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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Inspiring Change Through Art

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One night in 2001, on a visit to New York, I discovered the Art Students League. I was a tourist from Argentina—I had no plans to live in the city. Yet, as soon as I walked in the building, my hands warmed and I felt I belonged there. As I left 57th Street that first…
Seeing New York

Seeing New York

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How to paint the city: Wander around a lot. The more aimless, the better. Buy a good camera and always carry it with you. Take many, many photos. When wandering look for the common, the unexciting, the ordinary. Take note of these scenes knowing that you will make them extraordinary. Look for the contrasts: bright…
On Drawing a Graphic Novel

On Drawing a Graphic Novel

December 21, 2012 0 4753
I’ve got fourteen hundred words to talk about my experiences drawing The Sons of Liberty. What I will be talking about really though is a year and a half of my life. More specifically, a year and a half of my life in comics. To do that I need to talk a little about my…
Jameson and the Windows

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Jameson and the Windows

December 1, 2012 0 3074
His name was Jameson and I kept calling him Jason. His aunt had brought him to work that day, and I met him in one of my multiple trips to the kitchen to get coffee. He was playing with a Gameboy on the floor, while his aunt hustled between her desk phone and her computer….
Laugh a Little

Laugh a Little

November 25, 2012 0 8414
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was not a place I expected to find myself and other museum-goers laughing while looking at a show, yet that is exactly what happened when I visited Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine.
Grant Recipients for 2012

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Grant Recipients for 2012

November 10, 2012 0 3729
Beñat Iglesias, Autoteatro 13, 2012. Painted plaster, 18 x 16 x 12 in. Recipient of the Nessa Cohen Grant Sequoyah Aono, Portrait, 2011. Black marble, 11 x 9 x 13 in. Recipient of the Nessa Cohen Grant Nicolai Nickson, Exile, 2006–12. Marble, 17 x 17 x 17 in. Recipient of the Nessa Cohen Grant Satoshi...
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Thomas Torak’s Nocturne Paintings

October 1, 2012 0 3991
“The paintings in this series are, like Chopin’s Nocturnes, evocative of the night. They are not illustrations of his musical pieces but rather inspired by the mysteries of nighttime.”
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