Joan Altabe, a former New York City art teacher and longtime award-winning art and architecture critic for U.S. and overseas publications, is referenced in "Who's Who in American Art" and "Who's Who of American Women."
The days of l'art pour l'art (art for art's sake) – a term left over from a lecture at the Sorbonne more than a century ago – is an empty phrase now. The vulgar...
In honor of Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee to be celebration June 2-5, London’s National Portrait Gallery has mounted a 60-picture show of her likeness through her 60-year reign. Among these is the 2001...
Time Magazine’s prodding cover photograph of a mother nursing her child to herald its story about breast feeding makes sense. But photographer Martin Schoeller’s professed inspiration for the image - religious imagery of the Madonna and Child...
Two famous paintings sold for the same record price of $44.8 million at Sotheby’s auction house last week: Roy Lichtenstein’s “Sleeping Girl” and Francis Bacon’s "Figure Writing Reflected in Mirror...
Interactive art programs in museum are mushrooming. The Museum Computer Network has reported more than 1,000 museums worldwide in some kind of network with video and audio clips, computer animation and manipulable 3-D models...
A new book about Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel gives rise to an unintended second thought about Salvador Dali – that he was less a lovable kook and more a cold-hearted one. http://www.examiner.com/article/should-an-artist...
You wouldn’t think so, but there’s a tie between Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party” at Brooklyn Museum and Paolo Veronese paintings of The Last Supper, and it’s not because these...
Call it the pause that refreshes. ”Unconditional Surrender,” the mastodonic urethane knock-off of Albert Eisenstaedt’s photo of a sailor kissing a nurse in NY’s Times Square on V-J Day – its hulking...
It looks like Darwin had it wrong. A new Stanford University study refutes his notion that the way people view facial expressions is universal. The discovery has big ramifications for visual artists. More about that in a moment.The study...
Doctors are at it again, diagnosing dead artists’ ailments by examining their art. What, there are no live patients to treat?The latest diagnoses: Dr. Fernando Antelo, surgical pathologist at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, announced...