Miami Heat

As I've done before, today I invite you to see for yourself the work of an artist I admire.  In this case, it's Lucas Blanco of Miami.  I think he's quite talented, and I hope you agree.  Here's where you can check out more of his work.  And you can also follow him twitter@painttwits

MOCA Madness

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has pulled out all the stops to celebrate turning the Big Three-Oh.

Stand Up Comics

The work of legendary graphic illustrator Joe Kubert goes on the auction block this week . . . and he could care less.

Ars Populi

Forget all the painting and sculpture in museums . . . what's hanging on your walls and decorating your end tables?

Hadid It Again

There is only one fitting word to describe Zaha Hadid's new museum in Rome:  Wow!

Conceptualizing

What's dominating photography in 2009?  It's all in the concept.

Silver Screen

Nic Cage goes around the bend in Werner Herzog's latest.

Gallery Hopper

Paul Hasegawa-Overacker, a k a Paul H-O, was the man with the camera keeping an eye on the gallery scene in New York for intrepid viewers on public-access TV. 

Deep Blues

Augusta Palmer's new documentary goes in search of her father, Robert, the late music critic of the New York Times.

Silver Screen

R.I.P. Paul Wendkos, the director of Gidget, dead at age eighty-four.

New Art

EastWestNorthSouth
Pencil 
November 2009

Silver Screen

What do you get when you put Werner Herzog and Nic Cage together?  Hoo-boy!  Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.

New Art

Take Five, Key of Z
Pencil
November 2009
In Memory of Dave Pliske

Silver Screen

The best promo line I've ever heard on Turner Classic Movies:

James Cagney doesn't take bad news well in White Heat.

A Face On the Belle Epoque

A new exhibition in Italy demonstrates the artistry of Giovanni Boldini.

The Art of the Unreal

The altered reality of photographer Jean-Francoise Rauzier.

I've Only Just Begun

Not one to shrink from self-aggrandizement, Damien Hirst seems to be prepping for his place on Olympus.

Out Like a Lamb

Not exactly a rip-roaring night at one New York City auction house Thursday.  Still . . . 

Aztec Two-Step

It's Montezuma redux at the British Museum.

The Aesthetic Is Everything

What's up at the Art Institute of Chicago?  And exhibition devoted to the unfolding of the Arts and Crafts movement.