Ula Einstein’s work is, in a word, ephemeral. While it looks impressive in photos, they are also somewhat deceptive by failing to capture its intricacies: filmy layers, delicate threading, fine surface slices or topography-like depth. If you have the pleasure to view her work in person, it beckons you to move closer, to reach out and touch. (more…)

After my last brief interview with live artist Kris Davidson, he and I decided that we hadn’t drilled quite deep enough into the mystery of what compels us both to paint. So over two weeks, while Kris was on the road in India (more…)

Instead of just trying to build environmentally, some people now are trying to build as part of the environment. (more…)

My motivation for performance painting developed over the last few years from “Jeez, I can do that!” to “I am in this to inspire people.” Consequently, it is evermore important to me that I share what I am learning through all of this. (more…)

Most people are usually a bit confused when they look at Belgian artist René Magritte’s The Treachery of Images for the first time. The painting is of a simple smoking pipe with the phrase “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (”This is not a pipe”) written below it. (more…)

Downtown Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, now the tallest building in the world, briefly opened in January with a stunning celebration. In photographs, the building’s inauguration, replete with fireworks and video projections (more…)

Frank Gehry is known for his easily identifiable style: big, swooping titanium and glass forms that seem to float like sails on the wind or the skirts of a dancer. Some compare his architecture to Disneyland, larger than life and a bit too whimsical (more…)

In the vernacular of furniture, the chair is the apparatus that forms the intimate bond between the individual and the room, as the great architect and designer Eero Saarinen no doubt observed. A chair may only be empty space until someone sits in it (more…)

“I am not complete”, says Edward in Tim Burton’s movie Edward Scissorshands. This quote captures the essence of most of Burton’s characters. (more…)

If you don’t own a pair yourself, you probably know someone who does. That probably has something to do with the fact that over 750 million have been sold. Their look is unmistakable: a simplistic combination of cheap canvas and rubber (more…)