modern art

Anyone looking for a crash course on the "contemporary" should head to New York City over the coming weeks. A recent blitz of the city's nonprofits and commercial spaces revealed one of the best seasons in years. Right now, an art trip to New York needs to start with the better part of a day spent at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, in a huge old school in Queens.  

The Northern Arizona University graduate is originally from Phoenix and currently lives in Albany. Q: What brought you out this way? A: After I finished school, I was uncertain about what I wanted to do.  

Shiao-Ping Wang immigrated to the United States from Taiwan in 1981 along with family members. She found a husband, home, and a new career. Today Wang is a full-time artist.  

Fifty carefully selected galleries will set the pace for the modern and contemporary Latin American art market in New York, during the celebration of PINTA, the annual Latin American art fair, which is slated for November 19 to 22, 2009 at the Metropolitan Pavilion y B. Altman Building, in Chelsea, New York. This third PINTA show offers a rich panorama of the history and evolution in modern Latin American art. Galleries from the United Status, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Peru, Bolivia  

The Painted Planet Art Space has re-emerged in Memphis after a two-year hiatus. Donna Bowers has reopened the art gallery in a smaller space at 798 S. Cooper St ., its sixth location since she founded the business in 2000. She has taken the business back to its roots.  

By my count, it has been more than six years since the curators at the Yale University Art Gallery organized a show of contemporary art in all media. That is difficult to understand, given that the museum collects in this area and primarily serves students, including those studying at the nearby Yale School of Art. The wait, however, has been worth it. "Continuous Present," which examines how artists are working with ideas of time, presents some terrific contemporary artwork in an engaging yet scholarly  

A museum-quality exhibit by a French Impressionist master and his descendants will open from 6 to 9 p.m. today at New River Fine Art Gallery on Fifth Avenue South in Naples. The exhibit will feature works by Camille Pissarro, a founder of the Impressionist movement, and four succeeding generations of his family of painters. The show's lineage ends with works by Pissarro great-granddaughter, Lelia Pissarro, 46, who will be at the opening today and who will give a lecture from noon to 2 p.m.  

For centuries, Jesus has been a subject of choice for countless artists. But it's fair to say that seldom has he been depicted quite like this. In artist Jon McNaughton's One Nation Under God , Jesus stands front and center at the nation's capitol, holding the Constitution and surrounded by such historical luminaries as George Washington and such contemporary archetypes as "Mr. Hollywood."

I think it's been good for me to articulate what I believe   -Jon McNaughton

 

Beach art association members have entered some of the best work yet in the art show hanging at the Donora street Gallery now through Dec. 10. The work is colorful and varied in both medium, subject and style. Take time to visit this working gallery and you may find artists hard at work creating new pieces.