At Robert Henry Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY, Slightly Ajar, Sharon Lawless’s second exhibition with the gallery, she continues to use found materials — discarded packaging, paint samples, wrapping paper and altered pages from auction catalogs — in her manipulation of two modern traditions, collage and geometric abstraction as she explores the tension between accident and control […]
George Eliot in Middlemarch
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.
Alice Aycock, Paper Chase – Park Ave., NY
Called “Park Avenue Paper Chase,” and stretching from 52nd Street to 66th, they are inspired variously by tornadoes, dance movements and drapery folds, and will be up until July 20 .
Making Pottery Art
Inspired by Art Nouveau and the British Arts and Crafts movement, these artists were trying to do for the decorative arts what Post-Impressionists like van Gogh and Cézanne and Symbolists like Moreau and Redon were doing for painting around the same time: rescuing their medium from stuffy, fussy and vapid forms of bourgeois gentility. […]
Ferran Adria, chef: Drawing Center, Plating Diagrams
Circles and sketchy colors make for an eye catching composition. These are plating diagrams from the chef.