Barnaby Ruhe

Ruhe was senior editor of Art/World newspaper in the 1980s and 1990s and wrote the first New York City reviews of work by Francesco Clemente and The Starn Twins, as well as essays on Francisco de Goya, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, and Joseph Beuys.

A romantic artist, he incorporates sentiment, gesture and psychic journeying into his paintings, and he runs shaman healing workshops at Shamandome Camp at the Burning Man festival each summer.

I am a Bodhisattva.”,,, “a person brought on life to entertain the souls of all the other people out of love and sheer delight" ...[3] Ruhe is also well known for his yearly recreation of the persona of an artist in the NYC Halloween Parade.

He has taken on the role of such artists as Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Hieronymus Bosch, and Michelangelo, all executed while painting in tandem with moving down the avenue during the celebration.

[4] Ruhe also appeared on the television program "That's Incredible" demonstrating his "William Tell" trick which consists of splitting an apple on his own head with a self-propelled boomerang.