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 […]
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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 […]
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“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 […]
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Artist Mick Madzo from Excelsior, MN ART: This Denver Arts Festival brings together artists from across the USA Every Fourth of July weekend, Denver Colorado hosts the Cherry Creek Arts Festival in it’s upscale Cherry Creek shopping district. It is a very competitive, juried festival and the artists are selected from around the […]
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ART: Review of the art fair: ART HK 11 Asia’s preeminent Art Fair and one of the most eagerly anticipated events on the international art calendar was held at the Convention and Exhibition Center in Hong Kong, where 260 galleries from 38 countries came together to offer the largest display of contemporary art ever on view […]
Dear Readers I will be on vacation for a week and will not have access to a computer. Enjoy checking out many of the web sites for the galleries at last week’s Art Basel. I have also included a new video of the fair and I have divided the […]
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ARTS ART /42 / BASEL Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. More than 2,500 artists, ranging from the great masters of Modern art to the latest generation of emerging stars, are represented in the show’s multiple sections. The exhibition includes the highest-quality paintings, sculptures, drawings, […]
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Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774–1840) Woman at the Window, 1822 Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie ART: Now Showing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC “ROOMS WITH A VIEW: THE OPEN WINDOW IN THE 19TH CENTURY” Exhibition runs through July 4, 2011 I had the privilege to spend quite a bit of time […]
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ART New Sculpture in Rome, Everyone is a critic! A new 16 foot tall bronze statue of Pope John Paul II was recently unveiled in the piazza of Rome’s main train station to a public outcry. The conceptual sculpture depicts an abstracted Pope opening his cape to embrace […]
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FOLK ART Hex Signs In Pennsylvania Dutch Country First, a little background about the Old Order Amish in Pennsylvania. Amish drive only horse drawn carriages. All around the Pennsylvania towns of Intercourse, Bird-in-Hand and Paradise are Amish communities made up of German speakers of Swiss origin – a devotedly faithful subgroup Mennonites. The Amish are […]