Sun, sand, sky, water, and women predominate as subject matter when artists throughout history turned their attention to communicating the light, languid heat, and soft sensuality of long summer days.
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The Venice Film Festival lineup was announced earlier this week, and with it came a stir of anticipation.
John Mazlish is a native New Yorker whose Brooklyn homebase is a trendsetting center in today’s culture-driven marketplace. Not formally trained in the visual arts, Mazlish came to appreciate art and design via his interest in music.
In 1999, Friends of the High Line was founded by Joshua David and Robert Hammond, with the intention of preserving the greenery that had developed in the underused, elevated train tracks that ran above New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood.
Salon’s New Executive Director Nicky Dessources Positions the Fair as a Platform for Emerging Designers and as a Space for Seasoned Exhibitors to Push the Boundaries of Design
When thinking of women in the arts, names like Georgia O’Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, or Hilma af Klint may come to mind.
Brazilian conceptual artist, Ilê Sartuzi, recently introduced a new artistic medium to the British Museum when he enacted “Sleight of Hand” with a circa 1645 silver coin from the museum’s collection.
The San Candido Baths ruins are the remains of a peculiar building located near the town of S. Candido, in Südtirol, Italy. It is possible to admire them after taking a relatively short walk in the forest east of the town— a suggestive hike at the foot of the Dolomites— at the end of which one may glimpse the remains of a building hiding beyond the trees.
Celebrating the cultural liveliness of Upstate New York since 2020, when it launched with 23 participants, Upstate Art Weekend returns for its fifth edition from July 18th to the 21st with 146 participating arts organizations, galleries, museums, residencies, temporary exhibitions, and specially staged events spanning 10 cou
Artist Nerys Levy feels that art is a “soft introduction” to climate change awareness, because viewer engagement presents the opportunity for dialogue. “People know very little about [the] polar regions and their real role affecting climate change,” she says.
