Ellsworth Kelly Is Strong Link Connecting Guild Hall to Austin Art Scene
When it comes to planning trips, timing can be at least as important a consideration as the destination. Both were on the mind of...
Posts by Andrew Botsford
Peeling Apart the Meanings of “It’s a Sign” in a Four-in-One Exhibition
Even the briefest conversation with Mark Van Wagner quickly demonstrates two things: The first is his passionate interest in signs and...
Documentary Film Festival Expands and Adds Awards to Mark 10th Anniversary
Marking the 10th anniversary of its founding this year, the Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival is expanding to five days of...
Film Festival Opens Windows for Everyone into Jewish Life and Culture
When Tina Silverman was 8 years old, a friend’s young mother showed her a string of numbers tattooed on her arm in a concentration...
“Van Gogh’s Ear” Is Coming to Rockefeller Center April 13, 2016
There have to be a lot of considerations when artists choose the title for a Public Art Fund sculpture installation. Consider, for...
Martin Taplin, Early Art Basel Miami Supporter, Is Dead at 77
Hotelier Martin “Marty” Taplin, one of the initial supporters of Art Basel Miami Beach who was credited by many with helping the...
Painter Ralph Carpentier, a Man for All Seasons, Dies at 87
Artist Ralph Carpentier, a longtime resident of Springs, died Friday, February 19, 2016 at the New York State Veterans Home in Oxford,...
Lorin Stein and Dan Menaker In Conversation for Spring Writers Speak Wednesdays
Renowned Paris Review editor Lorin Stein and former New Yorker fiction editor, author, and professor Dan Menaker will talk about...
Directors Launch Kickstarter to Fund “What Is Love?” Documentary
Quick question: Without consulting the internet, any idea what the most frequently Googled question was in 2011, 2012, and 2014?
It...
John Berg, Legendary Album Cover Art Director, Dies at 83
Longtime East Hampton resident John Berg, 83, the award-winning former art director for Columbia Records who oversaw the creation of...
Miriam Schapiro, Known for Feminism and Pattern and Decoration, Dies at 91
Miriam Schapiro, an internationally acclaimed painter, sculptor and printmaker who was at the forefront of the feminist art movement...
Dan Rizzie Looks to His Past to Get Started on His Future
Artist Dan Rizzie searched for the right term to describe the publication this spring of his new monograph, Dan Rizzie by University...
Athos Zacharias: Driven To Explore Frontiers of Artistic Expression
At 88, painter Athos Zacharias has the energy and enthusiasm for artistic exploration of a man one quarter his age.
Clad in a striped...
Jane Wilson, Painter of Luminous Landscapes, Is Dead at 90
The painter Jane Wilson—one of the last surviving members of the celebrated group of artists and writers who gravitated in the early...
Jane Freilicher, Who Saw the Poetry in Representation, Is Dead at 90
Jane Freilicher, the Water Mill and New York City painter who broke ranks with the Abstract Expressionists in the 1950s to focus on...
Taking a Camera into the World of the Kabakovs
For director Amei Wallach, the screening on September 26, 2014 of her film “Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: ENTER HERE” at the Parrish...
Kevin Teare: All You Need Is Art
For anyone interested in puzzling out the identity of Kevin Teare, there are abundant clues strewn in the path, and most are so...
Record Number of Entries in Annual Artists Members Exhibit at Guild Hall
Good news this week for artists and art lovers who count themselves proud members of the modern-day East End art colony: There are a...