Branching Out – The Long Island Crafts Guild’s Artists Share Their Visions
Artwork on right: Sally Shore, “Vienna 1897,” fiber collage.
Go Guerrilla Girls! Feminism Writ Large
“Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into the Met. Museum?” According to the Guerrilla Girls, yeah, kind of. Their supersized billboard goes on to state that less than 4% of the artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 76% of the nudes are females. They gathered the statistics in 2011, in […]
An Artful Weekend, Hamptons Style
Artists, art lovers and arts journalists, like me, have long been drawn to the East End of the south fork of Long Island, known collectively, colloquially, and around the world as “The Hamptons.” There are countless reasons to visit, but the lure of two art fairs bringing over 100 international galleries tipped the scales, and […]
June – A Gossamer Web of Intrigue, Betrayal, Friendship and Love
It’s not only people that can populate stories; places can, too. But only when characters move in, do they start to come alive. An empty house, a huge gift, and an untethered soul all come together under the deft, controlled, evocative and moving touch of New York Times bestselling novelist, Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, in June. Like last […]