Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Did Duchamp was a quack? What about contemporary artists?

April 24, 2010 by Quim Alcantara  
Filed under Opinion

How an artist can consider his masterpiece an object that he even produced? For me, Duchamp was a quack, but I forgot one thing: the historical context!

Peter Forakis, Originator of Geometry-Based Sculpture, Dies at 82

December 3, 2009 by All Art News  
Filed under Artists & People, Featured

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The influential American sculptor Peter Forakis died Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26, 2009 at Petaluma Valley hospital in Petaluma, California from complications of pneumonia. He was 82. Forakis was born in 1927 in Hanna, Wyoming to Greek immigrants. He grew up in Oakland and Modesto, California. After military service in Korea, he attended the California School of Fine Arts from 1955 to 1957. After a highly productive period in New York and Vermont, where he established his [...]