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  Tom Otterness – ‘Mama Bear’ – at The Whitney ART Museum Websites  Make for Unique Holiday Shopping  If you are looking for something different,the Museum Gift Shops could be your best option!   Craig Damrauer – “Linen Tea Towel”  at The New Museum Shop Craig Damrauer (b. in Denver, Colorado) is a graduated with an MFA from […]

ART THE NEW  CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM  A GREAT MUSEUM, FOCUSED ON  AMERICAN ART, OPENS!   18th Century: Portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stewart (detail 1797)  Mid 19th Century: Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait  “The Life of a Hunter: A Tight Fix” (1856) Mid to Late 19th Century: Winslow Homer “Spring” (1878) Mid -Late 20th Century: Louise Nevelson’s painted […]

Wheat Fields  |  ca. 1670  |  Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch)  |  Oil on canvas     ART CLOUDS Keith Christiansen, Chairman of European Paintings at Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), loves to lay back and look at clouds. He also has really looked at how clouds are depicted in paintings at the museum.   Keith Christiansen Wheat Field […]

Happy Thanksgiving America! PHOTOGRAPHY: Brandon Stanton’s Humans of  New York  Brandon Stanton, a photographer, is trying to take as many portraits of New Yorkers he possibly can (3000 snaps so far) to create a visual census of the city for 2011. His project is called Humans of New York. See his Humans of New York […]

Interior of Clyfford Still Museum (Copyright Clyfford Still Museum) ART: The New Clyfford Still Museum   Painter Clyfford Still was one of the most important abstract expressionists and ranks with the greats like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Today, 31 years after his passing, he is finally ready to exhibit his work.      Clyfford Still […]

  The artist had holes cut through the floors of The New Museum to create a two story tube slide.             ART: ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? Now Showing “Carsten Höller: Experience”  The New Museum until January 15, 2011 Exhibition Transforms the Museum Galleries into a Participatory Environment featuring a 102-foot Slide […]

Korean Eye: Energy and Matter – Kim Hyun Soo – “Breik” 2008 Sculpture is made of epoxy over steel, human hair, fur, oil paint and water based paint. On view at the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC until February 2012.   ART at “MAD” The Museum of Arts & Design Now Showing: “Korean Eye”  Korean […]

Halloween’s biggest fan is artist / filmmaker Tim Burton! ART for HALLOWEEN   Costume Ideas: This Armored All Terrain Star Wars POOCH costume went viral on the Web.                       Actual Star Wars Armored All Terrain Transports (art from wikipedia) Glow-stick people   Bathing Beauties in Balloon […]

Okamura’s “Chair” (Sculpted wood mounted to the wall. The lighting from the side creates the shadow/figure.)   ART FALL SEASON GALLERIES  (Pictured Above) Keiazburo Okamura’s wood sculptures cast beautiful shadows in the group show titled: “Sensai” which features Japanese artists at DILLON GALLERY. Dillon Gallery 555 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 212-727-8585 Insider’s Guide to NYC […]

  Artist Patrick Jackson’s “Dirt Piles on Tables” just sold for $9,000, represented by Francois Ghebaly Gallery at this year’s Frieze Art Fair – London. ART:  The Fall Season FRIEZE ART FAIR, London Testing the water for this year’s art season starts in London with friezeartfair.com. This week-end’s Art Fair will offer for sale $350m worth […]