Tag: art
Is It Even Worse In Europe
Long before the British graffiti artist and political activist Banksy chose to remain anonymous, there were the Guerrilla Girls. Formed in New York in 1985, they are a group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world, and their mission of bringing gender and racial inequality in…
Carmen Herrera : 101 Years Old and still making Art.
One of the current Exhibitions on at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in NY is Carmen Herrera : Lines of Sight. The fact that you may not have heard of this Cuban-American minimalist abstract artist is not because she is a new kid on the block, but just the fact that for most of her…
Agnes Martin Retrospective @ The Guggenheim
A major retrospective of the work of the celebrated abstract impressionist American artist Agnes Martin has just opened at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Martin, who many considered a minimalist, was a rather complex and intensely private person. Born in Canada, she didn’t in fact starting painting until she was in her 30’s…
Dapper Dougie Fields : a true English Eccentric
71 year old conceptual artist Duggie Fields is a quintessential English eccentric who cuts a very dashing figure in London’s creative community. Artist, fashion icon and muse, Comme Des Garcons runway model, queer activist, and designer who has been making his own very definite kind of waves since his first exhibition when he was just…
Baring All For Art
When a select group of art lovers were invited to a Private View one evening of a Mapplethorpe Exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, they didn’t have to worry about the dress code, as there wasn’t one. In fact they were asked to check all their clothes at the door. “When you look at…
