Eyes Wide Shut: Erotica Alive and Well

Ana Benaroya’s “Mind Games” 2018 spray paint, acrylic and oil on canvas 48 x 36 in. at Postmasters “NSFW”

It’s not everyday that this writer is greeted by a parade of dental dams, leather whips and bobbing dildos poised like birds-of-paradise. But such was the giddy scene at the entrance to the salacious Museum of Sex. Then and there, the ubiquitous theme of erotica, blazing like a siren call, hit this writer like an […]

The Maverick Vision of Artist James Rosenquist

Top: “Lanai” (1964) Oil on canvas 62 x 88 in. / Bottom Left: “In the Red” (1962) Oil on canvas 66 ¼ x 78 ¼ in. Center: “Untitled” (Blue Sky) (1962) Oil on canvas 84 x 72 in. Right: Detail of “The Lines Were Deeply Etched on the Map of Her Face” (1962 ) Oil on canvas […]

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

Top panel: Charles White”Five Great American Negroes” (1939) Oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY./ Leonor Fini’s “La Peinture et l”Architecture (1938-39) Oil on panel/ Lower left​: Robert Gober *Untitled” (2000-2001) Willow, wood, beeswax, human hair, silver plated cast brass and pigment/ C​ enter:​ Charles White “Headlines” (1944) Ink, gouache, and newspaper on board ​Lower Right:​ Louise Bourgeois “Nature Study” (1984) Bronze, silver nitrate patina and steel. All from David Zwirner’s “Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art”, New York, NY.

Top panel: Charles White ”Five Great American Negroes” (1939) Oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY./ Leonor Fini’s “La Peinture et l”Architecture (1938-39) Oil on panel/ Lower left​: Robert Gober *Untitled” (2000-2001) Willow, wood, beeswax, human hair, silver plated cast brass and pigment/ C​enter:​ Charles White “Headlines” (1944) Ink, gouache, and […]

HAVE A SEAT?

Lucas Samaras found object sculpture wire hanger Chair Transformations Pace Gallery Chair as art Yayoi Kusama’s Accumulation Art world Art collector . Chair as art merino wool pop art

Top left: Chair Transformations #25 Plastic flowers and wire coat hanger 39 ¾ x 29 3/8 x 24 ¼ in. / Top center: Chair Transformations #10A Melamine laminate, wood and wool 38 1/8 x 20 18 1/16 in. (1969-70) / Top right: Chair Transformations #20B, 1996Bottom left: Chair Transformations # 9 (1969-70)/ Bottom center: Chair […]

Game Changer: The Scathing Pen of Illustrator Arthur Szyk

Arthur Szyk World War II mass immigration Tadeusz Kościuszko caricature pen and ink drawing drawings gouache illustration racism black lives matter prejudice social justice Warsaw ghetto uprising The Third Reich Hitler dictators political cartoons Soldier in art holocaust Zionist movement illustrationists artists Ai Weiwei sculpture immigration policy incarceration the final solution manuscripts New York Historical Society propaganda freedom slave trade choke hold Yashua Klos Jacob Lawrence the Great Migration Wesley Clark De Profundis German history Jewish history Simón Bolívar.

One afternoon while strolling e reprough the New York Historical Society, I happened upon the articulate work of Arthur Szyk (pronounced “shik”). To view his oeuvre is to descend deep into a time capsule set during World War II, the Holocaust and America of the Jim Crowe era.  His illustrations, suffused with a blend of […]

Erotic Quixotic Hypnotic? Find a new narcotic

Geoffrey Chadsey Jack Shainman Gallery That's Not It figurative art, figure, painting, drawing homoerotic art Chelsea art market, Chelsea, art gallery, art Out, Double, Amstel, David mylar, watercolor crayon Contemporary art, collector, collector's art

“2018 Geoffrey Chadsey” Top Left: “Blue Faced Jimi, (2017) Watercolor pencil and crayon on mylar 73 x 42 x 1.8 in.Top center: “Double” (2017-18) Watercolor pencil and crayon on mylar 78 x 72 x 1/2 in. Top right: “Amstel (Buddy Movie)” Watercolor pencil, crayon and tape on mylar 57 5/8 x 25 in. (2017) Bottom […]

From the Carnal to the Sublime: The Figure Electrifies

Top Left: Philip Pearlstein “Two Models with Eames Lounge Chair” Oil on Canvas, Betty Cunningham Gallery, NY / Top Center: Baron Von Fancy’s “You’re the French on My Toast” and  Top Right: Clip from “Riverboat Song”, Jordan Wolfson, the David Zwirner Gallery, New York/ Bottom Left: Joe Mintner “Four Hundred Years of Free Labor”1995 Welded […]

Heroes and Villains in Contemporary Art

McDermott & McGough “Superhero #4” 2012 Print made with Archival Pigments on Fine Art Rag Paper

Lois Lane: “I mean, why are you here? There must be a reason for you to be here.” Superman: “Yes, I’m here to fight for truth and justice and the American way.” Public fascination with the forces of good and evil aren’t exclusive to Hollywood but has seeped into the realm of contemporary art. It’s […]

You Know His Name

Caravaggio “The Taking of Christ” ca. 1602 Oil on Canvas 52.6 x 66.7 in. The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

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Ha Ha Ha!!! – An Artist Walks into A Bar…

Julie Houts Morning Ritual

Artists can be such a pensive bunch. Taking ourselves too seriously. I felt the need to unload and laugh a bit and so I searched for my contemporaries who illustrated a sense of humor.  I discovered the quirky, the understated, the irreverent, the ecclesiastical – the what? – the downright facetious, and the hideously grotesque.  […]