An Art Residency in Greece An amazing art story unfolds in sun-bathed Rhodes, deep in the shade of a centuries-old pine forest. Plunging deep into these woods, birds were singing, seemingly urging me to keep walking, to discover a gem…
Breathing is Becoming Impossible
All the warning signs are starkly apparent. Buildings are teetering, on the verge of collapse.Smoke from California forest fires is spreading across the heartland. The toxins make it difficult to breathe, let alone to dream. The homeless are helter-skelter waves…
Ascending Staircases to Heaven
Stripping away all clutter and the superfluous, the Roaming Photographer ignores all grayness around him, and follows Frank Stella’s dictum. “What You See is What You See.”Such simple purity, removing all emotion and only being engaged with geometric shapes, could…
A New York State of Mind
Our turbulent present has brought dissolution and collapse. Traditions are fading. The workplace has dramatically changed. Privacy issues are manifest. Sexual orientations are smashing old taboos. But where do we find security? We need some measure of stability, structures that…
Postcards Sent from New York, Paris…..
Parisian streets, their histories, mysteries, and seductions are alive in the photography of Zimbabwe-born Graham Kuhn. Gifted at capturing the energy and secret stories of city neighborhoods, this Vogue and Vanity Fair freelance photographer also knows how to animate magazines…
The Exquisite Corpse
Plunging deep into their psyches to create absurd stories, André Breton, Man Ray and other Surrealists were enchanted by the game, the drawings that reflected “the exquisite corpse will drink the new wine.” It was a collegial fun fest, combining…
THE UNCLASSIFIABLE OF MODERN ART: (PART ONE)
On the sidelines of the official styles, modern art is undeniably marked by artists escaping the artistic standards, the “unclassifiable” that will forever engrave their name in the history of art. We will have among them: Edgar Degas (1834-1917) Although…
The Menace in our Midst
The mighty Parthenon. Awe-inspiring pyramids hugging the Nile. Stonehenge and its mysteries. These enduring symbols stir our imagination. They “live” and ennoble us.“Dumpster Dumping,” in the adept hands of Kim Curtis, has led to a vastly-different sort of monument, an…
Liberation
Amid the swaths of Sahara sand dunes, the camels plodded along. Their “pacing” had a rhythmic beat, a reassuring constancy. This was a place of solitude, and traveling through the vast no country of sand and heat, any reminder of…
Suroosh and Daena By Marjan Samie
They are locked, dark reminders of the past. In time the past will return, there will be less blurriness, far more clarity. We will be able to look inside, be less out of touch with reality. But that is the…