Abstract art versus realistic (or figurative) art has been going on for most of the 20th century and continues to today. Is one really better than the other? I know a lot of abstract artists (I am thinking painters) and I know just as many figurative painters. To me, personally, it doesn’t matter. Art is... Read more »

I used to really get hung up on this, that is, really trying to come up with some creative project/thing that the world has never seen before and that will make me/them instantly rich (and famous). But, in actuality, most of the wealth created created in the world comes from the reinvention of an existing... Read more »

The great Color Field (and in my opinion, one of the most underrated colorists of the 20th century) artist Kenneth Noland died a few weeks ago. I was always a fan of his work as well as the other seminal Color Field painters like Jules Olitsky, Helen Frankenthaler, Barnett Newman and Morris Louis. I always... Read more »

I’m working on my next DVD (which relates to Van Gogh) and have been reading a number of technical reports which give some amazing information on the tools, materials and process of select Van Gogh paintings. I love these reports. They’re not cheap (yes, you have to pay for them!) but they are utterly fascinating.... Read more »

So I interviewed one of the most successful artists in the world yesterday – Wyland. For those of you who do not know who he is he is probably the world’s top environmental artist. You can check out his website at Wyland.com. The interview was great. Funny, I almost immediately liked the guy when we... Read more »

Thanks to the a new exhibition called (aptly enough) Van Gogh’s Letters: The Artist Speaks on view at the Van Gogh Museum in Holland from Oct 9, 2009 till Jan 3, 2010 you can now discover them anew. More than 120 letters (There are 902 total, 800 of which are held at the Van Gogh... Read more »

I wanted to write a little something about one of my favorite artists, David Hockey, on the occasion of his first exhibition of new oil paintings in New York in 12 years at Pace Wildenstein Gallery. Lot of people either love him or hate him. They find him too eccentric or too campy or too... Read more »