Sarah Balcombe is an architect, artist and founding editor of the arts blog www.manhattanmodernist.com. When not writing, she is painting. See her artwork at www.sarahbalcombe.com and on artnet.com and follow her on Twitter @manhattanmodern.
Sarah Balcombe
By Sarah Balcombe
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Art At the age of 95, an American Jewish artist finally gets his due
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens, painter Alex Katz is bound for the Guggenheim in Manhattan
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Culture The artist who transfixed Albert Einstein and Jean-Paul Sartre
As a teenager I would often mistake Alexander Calder’s work for that of Joan Miró and sometimes even Picasso. Bold, playful and abstract, the sculpture of these three art giants appeared interchangeable. Visits to Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona and Musée Picasso in Paris only seemed to confirm Calder’s European influences, even though the darker…
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Culture OY! OOF! BLAH! An artist’s guide to the three stages of grief
While I was working as an architect in Holborn, London, one of my guilty pleasures was popping into the nearby British Museum during my lunch hour. Little did I appreciate the positive effects that this was having on my well-being. According to a 2006 study on London City workers by Angela Chow of University of…
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