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[VIDEO] Obama Portraits Make Their Way to Brooklyn Museum

2021-08-30T14:00:00-04:00

For the first time, the Obama portraits are available for public viewing. The first stop was Chicago. Now on their second stop, they’ll be at the Brooklyn Museum through Oct. 24 before visiting Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Houston.

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[WATCH] Big Mike Takes Lunch: Wonderful Short Film Reveals Beloved East Villager's Passion for Lunchtime Painting

2020-06-12T12:00:00-04:00

Big Mike Takes Lunch is a wonderful mini-documentary about Michael Saviello, a.k.a. Big Mike, manager of 38-years at Astor Place Haircutters, and his passion for creating fine art in a basement storage room during his lunch break. Created by one of our favorite local filmmakers Nicolas Heller, the short film is a heartwarming profile of a beloved East Village man.

For the past year, Mike has devoted his 45-minute lunch break to something he hasn’t done since Highschool... Painting. Follow Mike as he takes you on a journey through his shop full of characters and the storage unit he’s turned into his personal art studio, adding another uniquely New York charm to one of The city’s best kept secrets.

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[WATCH] The Mysterious Origins of a Brooklyn Flea-Market Painting

2020-05-02T12:00:00-04:00

A Brooklyn hardware-store owner tries to find out if his four-hundred-dollar painting is actually the work of Russian Cubist master, Kazmir Malevich.

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[VIDEO] Here's How Colossal Media Paints New York City's Best Billboards by Hand

2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00

Colossal Media in Brooklyn, New York, paints photo-realistic advertisements on the walls of New York City. The company's worked with Coca-Cola, Nike, and Google to revive the old-school-ad art form.

Check out Colossal Media to learn more.

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Watch This Art Critic Explain Van Gogh's "Starry Night" Painting to Commuters in the New York City Subway

2018-12-22T14:00:00-05:00

Vincent Van Gogh's 1889 Starry Night is one of the most famous and recognizable paintings in the world. Many have seen it, but do you really know anything about it, or its creator? In this short video from New York Magainze, watch as an art critic helps passersby in the New York City subway explore the painting.

Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night is one of the most recognizable paintings in all of art history, and has become a textbook example of “post-impressionist” painting. But its aesthetic beauty is often intertwined with the tortured life story of its creator — he painted it while staying in an asylum, only a few months before his death, a rumored suicide.

Visit "Starry Night" in person at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Watch This Art Critic Explain Picasso's Guernica Painting to Commuters in the New York City Subway

2018-12-19T15:30:00-05:00

Pablo Picasso's Guernica is one of the most famous paintings in the world. Because Picasso never elaborated on his specific choices for the details within the painting, it is one of the most analyzed and discussed paintings as well. In this short video from New York Magainze, watch as an art critic helps passersby in the New York City subway explore the painting.

So our art critic, Jerry Saltz, took a replica of Guernica underground, in the hopes of learning what New Yorkers make of it and helping them understand the work.

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Big Mike Takes Lunch: Wonderful Short Film Reveals Beloved East Villager's Passion for Lunchtime Painting

2018-11-13T15:30:00-05:00

For the past year, Mike has devoted his 45-minute lunch break to something he hasn’t done since Highschool... Painting. Follow Mike as he takes you on a journey through his shop full of characters and the storage unit he’s turned into his personal art studio, adding another uniquely New York charm to one of The city’s best kept secrets.

This Saturday, November 17th at 8:30pm, Saviello will be holding his first ever art show at Astor Place Haircutters where there will also be a public screening of the above short film. Check it out!

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Tour the Delacroix Exhibition Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

2018-10-26T17:00:00-04:00

Now through January 6th, 2019, check out the galleries of the exhibition Delacroix, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Fifth Avenue building.

The exhibition, a joint project with the Musée du Louvre, illuminates Delacroix's restless imagination through more than 150 paintings, drawings, prints, and manuscripts—many never before seen in the United States. It unfolds chronologically, encompassing the rich variety of themes that preoccupied the artist during his more than four decades of activity, including literature, history, religion, animals, and nature. Through rarely seen graphic art displayed alongside such iconic paintings as Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi (1826), The Battle of Nancy (1831), Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1834), and Medea about to Kill Her Children (1838), this exhibition explores an artist whose protean genius set the bar for virtually all other French painters.

Visit the exhibition page to learn more about Delacroix and his paintings on exhibit.

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Check Out These Surreal New York City Subway Paintings Featuring Animal Heads on Humans

2018-06-19T10:30:00-04:00

Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Grabelsky has an interesting series of surreal portraits of people on the New York City subway that are normal from the neck down, but who have their heads replaced by a variety of wild animals.

Having grown up in New York and being fascinated by the imagery of Greek mythology as a kid, Grabelsky’s paintings are an exploration of human nature and of the way that animals represent various parts of the human subconscious. “The characters are symbolic of the kinds of thoughts that lie under the surface of people’s minds, and they reveal that the most extraordinary can exist in the most ordinary of everyday settings,” the artist told Prohbtd in an interview. “This theme is communicated through the juxtaposition of these ostensibly irrational images with otherwise completely mundane scenes. My idea is that my creatures are not original but are ultimately part of a much larger cultural continuum.”

Check out his portfolio and/or follow @grabelsky on Instagram for more.

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Go See Classic Painting "American Gothic" at the Whitney Museum of American Art

2018-03-31T15:00:00-04:00

Until June 10th at the Whitney Museum of American Art, see American artist Grant Wood's iconic American Gothic painting on display as part of an entire exhibition of the artist's work. In this video from the museum, learn more about the relevance of the work.

Why is Grant Wood’s work relevant today? Curator Barbara Haskell talks about his iconic work, American Gothic (1930), in the context of contemporary America.

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