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The article cites several exhibitions at museums in New York City. The Metropolitan Museum will feature Girodet: Romantic Rebel, a retrospective of paintings and works on paper by the French artist Anne-Louis Girodet. Since 2000: Printmaking Now will be featured at the Museum of Modern Art.

The article highlights the paintings of watercolor artist John W. McCoy, whose work was exhibited in the Babcock Galleries in New York City until November 30, 1947. Born in Pinole, California in 1910, he studied painting in Paris, France and Stuttgart, Germany, and served as a watercolor instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy. McCoy encourages aspiring artists to practice constantly and experiment in all kinds of weather with the qualities of the transparency and opacity of their pigments to develop a strong watercolor technique.

An interview with artist and miniature sculptor Joe Fig is presented. Fig made his first real painting during his senior year as an undergraduate at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He says it was at the Scope Art Fair in Miami, Florida when he exhibited his work the first time. When asked about the kind of paints he uses, Fig says he mainly uses Gamblin and Winsor Newton.

Presents an overview of the paintings and drawings of John Singer Sargent which were donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York. Role of Emily Sargent and Violet Sargent Ormond, sisters of John, in donating his collections; Significance of the collection for the museum.

The article discusses the work of artist John Malesset. Malesset has three jobs namely restoring paintings, putting mechanical finishing touches on painting by famous artists and producing fake paintings for tourists. Malesset relates that oak is the best in terms of cracking in a painting. The author shares that the favorite job of Malesset was he was tasked to mount the ceiling of the French Building at the New York World's Fair of 1939.

The article offers information on the show entitled "Eight Contemporary Artists," assembled by curator Jennifer Licht, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Most of the artists are below 40 years of age and work in the area where conceptual art lays. The more fulfilling groups of work are by Dorothea Rockburne, Jan Dibbets and Brice Marden. Other artists include Italian Alighiero Boetti, the Frenchman Daniel Buren and the Australian Robert Hunter.

The article reviews the exhibition of paintings by Darina Karpov presented at the Pierogi gallery, New York City.

Information about several topics related to painting, which were discussed during a five-day workshop at the Art Students League of New York (ASL) in Manhattan, New York City is presented. It featured the painter, Burton Silverman, who is one of the prominent artists devoted to representational art during the rise of abstract expressionism in the 1940s and 1950s. Silverman talked about the variations between his approach to drawing and painting and the methods of others who teach art classes.

The article features artist Michiyo Fukushima and her water color depictions of New York City scenes. It describes how Fukushima became inspired to paint New York's sculptures and fire escapes. Fukushima's water color paintings were rendered from the digital photographs that she took along the streets of New York. Fukushima's techniques from capturing and editing images to transforming them into paintings are discussed. Fukushima reportedly trained with Frederick Brosen at the National Academy of Design in New York City.

The article features Dominican painter Ismael Checo and his artworks. Ismael Checo was born in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and studied at the School of Fine Arts, in Santo Domingo, before coming to New York in his early 20s. He began to take classes at the Art Students League of New York, in Manhattan, in 1984, eventually studying with Nelson Shanks. Among his artworks are "Sitting Nude Study" and "Dried Flowers."

The article focuses on the handscroll by Liu Dan entitled "Wang River Villa Again." It is indicated that Dan's handscroll was completed almost 300 years later after a painting done in the 18th century by Wang Yuanqi that provided Dan with the framework. Yuanqi finished his version of the "Wang River Villa" in 1711 and was painted using ink and colour on paper in nine months. Dan's painting was done in New York during the first month of summer 2000. Use by Dan of Yuanqi's same compositional space cells is mentioned.

The article features an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Steve DiBenedetto at the Nolan/Eckman Gallery in New York City from October 29, 2005 to December 3, 2005. It includes background information on DiBenedetto and his career as an artist, as well as a description of his works of art that were featured in the exhibition.

Features the on-site oil and pastel painting of New York artist Jay Brooks as of February 2004. Remarkable quality of the paintings of Brooks; Materials for oil painting; Techniques for pastel painting; Educational background of Brooks.

Features the paintings created by New York City-based artist Del-Bourree Bach. Description of his paintings; Benefits of working in an art studio for Bach; Approach used by Bach when working on a painting.

Offers information on the release of a limited edition of canvas paintings of Central Park in New York City.

Presents art events in New York City for the week of May 9, 1988. Exhibit of George Ault's paintings; Sculptures of Neil Jenney; Paper collages of Robert Motherwell.

Lists art exhibitions in New York City as of May 1987. Karen Erla's two gallery show of oil paintings on paper; Ron Kleeman's photo-realist paintings of inflated balloons for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade based on Norman McGrath's photographs; Dondi White's exhibition of new paintings complementing their works in the Whitney Biennal.

A personal narrative is presented in which the author discusses the development of a series of paintings that he will exhibit in New York in the fall of 1983.

The article presents the life of Sarah Newmeyer as a press agent in the fifth floor of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The museum's exhibitions included the finest collection of Italian masterpieces. Newmeyer stopped a publicity in a big show of the paintings of Salvador Dali. The author believes that as long as Sally is in the museum, it will continue to make the papers.

The article describes the procedures used by the New York City-based Hahn Brothers in crating paintings and other works of art to prepare them for transport. Through experience, the company was able to develop the special shipping containers and methods of crating and transporting art works. Emory Newcomb heads the fine arts packaging department of the company. He has experimented with various woods to find the best for resiliency and protection.

The article reviews the exhibition of paintings by Veron Urdarianu presented at the Mitchell-Innes and Nash gallery, New York City.

Reviews the exhibition "Ottocento: 19th Century Italian Painting in American Collections," held in several museums of New York City.

This article presents information related to various forthcoming arts exhibitions. The exhibition "Presence: Paintings and Works on Paper by Richard Pousette-Dart," is being held on June 12, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois. The exhibition "Constable's Skies," is being held in New York City on June 25, 2004. One Point Gallery presents abstract expressionist Jane DeDecker in a solo show in Denver, Colorado, on July 4, 2004. Scottish born artist Stuart Luke Gatherer brings his rich figurative paintings to the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery in "One-Man Exhibition," in New York City On July 10-11, 2004.

The 'Matisse Picasso' exhibition has now arrived at the United States Museum of Modern Art after packing in the crowds at Tate Modern in London, England and the Grand Palais in Paris, France. You can see that John Elderfield and Kirk Varnedoe, curators with the Museum of Modern Art, and the four other curators from England and France who collaborated on 'Matisse Picasso' were delighted with their vision of psychodrama among artistic giants. Six curators in search of two artists, a multinational curatorial entity that was in some sense pre-empted by the art historian Yve-Alain Bois, who organized 'Matisse and Picasso,' a show with a very similar theme that made a sour impression at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas in 1999.

Reviews several oil painting exhibitions in New York City, New York in 1998. "David Stern," at Rosenburg & Kaufman Fine Art, from April 18 through May 30; "Gustave Courbet: Later Paintings," at Nassau County Museum of Art, on view through May 26; "Stanley Lewis," at the Bowery Gallery from December 1998 through January 1999.

Reviews several art exhibits in New York, New York in 1999. "Deception," at Andrew Kreps; "ModernStarts," at the Museum of Modern Art; "The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000," at the Whitney Museum.

The article reviews the exhibition of paintings by Hannah van Bart, presented at the Boesky gallery, New York City.

The article reports that knock-out sales peppered the Art Dealers Association of America's Art Show, held at Park Avenues Seventh Regiment Armory, Manhattan, New York, in February. Manhattan's PaceWildenstein sold out its entire booth of Alex Katz's paintings set in Maine, with prices from $24,000 to $180,000. Also enjoying spirited sales was American paintings dealer Linda Hyman Fine Arts, who sold two Joseph Stella works, a 1919 work on paper and a 1973 painting on graph paper with felt, an Alfonso Ossorio collage and a Milton Resnick oil. New York dealer Hans Kraus sold an Edgar Degas 1895 silver print portrait to the Columbus Museum of Art for $165,000 and an 1898 Edward Steichen self-portrait.

The article offers information on an exhibition of paintings by Pablo Picasso to be held in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City from May through September 1980.

Presents information on various art exhibitions in the U.S. Details of the biennial exhibition held in the Whitney Museum in New York City, New York State; Purpose of the biennial exhibition; Various paintings of the 1950's displayed in the exhibitions; Exhibition of paintings of new artists in Corcoran biennial; Need to combine the idea of the Whitney biennial with that of the Corcoran.

Reviews the exhibition "Everlasting Gobstopper," which displayed artist Kristin Calabrese's paintings at Leo Koenig in New York. Comment on the title of the exhibition which is taken from a movie in which a Gobstopper is a candy that fills your mouth so you can not talk; Comparison of the exhibition paintings with Calabrese's earlier works related to distressed domestic interiors; Comment on the painting "Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave," which depicts a large room, crisscrossed throughout by yellow, red and purple tape.

The article offers information of Ellsworth Kelly, an artist that opens the new season at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Kelly arises closest to the spirit of classicism of all living American painters. Kelly started his classic painting when he visited an exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne that he notices the large windows between the paintings and it interested him more. Two new books on him at the MOMA show including one by Artform editor John Coplans and a catalogue by Art historian Eugene Goossen. Moreover, the author presents the experiences of Kelly and his art works including Relief with Blue 1950, Meschers 1951, and Blue Curve V 1973.

The article discusses the role of Metropolitan Museum director Francis Henry Taylor on the success of the museum in New York City. Taylor's showmanship led to an increase in the number of visitors, with 2,263,336 people going to the museum in 1951. To attract more people, the museum holds special exhibitions such as the "Art Treasures of the Metropolitan."

The article offers information on the cultural industry in Manhattan, New York City. It stresses that people in the city mostly live in apartments. It concludes that apartment living expresses the people's basic personality and impersonality. An overview of the history of apartment and building constructions in the city is also given.

The article focuses on art collector Gertrude Stein and her relationship with painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso. It is stated that while Stein considered Picasso as her spiritual brother, in 1909, Picasso created a parody of Baroque ceiling painting as a homage to the former. Stein, who started her collection with Picasso's painting "Young Girl with Basket of Flowers," had the largest collection of the painter's works in France. It is stated that the 27 Rue de Fleurus flat located in Paris, France, which Stein shared with her brother Leo Stein till 1913 had the best collection of works of several writers and artists. It is reported that after the deaths of Leo and Gertrude, an exhibition was conducted by Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which included 110 paintings of Picasso.

The article discusses some of the paintings and sculptures of Maurice Sterne to be shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The statue of the girl sitting in Worcester monument or the Bomb Thrower from the Metropolitan is carved from a block of Greek marble founder in the Tiber. The large canvas of "American in Anticoli," is the masterpiece of the exhibition.

The article reports on the acquisition of a series of works on paper by American artist Jasper Johns series by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The works were created in 2001 and were drawn from a larger body of work called the "Catenary" series, derived for the curve that is formed by a cord hanging between two fixed points. These works are comprised of acrylic, collage, watercolor, and gouache, over aquatint and etching.