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Featured Artist: Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha

Edward Joseph Ruscha IV (pronouned roo-SHAY) born December 16, 1937, is an American artist associated with the pop art movement in California. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California. Ruscha, originally from Oklahoma, studied art in Los Angeles at the Chouinard Art Institute from 1956 […]

Isabella Di Sclafani: Featured Artist

Isabella di Scalafani

  At “The Other Art Fair” last spring in Brooklyn, NY, we discovered the work of Isabella Di Sclafani. Born and raised in Montreal where she still lives and works full-time as a painter. Di Sclafadni is inspired by just about anything: sunsets, TV shows, movie trailers, magazines, food packaging, other people, bus rides, etc. I mostly paint portraits, […]

Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (AD1300 ’till Now) at The Met Breuer

sculpture comes to life

NSFW EDITOR’S NOTE: this article includes photos of man-made NUDE SCULPTURES from the most visited museum in NYC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (This exhibition at the Met Breuer on Madison Ave. location.)  This exhibition features classical, modern and contemporary nude sculptures. People nonchalantly walk past these types of man-made sculptural objects every day of the year in […]

Social Consciousness: A Planet Better with Climate Neutral Restaurants

Sustainability? Zero Food Print has an IDEA worth hearing! ZeroFoodPrint.com (works with restauranteurs all over the world committed to fighting climate change.) The non-profit organization based in San Francisco works with restaurants to help them understand the driving factors of their carbon footprint and reduce it. Last year, more than 100 restaurants joined ZeroFoodPrint in […]

Summer Produce – The Farmer’s Market (A Photo Essay)

Pumpkins

Summer Produce (A Photo Essay) Going to shop for fresh produce from a local Farmer’s Market is one of today’s most enjoyable routine tasks. The produce is usually very local, with that just-picked-freshness! Below our editor & publisher has created a photo essay, showing the beauty of a simple farmers market. by Jack A. Atkinson […]

Women in Speedo – It’s All About Feeling Comfortable When Swimwear is Required

SWIMSUITS FOR WOMEN As new technologies, fabrics and fashion trends have transformed the swimwear industry, Speedo has continued to change the look of their competitive and recreational swimwear to suit the needs of beach, pool and lake goers worldwide. Choose from their huge selection of swimsuits from modest to tiny bikini to competitive swimwear, perfect for serious lap […]

At The Met – A New Collection of William Eggleston Dye-Transfer Prints

boy at grocery

(Photo by William Eggleston: Title: Memphis, c. 1965, Dye-Transfer print, made 2002) Editor’s Note: Collector Jade Lau has gifted this fabulous collection of William Eggleston dye-transfer prints to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. This spring (2018) they gladly honored Lau’s gift with a special exhibition of the prints. The photos shown here are copies taken […]

Vegan Ratatouille –

Vegan Ratatouille

  Vegan Ratatouille With colorful layers of fresh squash, eggplant, and tomatoes, in a garlicky tomato sauce, this vegan casserole is perfect when you want a comforting dish without a ton of calories. This dish (Ratatouille) is so good Pixar even made an animated movie about it! Serve Ratatouille as an entree over steamed rice […]

“Before the Fall” : ILLUSIONISM & CHAOS INSUED at the Neue Gallerie

Hitler

Photo used in editorial support for the book “Before the Fall” published by Prestel. (See Amazon.com book availability at the end of this article.) BEFORE THE FALL, German and Austrian Art of the 1930s an Exhibition at Neue Gallerie, NYC   The reason the artworks in this article are tiny and impossible to see thumbprints, leaving […]