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 […]
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ART: Graffiti Artist: Bansky BANSKY is one of the world’s favorite artistic rebels. Realistically there is graffiti the “art form” and there is graffiti “the crime”. The latter is spray-paint illegally and poorly applied to other’s property caused by the misplaced thoughts of an immature brain to gain street creds from a peer group. The […]
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IN NEW ZEALAND: Dismemberment Site 1, 2003-09 © Artist Anish KapoorDismemberment Site I is explicitly Land Art, as underscored by its title and the term “site”. Its anchoring in the landscape is both spectacular and supernatural; will his artwork “dismember” the hill by appearing as a shape oscillating between muscle and an ancestral trumpet? As is often the […]
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ART The Venice Biennale June 4 – Nov. 27th In the last issue I featured the artists selected for the US Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale and in this issue I want to share some of the other art available at this 54th “Worlds Fair of Art” in Venice, Italy. The selection of Pavilions […]
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The collabrative performance art team of Allora & Calzadilla, from Puerto Rico, will represent the USA at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Above their prop for: “Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on ‘Ode to Joy’ for a Prepared Piano” ART Coming Soon The Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale is one of the most prestigious contemporary arts […]
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NOW SHOWING “CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS” A Film By Director Werner Herzog has just been released in selected theaters. Above is a photo of the interior of an ancient cave in the Ardeche region of southern France. A cave filled with hundreds of 35,000 year-old wall paintings of animals which have been protected from the elements ever since a […]
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Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926 Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son 1875 Oil on canvas – National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.29 ART NOW SHOWING: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces From the National Gallery of Art While taking an Easter trip through the southern US, I […]
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ART: Now Showing Last Chance to View George Condo: Mental States at NYC’s New Museum Painter and Sculptor George Condo, born 1957 in New Hampshire, has three-decade’s of his work displayed on the walls of the New Museum, in NYC. He studied art history and music theory at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, but […]