The Paper Crane

Recently due to some very strange cir­cum­stances, I was con­nected with the lovely Amanda Rivkin, a bril­liant Chicago Pho­to­jour­nal­ists who cov­ered the Obama’s elec­tion night and the final days of the Blago­je­vich tri­als. Her pho­tographs are pow­er­fully strik­ing, rich and iconic. Miss Rivkin is a young and true tal­ent. For…

The paint­ings below are some of my favorites by painters I admire the most.

Joan Mitchell.I could stare at this paint­ing for hours. I love Joan Mitchell’s pait­nings. The dynamic energy and color in her early paint­ings are bril­liant. Her land­scapes evoke a tumult of emo­tion from docile to chaotic and…

Dear friends,Please join us June 20th from 6–10 June 20th at 3016 W. Logan Blvd for The Vio­lin The Bird and The Wolf, an exhi­bi­tion of new paint­ings by Chicago artist David B. Keel.see more work here

This morn­ing there was a great arti­cle on the NYTimes.com about how the reces­sion is effect­ing artists. You can read it here