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Museum SHOPping #2 & Corner Grocery/Cafe of Your Dreams

At the Vesterneim Norwegian American Museum http://store.vesterheim.org/product_info.php?cPath=35_39_340&products_id=2267 Sølje Brooch #2 (Silver with Silver Spoons) 3032   $66.00 This Museum Shop Gift Guide has quite a number of pictures. Enjoy these unique gift ideas and share this link (www.ARTSnFOOD.blogspot.com) with your friends.  At the Field Museum in Chicago http://store.fieldmuseum.org/browse.cfm/2,32.html   Lotus Slippers Red Cotton  w/ Birds & Flowers / […]

Museum SHOPping #1 & Travel to Vienna for the Price of a Meal

Dali’s Priceless Ruby Lips Pin can yours for a bargain at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, red Austrian crystals and faux pearls. Salvador Dali designed these sensational lips in 1949 using Mae West as his inspiration.  REPRODUCTION $110.00      http://shop.lacma.org/ HOLIDAY SHOPPING? Some of the most interesting and unique gifts anyone could ever desire to […]

Having a Party, Party at ART BASEL – MIAMI

Inspired by comic books, movie posters, surfer art, hot rod illustration, etc. the work of   ROBERT WILLIAMS at Tony Shafrazi Gallery   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CSN9AUN_yM&NR=1 (FUN WITH artist TONY OURSLER, click on link above, use the back arrow to return to this blog.)   There is a debate in the art world as to which city […]

Village Sparky Owns 271 Picassos?

Picasso “study of a hand” oil http://next.liberation.fr/arts/11011160-picasso-un-tresor-redecouvert# Click above to see some of the art on Liberation newspaper’s website use BACK arrow button to return to blog The South of France – Electrician Pierre Le Guennec, 71, and his wife, Danielle, have kept between $50 and $80 million worth of Picasso’s artwork in their cupboard […]

Candide and Margherita Pizza

For Thanksgiving I give you two jewels until next week. ARTS Candide by Voltaire French Literature’s No 1 greatest Hit,”Candide”, recently celebrated its 250th anniversary. The New York Public Library had an exhibition, now ended, but the web site is still up and very enjoyable. Voltaire, through allegory, tells all – reading his book he wanted the […]

Hopping Around 26th Gallery Openings & Late Night Chance of Meatballs

ART- Art Openings There were many art openings in the Chelsea Arts District of NYC this past Thursday, but 26th Street shined for me and was a good use of my two hours, the 6-8 pm openings. Lee Krasner, student of Hans Hoffman and wife of Mega-AbEx-Artist Jackson Pollock has her beautiful burnt umber Abstract […]

OMG MoMA, GR8 AbExNY! NISM?

Detail of a Jackson Pollock drip painting.   ART Abstract Expressionist New York currently showing at MoMA. October 3, 2010–April 25, 2011 When I say MoMA owns this genre of Art History, I mean literally that, THEY OWN ALL OF THE ARTWORK in this show, which is the largest amount of space MoMa has ever […]

Jersey City, NJ’s MILLION $ VIEWS, A Perk for the Fourth Estate* on the Left Bank* of the Hudson

The View Out My Studio Window (Photo was taken November 13, 2010) ART: “ART is beauty experienced!”-Jack A. Atkinson An Essay By Jack A. Atkinson   The View Out My Studio Window (Photo taken November 13, 2010) It’s 7ish on Saturday morning, November 13, 2010. I have drawn the scene out of my studio window on […]

Thoughts on Thoughts and the High End Art Market!

HELLO! This is the first issue of ARTSnFOOD blog, which I think of more as a twice weekly newspaper column or a mini magazine. Enjoy and tell your friends about it. Now, let’s have some fun! ART Last night there was a very impressive contemporary art auction at Sotheby’s NYC. Many works bought by collectors over […]