A self-taught artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat fortuitously met his artistic hero, Andy Warhol, when he was beginning to pursue his celebrated creative career. At seventeen years old, Basquiat spotted Warhol having lunch with curator Henry Geldzahler at a restaurant in Soho. He approached the artist and NYC Commissioner of Cultural Affairs to show them his postcard-size collages.
Interviews & Essays
Often an artist finds their voice through decades of work. A unique signature is created. Even though the focus may shift and bend, the inimitable remains. There is no one like her anywhere. The painter Jess Allen is one of these artists. Even though her subject changes, she is recognizable.
This year’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny finds Harrison Ford in his final adventure as the legendary archaeologist, Indiana Jones. In the film, Jones and his goddaughter race to find the missing half of Archimedes’ Dial, a device that enables time travel, before a Nazi scientist can use the dial to change the outcome of WW2.
Many modern audiences, upon learning about the intricacies of Paul Gauguin’s life, adopt a distaste for him as a person. Even so, between bouts of deplorable behavior, Gauguin created art that many experts consider important to the art-historical timeline.
Documentation of art-induced fainting episodes dates back to the nineteenth century; the most famous account is that of French author Marie-Henri Beyle (1783–1842), whose pen name was Stendhal.
Jeff Koons discusses how Marcel Duchamp liberates artists from materiality, allowing them to pursue pure ideas.
The term zoomorphism, when applied to art, can mean any object that uses animals as a visual motif.
This past Satuday, Pace Gallery held a Benefit Gala to support the Nina Simone Childhood Home Benefit Auction co-hosted by tennis champion Venus Williams and artist Adam Pendelton.
Bonheur put a year and a half into location-based preparatory sketching for "The Horse Fair" and pulled from a number of unique masterworks to find inspiration for the final product. Unsurprisingly, it immediately drew praise upon its showing at the Salon of 1853.
One of the joys of spending time in a record store is not knowing what to choose. For those who go in “just to have a browse,” the risk is to spend hours flipping through countless records.
