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Q&A with Spanish Photorealist Painter Bernardo Torrens

Bernardo Torrens (1957) Born & Lives in: MADRID, SPAIN Dealer: Bernaducci Meisel Gallery, NYC Artist’s statement:  My work is about the human being. The deepest part of the human being. Any of my subjects tries to be the representation of the Humanity. Also in some cases they pretend to be the representation of a group of all people. My work is also deeply connected with my life and circumstances. Weight, intensity, sincerity, reflection are key Continue …

Dec 122011
Bennett's Lady Gaga Goes on Auction

Tony Bennett’s portrait of Lady Gaga is on sale on eBay Celebrity for $5,000. The nude portrait was executed during an Annie Leibovitz shoot for Vanity Fair. The proceeds of the sale will benefit both singers’ foundations: Bennett’s Exploring the Arts and Gaga’s Born This Way. Bennett and Gaga recorded the 1937 Hart and Rodgers classic The Lady is a Tramp, early in the fall (2011).  

Not for the Shy at Heart - In Conversation with Pascal Möhlmann

Pascal Möhlmann – Wahnfried is on view at Galerie Burgerstocker in Zürich until December 18, 2011. Homa Nasab – You studied at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht. How would you describe your training there… and the influences (positive or negative – technical or aesthetic) that it bore on you as an artist? Pascal Möhlmann - Rather poorly actually. I’ve been a student there for six years and I’ve hardly learned anything there. It’s been a good disciple-training Continue …

Interview with SFMOMA's Sandra Phillips on Surveillance & Voyeurism

Doris Banbury, Mamie Van Doren, 1950s – SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund Purchase, Courtesy Doris Banbury My relationship with the Paparazzi has always been good, in that it is for them and me symbiotic–they want to take my picture and, most of the time, I want them to do it. In the end it’s been profitable for both of us. Mamie Van Doren October, 2010 (Private correspondence with Homa Nasab) Early last week, I caught up with Sandra S. Phillips, Continue …

Interview with Bettina RHEIMS on Her Return to America

4 juillet II, Paris, 1990 Bettina Rheims has been creating intensely erotic images of women, for more than three decades. My introduction to Rheims’ work was marked by the purchase of her hugely successful Chamber Closed – a copy of which has graced my tri-continental travelling library since, 1998. Two weeks ago, I spoke with Bettina over the phone, in Paris, about her work …and return to New York City, after many years of absence. Her first major Continue …