When Steven Auerbacher and his brother were about 12 and 13, their parents would drive into Manhattan from their home in New Jersey and drop them off, alternately, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. They would then go off to attend to their business, leaving the boys to explore the museums on their own—like a daytime version of Night at the Museum.
“We would roam around the museums for a couple of hours as if they were our playground,” Auerbacher recalls. “I was interested in art and my brother was interested in animals, so we would get to choose which museum to visit based on our respective interests. I was always interested in history and other cultures and particularly liked the Egyptian, Roman and Greek statuary—more so than the paintings, at that time.
“Ours was a Eurocentric home. My father was German and my mother is a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who appreciated the fine arts. She exposed us to art, theater and museums at an early age. I think my going when so young to museums developed my deeper appreciation of art in a visceral sense,” he continues. “Later, once I bought one or two paintings, the idea grew that I could own pieces and have it be part of my life. It was an evolution. I never imagined I’d have this many pieces of art. There’s been no rhyme or reason to my eclectic collecting. ”
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Guardians of the Temple – Simon Dinnerstein reflects on The Fulbright Triptych 50 years later.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University exhibits Simon Dinnerstein's The Fulbright Triptych haunts the visual lexicon of 20th century American representational art. Fifty years have passed since Dinnerstein completed the painting in 1974.
A City Perspective
Leslie Gaduzo has always been interIested in art. Since childhood, he has been drawing constantly, from single point perspective drawings at age 10 to complex architectural drawings.
Living Legacy
The Butler Institue hosts Allied Artists of America's 110th Annual Juried Exhibition.
Elegant yet Approachable
The second edition of the RTIA Show presents even more art to explore and expanded special programming.
Figuratively Speaking
New York has always been an epicenter of artists on the edge of excellence, pushing the envelope and finding their voices.
JAMES AYERS: The Importance of Play
Like many artists, James Ayers' work took a turn during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seeing the enjoyment his kids took from playing with paint in his studio and exploring their creativity inspired him.
GINA MINICHINO: Playing with Food
Gina Minichino started her journey in visual arts because of Charles Schulz. \"He was my earliest influence for drawing and the reason I wanted to be a cartoonist,\" she says.
Island Light
The Cuttyhunk Island Artists' Residency is held in a sprawling, 100-year-old house on an island off the southern coast of Massachusetts.
Solitary Forms
Hogan Brown has been working with Arcadia Contemporary for two and half years and is excited to be featured in his first solo show at the gallery. He doesn't take for granted the many talented figurative painters Arcadia represents and is thrilled to be among them.
Living the Dream
Counterintuitively, David Gluck was a painter before taking up tattooing little more than a decade ago. While skin is a completely different substrate and ink a far cry from oil paint, the skills must be transferrable to some degree because there is a wait-time of nine months to get an appointment with him.
