Richard Pousette-Dart was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, to a poet mother and a painter father who throughout his formative years strongly encouraged their second son to pursue his art. While he was still a young child, his parents relocated to Valhalla, New York. Pousette-Dart briefly attended nearby Bard College before moving to New York [...]
Never mind the Pollocks
She lived a life of sex, privilege and money – but all she wanted was credibility within the male-dominated art world. Stuart Jeffries on Peggy Guggenheim, millionaire collector Peggy Guggenheim had an ugly nose. In 1920, she asked a Cincinnati surgeon to make it like the one she had read about in Tennyson’s Idylls of [...]
Shozo Shimamoto
Szozo Shimamoto, was born in Osaka, Japan in 1928, he is an authoratative member of the Gutai Group, which was formed in 1954 in the Kansai region. Other important figures included in the group were the likes of Yoshihara Jiro, Kanayama Akira, Murakami Saburo and Shiraga Kazuo. The activities of the group helped evolve western [...]
William Baziotes – Abstract Expressionist
William Baziotes, was born in Pittsburgh June 11th, 1912. His parents were Greek. From 1931 to 1933 he worked at Case Glass company in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he was painting glass and running general errands. He attended evening sketch classes and it was here that he met his lifelong friend Byron Vazakas, who was a [...]
“Larry Gagosian has always expanded in a recession”
Why is the most successful contemporary art dealer in the world opening a branch in Rome this month? The invitation for the opening of the new gallery in Rome “Rome is a sleeping giant,” says Larry Gagosian, and on 15 December the art world’s most successful contemporary art dealer will attempt to bring it to [...]
Jim Rosenquist
Born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1933, He now lives and works in Aripeka, Florida, and New York City Jim Rosenquist had an itinerant childhood. An only child, he moved with his family frequently throughout the Midwest. His parents shared with him their interest in airplanes and things mechanical. In junior high school Rosenquist took [...]
Zarina Bhimji
Born in 1963 in Mbarara, Uganda, Zarina Bhimji now lives and works in London and Berlin. Immediately after receiving a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of London in 1987, she began exhibiting her work in group exhibitions. Following post-graduate work she became an Artist in Residence at Darwin College in Cambridge. In 1996, [...]
