ART Shopping: Dinosaurs are Back For Halloween Costumes Ever since I visited the Sternberg Natural History Museum in Kansas I have been on a Dinosaur kick. While looking at different dino images on the web I came across these Dinosaur Holloween costumes for kids, adults & dogs! I will have more ART in the next […]
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ART & FOOD: Today – Traditional Beach Side New England Clambakes are Few and Far Between! (A photo essay by Jack A. Atkinson & friends) This month my family was lucky enough to attend a classic New England Clambake, organized by Forest Lowry and his cousin Dan Clark, on their private beach in Connecticut. […]
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At the entrance to the exhibition is a giant table and chairs. The scale makes adults feel like small children again. The large blow-ups are photographs by Jens S. Jensen (Swedish, born 1946). Boy on the Wall, Hammarkullen, Gothenburg. 1973. Photograph of Michael (age 9). Gelatin silver print, 9 7/16 x 11 3/4″ (24 x […]
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Michelangelo’s David in Florence, Italy (detail) ART: Advice is cheap but here goes – I may ramble a bit. Recently, I was asked to give some advice to an artist who was about to launch from school into the real world of the arts. Dear Emerging Artist: – Honestly, luck plays a huge role in […]
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This hanging Brachauchenius is reminiscent of the dinosaurs hanging in the lobby of the visitor’s center in “Jurassic Park”, the movie. A Tyrannosaurid (T-Rex) viewed through the trees on the 2nd floor of the museum. The museum has 3,750,000 specimens of fossils*, mostly from the Cretaceous Period. Above, many dinosaurs have long been known to run in […]
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As the Summer of 2012 is ending, we are all busy trying to squeeze in everything we want to get done – even then leaving many items not crossed off the list, but saved for next summer. Personally, this is a very busy time in my life, I will post a few weeks of double […]
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© Rineke Dijkstra ART Rineke Dijkstra’s Portraits show the subtle magnetism of average people. © Rineke Dijkstra © Rineke Dijkstra © Rineke Dijkstra “Self Portrait, Marnixbad, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 19, 1991.”Chromogenic print, 35 x 28 cm. © Rineke Dijkstra – Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris. Rineke Dijkstra is a talented […]
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ART Farmer’s Market A Photo Essay As the summer of 2012 comes to a close, one of the great assets of summer will also end soon – the Farmer’s Market. It is such a pleasure to buy fresh produce from these local growers, who sell their products directly to us. These […]
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Dragonfly – Ink & Brush Drawing by Jack A. Atkinson ART Drawing Although drawing has been the beginning for all art processes from Cave Painting until the 20th Century, it is a skill seldom shown in galleries today. With the onset of “Modernism”: abstraction, automatic writing, distortion, non-objective art, found objects, installations, performance art […]
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Photo courtesy of Marvin Hamlish Official Website “I have to keep reminding myself that ‘A Chorus Line’ was initially considered weird and off the wall,” … “You mustn’t underestimate an audience’s intelligence.” -Marvin Hamlisch One of America’s most talented musical artists, left us suddenly this past week. Marvin Hamlisch was also one of only two people […]