ARTES MAGAZINE

Mary Hrbacek’s solo exhibition, Peopled Forest of My Mind, curated by Elga Wimmer at the Creon Gallery in New York City in April, 2013, featured Hrbacek’s new, very small and very large, personified tree paintings. Inspired by her dense, dramatic charcoal drawing executed on stark white paper, Hrbacek cultivates eerie hybrid plant forms as they [...]

In July, 1929, months before the stock market crash that resulted in the Great Depression of the 1930s, Albert Coombs Barnes (January 2, 1872 – July 24, 1951), sold his company for some $6 million. He made a vast fortune on the manufacture and sale of the antiseptic drug Argyrol, used to treat gonorrhea. By [...]

To launch Rediscovered Masters, art historian Peter Hastings Falk assembled Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery, the first in a series of exhibitions dedicated to deserving late-career artists and/or those have passed on and whose achievements have been forgotten or overlooked. An important example of one such notable but neglected artist, according to Falk, is [...]

“Only in a democracy where the full development of the individual is not only permitted but fostered could such an exhibition be assembled.” – William Benton, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1946) The year was 1946. Amid an ideological “Cold War” with the Soviet Union, the United States Department of State began an [...]

Keith Haring’s large-scale symbolic scrawled diptychs, on view at Mana Contemporary, spur memories of an era when gangs of boys performed spontaneous break-dances in SoHo subway stations. They recall a time when free spirits ruled, with street art that continues to spark the cosmic desire in the human soul to soar unfettered, taking those feelings [...]

Every once in a while—and I cannot remember the last time this has happened—an art exhibition adopts a provocative, never before seen, truth-telling-concept and executes it so brilliantly that viewers are forced to take stock of what is happening in the world around them. I am not talking about themes which are a dime-a-dozen, but [...]

Hurricane Sandy devastated New York’s Chelsea Gallery district. Hit particularly hard were the most prestigious street level venues. The surging Hudson River flooded the area as well as wiped out basement storage areas. Entire exhibitions were lost as well as multiple millions of dollars worth of works in basement storage areas. This was particularly devastating [...]

Maayan Amir: In your practice as a scientist can you describe briefly your studies of neurological disorders. At what point you became interested in art and how did you specifically become interested in photography? Eran Gilat: In my case, photography captured my interest long before I knew I was going to be a scientist. Photography [...]

Spiders! You may love them, like Wilbur the pig does, in E. B. White’s classic Charlotte’s Web; or they may frighten you away, like the tiny creature that startled Little Miss Muffet, as she sat eating her curds and whey. As for me, well, I wouldn’t want to find one climbing up my arm or [...]

These days strolling through an art fair can resemble an encyclopedic museum exhibition, so riveting are the prices for iconic contemporary art market that quality work surfaces. At Art Basel, Basel (ABB, 2012), one saw remarkable examples of Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, (priced between $3-$5 million), Robert Motherwell, Georg Baselitz and a very dark, striking [...]