Max Ginsburg

Max Ginsburg’s Pat—Bearded and Shirtless will be part of the 100th annual exhibition of Allied Artists of America. The show opens November 8, 2013 at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South) and continues through November 17.

Weiss at the Movies

Catch a glimpse of several of Jerry Weiss’s landscapes and nudes in the romantic comedy A Case of You, starring Justin Long and Evan Rachel Wood.

Performance Portraiture

Al Hirschfeld brought a new set of visual conventions to the task of performance portraiture. His signature work, defined by a linear calligraphic style, appeared in virtually every major publication …

Petite Portraits

Eye to I … 3,000 Years of Portraits at the Katonah Museum of Art presents sixty portraits accompanied by commentary about them by 100 contributors.
Sherry Camhy’s article “Painterly Graphite” appears in the Fall issue of Drawing magazine. Take a video peek inside the issue. Available at bookstores and on newsstands November 5, 2013.
As part of the “Conversations Among Painters” series, Catherine Redmond organized an informal evening talk on October 3 with fellow Pratt professors Hannah Barrett, Nancy Grimes, and Frank Lind to discuss the ideas of the mysterious Balthus.

Six Degrees of Peggy Bacon

Painter, illustrator, poet, and author Peggy Bacon (1895–1987) studied at the Art Students League from 1915 until 1920, and later was an instructor in painting, drawing, and composition. The school was at the heart of her artistic circle…