With Kehinde Wiley’s Portrait of President Obama soon to be released, take a look at the artist’s ground breaking works and style.
Category: Artists
Save the National Endowment of The Arts
Art for art’s sake! Or, if that doesn’t work here are some other reasons.
Tube Paint: A Revolution
In 1841, painter John Goffe Rand was struck with a brilliant idea. Rather than spend hours mixing and re-creating paint colors in a studio, he put oil… Read more “Tube Paint: A Revolution”
Isamu Noguchi
He won the Guggenheim Fellowship and studied under Constantin Brancusi. He designed dance sets for Martha Graham and George Balanchine. He had an affair with Frida Kahlo. He designed gardens for UNESCO and sculptures for Wall Street And, he invented the coffee table.
The Lives of Artists
Screw your textbook and go straight to the source.
Malevich’s Squares
It’s hip to be square. Or, what 80s American pop songs and early 20th Century Polish-Russian artists have in common.
Turner and the Brexit
Looking at JMW Turner in the context of the British exit from the Euro-zone.
BEAU BAD ART 