How come nobody has clocked it? Why the telling silence? Given the relentless dissection of the Susan Boyle phenomenon, you would think some hack or other might have gone beyond ragging on her eyebrows and identified the glaringly obvious truth. But no, yet again, it’s left to yours truly to sort things out for everyone Read More
The tormented, turbulent and passionate life of legendary painter Frida Kahlo, an artist of unique and bountiful talent-and an icon of suffering who has become known in Mexico as the saint of the afflicted-was too big to fill a single canvas. She suffered for her art and made art out of suffering, merging art and Read More
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection , an exhibition currently on display at El Museo del Barrio, is a mite heavy on portraits of its benefactors. There’s a reason for this: Often, the first step the Gelmans would take in establishing a relationship with an artist would Read More
