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  Security House, 2008-10, Wood veneer, shellac 93 X 122 inches Join us for the last Art & Culture lecture, given by contemporary marquetry artist, Alison Elizabeth Taylor.  Well-known for reinvigorating the Renaissance craft of marquetry, or intarsia wood inlay, Taylor works in a medium once made popular during the unprecedented age of luxury of Louis XIV’s Court of Versailles…. Read More

Don’t miss tomorrow night’s lecture by David Salle, an American painter who helped define the post-modern sensibility by combining figuration with an extremely varied pictorial language. David Salle, Angels in the Rain, 1998, oil and acrylic on canvas, 244 x 335 Major exhibitions of his work have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Stedelijk Museum… Read More

  FXM, The Ill-Humored Man, 1771-83 Mark Mennin, adjunct faculty at the Academy, will speak about his writings on “Messerschmidt: An Accidental Visionary,” an article recently written for the Huffington Post. (Read more about it.) 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… Read More

  installation view for “All the More Real” at the Parrish Art Museum Don’t miss tomorrow night’s lecture by Merrill Falkenberg, independent curator, writer and art advisor. With artist Eric Fischl of All the More Real, she co-curated a group exhibition on realism and hyperrealism at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY. Ms. Falkenberg’s lecture will focus on intimacy,… Read More

  Mia Brownell recently exhibited in a solo show with Alix Sloan: “Stomach Acid Dreams.” A graduate of Carnegie Mellon and State University of New York, Buffalo, Mia has been teaching painting and drawing since 1993. She has held a tenured faculty position at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven since 2003. She was recently awarded the Southern Connecticut… Read More

  Pablo Helguera, “The Estheticist,” is a free ongoing service of art consultation around practical, philosophical and ethical issues around the visual arts profession. ASK PABLO… ANY QUESTION! Here’s how: Check out the latest issue of “The Estheticist.” Think of a question and post it as a comment to this blog post. (Mr. Helguera would like to have these questions in advance, comment now!)… Read More

The first light of day (triptych), oil on canvas Ken Currie is a Scottish painter, born in North Shields, England. He is one of the most influential living artists in Scotland. His paintings are displayed in public and museum collections worldwide. Currie’s paintings are concerned with how the human body is affected by illness, aging and physical injury, social and… Read More

Lisa Dennison, Chair of Sotheby’s North and South America, interned at the Guggenheim Museum while in college, and returned in 1978 after completing graduate studies in art history. Working her way up over a 29 year career at the museum, she oversaw many important exhibitions, advised multi-billionaire collectors, developed a reputation as a leading fund-raiser, and became an expert in… Read More

  The Sun Into Ourselves, 72″ x 96″ Oil on Paper mounted on Alumninum, 2009 Artist Ross Bleckner was born in New York City. He received an MFA from Cal Arts in 1973 and has taught at many of the nation’s most prestigious universities. The Guggenheim had a major retrospective of his works in 1995, summarizing two decades of solo shows at internationally acclaimed… Read More

Join us for a special reading of Odd Nerdrum’s play, “Marlowe” Saturday, October 16, 5 pm. “Set in a family home on the outskirts of a large coastal city, Marlowe examines the eternal human struggle between the sublime and the banal, the consequences of that struggle and ultimately one’s inability to live in an unpoetic world without beauty or imagination.” –… Read More