Tag Archives: British art

Francis Bacon’s anguished Pope Innocent X at Sotheby’s: talk about art with wall power

Pictures of Popes and Cardinals can be a difficult sell.  While these were prevalent in the centuries prior to the 20th, I wouldn’t say they are popular with today’s artists or art-buying crowd.  So what’s all the fuss about a … Continue reading →

Kevin Geary: an artistic chameleon

In the historic tradition of art, the gifted artist first learned to draw and then to paint … whether a portrait, landscape or religious subject.  Perhaps not the first, but we know the great Titian broke this mold and colored … Continue reading →

the underwater art-world of Jason de Caires Taylor

 CancĂşn, MĂ©xico   This past New Year, I had the good fortune to dive around the waters of Isla Mujeres and Punta Nizuc off CancĂşn in MĂ©xico in search of the legendary lost city of Atlantis. Truth be told, what … Continue reading →

painting one of his own

I recently went to Lehmann Maupin, one of my favorite contemporary art galleries on 26th street in Chelsea, to see their summer exhibition titled, On Shuffle, a group exhibition of interdisciplinary underground cult figures in various mediums, which use and … Continue reading →