Pop ARF is a creative way to describe the dog artwork of Nathan Janes. In fact, it is the title Janes has given to both his collection of paintings and to his website. Janes began his art career after graduating from the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio. At the beginning stage of […]
Pedigree Pooches Hit NYC To Strut Their Stuff!
Once a year the pace of the city changes. There is an animal energy that’s easy to sniff out and flows through the city streets the smell of hot dogs . Now I’m not talking about those pesky and sometimes terrifying city rats, or even the dumpster-diving coons, of course I’m talking about the one […]
Jackie Rogers’s Elements of Style
American fashion designer Jackie Rogers has lived a most fabulous life – and continues to do so as the head honcho of her eponymous luxury apparel line, headquartered in New York City. With her always-chic, show-dog-bred Daschund Miss Lily by her side, Rogers has become one of the most prolific, respected names in fashion. Escaping […]
The Mystery Behind Paige Powell: Finding Her Sherlock
Paige Powell crosses Portland’s Hawthorne Boulevard in pink clam diggers, a tiny tee and a pink jacket. Guiding Powell on a flowered leash is Sherlock. Sherlock, a sixty-four pound shepherd/coonhound mix has a black coat as slick as a seal. Beneath sparkling black eyes Sherlock’s face is long and narrow, culminating in a […]
Photographer Christopher Makos Taught Andy Warhol How To Take A Picture. Need We Say More?
“I sound a bit Pollyanna, don’t I,” says photographer Christopher Makos. That was probably the last word I would use to categorize the renowned artist with a photographic pedigree impossible to match. Makos apprenticed under Man Ray and was a close friend and personal photographer to Andy Warhol for the last fourteen years of […]
The Art of Simple Pleasures with Keith Haring
There was a time when art wasn’t hidden away in museums. During Europe’s Middle Ages, for example, many of the pieces we now see kept behind glass sheets and velvet ropes were simply part of daily life– their beauty and their functionality inexorably interwoven. Goblets and spoons, for instance, were objects of aesthetic appreciation […]