Degas: Drawings and Sketchbooks at The Morgan Library & Museum September 24, 2010, through January 23, 2011 View the Online Exhibition The exhibition features some twenty exceptional drawings by Degas, along with two of his sketchbooks, demonstrating the iconic artist's characteristic daring and inventiveness. The show includes works depicting quintessential Degas subjects—from his...
Tonight is the Take Home a Nude auction at Sotheby's. Click here to preview the work in the Online Gallery. This is a review of the fashions at the auction: Padma Lakshmi Takes Home A Nude At New York Art Academy Benefit ...
Tuesday night Drink & Draw 7-10 at Tribes Gallery at 285 E 3rd St, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10009. The space is occupied and owned by a retired blind professor, and can get mildly rowdy and smokey at times. We’ll use the big living room, where there are ongoing art shows,...
The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya at the Frick October 5, 2010, through January 9, 2011 Spanish draftsmen of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries created works of dazzling beauty and inventiveness. Though often well versed in the traditions of Italy and Flanders, artists on the Iberian Peninsula developed their...
Malcolm T. Liepke, The Wild One, Oil on Canvas, 20" x 29" How does Liepke do it? I am clearly jealous of his work. I am jealous of his ability to paint such perfect features and lifelike hands. He can depict the moisture in eyes and lips, capturing, no, enhancing...
The New York Academy of Art, Summer Exhibition opened on Tuesday. I hadn't been to a NYAA opening in ages, so I was happy to see several people I knew, even though most people there were more recent students. Each year the NYAA churns out more talented artists. Below are some...