What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The paintings of Francisco Goya—especially “Saturn Devouring One of His Sons”—are truly remarkable. Saturn is frightening and furious. His...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
That’d be a lot of things. On the wall of our house when I was growing up in Brooklyn, my father had pictures of African kings and...
Tonight, Second Chance—a nonprofit with the worthy goal of “retraining and creating employment for displaced and unemployed workers in deconstruction methods” and “reclaiming building materials to...
Last week, I walked through MICA’s The Narcissism of Minor Differences exhibit and was struck by not only its powerful images and overarching themes, but also its implicit message. Individually,...
You may want to get some rest tonight, because Saturday and Sunday are jam-packed. Zappa tribute band Project Object—featuring ex-Mothers Ike Willis and Ray White—plays 8x10 tomorrow night; at the...
I had a few minutes before a meeting in Mount Vernon last Friday, so I walked around looking for street art. Here's what I found near the Congress Hotel.
The other night, teams of graffiti artists fanned out across Baltimore in the middle of night and tagged hundreds of public spots. According to a Sun report, they hit City Hall, shopping malls,...
I didn't expect an Andy Warhol Rorschach piece to turn up on the cover of the new Jay-Z book, Decoded, but there you go...
And it looks great—a perfect mix of elegance and edge.
If you like what you...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Although there have been many works of art in all disciplines that have affected me the first such experiences that I can remember clearly...
A few months back, I posted an item about folk artist Danny Doughty's lively paintings (at Joie de Vivre in Cambridge) and noted that I was curious what he'd do next. I stopped in recently and found...
