Winter 2009
December 29, 2009 – 1:33 pm | No Comment

The Winter issue is out now – featuring L.A. artist Joe Goode, the surprising side of Beth Van Hoesen, and singer-songwriter Bob Schneider. It also includes a special five year anniversary section with artists Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Wayne Thiebaud, Manuel Neri, Nathan Oliveira. We are celebrating a half decade of artistic adventures. Pick up your copy and enjoy!

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mixed media

A mix of media. From encaustic works to the Internet, you’ll find a wide variety of unique artistic expressions from some of the best artists in the world.

music & cinema

Cinema and music from the artists themselves. Thought-provoking interviews and profiles of some of the biggest names in music and Hollywood to emerging artists down the street.

paint

From oil on canvas, watercolors and beyond. Traditional, still life, expressionist and abstract are all featured with insight into the artists, their stories and inspirations.

photography

Color or black and white, photographers and their medium profiled each month in Artworks Magazine and here online. From classics to abstract, legends to emerging talent.

sculpture

We profile sculptors of all kinds using a broad variety of mediums. Major installations, small scale repesentations and everything in between, we’ll show you the artists that craft by hand.

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MR. BRAINWASH ICONS & BANKSY FILM
January 21, 2010 – 11:13 am | No Comment
MR. BRAINWASH ICONS & BANKSY FILM

Our Summer 2009 “Cover Artist,” Mr. Brainwash, has just announced an epic show in New York City. On Valentine’s Day, February 14th, in the city’s Meatpacking District MBW will open ICONS. It’ll be 15,000 square …

JOE GOODE
January 7, 2010 – 11:48 am | One Comment
JOE GOODE

For Los Angeles artist Joe Goode so many pivotal moments were unforeseen – so much influenced by the unpredictable: a snowstorm, a fire, a hellish commute, bottles left by the milkman on a doorstep, an …

BETH VAN HOESEN
January 6, 2010 – 11:50 am | 2 Comments
BETH VAN HOESEN

All of us at one time or another have come across a person we thought we knew, either by reputation or preconceived notion, only to learn that we were dead wrong, or at the very …

BOB SCHNEIDER
December 21, 2009 – 11:57 am | 14 Comments
BOB SCHNEIDER

It’s Monday night in Austin, Texas. Indescribable streaks of color tear the atmosphere as the big southern sun sets. The regular crowd shuffles down South Lamar Boulevard filing into a blank looking building with a …

THE BAUHAUS EFFECT
December 21, 2009 – 11:00 am | One Comment
THE BAUHAUS EFFECT

“Every work of art is a child of its age”

- Vasily Kandinsky

 
 
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus School, with a century having passed since one of its former instructors, Vasily Kandinsky, wrote …

WINTER BACK TALK
December 20, 2009 – 9:06 am | One Comment
WINTER  BACK TALK

Maybe you’ve heard this one: There’s only one fruitcake in the world, it just keeps getting passed around (and if you’ve ever given it away, odds are good you’ll get it back one day).
The term …

WAYNE THIEBAUD
December 8, 2009 – 11:33 am | 4 Comments
WAYNE THIEBAUD

Wayne Thiebaud hates the word art. “It’s one of the dirtiest words in the English language,” he purges. “We all can say, ‘Oh yeah, that’s art. This is art.’ It’s a very abstract term that’s …

STEPHEN DE STAEBLER
November 2, 2009 – 11:00 am | One Comment
STEPHEN DE STAEBLER

Stephen De Staebler is an artistic pack rat. He keeps EVERYTHING, from a painting done when he was eight-years-old, to his first sculpture done at about the same age, to a hard cover copy of …

DAVE LEFNER
November 2, 2009 – 10:46 am | No Comment
DAVE LEFNER

The year was 1992, and Dave Lefner was into his second year of college at Cal State Northridge. He had just discovered printmaking, an artistic soul mate that would stand the test of time, but …

CARMEL ART & FILM FESTIVAL
November 1, 2009 – 1:12 pm | One Comment
CARMEL ART & FILM FESTIVAL

Film and art lovers gathered for an incredible weekend along California’s majestic Central Coast for the first Carmel Art and Film Festival (October 8-11). From an opening night solo, acoustic concert with Nashville singer/songwriter Griffin …

DINA INTERVIEWS: ROBERT DUVALL
November 1, 2009 – 12:49 pm | No Comment
DINA INTERVIEWS: ROBERT DUVALL

Robert Duvall’s CV would be coveted by even the most seasoned actor. He has starred in or been featured in more than 75 films. You’ve seen him a hundred times in everything from 1960’s “Joe …

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS FESTIVAL
October 20, 2009 – 11:58 am | 2 Comments
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS FESTIVAL

ACL 2009 was epic! Three days, eight stages, 130 bands. So many stories to tell… There was more than sex on fire at the Kings of Leon show; why Caleb was burning on much …