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“If it wasn’t for someone like Henry or Marty what’s happening globally would not have happened”, said legendary graffiti artist John “Crash” Matos at the Q & A session for Steel Canvases held recently at the Bronx Documentary Center. The event was an intimate look into the “aggressive form of performance art” photographed by the Read More
“Tia Tati’s Bronx is the Bronx I’ll always remember”, Angel Franco said in a recent interview. “She worked long hours in a Southern Boulevard sweatshop, making 10 cents a zipper, listening to radio novellas, taking 10 minute café breaks and back to the Singer sewing machine. Swoosh! ‘Nena, mira que hay!’ Chisme. No air conditioners, Read More
When Cadillac contacted me to ask if I would like to attend the 2012 Art for Life event this past weekend, I had no clue what it was all about. All I knew was that they wanted to take me as a guest, it was in the Hamptons, I would be riding in a 2013 Read More
Mexican artist Diego Rivera’s 1939 oil painting “Girl in Blue and White” is headed to Sotheby’s Latin American art auction in New York and could break the auction record. The painting, “Niña en azul y blanco,” is a portrait of 10-year-old Juanita Rosas and is from a period in which Rivera captured the innocence Read More
- via Elezea What would a child’s drawing look like if it were painted realistically? This is the question that illustrator Dave DeVries asked himself for his most recent project. A project aptly named The Monster Engine. To see these simple crayon drawings come to life is quite scary, but certainly an interesting concept to give Read More
Photography, one of the most commonly applied visual arts, has been used as a vehicle to deepen insight and develop communication during therapy and rehabilitation for over a century. Techniques involving the articulation of emotions and analysis of one’s photographs and self-portraits are often referred to as ‘Phototherapy.’ It is this type of self-expressive process Read More