It was a riveting and emotional night last night as the world tuned in for the 87th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater stage. Neil Patrick Harris opened the evening with a musical tribute to "moving pictures" alongside Anna Kendrick and Jack Black bringing out the nostalgic and classic moments from some of Hollywood's biggest…
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It is a late pleasant afternoon el Seed and I sit outside at Tashkeel’s deconstructed courtyard. Only 100 yards from us stands the 3 dimensional piece which ends Nizar Qabbani poem “Between Us”. Glancing at the questions we start by him reminding me the question I asked was incomplete. He was right I had left…
Happy New Year to all; let’s talk about two parties I will be visiting this January. On January 9, Miley Cyrus, W Magazine, and Stefano Tonchi will present the opening night exhibition of Shooting Stars in Los Angeles, along with Barbara Kruger, Bill Viola, David Fincher, Francesco Vezzoli, George Condo, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Juergen Teller, Mert…
Capturing the essence of fluctuations observed in nature and throughout life, “Cloudburst” opened at Chasm Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn on December 12. Showcasing works by Australian visual artists, Christian Lock and Claire Pendrigh, the exhibition fuses together each artist’s work thematically under a rubric of natural contrasts from the spontaneous to the orderly and the…
I’m from Queens, and I can tell you, it is possible to be from a place called “Queens” and still maintain every aspect of your manhood. NYC’s largest borough has plenty of things to do all year that appeal to all facets of your machismo, from the barbaric to the sophisticated.
It’s not every day that…
Alserkal Avenue serenaded us with music by Freshly Ground Sounds as they opened Galleries Night 2014. The air was hot with curiosity and the galleries witnessed traffic on another level. Yet with all the traffic, which is synonymous to Dubai, we were able to ignite the fever of art walking into some of our favorite…
Wall murals go back to the prehistoric times when they used to be plain drawings that you would find in caves. They were basically pictures of cattle, stags, horses and various other animals. At that time they were used by the authorities to get a political mes sage down to the lower classes. But today, wallpaper murals…
The Hôtel de Paris Saint-Tropez exhibits contemporary art in its magnificence. With it’s luxurious, stylish and grandiose ambiance it remains one of the most important hotels in Saint Tropwz. The hotel décor takes pride in giving beautiful contemporary art a home, in reverence of past artists who have lived there from the colorful and fluid…
In the current context of declassification, of explosion of boundaries and global reinvention of all the systems, social, financial, and cultural, RAAWART took on to bring up this question through the selection of key artists and designers. Alexis Gremmel brought and curated in one big space various elements of Arts, Sculpture, Fashion, Automobile and Photography.…
Art. The human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature. The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty. That is what the dictionary defines art as, but the truth of the matter is that the word art…


