Art

Bamp-badamp-ba-danna-damp, ba-danna-damp! MTV’s sonic signature by Jonathan Elias To borrow from Longhi on Caravaggio, there was life before MTV and life after and the two were not the same. Indeed, if I simply mention some song titles or lyrics, you will no doubt conjure up the images from the then-new art form: video. Here goes: […]

Don’t let vinyl, plastic or light-emitting diodes dull your senses. There are hundreds of sign painters around the world who, like their craft-honored cousins in letterpress printing, keep the old arts from becoming olde by offering their talents as viable services. Over the past few years I’ve celebrated the role that sign painter and historian

After his debut last November with Carminium, Italian artist Federico Vezzaro has returned to New York for his second solo exhibition in the Big Apple, Beyond the Surface, which opened yesterday, April 3, at the Temple Gallery in New York. Once again, he brought with him a medium he himself has described as “new,” one

This week, the Philippe Labaune Gallery introduced “Together” to the art district’s community. Critics and art lovers packed the small gallery to take in the 16 acrylic paintings in Ponzi’s new collection. A traditional medium for a not-so-traditional process. Ponzi’s process began with pen and paper: “I began by writing some diary pages, as if

It’s fair to say that New York City’s modern art scene has seen it all. An Italian artist is on a mission to disrupt this reality with his invention of a brand new medium. Federico Vezzaro spent 15 years developing a way to imprint designs onto metal sheets by exploiting surfaces’s natural oxidation process. The