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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]