The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.
The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.
Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.
All art comes from other art and all immigrants come from other places.
When art wins everyone wins.
I have a soft spot for art that in terms of subject matter and material is in bad taste.
Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare so attend and observe.
Art is good bad boring ugly useful to us or not.
Recessions are hard on people but they are not hard on art.
Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.
To engage with art we have to be willing to be wrong venture outside our psychic comfort zones suspend disbelief and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.
Summer is a great time to visit art museums which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools – only instead of cool water you immerse yourself in art.
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3000 years.
Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007 creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness operatic uncontrollability and barbaric sculptural power.