At NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 9 through September 8 — CAMP: Notes on Fashion.
What do John Waters’ movies, Cher’s stage shows, and Dame Edna Everage’s comedy all have in common? Camp. Camp, as …
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Meet the late Hilma af Klint. The New York Times calls her work “jaw dropping, staggering.”
Hilma af Klint was born in Stockholm in 1862. Af Klint started to create radically abstract paintings in 1906—years before Vasily …
THE MET celebrates International Women’s Day with a Heilbrunn Timeline of Women artists.
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art created a timeline of women artists and their work as part of their …
Baltimore Museum of Art presenting ‘John Waters: Indecent Exposure’—and, they’ve just gilded the lily.
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) may have just redefined binge watching. On Friday and Saturday, November 9 and 10 …
Painting becomes a performance—Banksy shreds self at Sotheby’s seconds after successful sale.
I’m not a fan of Banksy’s art, but his works of political and social commentary thrill me. So, I’m loving …
Pressured by Republicans, University of Kansas censors art. Then vacillates, sort of.
A conceptual piece of flag art was flying full staff in front of Spooner Hall at the University of Kansas …
A Wienermobile, Old Number 7, is headed to a museum as an interactive exhibit for kids. I’m glad.
The days of taking the 1952 Oscar Mayer Wienermobile—known as Old Number 7— for a ride are over. The sculpture …
The Trumps asked to borrow a van Gogh from the Guggenheim; head curator had a better idea.
The Washington Post’s Paul Schwartzman is reporting that the White House asked the Guggenheim for a loan of Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 …
Only this weekend and only in New York: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library
Even the press release from Comedy Central is a laugh riot: NEW YORK, June 13, 2017 – The grand opening …
The man and his can. Christie’s 106-page discourse on a painting is extraordinarily insightful.
At 6:30 p.m. on May 17, 2017, in New York—at Rockefeller Center—Christie’s will hold sale 14187, Post-War and Contemporary Art. Sale …
Warhol, a red crayon, and a Brillo Box (3¢ off) come together in a smart, new documentary from HBO.
In 1968 Lisanne Skyler’s father purchased one of Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes for $1,000. 40 years later that same Brillo Box (3¢ …
NYC. State-of-the-art, Second Avenue subway stations feature awe-inspiring installations of public art.
Yesterday, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo unveiled the largest permanent public art installation in New York State history in …
It’s ominous, massive, and startlingly thought provoking. It’s at The Hirshhorn. Meet the artist.
Jacob and I encountered Basualdo’s installation, The End of Ending, a few months ago. Winding our way around it was a …
Rembrandt’s First Masterpiece on display for the first time with the preliminary drawings at the Morgan
The Morgan Library & Museum: Completed when he was just twenty-three years old, Rembrandt’s Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver has long …
Lobsterama time at Gertrude’s
The arrival of August means it’s time for lobster at Gertrude’s! LOBSTERAMA! This year you can get your lobster as the …
Oh, you nasty man… in-the-moon!
And, yes the old boy has an articulated tongue (and eye). It’s sort of funny in a lascivious way—and yet, …
Stanley Kubrick, in his late teens was a hell of a magazine photographer.
Stanley Kubrick worked as a staff photographer for LOOK magazine from 1945 to 1950. According to the Museum of the …
Artist’s world grows silent; remains vibrant.
“I don’t leave this place much,” David Hockney said. “I’m too deaf to go out, really. I live in a silent …
Baltimore opportunities in the arts, January 2016
BARCO seeks Marketing & Communications Manager January 26, 2016 MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER The Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation (BARCO), a …
John Waters says, “If you’ve got one whip it out and show it now.”
Reason #687 that I love the Baltimore Museum of Art: Dust off your favorite home movies and be part of …
