First the bad news: In May 2012, a series of powerful earthquakes struck the region of Emilia-Romagna, in northeastern Italy, all but devastating the cities of Ferrara, Mantua, Modena and many other historic towns....

Fittingly enough, New York is the subject of Figuratively Speaking, a new exhibition from Chicago-born, California-based visual artist Sherry Karver, which debuted May 3 at the Kim Foster Gallery located in New...

“I can’t think of a better time to be involved with photography and digital culture,” Mark Robbins declared at the International Center of Photography’s annual Infinity Awards gala last Wednesday night,...

For its third-annual Brooklyn Artists Ball, which took place last Wednesday, The Brooklyn Museum procured a decidedly self-referential theme to celebrate the influence and creativity of Brooklyn artists, who in the...

Edvard Munch had his scream. Van Gogh had his starry night. Now, Serge Strosberg has his mannequins, joining the ranks of these Expressionist greats with the help of his inanimate models.

“I am surrealism!” Salvador Dalí once declared. The idiosyncratic, often bombastic, lifestyle of the Spanish artist who could recall in boundless detail his experiences as a fetus has exasperated and fascinated...

A placard over the entryway to The Museum of Modern Art’s arresting exhibit, Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925, contains a statement from Wassily Kandinsky, one of the key figures in the art world to change the way we...

Artistic representations of Italy’s idyllic landscapes are as ubiquitous as motor scooters weaving through the streets of modern Rome. A Flavor of Italy, a new exhibition at New York City’s CPW25 Gallery, is an...

David “Chim” (pronounced shim, from his surname Szymin) Seymour was born on November 20, 1911 in Warsaw, Poland to parents of Polish-Jewish descent. Forty-five years later, killed while covering the Suez Canal...

“Every photograph is a fake from start to finish, a purely impersonal, unmanipulated photograph being practically impossible.” This observation, made by American photographer and artist Edward Steichen, may not...