Crimes of Art Passion

I don’t know about you, but the term “art crime” makes me feel giddy inside.  I’ve been trying to figure out a way to get on the FBI’s Art Theft Task Force for about 6 years now, but my steady barrage of infiltration tactics does not work on those people. My new favorite art criminal [...]

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The New York Times Talks Street Art

The 5 Year Anniversary show at Jonathan Levine Gallery runs through the end of March. I was checking out the work online and just happened to catch the fact that Jonathan, his artists, and a run down of the street art genre was featured in a New York Times article. It’s a nice first attempt [...]

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Call For Submissions: A&O’s Questions From A Young Artist Series

Attention all artists and art enthusiasts! Argot & Ochre is currently accepting submissions for the “Questions From a Young Artist” series. This series was inspired by the book “Letters to a Young Artist”, an anthology of letters written by established artists responding to a question posed by a fictitious “art school grad” struggling with making [...]

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Tracking Transience: The Art of Hasan Elahi

In the recent Winter issue of Colors Magazine, there is an article on the art of surveillance that is quite intriguing. The featured work belongs to Hasan Elahi who, in 2002, was stopped by the FBI at the Detroit airport and questioned about his whereabouts on September 11th.

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Field Trip: CCA Spring Fair

Spring is here which means cherry blossoms and grad shows. I stopped by CCA’s Oakland campus for their Spring Fair to check out the arts and crafts of their emerging artists. I happened to run into

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The Day’s Agenda

Good morning and happy Monday! How would you like this handsome guy to wake you up every day? Might not be so bad… Anyway! I have a big day planned today with lots of visits with some of my favorite artists. First, I’ll be swinging by the studio of Jane Kim – she’s doing a [...]

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One of those days

The sky threatened rain but had little to show for it. I was hoping for an excuse to stay inside all day today too.

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Welcome to Argot & Ochre!

My love of art all began with a requisite, History of Western Art class in college and this painting: “Wheat Field With Crows” by Van Gogh. I decided to create this site as an ode to the cafés of Montmartre in the 1800′s; places like Chat Noir and Moulin Rouge. Artists, poets, pimps, and prostitutes [...]

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