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The Chicago Picasso ART: PUBLIC SCULPTURE The “Chicago Picasso” in Daley Plaza, Chicago, IL. Up in the sky – it’s a Bird, no it’s an Afghan Dog, no it’s a Baboon! Seriously, what is it? It IS an abstracted Picasso sculpture of a Woman’s Head. Wouldn’t you be disappointed if a Picasso wasn’t slightly weird! […]
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ART NOW SHOWING: “Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart’s Renaissance” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. Jan Gossart has never before been the subject of an exhibition in the United States. The Met’s show includes 50 of the artist’s 63 known paintings, 35 drawings, and six prints from collections in the U.S. and […]
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ART – “William Eggleston is widely recognized as a master of color photography, a poet of the mundane, and proponent of the democratic treatment of his subjects. His inventive use of color and spontaneous compositions profoundly influenced a generation of photographers.” LACMA I met William Eggleston in Memphis, Tennessee when I was the […]
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Coming soon to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is a photo arts dealer’s fair: PHOTO L.A. The show will run from January 13 until January 17, 2011 Opening Reception on January 13. WILLIAM EGGLESTON IS THIS YEAR’S HONORARY GUEST HOST OF THE RECEPTION! | Benefit tickets are $80 and include cocktails and light refreshments as well as […]
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ART – Now Showing Leonardo’s Last Supper Recreated on Park Ave. Inside the Park Avenue Armory, NYC, Peter Greenaway has perfectly recreated Milan’s Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery refectory and its famous 1498 cracked plaster fresco painting, Leonardo DaVinci’s “Last Supper” at its exact size. Although, one of the most famous paintings in the world, […]
Many people enjoyed the Christmas Issue and commented on it directly to me. FOOD We cooked The Duckling Christmas Dinner* for our Christmas! Everyone who has the opportunity, should try all or a part of this meal for their next dinner party or formal family meal. Mmmmmm! Hope your Christmas was memorable! Because of the […]
ABOVE: Bing Crosby sings White Christmas, from the movie “Holiday Inn”. (Clip is quite long, consider listening to the audio while you go on through this issue.) TRUE STORY: At one time, I was the Corporate Art Director for Holiday Inns, International. A little known fact is, “Holiday Inn” was written, as a joke, in the project […]
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Dec
Book: Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera $40.00 NOW SHOWING AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera During the first half of the 20th Century, radio brought news and music into American homes but the visuals, for adults, came through the mail, in the form of slick national magazines. The Illustrators who decorated these […]
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Dec
Charles LeDray Mini – Sculpture at The Whitney ART – NOW SHOWING AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART “workworkworkworkwork” by Charles LeDray One day last month I walked into the Whitney Museum on Madison Ave. in NYC, without knowing what I was going to see. I stepped off the elevator into the giant foyer […]