It’s the interplay between hands and eyes that I first fell in love with in this stunning and very famous image of Georgia O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. I first saw this photograph at The Met Museum in New York and …
Constantin Brancusi created many beautiful pieces in his life. Many years ago at the MoMA in Manhattan I met one of them: Mademoiselle Pogany (1913) Bronze with black patina.
It sits like an object of desire and radiates like – …
Vincent is without question my favorite artist of all time. I was asleep to art until I saw his “Portrait Of The Artist, 1889” at the Musee D’Orsay in Paris in 1996. The painting moved with life-force even though it …
Wandering through the beautiful galleries on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, NM some years ago I found myself in an enchanting sculpture garden at the Patricia Carlisle Gallery. It was one of those places where you felt that if …
This morning I had an interesting exchange on Twitter with artist Dustin Wallace. The discussion centered on the importance of your story as an artist as a marketing and selling tool and it got me thinking later how successfully …
If you’ve never seen an Alice Neel portrait live you have not yet fully lived! Please enjoy the wonderful portrait of “Nancy and the Rubber Plant” and visit The Archive to see more of her amazing work.
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Many years ago I read “The Agony and The Ecstacy” by Irving Stone. It’s a fabulous & powerful recounting of the life story of Michelangelo Buonarroti – an amazing reading journey which I think every artist should undertake at some …
This is a re-posting of an old article from 2005 – more relevant than ever….
For many of us, especially when we are establishing our art careers it’s tempting to want to appeal to every buyer who might have cash …
Today we took a short break from the studio and drove up the Malibu coast for a couple of hours to take in some nature. Often there are dolphins rolling in the surf – just amazing!
Not long after leaving …
This is a true story. You can find the original article at Snopes. It caused me to wonder…. If an iconic artist like (say) Jasper Johns was selling art on a sidewalk – would we recognize him? Would we …