ART – Now Showing: Tara Donovan – Drawing (Pins) detail below Artist Tara Donovan makes large-scale sculptures and beautiful wall objects from drinking straws, buttons, pins, No. 2 pencils, etc. She allows the shape of the object to determine the form, transcending the commonplace usage of their intended purpose. Donovan, age 42, earned a $500,000 […]
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A Mark Rothko Painting in Houston’s Rothko Chapel. Art: Enjoying HOUSTON’S ROTHKO CHAPEL “The Rothko Chapel is a place apart. It calls for a different form of attention, a more hypnotic gaze than we are accustomed to expect.” –David Anfam If you are ever in Houston, Texas, you must search out and visit the […]
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Now Showing: At MoMA – Picasso Guitars 1912-1914 At the Met – Guitar Heroes Sometimes things just come at us in waves for reasons we never quite understand. 2011 might be the Chinese “Year of the Rabbit”, but it looks more like the year of the guitar everywhere I look. At the Museum of […]
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To skip to the Valentines Issue, which has also been expanded, click here. PressPausePlay – a new creative era! PressPausePlay is an exploration into how the audio, video, and film world is changing with both old and new technologies leading the way. Mainly the Internet and small affordable equipment have created a democratization of recording […]
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Chopin – The Poet of the Piano You and your Valentine should pour two glasses of champagne, sit on the couch touching shoulders, close your eyes and listen intently to Chopin’s Fantaisie Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. 66 while you sip your bubbly. You will definitely fall in love with the music, and the mood […]
SUPER BOWL SUNDAY It is our only unofficial U.S. National Holiday. 100 million viewers gather in front of a TV somewhere to watch America’s professional football championship game. More often than not, the game is less than interesting with one team dominating the other. In an effort to keep all 100,000,000 viewers tuned in, the […]
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“The Steerage” by Stieglitz – He loved to recount how Picasso had praised the collage-like dispersal of forms and shifting depths of “The Steerage” ART: Great Masters of Photography – Stieglitz, Steichen and Strand The Metropolitan Museum of Art has produced a magical exhibition from its own collection of photographic prints, taken and printed by the first great […]
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ART PEOPLE: Agnes Gund Agnes Gund has received the President’s National Medal of Arts, a Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, NYC’s Doris C. Freeman Award, the NY Governor’s Award, the Montblanc de la Culture Award, the ArtTable Award, Service to Visual Arts Award, four honorary doctorates and the Garden Lobby of MoMA is named for her. Agnes […]
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ART: Worlds Collide! International Center of Photography 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd, NY, NY 10036 January 21, 2011 – May 8, 2011 http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/wang-qingsong-when-worlds-collide Buddha, played by artist Wang Qingsong, holds up Western “material wealth” icons which now have become integrated into contemporary Chinese life. Title: Requesting Buddha No. 1, 1999 © Wang Qingsong. […]
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ART: Big Week for Collectors There are three major events in the world of art and collectibles worth visiting this week. January 22-30, 2011, Something for every collector. 1) Sotheby’s introduces its first Old Masters Week show & sale, New York City. An old master work is any European work of art from 1280 through […]