In August of 2022, The Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) awarded the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Artist Residency to Anthony Peyton Young, a Boston-based artist who specializes in drawing, bleaching, ceramics and collage. Since then, Young has been hard at work in the home of the late Aminah Robinson. For […]
How Church Painted the Icebergs
In 1859, American artist Frederic Church (1826-1900) commissioned a schooner to take him on a plein-air painting expedition to “Iceberg Alley,” a dangerous region surrounding Newfoundland and Labrador. Church produced an impressive set of oil studies from observation to provide the raw material for his big studio painting of The […]
In ‘Gothic Futurism,’ Hundreds of Rammellzee’s Works Populate a Mythic, Intergalactic Universe — Colossal
Art #assemblage #graffiti #painting #Rammellzee #sculpture December 12, 2022 Grace Ebert All images installation view, Rammellzee: Gothic Futurism, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, (2022-2023), by Josh White, courtesy of the gallery At Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles, dozens of spacecraft constructed from skateboards, salvaged plastics, and scrap materials descend from […]
Beyond the Wall Text: Contextualizing Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved! | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker
By Key Jo Lee, associate curator of American art Some of the reasons why curators place certain objects in certain places in the galleries are very apparent. This is by design. Typically, the goal is for each artwork to tell some part of a larger story that illuminates a time […]
New Mural by 2501 in Bolzano, Italy – StreetArtNews
Jacopo Ceccarelli aka 2501 recently work on a project in South Tyrol, Bolzano, Italy. He designed and painted the walls of the outdoor area of the Alperia Greenpower company headquarters on Via Claudia Augusta — the project was curated by Outbox. Alperia Greenpower is an Alperia subsidiary active in the field […]
All About The Agony in the Garden by Giovanni Bellini
Title of Artwork: “The Agony in the Garden” Artwork by Giovanni Bellini Year Created c.1459 – c.1465 Summary of The Agony in the Garden Giovanni Bellini, an Italian Renaissance painter, painted The Agony in the Garden around 1459–65. To see it, head to London’s National Gallery. It shows Jesus praying […]
Sam Mendes’s humdrum ode to movie magic
Sam Mendes, Empire of Light, 2022, DCP, sound, color, 119 minutes. Hilary Small (Olivia Colman). IF SAM MENDES’S VISION for Empire of Light was to pay tribute to the faded glory of moviegoing for the era of Covid and streaming behemoths, he could have stopped at the three-minute opening-credits sequence […]
Gurney Journey: An Improvisational Approach
This weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers. You’ll find practical studio tips, insights into the making of the Dinotopia books, and first-hand reports from art schools and museums. Contact You can write me at: James Gurney PO […]
oil painter who speaks of equal rights – Veronica Winters Painting
Amanda Greive: oil painter who speaks of equal rights I’d like to introduce you to amazing realist artist – Amanda Greive. The first time I saw her work, I connected to it immediately because what I encountered in her oil paintings was the emotion I used to experience quite often. […]
Out of Nowhere | Reagan Upshaw Fine Art
Ever heard of Lynne Drexler? Up to a couple of years ago, you might be excused for not knowing of her. Born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1928, Drexler moved to New York in the 1950’s and studied with noted modernists Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell. She was a second-generation […]