Nidhi Agarwal: मानसिक (Psychic): The New Delhi artist’s fantastical exhibition showcases clashing forms and vibrant colors

Nidhi Agarwal: मानसिक (Psychic)


Within the magnificent Oberoi Gurgaon Hotel, located in India’s bustling business hub of New Delhi, acclaimed artist Nidhi Agarwal is showcasing a series of chaotic and colorful mixed-media paintings….

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Interview: Gary Taxali: The multi-media artist discusses balancing commercial and personal work and the perils of a blank white page

Interview: Gary Taxali


Art and commerce are traditionally thought of as opposing forces. Of course, this is especially true for artists who’s work lands on both advertisements and gallery walls. Finding inspiration from commercial work while maintaining a sense of integrity in the art world is…

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Interview: Mark Fox: Our discussion with the NYC via Ohio artist on the influence of puppets, Sunday Mass and a fateful tornado in his acclaimed work

Interview: Mark Fox


Manipulation is something everybody experiences every day—good or bad, conscious or unconscious. For NYC-based artist Mark Fox, manipulation has permeated his entire body of work and is a theme he continues to explore in his latest…

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House of La Cruz: A fine arts retailer and exclusive online gallery of carefully selected pieces and performances

House of La Cruz


LA-based fine arts photographer and filmmaker Alex La Cruz found the perfect way to sell his mesmerizing, oftentimes eerie, large-format architectural and landscape photographs: On a sharply curated website, among other artists he respects. In founding…

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Best of CH 2013: Instagram: From all over the globe, dazzling moments, design objects, art and automobiles caught on camera

Best of CH 2013: Instagram


As we enter 2014, a glance back at our Instagram truly reflects the number of miles the CH team clocked last year. Various cities across dozens of countries, art fairs and auto shows, captivating design, sweet treats and even alcohol inspired us on…

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Interview: Ruben Nusz: Examining color, dimension and the bigger picture with the Minneapolis-based artist’s new show

Interview: Ruben Nusz


by Mason Riddle “Severed Hues”—currently on view at Minneappolis’ Weinstein Gallery—has prompted a lot of people to reconsider color, abstraction and illusionistic space. To create his modestly scaled paintings, …

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Miami Art Week 2013: Folded, Rippled and Melted: Our highlights of non-traditional shapes across sculpture and painting

Miami Art Week 2013: Folded, Rippled and Melted


Whether angled or oozing, wave-like or crumpled, shapes in art and design have always stepped beyond the boundaries of traditional form. During our recent exploration of art in Miami, a few works caught our attention, and also begged to be touched. While we actually couldn’t poke at any of…

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Miami Art Week 2013: Color Chaos: Our highlight of work that utilizes the power of color to overturn structure

Miami Art Week 2013: Color Chaos


There are over 16 million noted colors and artists have long sought to capture several—if not most—of them. Even Pantone’s GEO system is composed of 2,058 new solid colors….

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Miami Art Week 2013: Beasts and Birds: Captivating works humanize as well as contextualize modern animal art

Miami Art Week 2013: Beasts and Birds


From the earliest noted iterations of art—paintings upon cave walls—to today’s cat-obsessed internet, animals have provided the inspiration behind culture of all kinds. We are awash in imagery of beasts and birds and domesticated pets. But during this most recent Art Week Miami—across…

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Miami Art Week 2013: Photography: From Pieter Hugo’s “Kin” series to Mapplethorpe’s stunning Polaroids, our photography picks from this year’s extravaganza

Miami Art Week 2013: Photography


Every December, Miami is packed with contemporary art from around the world, and the range of media from across the fairs that set up their temporary annual digs is astounding. Jumping out from the myriad sculptures, paintings, videos, performance art and more are some compelling photographs—photos that manage to…

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