Art Foundations are a dying breed.  They’ve been under threat from conservatives for everything from wasting taxpayer’s money to anti-religious sentiments.  FAPE –  The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE), is leading the way for how they can continue to thrive in the 21st century.  This past October FAPE honored Ann L. Gund, […]

Faga’s work bridges the gap between performance, photography, installation, and design. In this new series, On the Way to Chroma Green, Faga explores the increasing influence of globalization on seemingly disconnected rural Indian villages. As part of an artist residency program funded by the Kaman Art Foundation, Faga traveled to the small village of Andore […]

Viewers expect photography to portray the outer world, and with greater accuracy than other media. But the best fine art photography expresses the photographer’s inner mind. In Berlin this summer, the photo-text-music-video installation Seelenbilder und Landschaften (Landscapes as Artist’s Metaphor) at Galerie Christian Glass, presented three international fine-arts photographers who portray real, recognizable imagery in […]

  Pieces, scraps, traces, curious clues, strange evidence left behind…In the last few months I have been painting a series of investigative works on paper. The focus of these images being just that: investigating what remains, be it actual physical refuse or simply my own remembrances. “Although many of these works are devoid of human […]

  The Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival has been held once every two years since 2001, and has become a distinctive Kaohsiung event. The 2011 Container Arts Festival has a theme of “Artbitat.” The artists have created visions of the home transcending time and space using very mundane cargo containers.   “The works will enable […]

Jim Lee: Has your work always been occupied by the “good life”? Because craft seems to be an important element as well…did you grow up building things or did a family member get you started using tools and materials?  David Kramer: My dad used to hand me things and say “fix this.” There were lamps […]

31 KINDS OF WONDERFUL is an art project comprising of thirty-one creative objects constructed by artist, Dawn Ng, over a period of thirty-one days / a month in Paris and sent to the Curious Teepee Gallery in Singapore. Each object is an entirely bespoke, handcrafted, one-of-one edition, made from unexpected but commonly gathered materials such […]

In These Tides Hide Times and Lost Lives, David Alexander Flinn employs symbolism and metaphor to explore a number of complex themes. Embodying part of a shipwreck, a 15-foot mast, installed as if washed ashore on a desert island, refers to lost nostalgic notions of pride and desperation.Throughout the work, concepts of religion, ignorance and […]

Within New York there is a plethora of creative outlets for the artist of any medium or genre. But with so many options becomes the burden of organization. This was so with the subject of documentary. A place was needed in which the New York audience could be exposed to documentary filmmaking on an intimate […]

Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and did you know early on that you would be in the arts or did you begin as something else? Were there other artists in your family?Deborah Wasserman: As a very young child I knew that art was my calling. I remember my kindergarten teacher, Mira, declaring […]