Ardeshir Mohassess, Iranian Cartoonist, Is Dead at 70
Mr. Mohassess pushed the art of the cartoon to almost Surrealist satire of his native land in work both popular and profound.

Art: SoHo: Provocations, Reflections and Abstractions
From historic to spanking new, intimate to spectacular and minimalist to surrealistic, the art on view in the galleries of SoHo and the lower West Side covers a lot of territory.

Visuals: Designed to Sell
New visual books about the “creative revolution” in advertising, the typography of Jan Tschichold; Alexander Calder’s Paris years; and cave art.

Abroad: In a Faceoff, the Masters Trump Picasso
No show in Europe at the moment bids to be more spectacular, or ends up being more exasperating, than “Picasso and the Masters.”

Amy the Art Mom
Although I am now completely out of patience with the phrase "____(First Name) the ____(Occupation)," let's make room for one more version. It hasn't come up during campaign stump speeches,...

Art review: SFMOMA show invites 'Participation'
In introducing "The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now," which opens today at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Rudolf Frieling, SFMOMA curator of media arts, made reference to Facebook. The existence of such social networking sites, he said, confirms...

Salvador Dali
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American Folk Painting from the Collection
July 19, 2008 - December 2008: The paintings in this exhibition illustrate the diverse practice of folk artists working in the northeastern United States during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The selection demonstrates the array of individual styles inspired by different creative environments outside the "academic" art world, from the professional painter trained in a commercial workshop to the self-taught artist or amateur.

Don Li-Leger
Orchid Nine Patch - to view a larger image and also acquire more extensive recommendations relative to this Don Li-Leger gallerie art image , click the artist label over the thumbnail. Also get buying, conservation framing methods and print dimension details for this art print reproduction. Don Li-Leger is one of the top 50 best selling artists and has various other gallery art giclees similar in characteristics to "Orchid Nine Patch", look into the artist list for for other artist images .

Jochen Gerz makes audience artist and subject
Jochen Gerz's "The Gift" (2000/2008) looms large in "The Art of Participation" and beyond. The German conceptual artist has set up a photo studio on SFMOMA's third-floor landing, where any visitor can have a black and white headshot taken, printed and framed...

Wordless Wednesday - The Old Guard
Guard, 486-464 B.C. © The Brooklyn Museum (As you can see, this gentleman was not a member of the more recent "Old Guard," the Third United States Infantry. How can you tell...

Architecture: Treading Carefully but Not Timidly in a Civic Masterpiece
News that the New York Public Library has hired Norman Foster and his London firm for the job is one of a string of shrewd decisions by the library that should put our minds at ease.