CA: Studio City

WHERE: Fabien Castanier Gallery. WHEN: Opens Saturday, January 19, 2013 from 7:00-10:00 pm. Remains on view through February 17, 2013. TITLE: All You Can Eat BRIEF ABOUT: New work by…

OH: Van Wert

WHERE: Van Wert Arts Factory. BRIEF ABOUT: This 2012 project provides gifts for area elderly affiliated with the Van Wert County Council on Aging (COA) Senior Center.  With the help…

NM: Santa Fe

WHERE: Museum of International Folk Art. WHEN: On view through January 5, 2014. TITLE: New World Cuisine: The Histories of Chocolate, Mate y Más ABOUT: This exhibition explores how foods…

IN: Portland

WHERE: Arts Place WHEN: Friday, January 11, 2013 from 5:15-6:45 pm. BRIEF ABOUT: A Master Class/Martha Graham Technique will be instructed by teaching artists of the Dance Kaleidoscope troupe. Open…

OH: Cincinnati

WHEN: December 2012 Online Edition. TITLE: End of the Year Best Fiction of 2012 BRIEF ABOUT: AEQAI’s Editor Daniel Brown writes “Although The New York Times Books Review’s editors found…

She sculpts men of status

     Blending art and history is nothing new as we recall oil and watercolor portraits of somber figures, dressed in their period garb, rather smug and disinterested. But do we remember…

NM: Santa Fe

WHERE: New Mexico Museum of Art. WHEN: On view through January 6, 2013. TITLE: Dual exhibitions: Chromatic Fusion: The Art of Fused Glass, featuring Klaus Moje and Emerge 2012: A…

ME: Portland

WHERE: Portland Museum of Art. WHEN: On view through February 17, 2013 TITLE: Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project BRIEF ABOUT: The Museum has commissioned a group…

PA: Pittsburgh

WHERE: Pittsburgh Filmmakers Galleries. WHEN: On view to January 6, 2013. TITLE: Marcellus Shale Documentary Project BRIEF ABOUT: The exhibition features more than 50 photographic images which tell the personal…

What’s going on here?

     “Las Meninas” means “The Maids of Honor” hangs behind bulletproof glass, probably the greatest treasure of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain.  This beautiful and impressive oil painting was…

Shape up a painting

     For beginning artists, the most difficult part of a painting or drawing is often the beginning.  When you look at a subject, it’s hard to decide what should be…