The Institution Builders

The Institution Builders

January 6, 2013 1 6880
What accounts for an institution’s longevity? In New York City, real estate is key. Most histories of the Art Students League credit disaffected art students with the school’s founding, its democratic government, and communal character. This is fitting. Less recognized, however, is the role non-artists played in buying prime lots along Fifty-seventh Street and erecting a building…
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The Saga of Spirit of the Sea

January 5, 2013 0 7949
Andreas Van Heune, a sculptor from Bath associated with a recent restoration of Spirit of the Sea, gave me the name of the foundry: Bedi-Rassi, now Bedi-Makky in Brooklyn. I called there and spoke with Istvan Makki, the owner. He remembered Spirit of the Sea very well as he had done both castings himself by…
Timothy J. Clark

Timothy J. Clark

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Timothy J. Clark’s solo exhibition, The Artist and His Process, will be on view at the Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, CA), November 4–February 17, 2013.
Sherry Camhy

Sherry Camhy

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Sherry Camhy and her students are exhibiting paintings in Small Works at the Katonah Museum of Art through February 10, 2013.
Knox Martin: What Art Is

Knox Martin: What Art Is

January 2, 2013 0 14640
An artist makes art, and he demands the credentials of art. He’s investigated art, and he knows what art is. It’s not anatomy; it’s not proportions; it’s not brilliant execution; it’s not photographic likeness; it’s not journalism; it’s not individual pain. It is opening up the elements that make those pieces of art perpetually fresh, timeless.
Abstract Realism

Abstract Realism

January 1, 2013 0 5734
What factors make a painting worthy of the term “great”? A video presentation by painters David A. Leffel and Sherrie McGraw about “abstract realism.”
Sylvie Covey's <i>Photoshop for Artists</i>

Sylvie Covey’s Photoshop for Artists

December 27, 2012 0 4160
Now available: Sylvie Covey’s book, Photoshop for Artists: A Complete Guide for Fine Artists, Photographers, and Printmakers, published by Random House. You can read a sample chapter here.
Enlightenment on Fifth Avenue

Enlightenment on Fifth Avenue

December 25, 2012 0 8075
In the second floor hallway of the Metropolitan Museum, the opening wall text of Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe describes the physical components of pastel and concludes with the phrase “this little understood medium.” Juxtaposed on the adjacent wall are over-life-sized photographs of the pastel-making process. These gripping introductions to the Metropolitan Museum’s first pastel…
The Rediscovered Velázquez

The Rediscovered Velázquez

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There are some paintings I have thought about a lot and with which I have long relationships. The recently rediscovered Velázquez Portrait of a Man at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of them.
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