For years, Bernard James kept his film photographs of legendary musicians, from B.B. King to Aretha Franklin to Miles Davis, in photo albums few ever saw. The North Carolina resident eventually framed these images that he shot at music festivals during the 1980s and ’90s, and some were showcased in group exhibits at libraries on his native Long Island. Now he’s taking more steps to share them with the world.
Theodora Zavala paints in multiple genres and diverse subjects, and therein lies a lead to what fundamentally drives her as an artist.
Frank Parisi’s office showcases machines that speak to his life in the bulk vending industry of gumballs, toy charms and plush toys.
Last summer I visited Prospect Park in Brooklyn for the first time in decades, photographing its zoo’s animals and walking through neighboring areas, Grand Army Plaza and Park Slope. I also visited the Brooklyn Museum of Art to finally see a pair of statues flanking its entrance: Manhattan and Brooklyn, by my favorite American sculptor, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931). Capturing these allegorical female figures had long been on my bucket list.
“Take me to that large fountain in the middle of the city,” I told a cab driver parked outside my hotel during a weekend trip to Philadelphia last summer.
The day before, I spotted the fountain from a taxi, my refuge from the unforgiving June sun, humidity and temps flirting with triple digits, enroute from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to a Marriott downtown.
My favorite 16 photos I snapped in Central Park last fall capture diverse scenes and people: a geisha posing gracefully for pictures, Schiller's bust framed by blazing autumn leaves, sleek Billionaires Row skyscrapers looming above Wollman ice rink, a woman crafting poems on her vintage typewriter, and musicians making melodies on wind and string instruments.
My original idea for this photo blog was to capture people reading hardcover and paperback books, particularly young people who grew up in our ever growing digitized world.
On entering the Raphael Court, I immediately understood that I was stepping into a special venue at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London.
A father and son ventured onto rocks where the Reedy River runs through Falls Park in Greenville, South Carolina, and I caught a short sequence of their travels on camera.
In his first book devoted exclusively to the paintings, Martin Kemp delivers a volume rich with the information and insights expected of a top da Vinci scholar.
Ann Pizzorusso’s 58-page booklet “Leonardo da Vinci: Geological Representations in The Virgin and Child with St. Anne” had me from its first paragraph.
Last year, I photographed mountains in central London—the distant blue jagged peaks in Leonardo da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks at the National Gallery.
When I returned to my friend Laurie’s flat in Wimbledon from Windsor Castle on my last full day in London, she asked: “What would you say was the highlight of your trip?”
Watercolorist Frederick Brosen’s painting process involves a bicycle. He typically starts cycling at dawn in his native New York, searching for picture-worthy deserted streets. After finding one, he sketches the scene, takes photographs, and later revises his original draft.
Cultivating greater enjoyment of the visual arts can profoundly change your life.
Art in general–from painting, sculpture and drawing to literature, music and movies–packs that degree of life-enhancing power. But while some people at museums can experience speechless awe when encountering a beautiful painting or sculpture, others can muster only enough enthusiasm to say: “There were some pretty pictures and nice statues.”
This is a portrait by Rembrandt of a young man whose name and background are unknown. Who is he? How might we tell by studying the portrait’s details and how Rembrandt presented them?
As Chris O'Mara celebrates the fifth anniversary of her gourmet shop Village Cheese Merchant, she is preparing more new additions to keep growing the small business.
On an unmarked, pothole-riddled road that abuts parking lots and the back of commercial buildings lies a monument that is equally unassuming, given the significance of the event it memorializes. The approximately 5.5 x 8.5-foot concrete relief sculpture marks where Charles Lindbergh and his plane, christened the Spirit of St. Louis, first went airborne en route to Paris, the first nonstop transAtlantic flight in 1927.
After riding a proverbial roller coaster the past two years due to fears surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, RVC Works now has a wide range of members working from the co-working space.
Patch recently caught up with Mitch Tobol—an owner of the Amityville-based CGT Marketing and a program instructor at Hofstra University’s Entrepreneurship Assistance Center—to get a pulse on all things marketing, from the rise of influencers to Generations Z-ers as the next largest demographic to consumers' greater expectations since the pandemic.
The town's public library was rich with the sounds of love songs on Valentine's Day. The Paul Joseph Trio returned to the newly renovated library Monday to perform a program of tunes by Richard Rodgers, emphasizing the American composer's romantic-themed numbers.
Samanea New York is gearing up for a busy 2022, with multiple new tenants poised to open for business during the first half of the year and beyond.
Located on the edge of Oceanside's industrial zone, Insieme Wines was abuzz Sunday afternoon with patrons sipping reds and whites while seated at high-top tables lined alongside oak barrels stacked on racks.
My four-part series on the strategies that Roosevelt Field, one of the top-tier malls in the nation on Long Island, and its owner Simon Property Group, the largest owner of U.S. malls, have adopted to compete in general and in the age of Amazon in particular.
After absorbing a financial gut punch from the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdowns at his martial arts gym in Lynbrook, Christian Defiris dusted himself off and personally built a new facility in Oceanside.
A Norfolk Western 1218 locomotive emerges from a hazy, sage-green landscape painted on a three-story brick building in downtown Roanoke. The mural, titled “Nature Train,” features two tall trees shedding leaves, along with a squirrel and vines clinging to what was the world’s most powerful historic steam locomotive built by the railroad, now the Norfolk Southern, based in this city of southwest Virginia.