Category Archives: Art

There is a great mystique about art collectors. Why are they driven to seek out and purchase art?  Is it to embellish the living room wall? An investment? Or is it passion for creative energy? It’s all of these. Art shown in … Continue reading →

Friday, June 22 and Saturday, June 23, 2012 The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) will present Why New Forms?, a Curatorial Conference organized on the occasion of CCS Bard’s 20th anniversary year and taking place at the Bertelsmann … Continue reading →

Don Alter was very much at home in the well lit Hudson Beach gallery in Beacon. The 81 year old artist was surrounded by his latest body of work — a stopping point of sorts to mark more than six decades of painting. … Continue reading →

The stuff of dreams… slithering reptilian creatures, soulful dogs, enigmatic cats, poignant and terrifying primates, all reflecting and sharing our deepest imaginings and cravings, our primal fears and pain. These are the images and emotions we keep hidden, but they … Continue reading →

We are approaching the thirteenth annual Hudson Valley Artists (HVA) 2012 exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz – a major art event in the mid-​​​​Hudson Valley and your author is thrilled to be among those whose work … Continue reading →

Eugene Ludins was a Woodstock-​​​​based artist who painted enigmatic, politically charged imaginary landscapes, which achieved some recognition in the 1930s and 1940s. He died in 1996 at age 92, having long fallen into obscurity; Abstract Expressionism had hit New York like … Continue reading →

Albert Shahinian Fine Art (ASFA) in Rhinebeck is celebrating its 15th Anniversary with a group exhibition of 15 artists entitled: “15: Artists from Ulster County.” The exhibition has, in fact, sixteen artists. Rosalind Robertson was included after all the publicity materials … Continue reading →

Maurizio Cattelan – Italian sculptor and bad-​​​​boy of the art world – had refused numerous requests to mount a retrospective of his work on the basis, as he insisted, that his work was so disparate that it would defy a conventional, chronological solution. Finally, last year, … Continue reading →