Art Bites

Feast for the Eyes is an exploration of how food has always inspired artists. The exhibition opened at Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York on July 30, 2016, and remains on view through November 6, 2016. Feast for the Eyes, a sweeping two-floor exhibition focused on food and dining in art, features works by a wide range of artists, including Audrey Flack, Red Grooms, George Grosz, Henri Matisse, Claes Oldenberg, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol, among many others. According to guest curator Franklin Hill Perrell “Food has always been celebrated in art.” He pointed out that food has been a inspiration from man’s earliest times, from cavemen depicting the hunt, to Greek and Romans depictions of food and feasting.” Perrell said that Feast for the Eyes brings art related to food and dining into the present day with 20th century movements such as realism and photorealism. Perrell said that A Feast for the Eyes would include work reflecting these movements but “we’re going ...

SITE Santa Fe announced the opening of SITElines.2016 Biennial. This is the second installment in SITE Santa Fe’s reimagined biennial series with a focus on contemporary art from the Americas. The exhibition features over 35 artists from 11 countries and 6 new commissions organized around intersecting ideas brought together by a team of five curators−Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Kathleen Ash-Milby, Pip Day, Pablo León de la Barra, and Kiki Mazzucchelli.

A major new Artist Rooms exhibition devoted to the drawings of the German artist Joseph Beuys is a highlight of the summer programme at the National Galleries of Scotland this year. The exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art brings together, for the first time, the extraordinary group of over 110 drawings by Beuys held in the Artist Rooms collection. Put together with great care and knowledge over many years by Anthony d’Offay, the drawings cover the whole of the artist’s career from 1945 to the end of his life, reflecting his encyclopaedic interest in nature, science, philosophy, mythology, society, politics and religion. This is the largest and most important collection outside Germany by this key figure of post-war art. Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) is perhaps best known for his ‘Actions’, installations and sculpture, but first and foremost he was an artist who was interested in ideas: ideas about how the world, both natural and social, functioned and how the latter...

Gerhard Richter  is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style. In October 2012, Richter's Abstraktes Bild set an auction record price for a painting by a living artist at $34 million (£21 million). This was exceeded in May 2013 when his 1968 piece Domplatz, Mailand (Cathedral square, Milan) was sold for $37.1 million (£24.4 million) in New York. This was further exceeded in February 2015 when his painting Abstraktes Bild sold for $44.52 million (£30.4 million) in London at Sotheby's Contemporary Evening Sale

Arman Allakhverdian was born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1979. His spent his childhood in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and this city has a great influence on his art. He is primarily an oil painter working in impressionist style. His passion for art started at an early age, but he has never had professional education. He held his first art exhibit in 2012 at Art galery’s A.S. Gavdzinskiy, Nova Kakhovka, Ukraine . He has had shows in Ankara and Istanbul 2014, 2016, and his showing was well-received by his circle of supporters. Arman has experimented with several mediums, but oils tend to be his most preferred medium. Being a   self-represented artist gives him the freedom and proficiency to express himself with oils, his work has evolved through his own personal experience. The old masters have always been his greatest source of information and techniques. He strives to improve his craft with every new picture he paints. His pictures are always stories about the souls and their ways ...

Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 - 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. In this last image: A young lady looks at "Paysage charbonneux" by French artist Jean Dubuffet dated 1946, and valued at 3.5 million Marks (1.5 million Dollars) at the 34th International fair for modern art "Art Cologne" in Cologne, Germany, Friday, November 3, 2000.