When Van Gogh Spoke for the Trees
Smithsonian - In May of 1889, in the depths of a mental health crisis, Vincent van Gogh retreated to an asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, in southern France. - read more ...
Spotlight: Joe Ferry
“I want my work to bring comfort and peace…”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Joe Ferry
Paul Zimmerman: How did you get interested in art?
Joe Ferry: I went to a Van Gogh exhibition at the Met...
5 Artists to Follow if You Like Georgia O’Keeffe
artsy - Known for her evocative depictions of budding flowers, animal skulls, and pigment-perfect gradients of desert sunrises and sunsets, Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the few American painters prominent enough ...
The Legacy of Artist Audrey Flack
NY Times - Audrey Flack laughs when remembering that painter Alice Neel called her a whippersnapper in the 1970s. Far from a whippersnapper, Flack—a pioneering photorealist painter, sculptor of monumental bronz...
Spotligh: Fant Wenger
"I want to be a witness of my time…”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Fant Wenger
Paul Zimmerman: How did you get interested in art?
Fant Wenger: The need to be creative started in my childh...
Paintings of Yuichi Onouchi: Emotions in Colors
by Paul Zimmerman
It has long been observed in all painting that an elevated felling of expressive contrast in any artwork deepens the emotional spectrum of the artist's efforts. This is certainly apt as the v...
Donghoon Sohn enhances the beauty of imprecision
domus - Chairs, benches and small tables created by the Seoul-based designer who, inspired by the club sandwich, explores new formal and material possibilities from pressed sheets of recycled plastic. - read mo...
A line of stools inspired by Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s engravings
domus - The Stele stools designed by artist Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi with Doodesign take the form of ancient ruins: pieces of columns with iridescent colours and strong expressive intensity. - read more ...
The Great Beginning of Jules Olitski
NY Times - In the early 1960s, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) made some of the most astounding abstract paintings of the 20th century. Many of them still astound — even if the avuncular sexual innuendos and women’s ...