Les Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was born to aristocratic parents at the Hôtel du Bosc in Albi, Tarn, in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France on November 24, 1864. Despite being known as a prolific French artist, the painter and illustrator of the cafes, cabarets, and dance halls,…
Main Content
Recent Posts
Food For The Table: Pumpkin Potato Curry
Sometimes my cooking is just an excited mess. Who doesn’t love cooking in cast iron? This day, I had the makings for a curry and I made it up as I went along. Fall is here and it was starting to cool down – hot comfort food seemed to be in the plan. Organic Ingredients:…
Food For The Table: Breakfast Quesadilla
The Artist Life! It’s been a while since I’ve had access to a kitchen, with the ability to cook for myself, and I’m not wasting any time. Food for the Table posts have been few and far between here over the past year, since we’ve been locked down. Right now I have a two week…
On This Day: René Magritte
Magritte Impersonator by René Magritte Born as René François Ghislain Magritte on November 21, 1898 in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. As an artist, Magritte became know for his wit and his compositions that take ordinary objects – like apples, clouds, pipes, bowler hats – and put them in out of context environments,…
Claire Tabouret At Perrotin Tokyo
Despite Claire Tabouret being the only subject in the works, it quickly becomes evident that she is withdrawing from the viewer, perhaps only an instant away from vanishing entirely. The figure’s visage is the same but not uniform, marking the passage of time and honoring the fleeting nature of the human face. These works convey…
Edmund de Waal At Gagosian Hong Kong
A potter since childhood and an acclaimed writer, de Waal makes porcelain works that function as repositories of human memory and experience. Drawing equally from Eastern and Western traditions, de Waal’s works blend a minimalist visual language with invocations of the written word, positing the act of collection—of objects, texts, materials, and thoughts—as an artistic…
Dornith Doherty At Holly Johnson Gallery
For her sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, Doherty presents new large-scale black and white photographs alongside a video projection. For over twenty years Doherty’s work has been concerned with our stewardship of the natural environment. This new project continues to explore that subject amid the effects of air pollution on migratory birds. The common…
Yasuyo Maruyama At Ro2 Art
In everyday life, through my interactions with people, I remember the scenes, atmospheres, colors, and certain gestures. Each one of them is inspiration for my work. When I was a teenager, I suffered severe atopic dermatitis and recovered from skin keloid. Since then, I have been very interested in human faces and created paintings that…
Rusty Scruby At Turner Carroll Gallery
Growing up, Rusty Scruby’s grandfather tatted, his sister, mom and grandmother knitted and crocheted, and his dad had learned to knit when he was young, so it seemed natural for Rusty to learn to knit. He became fascinated by the many ways that a single long strand of yarn could turn into so many structures…
