Tag: Art

When Latin America Became the Seat of Modernity

Lina Bo Bardi, the great Italian-Brazilian architect, liked to say we all invent architecture just by climbing a stair, crossing a room, opening a door or sitting down in a chair. All of “these little gestures,” she said, along with the objects they involve, are richly endowed with meaning and memory. Design is life. Life […]

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First Friday flourishes in first Art Walk of spring

Homer’s galleries and public art spaces showcase artists’ work during the first Art Walk of Spring. Stroll the galleries, meet the artists and enjoy the variety of mediums on display. Art Shop Gallery 202 W Pioneer Ave. Byron Birdsall watercolors and acrylic/watercolors by Courtenay Birdsall Clifford Opening Reception, 5-7 p.m. Art Shop Gallery hosts an […]

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As Graffiti Moves From Eyesore to Amenity, Landlords Try to Cash In

Julian Phethean’s first canvas in London was a shed in his backyard where he covered the walls with bold lettering in spray paint. When he moved his art to the city’s streets in the 1980s, it was largely unwelcome — and he was even arrested a few times. “We had nowhere to practice,” he said. […]

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An Idyll on the Shores of a Toxic Lake

There are two ways to experience the town of Bombay Beach, Calif., as a visitor: gawk at the spectacle or fall into the vortex. Thousands of tourists cruise through each year, often without getting out of their cars to see decaying art installations left over from an annual mid-March gathering of artists, photographers and documentarians […]

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Robert Moskowitz, Abstract Painter of New York’s Skyscrapers, Dies at 88

Robert Moskowitz, a painter who used the New York City skyline to stake out a unique position on the border of abstraction and representation, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 88. His son, Erik Moskowitz, said the cause of death, at a hospital, was complications of Parkinson’s disease. Mr. Moskowitz first came to broad […]

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