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A Sluggish Start at the Korea International Art Fair Leaves Dealers With Low Expectations

The United Kingdom is the featured country at this year’s Korea International Art Fair, (KIAF) and perhaps that’s why works by Damien Hirst, who surely is Britain’s most famous contemporary artist in Asia, seemed to be everywhere. Even at the booth of the venerable PYO Gallery — whose president, Mi Sun Pyo, is head of the Galleries Association of Korea — a Hirst "Spin" painting has taken pride ...

Expecting the red carpet in Alabama

"The Goal Line Stand," a 1979 painting by Birmingham, Ala., artist Daniel A. Moore, commemorates the signature play of the 1979 Sugar Bowl between Penn State and Alabama.

Carpenter Gothic gets to the point

A style based on ingenuity, improvisation and access to abundant North American wood, Carpenter Gothic is truly an American design style of innovation. If you are familiar with the famous painting "American Gothic," then you are familiar with Carpenter Gothic architecture. The wood-frame cottage dep...

Erotic, exotic 'porn art' designed to shock

HARDCORE porn superimposed on a painting of the Madonna and child. But is it art? You decide.

Island Festival Gives Big World Intimate Focus

The Vineyard prides itself on promoting all things local: music, painting, livestock, produce, you name it. This weekend, though, the Island goes international as it celebrates the cinema of the world. Last night the fifth annual Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival kicked off as it always does, with an opening night reception on the Mansion House rooftop.