by Jeff Maisey | Oct 16, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Previews
By Jeff Maisey Each year, Charles H. Taylor Art Center in Hampton challenges local artists to think small. Really small. Miniature. As a result, dozens of painters, sculptures and mixed media artists rise to the occasion by submitting itty bitty work exhibited...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 30, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews
By Jerome Langston Whether he is staring at the camera stoically, wearing mirrored sunglasses, or laughing with Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, or Ann Magnuson at Danceteria, Tseng embodies the essence of the 1980s; not only its extravagant social life but also its...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 16, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews
By Betsy DiJulio Maybe it was the opportunity to meet the artist, drive a golf cart on a beautiful late-summer day, and help install one of the outdoor sculptures for her show. Or maybe it was the opening party: settling with close friends into chi-chi white lounge...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 19, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews, Current Exhibits
By Betsy DiJulio The Hermitage is an historic house museum. But it’s not just an historic house museum, nor even the same historic house museum that it once was. While it could be said that any museum is never quite the same as the day before, the staff and...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 11, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Previews
By Jeff Maisey The world of graffiti art comes to life in a new exhibition at Work | Release. Dubbed “Nobody Writes Letters Anymore,” outsider artists such as Mickael Broth, Noah Larmz, “Frank Ape” creator Brandon Sines, and Chris “Apes” Peters provide a taste...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 13, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Previews
By Jeff Maisey Imagine looking through your attic or closet and uncovering a gift from long ago – like 54 years ago. That’s essentially what happened to Alex Mann, Brock Curator of American Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art, when he happened upon a series of...