For the upcoming Take Home a Nude Art Auction & Party, the Academy is honoring a dear friend and amazing artist, Eric Fischl. Please share a story or memory about him here! Photo by Joseph Maida, from “In the Studio: Eric Fischl” on ArtInfo
Alexi Worth, Head and Shoulders, 200 Artist Alexi Worth was born and raised in New York City. He attended Yale College (BA 1986) and Boston University (MFA 1993). He has exhibited with, among others, the Elizabeth Harris, Bill Maynes and DC Moore galleries; received awards from the Tiffany Foundation and the New England Foundation for the Arts; and is… Read More
Each month, the Academy library highlights articles, features, and reviews from the most current issues of our extensive periodical collection. Check these out and then let us know what you think! Gormley, Michael. “Painting Life: Galina Perova and the Portrait Society of America.†American Artist. (2010). 48-55. A review of Galina Perova’s work, and a new look at portraiture from… Read More
This article was taken from the Huffington Post, courtesy of Mark Mennin. Mark Mennin is a sculptor who is known mostly for his monumental granite carvings in landscape and architecture. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, ArtNews, The Boston Globe, Departures and on the cover of Sculpture Magazine. On the graduate faculty… Read More
by Aliene de Souza Howell (MFA 2011) I re-incarnated a piece from Leipzig about a business man walking past a flooded city street into a mock-up diorama. I also did a drawing for the next in my series of catastrophe meets quotidian, incorporating the Guatemalan sinkhole into a supermarket scene. For my Thesis, I am launching into a new endeavor,… Read More
Join us for a special lecture, “The Real in Caravaggio’s Realism,” by Art Historian and Critic Donald Kuspit, Wednesday, September 29, 6 pm. Donald Kuspit critiques 2007-2008 Fellow Ali Banisadr‘s painting. One of the contemporary art world’s most important voices, Donald Kuspit joins Vincent Desiderio, Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Will Cotton and Steven Assael as the Academy’s newest Senior… Read More
Tuesday, September 28, 7:30 pm Two Girls, 48 in. x 36 in., oil/acrylic/canvas, 2006 (Nicholas Robinson Gallery) Artist “Wei Dong explores through painting the space where heritage and modernity coexist. His works set up a dialogue, present a confrontation and explode a good number of conventions. In a disruption of tradition Wei Dong has taken this male dominated domain and… Read More
by Emily Adams (MFA 2011) The Terra Foundation residency has come to a close. On the flight back I watched from the plane window as Paris morphed from a city to a Mondrian painting, and then to some kind of off-kilter fractal in shades of green as we moved over the countryside, over Giverny. West Texas crop circles  This… Read More
Faculty guide Wade Schuman fiinishes his photographic tour through the Giverny countryside. In Veerle’s cave, which dates to the 1400s “Classic French Cows” Detail of Veronese’s St. Barnabé in Rouen
A Review by Maria Kozak (MFA 2011) The New York Times has officially declared The Recession over. This is great news for the art world. Let’s celebrate with an impressive new location for old staple Sperone Westwater and the opening of new contender RH Gallery. (concept for Sperone Westwater) On Wednesday, Sperone Westwater opens doors at its new spot on the… Read More
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