John Giorno’s Beautifully Disgruntled Poem-Paintings
Shortly after I moved to New York in 1974, I heard John Giorno (1936–2019) read at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, on the corner of 10th Street and...
Clare Grill’s Untranslatable Paint
Today is the last day of Clare Grill: There’s the Air at Derek Eller Gallery, the artist’s exhibition. I strongly recommend everyone go and see it. Together, the nine oil...
Linear perspective – Filippo Brunelleschi
Linear perspective, a system of creating an illusion of depth on a flat surface. All parallel lines (orthogonals) in a painting or drawing using this system converge in a single...
How Two African American Collectors Celebrated Black Artistry Amid the Civil War
[ecwid_product id="163247084" display="picture title price options addtobag" version="2" show_border="1" show_price_on_button="1" center_align="1"] In 1863, as the Civil War was being fought on battlefields across the country, with a nation at war...
Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for April 2021
April is beginning to look a little brighter in Los Angeles with cherry trees, increased vaccinations, and museums opening their doors across the city. After a year of closures, institutions...
Your Concise New York Art Guide for April 2021
April is shaping up to be a strong month for solo shows, particularly those devoted to women artists (and we love to see it). From Alice Neel’s first New York...