Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Art, music fill the streets of Brighton


The longtime annual event included artists selling their wares, members of the Brighton Art Guild displaying their work, and four stages with free music ...and more »


Many Politicians Lie

But Trump Has Elevated the Art of Fabrication.
President Trump departing for a vacation on Thursday. The sheer magnitude of his falsehoods and exaggerations is giving political historians pause. Credit Al Drago for The New York Times. WASHINGTON — Whit Ayres, a Republican political consultant ...and more »


Monday, August 7, 2017

Home decorators embrace big, bold wall art


A room designed by Dineen Architecture + Design at the Kips Bay Decorator's Showhouse in New York. Alyson Liss-Pobiner of Dineen says homeowners should consider playing with unconventional room layouts when they want to introduce large scale art.and more »


Asbury Park: Where Art, Grit and Local Spirits Mix


Asbury Park embraces the ocean, its salty scent mixed with eau de sunscreen on summer days. The city's mile-long beach is carpeted by bright towels and canopied by a pageant of umbrellas. Along the wooden boardwalk is a cavalcade of bare limbs, baby ...


Sunday, August 6, 2017

Missing Patrons: Will More Major Donors Give for Art and Social Justice?


I recently spoke with VIA Art Fund President Bridgitt Evans on the state of arts philanthropy and on Gund's fund in particular. A collector herself, Evans considers Gund's approach a perfectly logical development. Collectors are "exposed to a wider ...


What to See in Art Galleries This August


My first job in New York, working for a Swiss art dealer, came with an extravagantly lengthy vacation—four weeks, as long as I took them between July and September. It was 1989, and the art world shut down in August. Not so anymore. If you're in ...


Saturday, August 5, 2017

Another Kokomo first: Banksy artwork, owner arrive at library; unveiling Friday


The Banksy, called "Haight Street Rat," arrived downtown at the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library on Thursday with its owner Brian Greif, an art collector who is loaning the piece to organizations around the country that agree to display it for free.