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Armory Arts Week, NYC 2015, The Galleries and The Artists

ART ARMORY ARTS WEEK  NYC, 2015 MARCH 4-8 Plus Our Post Script:  A Listing of Galleries  and Artists New York’s annual Armory Arts Week is about conveniently viewing a huge survey of new art by living artists from around the world, and masterworks from the 20th Century. Unlike a museum show, all of this art […]

Art Critics: Roberta Smith & Jerry Saltz, “Seeing Out Loud!” (Special Issue)

Roberta Smith (left) and Jerry Saltz (right) on the speaker’s stage addressing a packed house, for a Clyfford Still Museum speaking event held at the Denver Art Museum Feb. 12, 2015. ART Roberta Smith & Jerry Saltz  Seeing Out Loud! “Friends of Clyfford Still”  Winter Keynote Program INTRODUCTION On Thursday, February 12, 2015, The Clyfford Still Museum, […]

Digital Artworks by the Artist Jack A. Atkinson + Food: Boiled Custard

The basis for all of Jack A. Atkinson’s art are preliminary monotone, ink and brush works usually painted in the moment, from life –  then converted into digital outputs as the final presentation. ART: “Picturing the  Essence of Life: Energy!” Digital Artworks by Jack A. Atkinson (Editor’s Note: Jack A. Atkinson is the Editor & […]

Bauhaus Costume Parties 1924-1926 + Food: Couscous Salad

ART Bauhaus Costume Parties 1924-1926 Photos by Oskar Schlemmer (See our postscript section below for the complete article on the Bauhaus, published in 1925.) FOOD Couscous Salad with Cucumbers, Peppers and Tomatoes A delicious meal by itself, which should be served with a multi grain pita on the side. Ingredients 1 cup (6 oz) couscous 2 green bell […]

The Art of Combat for Knights c.1500s + Food: QUICHE LORAINE

  ART   An Illustrated sword fighting manual Art of Combat for Knights c.1500s Manual Title: Der Fechtkampf Date: 16th Century Media: Watercolor & Ink Location: State Library of Berlin This German manual was created to instruct knights in fighting techniques with their longswords.   The Longsword of the Middle Ages: The Longsword is a type of European sword […]

It’s Super Bowl Week – Is there Football Art? + FOOD: Hot Wings!

Football Players, 1942, Alfred Bendiner, American 1899 – 1964 © Philidelphia Museum of Art ART American FOOTBALL & ART With the Super Bowl (An Unofficial American Holiday) being played this weekend, here is a quick look at football art. Which has more attendance in the USA, football or art?   The AAMD (Assoc. of Art Museum Directors) museums […]

Tomma Abts: Mainly Drawings (Aspen Art Museum) + FOOD Buttermilk CHESS PIE

ART “Tomma Abts:  Mainly Drawings”  Aspen Art Museum Exhibition Tomma Abts creates her paintings and drawings using a rigorous process that combines the rational with the intuitive. Starting with no external source material and no preconceived idea of the final result, Abts makes complex abstract compositions that ultimately take as their subject the process of […]

Selected Art Videos from Various Museums + FOOD: Ham Broth & Vegetables

ART “Late Rembrandt” Exhibition at the Rijksmuseum Crystal Bridges through the eyes of P. Allen Smith DAM The Denver Art Museum and Nick Cave’s Graphic Explosion of Movement 75 Years of The Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN   The Art Institute of Chicago Impressionism + An Encycolpedic Museum x x The Modern an art museum in […]

The Natl. Western = A Different Kind of Parade (Photo Essay) + FOOD: Garlic Mashed Cauliflower

ART A PHOTO ESSAY The National Western Stock Show & Rodeo has a “different” kind of parade through a modern day canyon of office buildings in Denver, Colorado.   The recent National Western Stock Show and Rodeo Parade through Downtown Denver, Colorado was unlike most other city parades. For 45 minutes 17th Street in downtown […]

2014 / 2015 A Look Back & A Look Forward

ART of LIFE A Look Back & A Look Forward!  Fortune Magazine Ponders 2015 Courtesy of Fortune Magazine (CLICK LINK BELOW TO GO TO FORTUNE’S WEBSITE)   (http://fortune.com/2014/12/04/predictions-2015-future-business/) (Source: Fortune Magazine, Researched and written by Scott Cendrowski, Erika Fry, Leigh Gallagher, Stephen Gandel, Erin Griffith, Robert Hackett, Beth Kowitt, Adam Lashinsky, JP Mangalindan, Chris Matthews, Tory Newmyer, […]