forum of communication for artists, media workers and a broad public interested in arts of vital and still increasing international importance. TRANSMEDIALE, 2005 Highlights from the Festival, as […]

Madrid Abierto is a project within what is generically known as Public Art. In the words of its organizer, Ramon Parramon, its objective is to "stimulate creative work in determined places that relate that which is typical of the place and the time in which the creativity takes place. MADRID ABIERTO, 2005: Transforming Madrid Participating […]

Anna Socha VanMatre’s paintings scream at the viewer shock and fear and hope. Her post-September 11 works act as a cry for sanity, their emotional content even more penetrating then VanMatre’s previous works. Inside the Artist’s Studio: Anna VanMatre NY Arts Magazine American Landscape from cycle Turbulent Times, 2002, 27×108, in.Anna Socha VanMatre’s paintings scream […]

A word that I always remember from the Middle Ages Art History books that I studied at school is re-use. So it came that new architecture resembled the old, with pieces of Roman basilicas, columns, capitals found, stolen, unearthed and changed. Super Softly Slipping Emilio Corti Massimo Grimaldi, "Coccloba Club Valtur Image Forced to Be […]

As any cursory look will evince, the art scene of San Juan is vital and hopping. San Juan: Collectors, Collections and the Art Market Thalia Vrachopoulos Allora Calzadilla, Traffic Patterns, 2001-2003 As any cursory look will evince, the art scene of San Juan is vital and hopping. This is a change from five years ago […]

Harmony Hammond creates Proustian layers of paint in the evolution of succeeding levels of the present tense. Skins of Time: Elegies, A Lamentation of Loss and Suffering Ann Wilson Image courtesy of the artist"As though the musicians were not nearly so much playing the little phrase as performing the rites on which it insisted before […]