The GalleryDriver Art Blog Aggregator.
A collection of the best art blogs in the blogosphere!
Get your art news fix at GalleryDriver. At a glance, you can find out what's new at over 50 art blogs. If you want to read more, simply click on the read full article link after the summary of each post.
"New"manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather"... whoa! they're in the original package ..."- an Avid Collector
...
[read full article]
One of my Christmas presents was Brian Kellow's biography of movie critic Pauline Kael, an enjoyable read. If Kael's critical voice represents the beginning of modern film reviewing, it is significant that she cut her critical teeth on the first talkies as a young woman in the 1930s. Kellow notes that
Pauline was most taken with the independent spirit of the smart, fast-talking heroines of
...
[read full article]
A selected guide to events for, by and about children, teenagers and adults.
...
[read full article]
A selected guide to walks, talks, readings, exhibitions, shows, concerts and other events in New York, including Chinese New Year events.
...
[read full article]
Greg Kelly and his father, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, share looks and military pasts...
[read full article]
Nongovernment organizations are suing a station over a show featuring a group of women on the hunt for “immoral” behavior.
...
[read full article]
Noell Coet and Ryan Akin in “Five Time Champion,” directed by Berndt Mader...
[read full article]
Lizzie Brocheré and Eric Schaeffer in “After Fall, Winter,” directed by Mr. Schaeffer as a follow-up to his 1997 “Fall....
[read full article]
Sandra Ng and Donnie Yen in “All's Well, End's Well 2012,” a comedy by Chan Hing Kai and Janet Chun...
[read full article]
Michaela DePrince in “First Position,” a documentary about young ballet students that is showing Tuesday at the Dance on Camera festival...
[read full article]
From left, Meghan Wolfe, the instructor Sarah Ponn, Liz Braemer and Erica Schietinger...
[read full article]
“Animation, masks,” a 12-minute 29-second film by Jordon Wolfson, has the hallmarks of a classic work.
...
[read full article]
James Nares looks at Lower Manhattan in the 1970s in his show at the Paul Kasmin Gallery.
...
[read full article]
Doug Wheeler’s futuristically titled installation “SA MI 75 DZ NY 12” can feel like being in a giant marshmallow.
...
[read full article]
Perky cartoon characters go over to the dark side in Joyce Pensato’s work at Friedrich Petzel.
...
[read full article]
About a half-dozen new television shows about antiques auctions have appeared, but they have little resemblance to how the trade really works.
...
[read full article]
With Liam McIntyre on Starz, Friday nights at 10, Eastern and Pacific times; 9, Central time...
[read full article]
Gabriel Elkaïm, Jérémie Elkaïm and Valérie Donzelli in "Declaration of War....
[read full article]
Keith Jarrett in his solo concert at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday. His most recent album, “Rio,” was released last year...
[read full article]
Sam Worthington as a former police officer convicted of stealing a $40 million diamond...
[read full article]
“The Loving Story: Photographs by Grey Villet” portrays the Lovings, a Virginia couple at the center of a storm about interracial marriage, as accidental heroes.
...
[read full article]
"Atilla": From left, Antonello Palombi, John Relyea, Michael Devlin, Ana Lucrecia García and Jason Slayden in this Verdi work at the Seattle Opera...
[read full article]
For its 2012-13 season Carnegie Hall will return to its recent practice of holding monthlong festivals, in this case Voices of Latin America.
...
[read full article]
Eliot Fisk, a curator of the New York Guitar Festival, teaches at New England Conservatory. He'll perform a set at the festival's marathon on Sunday...
[read full article]
“Marble Sculpture From 350 B.C. to Last Week” at Sperone Westwater includes, from left, “Purity” (2008-11), by Barry X Ball, and older works like the Ionian Greek grave relief, center, from the fourth century B.C., and the late-17th-century bust of a man with a wig...
[read full article]
Shakespeare in the Park 2012 will feature the Stephen Sondheim musical "Into the Woods" as well as Shakespeare's "As You Like It," starring Lily Rabe.
...
[read full article]
The Academy of Country Music handed nominations in nine categories, including entertainer of the year and best song, to the country music singer with the ever-present cowboy hat.
...
[read full article]
The Pershing Square Foundation has given $25 million to the Signature Theater, whose new home will now be renamed the Pershing Square Signature Center. The gift will also allow Signature to keep its ticket prices low.
...
[read full article]
In a video, the cinematographer of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" talks about his style and growing up with his cinematographer father, whose credits include "Blade Runner."
...
[read full article]
Indies' nomination record pleases some, while the two-nominee song category riles others. A look at the fallout from Tuesday's Oscar nominations.
...
[read full article]
Cynthia Nixon stars in Margaret Edson's play about a dying professor, at Manhattan Theater Club...
[read full article]
From left, Betty White, Gavin MacLeod, Ed Asner, Georgia Engel, Ted Knight and Mary Tyler Moore in the final episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show....
[read full article]
Vermeer's portrait “Girl With a Pearl Earring” will visit the Frick Collection next year, from Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague...
[read full article]
This exhibition of brush-and-ink works by Fu Baoshi is the first full-dress retrospective of a 20th-century Chinese artist to be seen at the Met.
...
[read full article]
Isaac Granger Jefferson, in 1847. He started his working life in the “nailery” at Monticello and also became a blacksmith...
[read full article]
Skrillex performing at Cinespace in Hollywood. This D.J., who pulls in many who usually gravitate toward punk, heavy metal and emo, has had a meteoric rise in the last 18 months and is working with Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas and Korn...
[read full article]
What do you do when you finish an artwork? If you have a hard time remembering all of the steps, here's a system that you can follow upon completion of each piece...
[read full article]
There's nothing immediately offensive about the premise of Ian Cheney's new documentary, The City Dark. Living in New York, I can believe that Cheney, an amateur astronomer since his teenage years in Maine, might miss seeing the stars at night, and feel deprived. When he attempts to stretch that wistfulness into an authoritative documentary, however, the results are less than convincing...
[read full article]
The Outsider Art Fair, one of the most high-profile annual exhibitions of folk and self-taught artists, will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary this weekend. The fair has long been a hotbed for presenting interesting outsider art from around the world and trends within the field, and from the looks of the schedule, this year's fair - which opens this Friday, January 27, and runs through Su...
[read full article]
Actress Lisa Dillon: "[Kate] is as much a victim of her own behaviour as she is of the society she lives in. ... Nobody can exist in a patriarchal society or outside one where your behaviour is so rebellious, vulgar, crass: you will always be the outsider unless something changes. ... It's a question of how you break that cycle. In that sense her story has parallels with addiction.".....
[read full article]
Says the beloved mezzo, now 66: "If somebody asked for a Belle Hélène? Sure! ... Maybe something like the Grandmother in A Little Night Music. Not Marcellina in Figaro, not the old Countess in Queen of Spades. I won't take old-lady roles just to be onstage.".....
[read full article]
"La Scala general manager Stéphane Lissner's first goal when he arrived at the renowned opera house in 2005 was to balance the budget, which he did that year and every year since. This year could be different, he warned Tuesday.".....
[read full article]
"The story of how the Judah L. Magnes Museum - whose collection of Judaica is the third largest in the country - became the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley, ... has much to do with the evolution of the American identity museum, with its chronicles of ethnic liberation amid hardship.".....
[read full article]
carriehaddadgallery.com