Speed of Life

Images by (left to right): Christian Nold, Lordy Rodriguez, Nina Katchadourian, and Joyce Kozloff. ARENA 1 is pleased to announce the openin...

The role of the artist according to Jesse Malin is to put you "right there in a time and place so you can smell it." Ryan Adams on...

"The idea that it is some kind of calculated insult is an absurdity. The real insult - to the intelligence and decency of 'the worl...

Claude Monet (1840-1926) "Waterloo Bridge, Temps Couvert" 25½" x 39 1/8" oil on canvas 1904 "I adore London, it is ...

Édouard Manet A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (detail) 1882 Oil on canvas 37 13/16 x 51 3/16 in. The Samuel Courtauld Trust, Courtauld Institute...

Ganesh Study 12"x9" oil on wood 2007

Listen to a clip from RB Morris'"Empire" Download RB Morris' New Album "Empire" at Digstation RB Morris has a ne...

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For the White Book on Matisse’s Table by the Dahlias, Peaches, Water Glass There are two kinds of love and we’ve known both. Tw...

Gregg Chadwick Buddha for Bamiyan 115" x 86" oil on linen 2007

Left to Right: Diebenkorn and Sean Scully at Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University Periodically, I visit the Cantor Arts Center at Stanfor...

Good Night Texas! Wayne Thiebaud "Freeways" oil on canvas 1979 The zeitgeist returns to California. Pelosi in D.C. The Dallas Mave...

Gregg Chadwick Yakushi Nyorai (The Healing Buddha) 12"x12" oil on linen 2007 From the upcoming Venice Art Walk -on May 20, 2007- ...

The Bay Area has enjoyed a weekend of great weather, great art (Picasso and Brice Marden at SFMOMA) and great basketball- Baron Davis and co...

Mstislav Rostropovich gave an impromptu concert at Checkpoint Charlie after the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989. photo- Reuters Listen t...

An image of the full sun in 3-D. This photo was captured by SECCHI/Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on March 20, 2007, and combines 4 d...

Mark Rothko Untitled (Seagram Mural), 1959 Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc. Copyright © 1997 Christopher Rothko and Kate Rothko Priz...

We are Virginia Tech. We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning. We are V...

Jackie Robinson during his collegiate years in Los Angeles "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." ...

Eakins’ “Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand” (1874), sold to Alice Walton’s Arkansas museum. The painting is destined for the new Crysta...

"Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach." --Sol LeWitt, 1969 Sol LeWitt...

I am re-reading Lawrence Weschler's volume of essays: "Vermeer in Bosnia." Weschler's piece on the light of L.A. resonates...

Update: RB Kitaj Exits R.B. Kitaj at Hammer Museum RB Kitaj presented a lecture on his art at the Hammer Museum on Thursday, March 8, 2007 ...

Three esteemed Mexican film directors are up for Oscars at tonight's Academy Awards: Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Gui...