Megan Hess: Drawing Inspiration
Names like Dior, Chanel and Louis Vuitton stand out as the most iconic in fashion history. For illustrator Megan Hess, those are just a few of her most notable clientele. Since Hess’ big break as the chosen cover artist for Candace Bushnell’s best-seller “Sex and the City,” the Melbourne-based artist has been commissioned by luxury […]
Pop Culture Portrait — Interview with Alberto Ramirez
For as long as Alberto Ramirez could hold a pencil in his hand, he’s been drawing. The Madrid-born artist began painting in elementary school and simply never looked back. For a large part of his career, Ramirez has focused his efforts on portrait painting. Fascinated by the human face and its ability to tell the […]
Magazzino: Contemporary Art in Cold Spring
The Hudson Valley has become a mecca for commercial art spaces, and an unlikely one at that. It’s also where long-time art advocates Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu call home, and recently opened their 20,000-square-foot private exhibition, Magazzino. Focusing exclusively on postwar and contemporary Italian art, the husband-and-wife duo alongside architect Miguel Quismondo and Magazzino […]
Kim Keever: Water & Color
Photos by Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery Kim Keever is not a painter in the traditional sense, considering his canvas of choice is a 200-gallon water-filled tank. The result can be defined as serendipitous swirls of suspended pigments, resembling anything from billows of clouds, vapors of smoke to blots of ink. The NASA engineer-turned-artist applies his […]
Museo Atlántico — Beneath the Surface
Photos by Jason deCaires Taylor / CACT Lanzarote The landscape of Lanzarote, Spain is a polarizing picture. It is a collage of rust-colored cliffs, green lagoons and stretches of jet black beaches. Today, we know it best as part of the Canary Islands but it was once nothing more than a volcanic wasteland. The late César […]
Discovering Casa Malca
Rumor has it that the late Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar, set up shop in Tulum sometime during the 1980s. Notorious for cocaine trafficking and countless private properties around the world, Escobar’s Mexican megamansion was said to have bulletproof walls and a secret tunnel in the event “Don Pablo” needed to make a timely escape. […]
