Owner Valentina Puccioni: “I understand well the artist’s needs and priorities.” Born in Florence, Italy, Valentina graduated from the University of Siena, Italy, with a Masters in Modern Art History. She moved to New York City when she turned twenty to live with her future husband, artist Ruggero Vanni, starting her career as an architectural…
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Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
February 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Beloved Grafitti in Texas In Keller, Texas, a graffiti artist has been at work painting under its Bear Creek Parkway Bridge. After the first painting of a doe…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Book: Colonel Lágrimas: A Novel Brooklyn, NY: Restless Books, October 4, 2016 (208 pp; $15.99 paperback, $14.99 eBook), ISBN 978-1632061034. Published in Spanish by Anagrama (2015). Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell. Author: Carlos Fonseca Carlos Fonseca Suárez, who lives in London,…
Exhibition: Let The Garden Eram Flourish
A New Exhibition by Bahar Behbahani By Susan B. Apel Does beauty exist, untainted? If an argument, or a tragedy, occurs in your favorite room, can it remain your peaceful place or is it changed? If so, is it forever ruined, or does beauty subsume any ugliness in its midst? Artist Bahar Behbahani asks these…
Art Spotlight: Keith Plummer
Sedna, Goddess of the Sea See Keith Plummer’s work in Vol. V #1 Bone, copper sculpture 6″ x 18″ x 4″ Legend of Sedna, Goddess of the Sea Sedna is an Inuit legend about a sea goddess who becomes the mother of all sea creatures. According to the legend, Sedna lived on the Arctic with…
Imaginary Realms
A Photographer’s Exploration of a Crystal By George Fellner See his work in Vol. V #1 As a fine art photographer, stones serve as one of my primary subjects, and I often frequent mineral shops or mineral trade shows, intuitively seeking out visual languages. A stone may trigger the memory of a childhood dream or…
Book Review: In Sunlight or In Shadow
Writing Inspired by Edward Hopper By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor IN SUNLIGHT OR IN SHADOW: STORIES INSPIRED BY THE PAINTINGS OF EDWARD HOPPER, ed Lawrence Block (Pegasus, 2016). 288pp. $19.70. Mystery writer Lawrence Block had an idea. He had always loved Edward Hopper’s paintings. Why not solicit other popular writers to choose a Hopper painting…
Pamela Painter: Office at Night
Ekphrastic Flash Fiction Story by Pamela Painter Animated/Narrated by Anthony Russo Pamela Painter has had stories published in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Kenyon Review, North American Review, and Ploughshares. A three-time Pushcart Prize winner, Painter is a professor for the Writing, Literature & Publishing program at Emerson College. “Office at Night” was published in Smokelong Quarterly in 2009. Anthony…
From the Editor: WTP Roundup
February 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Our first issue of 2017 is out! And it’s our first issue requiring a subscription—these subscription numbers are crucial to our long-term survival. Just enter your email and we will arrive once a month in your inbox. We remain forever (hopefully) free. On other fronts: We published our first…
Site Review: Keith Plummer, Sculptor
Conceptual Sculptures Made of Bone By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Submit your website for review by WTP Keith Plummer is an innovative, self-taught sculptor living in Coastal Maine. Relying on unconventional and ancient techniques, he crafts his sculptures from bone, wood, and metal; and one of these highly conceptual works greets you on his homepage: These…
Art Spotlight: Janice Mason Steeves
Gathering Light 28 See her work in Vol. V #1 Oil/cold wax medium on canvas 60″ x 60″ My work is composed of larger meditative paintings on panel or canvas that were painted in my studio at home, and were inspired by travels to Scotland and Sweden; and smaller, more gestural works on paper that…
East Asian water-ink painting
By Sungsook Hong Setton The plum blossom, orchid, chrysanthemum, and bamboo are considered the four noble (‘gentlemen’) plants. When I studied with Master Chang in the 1980s I was restricted to learning only one stroke per month of study. The orchid leaf stroke was first, and he did not teach me anything else until I nearly…