Brooklyn based artist Mark Reigelman partnered up with architect Jenny Chapman and engineer Paul Endres to put a modern spin on the concept of Manifest Destiny by creating a 19th century-style cabin and installing it in one of the few remaining unoccupied spaces of downtown San Francisco. Manifest Destiny was a mid-19th century policy and concept ordaining the triumph of civilisation over … [Read more...]

Still Life with Meadow Flowers and Roses is a painting that has been in the Kroeller-Mueller Museum collection for decades but its authorship has remained a mystery until recently. X-ray investigations, which revealed an under-painting depicting two wrestlers fighting have convinced experts that the work was painted by the illustrious, Vincent Van Gogh The questions that surrounded the work … [Read more...]

ArtSmacked Editor, Stephanie Cotela Tanner will be teaching a short-course for the WEA (Worker’s Educational Association) in London this spring. American Artists Abroad: Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt is a survey of 3 major American artists who have spent their artistically-prolific years working in Europe and have greatly influenced both American and European modern art. Throughout the … [Read more...]

Earlier this month a rash of over 80 tornadoes swept through Midwest America. American artist, Staci Brown is currently donating 30% of all sales to the American Red Cross to support tornado victims. Brown is an emerging, self-taught artist whose style combines a gentle flirtation between abstraction and suggestive realism. Having spent her childhood in New York’s Hudson River Valley, an … [Read more...]