Keith Haring All Over Again

(Reprint from Auntie Carrie’s Speak Easy blog) Why I Love NYC (For Art’s Sake) Walking through NYC today was much like wading through a bowl of luke warm, New England clam chowder. Nasty. Still, I left the comforts of AC, inspired by my friend, Michelle Haimoff’s mention of a Keith Haring...

Beads!

Newark Museum hosts “Glass Beads of Ghana” thru June 15, 2009 The making and the use of decorative beads has been a tradition in Africa for over 400 years. The same styles have been maintained and updated in the west African country of Ghana. To explore this art form, the exhibit uses video and...

Vilhelm Hammershoi: Whose feeling is it anyway?

Came across a review in Times Online where the critic goes on about Hammershois repetitiveness of gray and somber tones in all of his paintings, like,  where is the color, why so depressing etc. Back in 1998,  the NYC Guggenheim Museum had a showing of Hammershois work and I remembered liking them. I...

Hip Hop Art: Tells a Story-Rennie Harris Puremovement

Going back to those days of hanging out in caves, wall paintings and banging on rocks just looking to tell a good story. A story about ourselves, what we wanted and what we could use a little less of. We also told story in dance, except we didn’t call it dance, it was just talking with our feet. He...

Chipped Glass

I’m asked “Why did you give a certain name to a painting” and I don’t know. Sometimes it just shows up in my head. Nothing deep or heavy, it just sounds right. This painting was done this morning, mostly with a pallet knife and some glazes. The edges reminded me of glass. That is...