In an ongoing effort to separate art world facts from fantasy, I contacted a number of gallery owners and asked whether they could relate some beliefs artists have about galleries and gallery owners that simply aren’t true. Successful artist/gallery relationships are built on trust, knowledge, cooperation and understanding, and the better and more informed artists […]
Paulina, Olya, Anastasia, Natasha. When Nick Kosciuk hears the children’s stories, they always touch his heart—their mothers and fathers abandoned them in orphanages in Belarus, a republic near Russia, to be raised by strangers. The California painter recently returned from his 12th trip to Belarus in four years, bringing back with him not only the […]
Make Every Day a Masterpiece. Make Friendship a Fine Art. LOCAL ARTIST EXHIBITION WHEN: Quarterly WHERE: East West Fine Art, 9115 Strada Pl, #5130 Naples, Fl. 34108 LOCAL ARTIST WORKSHOP WHEN: TBD – by request WHERE: East West Fine Art, 9115 Strada Pl, #5130 Naples, Fl. 34108 INQUIRIES: info@81z.c86.mywebsitetransfer.com. EXHIBITION Our inaugural February 2017 exhibition was a […]
We are excited to host the Inaugural Empty Bowls Naples event featuring beautifully painted and handcrafted designer pottery by local ceramists and artists. This event presented by Empty Bowls Naples supports the Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida as they work to overcome hunger in Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry and Lee Counties through a network of more than 150 […]
What was ostensibly a luncheon for the Collier Child Care Resource Council’s student art awards Thursday turned into: a disquisition on the definition of art that propelled at least one audience member out of her seat to disagree; comments on a controversial slide that led to a online search for one high-resolution can of caca […]