Ellen Harvey’s paintings from the New York Beautification Project become a testament to the strange beauty of the ephemeral, even in the way everything decays or gets covered over with time, becoming a part of the shifting layers of history, of the life of the city.
We are grateful to share a selection of stories from the project.
A moving tribute from one painter to another.
A facinating article about a special category of miniature painting called ‘Ragamala,’ which is the pictorial representation of an Indian musical mode or melody which is called a ‘raga.’
“Pigments from a rock collected under her horse’s hooves are woven together with ochre earth pigments from France, the same ochres used by Van Gogh in his paintings of sunlit fields.” An interview with Santa Fe photographer and painter Stella Maria Baer by Alice Courtright
We were grateful for a chance to ask Vinita Karim a few questions about her remarkable artwork.
Very grateful to share this wonderful interview with the remarkable Michael Ward.
We are so grateful for the chance to talk to Wormwood Stubbs about his remarkable paintings.
The Disappointed Tourist tries to create a level playing field in which personal losses and larger cultural losses can meet and be recognized and create a new conversation about our love for our physical environment, harnessing nostalgia to create empathy rather than division.
“I want the viewer to become part of the scene through memory and experience.” An interview with Pittsburgh painter Ron Donoughe.
“Doris Lee’s example shows us that humor can be as legitimate as seriousness, simplicity as valid as complexity, joy as rational a response to one’s time as despair — and that they can and do exist together at the same time.”
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