It was a poignant work of art, marked with a “dark, intense, and melancholy-colored feeling”; a result of lingering emotional remnants left by the untimely death of his stepmother in 2006.

When you first step over the threshold into the Triton Gallery on Ninth Avenue in New York City, you better catch your breath and take a peek at your shoes — they may have turned red in the instant.

The art fair, in its current incarnation, has become a necessary evil. People with less and less time to go from country to country or even from gallery to gallery to see artists’ work, happily form an...

You remember the familiar lyric by George Gershwin? — “Nice work if you can get it and you can get it if you try.” The work in question is ART with capital letters, a broad and beautiful perspective of...

There is no playwright alive who understands human motivation and its moral consequences better than John Patrick Shanley. His trilogy, Church and State, began with Doubt, about a war between a...

Most of us know where the great paintings can be found, right? The Louvre in Paris, the Prado in Madrid, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New...

Its 7 a.m. Bleary-eyed, you stumble out of bed to the kitchen, where you flip on the coffee machine without even looking at it. Eyes still shut; you limp outside and grab the newspaper, shuffling back inside. It’s...

Motivation and purpose define Costel Iarca, the magnetic personality behind the TMD Gallery, located across from The Art Institute of Chicago on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Ill. The glitz of the fine art scene...

The Museum of the Moving Image in New York City is deep in the throes of Men in Black 3 mania, and it’s reaching frenzied heights. Like a hungry space creature, it devours everything it touches, although being...

The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates famously remarked that life is short, but art is long and The Metropolitan Museum’s current exhibition of north Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, while...