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ART The Frieze Art Fair pitches collectors some great contemporary art and their new tent in NYC. A week ago, the Frieze Art Fair ended their first New York Fair in a $1.5 million, 1/2 mile long, white, twisting-snake-like tent on Randall’s Island.Randall’s Island, as it turns out, is the most difficult place to get […]

Christopher Walken reads & comments on “W.T.W.T.A.” Maurice Sendak  (1928-2012) Sendak was the best known children’s book author/illustrator of the last half of the 20th century. He was “The King of Children’s Picture Books” and what every children’s book author who followed him wanted to emulate. The only problem being, the process dramatically changed and […]

Diana Dufton’s sculptural wall hangings shown at Will’s Art House, Sadler’s House – London, UK   ART     Affordable Art Fair, 2012 Late Spring Art Fairs This fair is about the joy and excitement art can bring to everyone’s life.         The crowd at AAF, Spring 2012 “Turf” Found Oject Collage […]

ART The 2012 Spring Gallery Exhibition Season in New York City is coming to a close. Here are all of the openings at various galleries in the Chelsea Arts District, which we covered in different issues through-out the Spring 2012. To make viewing these openings more convenient, we have put links to the specific issue […]

ART David Opdyke “Accumulated Afterthoughts”   Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery is presenting the meticulous work of David Opdyke which both delights and disturbs. Based on the concept that when “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…” (William Butler Yeats). This concept is the artist’s personal experience after growing up in Schenectady, New York and watching that city […]

ARTS Damian Stamer “Southern Comfort” Freight + Volume Gallery   “Back Where I Came From” oil on canvas, 48″ x 72″ – 2012 – $9,000 “Southern Comfort” runs through May 19, 2012. Freight + Volume 530 West 24th Street New York, NY 2012 ——————- Joseph Nechvatal  “nOise anusmOs” Galerie Richard Paris / New York   […]

ART Rebecca Morgan “CABIN FEVER” Opens at Asya Geisberg Gallery Memling, Van Eyck, R. Crumb, Frans Hals, Adrien Brouwer and Brueghel are all historic influences used to describe Rebecca Morgan’s portraits and self-portraits. From “beauty to repulsive” the artist comes to grips with her Appalachian roots. Stereotypes and caricatures are always based on a certain […]

ART Ruth Marten Strange Bedfellows at Hosfelt Gallery, NYC Through June 16, 2012 New York artist Ruth Marten is a “draftsman” more than a painter – she also creates conceptual sculptures. She has worn many hats as a NYC creative person, by doing illustrations for major magazines and as a major tattoo artist. The largest […]

    ART The 2012 Whitney Biennial in pictures. Presented here as a visual exhibition – few words.                 Sarah Michelson searched for form through the history of dance                             Skype art conversations NY – […]

  At 12:13 pm on May 31, 1911, The White Star Line’s RMS Titanic rolled down her slipway at a Belfast shipyard into the water. Almost a year later, on April 10, 1912 the “technological-wonder-of-its-time” left Southampton, England on her maiden voyage. She stopped at Cherbourg, France and Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland before steaming towards her trans-Atlantic […]