I classici dell’arte si animano con la magia digitale

Rob Naish

For approximately the last 6 months, I have been working on a painting C.E.R.N. City, which is part of my continuing series called "The Dynamics Of Urbanization".

This is a small part of the creative process.

96" x 96"
acrylic on canvas

Bharti Kher talks to OPEN magazine, India in depth about her art practice.

Joan Miró's The Farm "an image of cardinal social virtue... the effect of looking down the wrong end of a telescope... an image of nostalgia... for the sights, smells and sounds of [a Catalan] childhood." —Robert Hughes, Barcelona “It has in it all that you feel about Spain when you are there and all that you feel when you are away and cannot go there. No one has been able to paint these two very opposite things.” —Ernest Hemingway who bought the painting from Miró in 1922.

Researchers at the UK’s National Media Museum Discover First Color Motion Picture, 1902

From Illustrated Vancouver — Jack Shadbolt and Paul Goranson

Jack Shadbolt (left) and Paul Goranson (right) working in 1940 on a mural for the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver. Photograph from the Vancouver Art Gallery library, photographer unknown. The theatre opened in 1941 (early May, I believe) in the midst of WWII, and in December of that same year Paul Goranson joined the Royal Canadian Air Force.

If you recall, Goranson worked with E.J. Hugues and Orville Fisher in the late 1930s after they graduated from the Vancouver School of Art. All three would become war artists: “In 1939 Hughes enlisted in the RCA as a gunner. Appointed a war artist in 1940, he was posted to Petawawa, Ontario, and in 1942, to England.” Fellow muralist Orville Fisher had joined the Royal Canadian Engineers in August of 1940. In fact, Jack Shadbolt also followed them into combat; “he enlisted in the army as a signalman on 28 October 1942.” More at: Illustrated Vancouver, Jack Shadbolt (left) and Paul Goranson (right)...

Largest Selection of Edward Hopper Works at Madrid Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

TheMuseo Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Réunion des musées nationaux de France are presenting the exhibition hopper, to be shown first in Madrid then in Paris. It bring together the largest and most ambitious selection of works by the US artist ever to be shown in Europe, with loans from major museums and institutions including the MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, in addition to various private collections and with a particularly generous loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. The latter is sending 14 works from the Bequest of Josephine N. hopper, the artist’s wife. The exhibition has also benefited from the collaboration of the Terra Foundation for American Art.

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Lights on for Lights Out! at the Vancouver Art Gallery

From The Vancouver Sun: Lights on for Lights Out! at the Vancouver Art Gallery

Lights Out! Canadian Painting from the 1960s

Vancouver Art Gallery, To April 29.  More details at vanartgallery.bc.ca

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Art Gallery has raided its extensive permanent collection for an exhibition that focuses exclusively on painting from the 1960s. Called Lights Out!, the exhibition of 88 paintings looks at a medium that was undergoing big changes in the decade. When it began, painting was still considered the premier form of art making. By the end of the ’60s, not only were artists starting to work in new media such as video and photography, they were also exploring entirely new approaches such as performance and conceptual art.

Eadweard J. Muybridge 182nd Birthday Google Doodle

Exhibition of Diane Arbus Photographs Opens at Fotomuseum Winterthur

Diane Arbus, A family on their lawn one Sunday in Westchester, N.Y. 1968© The Estate of Diane Arbus.

From ArtDaily.org: 

Exhibition of two hundred photographs by Diane Arbus opens at Fotomuseum Winterthur

WINTERTHUR.- Diane Arbus (New York, 1923–1971) revolutionized the art she practiced. Her bold subject matter and photographic approach produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as they are. Her gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar, and for uncovering the familiar within the exotic, enlarges our understanding of ourselves. Arbus found most of her subjects in New York City, a place that she explored as both a known geography and as a foreign land, photographing people she discovered during the 1950s and 1960s. She was committed to photography as a medium that tangles with the facts. Her contemporary anthropology—portraits of couples, children, carnival performers, nudists, middle-class families, transvestites, zealots, eccentrics, and celebrities—stands as an allegory of the human experience, an exploration of the relationship between appearance and identity, illusion and belief, theater and reality. 

1982 Camerawork calendar. Accounts include Drinking Driving CounterAttack, HMS Media Services (local ads running in Time magazine BC edition), Bob Masse Studios, Eli Productions (Powder Blues).

Frida Kahlo: Her Photos | Artisphere

ARLINGTON, VA.- Artisphere is the first and only venue in the United States to present Frida Kahlo: Her Photos, 259 images from her personal collection of over 6,500 photographs sealed until 2007 that allow viewers to experience a rarely seen intimate side of the artist.

More Information: Calendar | ArtisphereFRIDA KAHLO: HER PHOTOS | Artisphere

Diane Arbus — 80 Artworks @ The Vancouver Art Gallery

Diane Arbus | 80 Artworks @ The Vancouver Art Gallery selection of Bif Naked. 80 artworks from the VAG collection to celebrate its 80th Anniversary.

Vancouver Art Gallery — Shore, Forest and BeyondArt From the Audain Collection

From the VAG website: The role of private collectors in the art world has always been essential to both artists and museums. Private collections are formed in a variety of ways, yet some achieve particular distinction for their depth, breadth and quality. 

The works assembled by Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa over the last two decades form one of the most important private holdings of work by First Nations and non-First Nations British Columbia artists. The Audains have created a collection that allows a particularly rich history of the art of British Columbia to be told.

Emily Carr Alert Bay Burial Ground I pass a crowd of school kids being enthusiastically guided through the exhibition. Look closely kids, yes it's a burial ground but check out the picture of her dog and look, there's an Orca whale. What's it doing in the grave yard? 


On the way to the gallery, I turn onto Robson and approaching with speed the high energy bubble of the US Women's National Soccer Team on Robson heading to stadium. The Olympic qualifying CONCACAF tournament is on.

Sintaluta, Danny Singer 2007

Danny Singer Calder 2005 Kincaid 2004

Lawren Harris Mount Thule, Bylot Island, 1930
Lawren Harris Mount Thule restoration

John Webber b1751

Nootka Sound engravings 1784

Nuu-chah-nulth man + woman

Jeff Wall River Road




Attila Richard Lukacs (b1962)Varieties of Love, Painting the Lovers' Portrait (1991)
Laurie Papou (b1964) She saw her fallen clothes as a charity, a homage (2000)
John Webber b1751


EJ Hughes
Brady's Beach near Bamfield
Departure From Nanaimo
Ferry Passing Malaspina's Gallery
Echo Bay
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Bill Reid Killer Whale
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Shadbolt

Gathie Falk Apples 22
Brian Jungen

Late 1970s. I'm picking up art around town from graphic design studios in my new Mini and preparing materials for printing presses.

Leonard George and his son Gabriel. Fred Douglas photograph. Durations, Intermedia Press 1975

My Dad at breakfast
Fred Douglas photograph. Durations, Intermedia Press 1975

My Mom, Xmas season, 1972. Fred Douglas photograph. Durations, Intermedia Press 1975