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David Hockney: Why art has become 'less'

David Hockney on the obsession with conceptual art

We need more indigenous art

ALBURY needs more Aboriginal works, cultural services staff have told the city council.

Riding high

David Hockney’s Yorkshire landscapes show that figurative painting – whether on an iPad or 32 joined canvases – is the most humanly involving visual form.

Top auction houses to put art market rally to test

LONDON (Reuters) - Auction houses pinching themselves after bumper 2011 sales are now turning their attention to 2012, amid cautious optimism that the two-year bull run for top works of art will continue. Sotheby's and Christie's, the world's leading auctioneers, hold a series of big sales in London over the next two weeks at which the old rivals expect to raise more than 500 million pounds ...

Art quilts to be featured

The award-winning quilts of Mary Rhopa La Cierra will lead the program at the 10:30 a.m. Thursday meeting of the Textile Arts Guild in the Prosperity Bank community center, corner of West Castillo and Ponce de Leon Boulevard (U.S. 1). The St. Augustine resident’s quilt, “Out of Africa, Journey of Homo Sapiens,” won the Nancy Garrard Memorial Award for Best Fiber Art, sponsored by the Guild, at ...

Bronze sculptures, western scenes are his favorites

Dale Martin will be the demonstrator for the Lake Granbury Art Association (LGAA) on Monday, Feb. 13. He began drawing as a young child and started painting in oils shortly after high school. He was always fascinated by three dimensional art particularly bronze sculpture of horses, cowboys or anything western. About 12 years ago, he began to learn sculpture by taking a figurative sculpture ...

L.A. RAW: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945-1980 at the Pasadena Museum of California Art

Arnold Mesches, Allegory 2, 1958. Oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches. Collection of Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles. PASADENA, CA.- The Pasadena Museum of California Art presents L.A. RAW: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles, 1945-1980, From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy on view from January 22, 2012 to May 20, 2012. The figurative artists, who dominated the postwar Los Angeles art scene until ...

Artist Alyssa Monks Lectures On Painting

"Your paintings are very ambitious," teachers of Alyssa Monks, a contemporary figurative painter from Brooklyn, N.Y., would say throughout her college career.

Art review: 'In Wonderland: Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists' at LACMA

Christopher Knight reviews "In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States" at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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