Archive for the 'Western Fine Arts' Category

Elizabeth Peyton Portrait of the artist Piotr Uklanski Live Forever at New Museum

Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton Portrait of the artist Piotr Uklanski from 1996 is among some 100 works in this midcareer survey of Ms. Peyton at the New Museum on the Lower East Side, an exhibition that runs through Jan. 11.
The best of Elizabeth Peyto’s portraits, as seen at the New Museum, are accessible, devotional and [...]

White Cube’s show by artists drawing inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe - Horror on the wall

White Cube’s show by artists drawing inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe - Horror on the wall: You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil
White Cube’s show by artists drawing inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe is made all the more poignant by Angus Fairhurst’s death
You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil White Cube, London N1, [...]

Iflove Arts Resources Collection: Real Cultural Art Summary

Iflove Arts Resources Collection: Real Cultural Art Summary
Charlton Heston, Epic Film Star and Voice of N.R.A., Dies at 83
By ROBERT BERKVIST
Mr. Heston appeared in some 100 films in his 60-year acting career, but he is remembered chiefly for his monumental, jut-jawed portrayals of Moses, Ben-Hur and Michelangelo.
Photographs | Filmography  Iflove Theater
You May See a Stranger
By [...]

Art as First Love: Buzzcocks were Mondrian and we Pollock

Art as First Love: Buzzcocks were Mondrian and we Pollock
When the Clash parted company in 1986, bassist Paul Simonon went back to his first love: art. Now, with a solo show opening in London’s West End, his figurative paintings are expected to fetch up to £30,000 each. It’s a far cry from the glory days [...]

Virgin Mary and the art of bearing a baby

Virgin Mary and the art of bearing a baby
When The Observer’s art critic Laura Cumming was longing to have a child, she found herself looking at art in a new light. Images of fertility were everywhere, from fruitful nudes to the Virgin Mary, frustrating and fascinating her by turns. Now the mother of twins, she [...]