Check out Todd Alcott‘s other talent on Etsy. Another digital mashup artist that is doing interesting work is Josephine R. Unglaub whose work has already been featured and will again be featured as a Cosmos + Taxis cover. What started as a distraction for the LA-based screenwriter and graphic artist is now a continuing project with…
Robert Laurence Binyon’s classic poem. Painting by Jacqueline Hurley. freedomJacqueline HurleyliberalityPoetryremembranceRobert Laurence Binyon
The painter whom the establishment loves to hate and no doubt so do a whole raft of pearl clutching regressives. aestheticseroticFilm noirJack Vettrianopainting
Christie Davies reviews John Onions’ European Art: A Neuroarthistory. (H/T Stephen Hicks). art historyjohn oniansNeurophilosophyneuroscience
Obituary and NYT profile William Christenberry’s work is a poetic evocation of a haunted countryside. . . . [that it] really says it all, because it [his work] deals not only with the Southern landscape of beauty and wonderment, but also the side of it that is haunted with memory and sadness. AlabamapaintingphotographyWalker PercyWilliam Christenberry
It’s one of those delicious cultural ironies (of course there are a few other examples) that a significant amount of Islamic art preservation (and more besides) is down to one Nasser Khalili, a Jewish Iranian-born academic and former art dealer. Ownership is nothing but a myth, we are only a temporary custodian of what we…
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A terrific documentary on the life and times of Walter Anderson. A most philosophical, mystical and literary mind. Check out the trailer. aestheticsArtarts and craftsnaturalistpaintingphilosophy of artWalter Inglis Andersonwin riley
One of my favorite artists — catch this exhibition if you can. In addition to the reviews posted on the gallery’s site, see this article in the NYRB. Ravilious reminds me of Rockwell Kent, another favorite. The Dulwich Gallery is somewhat inconvenient to get to (I used to train it) but it’s well worth the visit…
Hated by the art establishment and other literati snobs, no doubt many of them would see virtue in Andrew Lloyd Vombo. JV’s film noir perspective is a lost idealized world of menace and sleaze with elegance, strong sexy women, sinister men, sexual “deviance”, drinking, smoking, politically “incorrect behavior” . . . some mid-Atlantic world, the LA…
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