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Piotr Janas: Minotaurs

Bortolami Gallery presents a group of new paintings by Warsaw-based artist Piotr Janas, Minotaurs. The artist refers the nine paintings as “figures” or “self-portraits”. The paintings are composed of geometric forms occupied by organic marks and scratches, while also including detailed body parts and fleshy organs. These grotesque paintings somehow also reflect the visual resonance […]

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Chuck Close’s New Exhibition in East Hampton

Celebrated artist Chuck Close will show his recent work at Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, for the second time since his solo exhibition of large scale Polaroid photographs, Chuck Close Up Close, in 1991. Mr. Close always had been an experimental artist who consistently strive for new methods in making his art. In the […]

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Prosecco Loaded Worker Bees

There were forty galleries that participated at artMRKT.  From New York, to Beverly Hills, to St. Petersburg they all migrated to a singular billowing white tent with one collective goal in mind: to sell. I walk in a little unsteadily. The tent hums with activity. I feel as if I have just entered a hive—a […]

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Leah Oates Interviews Brian Getnick

Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and what is your family background? Brian Getnick: Art for me is a way of joining thoughts that might not belong together in any other discourse. When you make art, you can actualize these thoughts into forms and create models where they are indisputably united. I like […]

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Beta Launch of Postmasters Tribeca With Serkan Ozkaya’s Installation

Postmasters Gallery celebrates it’s new location in Tribeca and lets us get a sneak-peek of the unfinished space with an exciting installation by Serkan Ozkaya. Beta Launch of Postmasters Tribeca With Serkan Ozkaya’s Installation July 30- August 3, 2013 Postmasters Gallery 54 Franklin Street, New York City postmastersart.com

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Artist Walter De Maria passes at 77

From The Lightning Field, 1977, to The 2000 Sculpture of 1992, Walter De Maria was a dynamic artist whose work seemed to cover many bases including earthworks, Conceptualism, and Minimal pursuits; often executed in a strikingly large scale. Despite the overwhelming size of  his prominent explorations, Mr. De Maria was something of a recluse in his […]

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Sophia Rein

My work reflects emotion and passion for life and for different cultures. I was born in Paris grew up between Munich and the south of France. I now live in Luxembourg and I’m fascinated by New York and Singapore. My Italian heritage loves to express itself with a balance between the effect of strong painting knife […]

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Olafur Eliasson: Changing the Face of Denmark’s Second Largest City

When the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson was invited to submit his idea in a design competition, he had no idea that proposal would change the landscape and identity of an entire city.  That is exactly what happened when Your Rainbow Panorama opened on the roof of ARoS Aarhus Art Museum. Your Rainbow Panorama is a […]

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Loznitsa’s In the Fog and an Interview with the Director

The second feature film of the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, who is largely known for his documentary works, not only reached great attention at Cannes Festival in 2012, but stirred some debates as to his approach to the subject of war and humanity. In the events of WWII Belarus lost a quarter of its population […]

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Luc Reichert

My first steps are applying watercolor paints and pastel, then I use an abstract style in oil and acrylic. After living a few years in the abstract world, I began to be disgusted by huge global abstract productions. My style now is very much trivial or primitive.  I adore letting off steam and creating a […]

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