“Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs” is a show you won’t want to miss. But you will want to wait. (It opened on October 12 and runs through February 8). And you will not want to go on a rainy day. On rainy days in the Big Apple, the Museum of Modern Art...
The new exhibit in the Wilkinson Public Library stairwell features Western desert landscapes by local painter Clarissa Fortier. The collection reflects the artist’s ongoing love affair with these vistas. Having lived in New York City her entire life, Fortier was immediately captivated by the dramatic expansiveness of places such as the...
Some things are just too good to be kept secret – such as an undergarment decorated like a disco ball, or a brassiere covered with candy. Or the most racy, fun-raiser of the year: Ah Haa's BRAvo Show, where local gentlemen (firefighters, law enforcement officials and other...
Watercolors by Woodward Payne. Oil paintings by Robert Weatherford, Mark English, Bernie Fuchs and Julee Hutchison. Pastels by Bruce Gomez. The work celebrates the golden hues of local fall landscapes. [caption id="attachment_45588" align="aligncenter" width="320"] Rocky Mountain Aspens, watercolor, Woodward Payne[/caption] The magic realism of sculptor Julie McNair lends insight into the human...
[caption id="attachment_45324" align="aligncenter" width="704"] A group of Waura Indians fish in the Puilanga Lake near their village in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil's Mato Grosso state. 2005.[/caption] Rena Silverman, met up with the photographer Sebastiao Salgado, in New York City on Thursday and conducted a...
"The annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, presented by London's Natural History Museum and BBC, has just recently announced its 50 finalists, chosen from over 41,000 entries. Here are some of the most breathtaking images taken over the last year." The winner will be revealed in October...
Jenna Garrett, Feature Shoot's Editor as well as a visual artist and photographer, shares "Self Portraits with Men" by photographer Dita Pepe. Who do you want to be? Or, more accurately, who could you have been? Czech photographer Dita Pepe takes these musings quite literally, re-imaging...
"Adding something fresh and necessary to the genre of portraiture may seem impossible, but in that realm, Jenny Morgan is crushing it. Don't label her paintings figurative or photoreal. Her extraordinary skills for rendering the human figure are besides the point. Layers of the unconscious...
In the second decade of the 20th century old-fashioned realism made way for abstraction, which became the Holy Grail of modern art. Cezanne and Cubism were two of the triggers that motivated painters and sculptors to stop copying what is and instead find the essence of what is. Commune...
Inspiring creativity on the deepest level [caption id="attachment_44808" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Pinkney, Wave Hill[/caption] When Robert Weatherford, board member and director of the center’s Telluride Painting School, Ah Haa School for the Arts, talks about painting, he doesn’t speak about technical skills. Instead the emphasis is on the important journey that...
