As I sit currently wearing a pair of Alexander McQueen pants, the notion of a retrospective exhibit on my favorite clothing designer to date left me speechless and giddy with excitement.  The space was crowded, explaining why this exhibit quickly grew to be the eight most visited exhibit in the history of the Met and [...]

After visiting the new Tim Burton exhibit at LACMA, I was left perplexed- somewhere between deep admiration and equally potent outrage.  The entryway consisting of black and white checkerboard marble with a red carpet leading to the mouth of a strange quintessentially Burton contorted face, immediately places the visitor in a remote and uncomfortable place [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS-RELEASE Aptly named, the Dutch Golden Age of painting brought us innumerable specimens of realism and genre painting to study, venerate and applaud, but one need not be an academician to recognize the work of Johannes Vermeer titled in English, Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665). Since her most recent restoration at [...]

ART BASEL 2010 | RITZ CARLTON SOUTH BEACH MEDIA ADVISORY ART BASEL MIAMI SAN MARINO GALLERY EXHIBITING AT THE RITZ CARLTON SOUTH BEACH December 1 – 5, 2010, Open Daily from 11AM-11PM EST November 18, 2010 – San Marino Gallery, in association with TPGPR [also known as The Presstige Group Public Relations, will present a [...]

  Drawing inspiration from the oxymoron that is ‘Paparazzi’, this current work by artist Georges Monfils reflects a satirical view on the relationship between ”celebrity” and the photgraphs that keep their images at the center of the world stage. A defining trait of Georges’ creativity is to illustrate controversy.   With ‘Paparazzi’ his focus is on celebrity,  for [...]

In Art, Interview on April 14, 2009 at 8:24 pm With a portfolio of photographs that cross the continents, Jim Nilsen uses his camera to capture the color, hue and flavor of the world.   In his travels, he has toured everywhere from Italy, America, Mexico, France and Italy.  Recently he took a break to chat [...]

Ray made experimental fashion photographs for Harper’s Bazaar and Vanity Fair, but is most often associated with the Surrealist, Dada and avant-garde art movements. And it was in Paris that his career took off.

Photographer Kimerlee Curyl has a talent for capturing the beauty and emotions of the Wild Mustang.  Through special permission from the RETURN TO FREEDOM organization, Kimerlee sets up camp in their midst.  It takes about a week for the horses to get used to her presence so that she can begin photographing without them running [...]

I have always known that birds would be my passion in life. Even now, just holding a pigeon in my hands and breathing in the musky smell of its feathers takes me back to my childhood and the days when my relationship with birds was indelibly dyed into the fabric of who I would always [...]

Master Watercolorist John Salminen has won the American Watercolor Society GoldMedal of Honor Award again for 2010, which he has also won in 2005, which is very rare. He has also been awarded the Zhujiajiao Shanghai International Biennial Award in Spring 2010 and the organization and government brought us to China for him to accept [...]