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Detail of a “Public” Poster (for Hamlet) painted by Paul Davis.   Director Joe Papp Artist Paul Davis ART PAUL DAVIS PAINTS THE “FACES”  of the PUBLIC THEATER, NYC Last week, the Public Theatre turned the lobby of its Newman Theatre into a gallery showing an exhibition of their theatrical-posters by artist Paul Davis. For sixteen […]

This statue at Coventry Cathedral in England is by sculptor Josefina de Vasconcellos, who made it at the age of 90. It was installed at the Cathedral in 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. Replicas of this statue can be found in Berlin, Hiroshima, Dresden and Belfast. THE QUEEN’S SPEECH, 2014 England’s Offical […]

    ART:  Giovanni Battista Braccelli –  Surrealism Seems to Have Been Invented in 1624 SURREALISM (definition) a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, often using irrational images and odd juxtapositions. The Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Réserve des livres rares has released this compilation of amazing engravings […]

The Thinker, by August Rodin  (French, 1840-1917) this version from The Baltimore Museum of Art   $89.85 11.75″ tall   Bonded Bronze  The Thinker is a statue by Auguste Roden, intended to represent Dante himself at the top of a monumental sculptured door based on his Divine Comedy. He is reflecting on the scene below. However, […]

As you walk into 21c, behind the front desk are three Kehinde Wiley oil paintings. (above) Kehinde Wiley’s “The Prophet and the King II (Columbus)” 2006 ART A Night in the Museum The 21c Museum Hotel where you sleep with the art! 21c founders: Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson Museum Director: Alice Gray Hidden in the […]

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in Bentonville, Arkansas has become one of the great destination museums of the world. Photo By Arkansas Parks and Tourism State of the Art / Artist: Teri Greeves from Santa Fe, NM, exhibits her “Abstraction-Kiowa by Design” created this year, 2014, and made from canvas, beads, (sneaker elements) and high heels.. […]

ART Samurai Armor at LACMA LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) presents an exhibition of samurai armor on loan from the collection of the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum in Dallas. The Barbier-Mueller has one of the largest and most important collections of its kind in the world. It is composed of nearly three […]

Marine diatoms are one of the smallest creatures on Earth. UK-based biologist Klaus Kemp and “filmographer” Matthew Killip teamed up to showcase these minuscule organisms’ diverse beauty. ART DIATOMS are used to create microscopic art Otherworldly beauty can be found in microscopic organisms! (Source:  Science Alert Magazine, author: Bec Crew & The Diatomist Magaizine, Author: Miss […]

ART Halloween Costumes  on the Streets on New York City A PHOTO ESSAY BY JACK A. ATKINSON Sometimes it’s difficult to determine if the people walking down the streets of New York City on October 31st each year are dressed up in costumes or if that is just the way they roll in this city […]

“A Dash for the Timber” (1889) by artist Frederic Remington ART Examining Remington’s “A Dash for  the Timber” Oil on Canvas (c. 1889) The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Ft. Worth, Texas ——————— From time to time ARTSnFOOD selects a work of art to examine, very closely. This week we take a look at “A Dash […]