Ernie BarnesThe most famous painting,”The Sugar ShackâA cheerful dance scene was shown on Marvin Gaye album cover “I Want You” And during the closing credits of the TV sitcom “Good Times,” it sold for a whopping $15.3 million at Christie’s 20th Century Auction Thursday night to an energy dealer. Bill Perkins. It was 76 times … Read more
Celebrated Dhungatti artist Blak Douglas – born Adam Douglas Hill – won the 2022 Archibald Prize, for his portrait of Wiradjuri artist Carla Dickens, titled Moby Dickens. The artist took home a $100,000 prize on Friday at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. It’s the second time an Aboriginal Australian has won the award … Read more
Through their own creative practices, artist Marilyn Minter and designer, artist and curator Michele Lamy have challenged and redefined traditional notions of beauty. In the 1980s Minter sent shock waves through the art world with her sexually explicit images of women, which sought to restore the visual language of sexuality from what she viewed as … Read more
Digital art was born in the 1960s, but the 1920s will certainly decline as the era in which the medium emerged, turning the art industry upside down in the process. technology, in the form of non-replaceable tokens (NFTs) Like Kryptoponics, played a major role in disrupting the dynamics of the traditional art market. Online marketplaces … Read more
STAUNTON – Molly Murphy is making a list of all the sponsors she and other bandmates have gathered for the upcoming band and arts festival that will take place this Memorial Day weekend. She sorts through all the details, schedules and takes notes while her bandmate, William Howard, informs her about other sponsors who have … Read more
The image is pure cacophony, the epitome of Los Angeles as thorny streets, the motorized city with augmented information. At a multi-directional intersection, traffic lights and directional signs flock to attract attention. A billboard proclaims, “Smart women cook with gas in balanced energy homes.” A pedestrian stands at the crosswalk as a ’61 Chevy Impala … Read more
When an art historian, museum director, critic, fundraiser and overall cultural producer Rick Brittle He passed away in 2020, leaving behind plans for two foundations. The first was to be a Texas Art MuseumA project that unfortunately collapsed after his death. The second is what he called “Atheneum”, a center for cultural scholarship that will … Read more
Hartford, Connecticut – There has always been a certain amount of fluidity in our appreciation of American modernist dissident Milton Avery (1885-1965). And this is not only because of the light, airy and boldly simplified semi-abstract paintings of sand, sea and sky that characterized his last decade. Avery was not technically affiliated, nor was he … Read more
In a large warehouse in northeastern Minneapolis, visitors are invited to meander down a winding lane, following a series of red dots on the floor of a series of galleries. The walls are black, and in white are satirical anti-capitalist quotes. There’s even a girlfriend selfie at the end. hot in heels Scene “Van Gogh’s … Read more
Just a width wide enough to bear the weight is the width of the group that stretches across the abyss from the last “ The camera is an insightful tool for exploration, and portraiture is a revealing medium that sheds light on the subject as well as the photographer and his perspective on the world. … Read more
