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SANFORD BIGGERS’ postmodern explorations of racial identity evade classification and are often quite funny.  ART COMING SOON Sanford Biggers at the Brooklyn Museum NOW SHOWING  Sanford Biggers at the SculptureCenter  in Long Island City   Artist Sanford Biggers has a large-scale installation of his new work Cosmic Voodoo Circus at the SculptureCenter, in Long Island City (September 10-November 28) and a 13-piece […]

We are postponing our coverage of the new fall season in deference to the ten year anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy.   “Tribute in Light” commemorates the 9/11 attacks with a reminder of the towers that used to be. The lights shine into the sky and infinity. Photograph courtesy of Alina Oswald Photography, copyright 2010.   […]

In my camera – a picture at the Metropolitan Museum.   ART End of Summer = End of Year = BEGINNING OF THE NEW ART SEASON! Summer is ending and in the US, summertime is when we give ourselves permission to relax, do things out-of-doors and actually stop thinking about work for a week or two. […]

  “The Modern” Art Museum of Fort Worth (above) was designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. It has five flat-roofed glass pavilions magically rising out of a beautiful reflecting pool. All of Fort Worth’s Art Museums were designed by world renowned architects: the Kimbell Art Museum was designed by Louis I. Kahn with an annex […]

  ART If Gold and Jewels are the Medium – What is the Message?   With the value of gold soaring towards $2000 an ounce, I thought it was a good time to feature art made of precious materials. When I was in undergraduate school, one of my Art History professors said something nonchalantly that stuck […]

  ART: FASHION at the MET Alexander McQueen was the greatest fashion designer of his generation, admired by his peers for technical detail and idolized by students of design for his fearless risk-taking. “Lee” McQueen, as his friends called him, committed suicide last year at the age of 40. He once said, “People don’t want to see clothes. […]

ART: Norman Rockwell  at The White House The famous Norman Rockwell painting, “The Problem We All Live With”, shows a young black girl, Ruby Bridges, on her way to start first grade in New Orleans, after the school board mandated desegregation of two New Orleans schools. This depicts an actual event which happened in 1960. The […]

Aerial view of Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao   ART: The Fun Architecture  of Frank Gehry Architect Frank Gehry thought his long career was coming to a graceful end before lightening struck, when he designed a single building in a relatively unknown city in Spain. The year was 1997 and the city was Bilbao, Spain when […]

“Blow-Ups” – ink on art paper – Art as Journalism “painting  from life as it unfolds in front of me” – by Jack Atkinson   ART: Dr. David Holcombe on Art Collecting  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvsMYf4SqVw 1 BREAKING NEWS: Original Art and original editioned art is better than museum posters. Even bad original art is better than a museum […]