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Experiencing the creative work of architectural brothers, Greene & Greene, is like sipping a rare, richly-made wine—offering sensory delights from the firm of two authentic American Arts and Crafts masters. As the brothers Greene—Charles and Henry—worked primarily in California, they created the ‘gold standard’ for the Arts and Crafts design style. Their work, both as [...]

Kathleen Elliot’s new series of flame worked glass botanical sculptures are both unexpected and intriguing. She achieves rich surface textures and pure luminous colors in imagery that spans natural form from flowers, fruits, pods and nests, to complex entwined linear vines. The artist accentuates details that are often overlooked when one confronts nature, providing a [...]

The sprawling, dense, complex, exhilarating, confounding Oh Canada, which opened recently at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), will remain on view for the next ten months, is the visual equivalent of a polyglot menagerie evoking Noah’s Ark. No, it has not rained in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts for forty days and forty [...]

At some point in all our lives we have grappled with the assumption that there is a place for nature and a place for culture. One is located in the rolling hills of ladybird books and biscuit tin lids, the other in the smoggy sprawl of the city. But there is somewhere in-between. It is [...]

   “Pictures must not be too picturesque.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson       Illustration (left): Pablo Picasso, Grande Tete de Femme au Chapeau Orne (1962), block print. Private collection Eye on the Future: The Pottery Wheel-of-Fortune All of us at ARTES, fine arts magazine, wish you a happy and healthy New Year. There has been [...]

On view through spring, 2012, the Philadelphia Museum of Art features a unique exhibition, Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion. This show includes furniture and design objects in a space entirely transformed by the prominent female architect. The fluid, site-specific installation is the first of its kind in the United States, assembled by a team of [...]

The Utopian desire of 1970s ‘Land’ artists, who broke away from the stranglehold of the art market by producing earthworks far removed from cities, has given way to new projects that demonstrate a global ecological awareness through cross-disciplinary investigations concerning environmental sustainability. artes fine arts magazine

Classical limestone bank buildings line the streets of downtown Wilmington, Delaware; facades that suggest prosperity and life. But until recently, the streetlights shining vigilantly at night exposed nothing but emptiness.  And, although Wilmington became a national financial center for the credit card industry – since the Financial Center Development Act of 1981 removed the legal [...]

Anne Ferrer’s new series of colorful cloth sculptures, curated by Edward Rubin, is reminiscent of inflatable, shaped balloons that wink and bob in a kind of rhythmic modern dance. Up-down movements mingle with in-out ‘breathing’, as air slowly and randomly inflates and deflates each work. The seven pieces are composed as a tightly-clustered group. But [...]

In our complex era of sophisticated technology, immediate gratification and the virtual experience of nature on the Internet or television, it is not easy to establish what ‘nature’ is anymore. Today artists in England, Germany, Central Europe and the United States, are increasingly responding to a natural world plagued with environmental problems. Key issues in [...]