TORONTO, Canada–Canadian mezzo-soprano and radio host Julie Nesrallah attended Shen Yun Performing Arts on March 27, 2019 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Arts. She was enthralled by the performance. “I just am so blown away. It’s perfection. The virtuosity is incredible. It’s like you’re watching a dream,” she said. Shen Yun, the world’s […]

Can you believe it’s nearly over? The last golden buzzer of the America’s Got Talent: Champions season has been awarded, and it’s full steam ahead to the finish line for the lucky (and of course, talented) contestants who have impressed the judges so far. “This is feeling like the Olympics,” exclaimed judge Simon Cowell, highlighting […]

NEW YORK—As the saying goes, “If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.” For visual artists, making a name for yourself and succeeding can be an arduous journey. As a teenager, Tyler Loftis took a chance, dropping out of high school and moving from the Midwest to New York City to pursue […]

NEW YORK—How could it be possible to convey the poetry, the depth, the sweat, the soulful interpretation of life in the watercolor paintings by Mario Andres Robinson? The essence they emanate can only be fully appreciated in person, because they are the results of countless moments transformed into multiple thin layers of paint. The washes and glazes he applies to render a beautiful luminosity is a testament to the love of the people and places he has immortalized on paper made of cotton rag and linters.

Music streaming giant Spotify announced a new feature for independent artists to upload their music directly onto the platform on Sept. 20. According to a statement, the feature will allow artists to deliver the music they make straight to Spotify from the “Spotify for Artists” program and plan for a certain release date. Artists will also be […]

Compared to his time in the boxing ring and then his stint acting and appearing on television, Cesar Santos’s calling as an artist came naturally. “Everything else I did, there was an internal conflict within me. Every time I was painting or drawing, things were flowing better, even my life. There was more love I […]

The act of creation—making something from nothing—is remarkable. Survey after survey reveals what a valued trait creativity is to us today, and scholars strive to get at why. The prolific artist Wim Wenders is known not only for his strong vision but his interest in other artists. The writer, photographer, painter, and filmmaker has documented […]

NEW YORK—We see others differently from how they see themselves. Artists’ self-portraits bridge that inevitable gap to some degree—forthrightly only in rare instances. Not only do we see how artists want to be remembered, but also how they are able to project themselves into the world through their technical abilities and through their artistic gifts. The […]

NEW YORK—As his photo was being taken, Burton Silverman instinctively held on to a bunch of his paintbrushes with a relaxed, yet determined grip—the way a relay racer holds onto a baton. Painting with a fondness for everyday life, Silverman has been holding and passing on the baton of realist art for more than six decades. […]

NEW YORK—A woman sitting on a rock by the sea reads a royal blue book. A pink stole draped over her knee swirls up around her nude figure. She maintains a wonderfully serene, self-contained expression. Hinting at the use of earth’s resources, the stole, as it flows past the small of her back, frames an […]

NEW YORK—A year has passed since Gregory Mortenson reached that quintessential artist’s milestone—a one-man show at a top gallery in New York City. For three years, he had worked on a series of paintings portraying the dignity, joy, and resilience of orphaned and displaced children who survived the earthquake in Haiti. “I keep saying this, […]

"Unfinished" is a grand sweep, showing works from the Renaissance up to today. The third floor shows unfinished works by masters like van Eyck, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velazquez, van Eyck, Turner, Mezel, and Sargent, and so forth—more than enough to make one gasp, amazed by the concentration of genius creations to be absorbed.

Composer William Vollinger writes deeply humane works: Hearing his song for soprano and clarinet, “The Child in the Hole,” we ache for a small boy who escaped the Holocaust by living three years in a dugout hole in Poland. To an unaccompanied baritone taking the role of Stalin from an iconic poster, we cringe at the […]

There's generosity in art made the way Edmond Rochat paints. It invites us to experience life more deeply, fully, instead of getting lost in distraction.

NEW YORK—Brendan Johnston likes to keep his artistic choices open and varied, yet steady. The young artist has calibrated his internal compass to keep him on course in the artistic tradition of the old masters, and yet he’s perfectly at ease with not knowing yet exactly how he wants to distinguish himself. His confidence rests […]

NEW YORK—In the realm of play, what is not real becomes real, what is not serious becomes important. The objects that Samuel Hung chooses to paint may seem trivial, but he is elevating them to a higher status—as if dubbing them ambassadors of happiness. One would have to be terribly bitter not to smile at […]

For artist Robert Florczak, the ideals of classical art are what is worth preserving. Unless we build on the standards and ideals of past masters, new work will necessarily be shallow, unable to contribute in any depth to our culture. It is the foundational ideals—ideals like beauty and depth—responsible for the great works that we […]

PORT JERVIS—A steady stream of visitors came to watch seven glass artists demonstrate their craft at the Gillinder Glass Factory in Port Jervis on Oct. 17. The factory has been hosting these demonstrations since 1997, which is as long as it has had the Gillinder Glass Store where many artists sell their work. Guest artist […]

Artist and founder of the Grand Central Academy Atelier, Jacob Collins talks about his creative process and re-establishing masterful art.

Halifax-based Ben Caplan is one of many Canadian artists who are at the helm of their careers, handling the business side of their music.

The building that is now home to the Up Front Exhibition Space in Port Jervis was on the verge of being condemned in 2007. But when Debbie Raia and her partner Gordon Graff saw it, they seized the opportunity to buy it and fix it up. At first they didn’t know what to do with it. […]

In my time I have seen some pretty strange things parading as art – I still vividly remember the sawn-up sharks and cows in Damien Hirst’s Sensation Exhibition. Beauty and art I guess is in the eye of the beholder. What I consider to be art you may well think of as a pile of […]

Technology companies are often blamed for driving up the rent in San Francisco, and artists have been going elsewhere in search of affordable studios.

NEW YORK—They were supposed to celebrate the opening of their group exhibition at Dacia Gallery on Feb. 13, but a snowstorm whited out their plans for the evening. Gathering instead a week later, the exhibiting artists who attended introduced their paintings, each one fresh off the easel.  Their audience—mostly friends and fellow artists—spilled out from […]

As those familiar with the Art Renewal Center and its mission know, the organization is involved in numerous projects, all in support of a return to an appreciation of great and enduring realist art, to humanist values in the visual arts, and to academic art education. At ARC they view their scholarship program as one […]

Susan Fox plans the WildArt Mongolia expedition for late 2013, a first-time collaboration between American and Mongolian artists, using art to raise awareness of Mongolia’s conservation challenges.

The Santa Fe International Folk Art Market has established itself as a vital road to prosperity for master folk artists and as an international meeting place for the artists and shoppers.

Imagine the striking red and white smoke stacks rising from the Con Edison power plant in Long Island City (LIC), Queens, transformed into something that could help monitor the city’s move to green energy.

Although in Art History one hears a lot about artists from prior centuries, there is one specific group of female painters that has been all but forgotten: The female painters from the classical tradition of the 19th Century.

In these bad economic times, "struggling artist" takes on a sharper meaning.