School of Visual Arts (SVA) MFA Fine Arts Department Open Studios at SVA April 26–28, 2012 Reception: Thursday, April 26, 5 – 9pm Friday, April 27, 12–8pm Saturday, April 28, 12–6pm 133/141 West 21 Street, Floors 8 and 9 www.sva.edu mfafineart.sva.edu Chelsea, one of the most engaging arenas of art in New York City, is, […]
The Jason McCoy Gallery brings Northern Light to New York
New York City.- The Jason McCoy Gallery is pleased to present Northern Light, an exhibition featuring a small selection of 19th Century, modern, and contemporary Northern European artists. Ranging from prints by Edvard Munch and a significant Romant…
Graffiti Art Brightens War-torn Afghan Capital
By Michelle Nichols
KABUL (REUTERS).- A group of women in burqas rises from the sea to symbolize cleanliness, while further down a factory wall a bus with no wheels and crammed with passengers is a stark comment on war-torn Kabul’s appalling public tra…
Tourist Crowds Threaten Vatican’s Sistine Chapel Says Vatican Museums Chief
VATICAN CITY (AP).- The Vatican Museums chief warned that dust and polluting agents brought into the Sistine Chapel by thousands of tourists every day risk one day endangering its priceless artworks. Antonio Paolucci told the newspaper La Repubblica in…
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Presents Picturing the Studio
CHICAGO, IL.- Curated by Michelle Grabner (SAIC) and Annika Marie (Columbia College), Picturing the Studio is presented in conjunction with the College Art Association’s 98th Annual Conference in Chicago, February 10-13, 2010. With works by more than 30 artists spanning the past two decades, the exhibition is testament to the compelling nature that the studio itself holds as subject as well as place of production. Picturing the Studio features site-specific works by New York artist Ann Craven, SAIC alumna and Los Angeles based artist Amanda Ross-Ho, and SAIC faculty Judith Geichman and Frank Piatek. Major,