Ilan Stavans – Jorge J. E. Gracia Durante los últimos años, el crítico cultural Ilan Stavans y el filósofo analítico Jorge J. E. Gracia han participado en una serie de diálogos sobre […]
Sobre desecración: Andrés Serrano, Piss christ.
Henry Ballate
Henry Ballate M.F.A. is University Professor of Art History. Specializes in Modern art and contemporary art, with particular interests in classical iconography, from the Renaissance to popular culture images. Henry has over 20 years of combined experience as a Visual artist and graphic designer. Henry’s artwork is instantly recognizable through his use of well-known visual arts iconography. His pieces use historical works of art that deal with provocative and suggestive themes as a foundation augmenting them with today’s popular images. He creates these works by mixing traditional methods of painting with innovative techniques creating new works that are rooted in art history while retaining contemporary relevance. Throughout his career, Henry’s work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, America, and Asia.
EL JARDÍN DE ALDO MENÉNDEZ
Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly A girl with kaleidoscope eyes. John Lennon El collage se hace […]
The Serious and the Smirk: The Smile in Portraiture
Why do we so seldom see people smiling in painted portraits? Nicholas Jeeves explores the history of the smile through the ages of portraiture, from Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to Alexander Gardner’s photographs of […]
Uno de los secretos mejor guardados del arte cubano
Después de 1959, en Cuba cientos de tesoros nacionales fueron destruidos o confiscados, entre ellos una suma de artefactos de la cultura griega que más tarde aparece en la Unión Soviética, dando […]
Perfiles de Astrid Alcayaga
El pasado Junio 03 de 2017, se inauguró la Exposición “Perfiles” de Astrid Alcayaga, artista de la plástica, la muestra estará hasta el día Junio 30 de 2017, en la galería Art Emporium, ubicada en 710 […]
Marcel Duchamp: Elle a Chaud au Cul
Appropriation in Art by Henry Ballate Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp; Born in Normandy in northern France, (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968). Duchamp traveled back and forth between Europe and the United States […]
NUEVOS CAPRICHOS by Yuniel Delgado
“It is the highest function of art to tell us who we are.” John Russell. Vargas Gallery, in collaboration with the Art Department at Vargas University, is proud to present Nuevos Caprichos, […]
THE INSTANT OF WATER Luis Vega
The Americas Collection Fine Art presenta la exhibición THE INSTANT OF WATER de Luis Vegade el próximo Jueves 16 de Febrero en el 4213 Ponce de León Blvd, Coral Gables, de 7pm. a […]
100 years of Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp: His use of irony, puns, alliteration, and paradox. Embodying the intellect of his literary contemporaries Marcel Proust and James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) has been aptly described by the painter […]
Exhibition | Endless Space, Ernesto Gutiérrez
Vargas Gallery, in collaboration with the Art Department of Vargas University, is proud to present Endless Space a solo exhibition of Ernesto Gutiérrez. Curated by Henry Ballate M.F.A. this exhibition reveals the […]
