Picasso is having a renaissance in New York City and is the bark of the town! Two noted galleries recently opened exhibitions featuring Picasso. The Gagosian Gallery is presenting Picasso and the Camera, curated by Picasso biographer John Richardson. The exhibition reveals how Picasso used photography for over sixty years as an […]
Ruben & Isabel Toledo: Pet Artist & Fashion Designer For Michelle Obama
Pet artist and designer Ruben Toledo’s creative influence has little, if any, boundaries. He is, as his official biography describes, “at once a painter, sculptor, illustrator, fashion chronicler and critic;” Toledo himself says that he is simply an artist – he “tells stories and invents ideas, and tries to express emotions in a visual […]
Uggie The Hollywood Canine Superstar Passed To The Big Dog Park In The Sky
Animal Fair Media is sad to announce that Uggie, the Jack Russell Terrier actor, known for his amazing stunts in movies was put to sleep after battling prostate cancer. Uggie won the Palm Dog Award during the 2011 Cannes Film Festival for his amazing stunt work in the movie The Artist. The Artist […]
Live and Let Drive: 007 Designs License Plates for Pets
Californians may have gotten used to having the Terminator as their governor, but what about James Bond designing pet-friendly license plates? Pierce Brosnan, actor and international super-stud, recently unveiled his original artwork for a new California license plate with some purr-sonality. The tags feature a painting by the former 007 of his dog, Shilo, […]
Animals in Art – Ross Bleckner
They seem like little people stuck in dog bodies. Ross Bleckner has been showing his work at the Mary Boone Gallery in Chelsea since the early eighties. He lives with two dachshunds in New York’s TriBeCa for part of the year. The rest of the time he spends in East Hampton, in Truman Capote’s former […]
Tails of Arf Deco… It Began With a Wag!
Arf Deco history unleashed itself at the 30th annual Art Deco Weekend in Miami Beach. WOOF Patrol™, an online dog community sans woodchips, in partnership with The Miami Design Preservation League, embarked on a parade embracing 1926 Arf Deco history. Over 250 dogs and their owners, surrounded by an additional pack of 100,000 Art Deco […]