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Art & Culture

Photography as Art?

It used to be, but the medium has evolved away from its roots. Photography, as we knew it as young people, has come to a serious fork in the road and needs to stand up again, make choices and...

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Rene Magritte

Surrealist painter or visual poet? Several days ago, while chatting with a friend we broached the subject of  who is the greatest artist ever. We used the term ‘artist’ to mean painter. Now this chap...

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Challenges in Portrait Painting

Robin Wellner – Experimenting with colors and brushstrokes Robin Wellner was born in Morristown, NJ in 1952. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and continued her...

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Artists on Iphones

Perspectives of artist Marsha Hammel. So you can get to know Marsha better, we’ve conducted a brief interview with her using only  a simple iPhone 6+. We’ll be running “Artists on...

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First Edition Books

Why…What for…How Much? A first edition is the first run of a book or other printed matter that comes from the printer.  It’s that simple, or is it? As quoted on eBay : “First editions...

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Artist Paul Hastings

From Hyper-realism to Surrealism, Paul Hastings covers both, and everything in between. North Carolina native Paul Hastings has been creating incredibly vividoil paintings for the past 18 years. His...

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Playing the Banjo…

And Changing My Life. I was born in New York City and grew up on that small island that was purchased from several groups of Native Americans for a pile of breads and a bag full of fake jewelry. I...

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Comic Books

If you want Great Art, and Great Value Potential… buy a Comic Book! We all have heard the stories about how your mother threw out your baseball cards that would have been worth millions today. Get...

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Ira Bernstein

The hippest thing in music and dance is not always the newest thing. The old adage ‘everything old is new again’ certainly holds true in music and dance. ​Appalachian Dance has been around since the...

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Photographer Mark Moskowitz

Images from the Middle East. Mark is an internationally known photographer who has exhibited in Europe, North Africa, and the U.S. He developed an interest in photography while attending Syracuse...