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A note tucked beneath Mark Rothko s grave in a quiet cemetery on the North Fork is testament to the famed artist s enduring legacy. (Lisa Finn/Patch)
EAST MARION, NY The small cemetery in East Marion sits quiet and hidden from the Main Road, inscriptions on headstones bearing heartfelt witness to mothers, fathers, soldiers sent home from their final battles and laid to rest at the lakefront parcel. He was loved, one stone reads.
Set humbly in a row, inconspicuous and easily missed, is a stone marked only Mark Rothko: 1903-1970. No fanfare, no bouquets of flowers, no signs mark the spot where Rothko, a world-renowned abstract expressionist painter whose works now sell for millions, was laid to rest after he died by suicide.
Kohn Gallery announces representation of Nir Hod
Nir Hod. Courtesy of the artist.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-Kohn Gallery announced the representation of New York-based artist Nir Hod. Over the last 20 years the artist has exhibited internationally in Europe, Asia, Israel and the United States, and has established a reputation for intrinsically beautiful works, from figuration to abstraction, that belie a deeper, fundamental meaning. Last July, Kohn Gallery debuted Hods first West Coast solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture titled The Life We Left Behind.
Known for his reflective, abstract paintings, Hod often begins his process with heavily-labored gradient beneath paintings adding a chroming technique first developed by the U.S. Navy in 1939, then degrading this finish application via water, ammonia, air pressure and various acids to create a surface tension between newfangled industrial applications and age-old oil technique. His canvases are heavily laden with paint and chro
There are plenty of schlongs in art â Maggi Hambling defends her nude sculpture of Mary Wollstonecraft
âA subject speaks through me. Iâm not in controlâ ⦠Maggi Hambling at her new show. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian
âA subject speaks through me. Iâm not in controlâ ⦠Maggi Hambling at her new show. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian
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