One of the current Exhibitions on at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in NY is Carmen Herrera : Lines of Sight. The fact that you may not have heard of this Cuban-American minimalist abstract artist is not because she is a new kid on the block, but just the fact that for most of her … Continue reading
A major retrospective of the work of the celebrated abstract impressionist American artist Agnes Martin has just opened at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Martin, who many considered a minimalist, was a rather complex and intensely private person. Born in Canada, she didn’t in fact starting painting until she was in her 30’s … Continue reading
71 year old conceptual artist Duggie Fields is a quintessential English eccentric who cuts a very dashing figure in London’s creative community. Artist, fashion icon and muse, Comme Des Garcons runway model, queer activist, and designer who has been making his own very definite kind of waves since his first exhibition when he was just … Continue reading
When a select group of art lovers were invited to a Private View one evening of a Mapplethorpe Exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, they didn’t have to worry about the dress code, as there wasn’t one. In fact they were asked to check all their clothes at the door. “When you look at … Continue reading
Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York a new exhibition that opened last week at the Museum of the City of New York looks at how the marginalization of LGBT people in the 1920’s – 1990’s also gave rise to a great deal of creativity. The show looks at queer networks that grew in … Continue reading