Fine Art

[caption id="attachment_36543" align="alignright" width="300"] Photograph by Ben Knight[/caption] Painter Brucie Holler and photographer/filmmaker Ben Knight are featured. Menu by Eliza Gavin of "221." The holidays are a whirl of parties, cultural events, dances, and getting together with friends and family. Perhaps the merriest gathering of them all...

  [caption id="attachment_36459" align="alignright" width="300"] Part of "Snow" series by Antonio Marra[/caption] Sculptor Antonio Marra's early sculptures were figurative bronzes – but don't think Rodin's "The Thinker." Don't think traditional at all. The abstract forms and lyrical grace of those works pledge a certain allegiance to the...

[caption id="attachment_36396" align="alignright" width="224"] Steel & tin heart By Jill Rikkers. Wall hanging measures 9 x 12 inches.[/caption] If Ah Haa was not in your line of march Noel Nite, it's not too late to find a gift of art from the heart. A gift of art...

Don’t miss these upcoming exhibition opportunities at Telluride’s Ah Haa School for the Arts. Whether an open exhibition, juried show, or private space rental, there are a variety of options for every artist. Affordable Art for the Holidays, December 2013 Ah Haa has brought back its affordable...

There’s something especially satisfying about making your own holiday gifts. Not only is it a fun escape to indulge in a few hours of art making, but it’s equally fun to give away something that you created with your own hands – a one-of-a-kind gift...

[caption id="attachment_35380" align="alignright" width="300"] Village People (after)[/caption] Looked outside lately? There's snow in the high country (yippee!!) and at times, on the ground. T-shirt weather is definitely over – at least as far as anyone can say anything definite about the weather.  But before offseason and...

[caption id="attachment_35353" align="alignright" width="252"] Jenny Morgan, "You To Me"[/caption] "Having been interested in painting the figure for most of my artistic life, I hope to create an emotional response in each piece. Inventing new ways of looking at our oldest and most classic subject matter is always...

[caption id="attachment_35202" align="alignright" width="150"] MASS MoCA, third incarnation of industrial site[/caption] The Site: A Phoenix It's Bilbao all over again, a story of a museum reviving a surrounding town. Starting in colonial times, North Adams was a prosperous place of wholesale shoe manufacturers, the site that is now MASS...

When we see performances around town, we often notice the splendid artwork and backdrops that share the stage. Too often that artwork is quickly packed up or worse, painted over, after the play is finished. Duff Redux, Buff Hooper's show which is opening this Thursday...

A funny thing happened on the way to the Chagall show at the Jewish Museum. The door to the artist's darker works – read not all fiddlers on the roof and weightless couples free-floating "Gravity"-style in space – were slammed shut because of the Jewish...