Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART

Hilma af Klint, Painting for the Future – Now at the Guggenheim NYC

Now up at the Guggenheim, NYC A command that Hilma af Klint followed: “To obey intuition and not fully understand the art.” Isn’t that, for better or worse, what all artists do?     For an interesting history of the Guggenheim Museum and Foundation which ran in our last issue (NOV. DEC. 2018) use this link: https://artsandfood.com/2018/10/nyc-the-guggenheim-museum-by-frank-lloyd-wright.html/ (Source: […]

Sharon Duffield- Featured Artist: Solo Show

Lonely White Tree

Sharon Duffield is a photographer living in Maine.  She lived in Colorado for 40 years, but growing up on the East Coast brought her back to her roots. She has delved into the world of photography for many years and continue to evolve as an explorer, adventurer, and wanderer.  Many times she hops in her […]

Alina Oswald-Featured Artist: Solo Exhibition

Alina Oswald is a writer, photographer and photo educator living in the New York City area. She is the author of Journeys Through Darkness: A Biography that tells the story of award-winning, legally blind photographer Kurt Weston. Alina Oswald has spent much of her career covering HIV and AIDS, as well as the LGBTQ+ community, […]

“Early Sunday Morning”: Closely Looking at Edward Hopper’s collection

Creative Colorfull Street

“Early Sunday Morning” by American Artist Edward Hopper 1930 – Oil on Canvas  60″ x 30″ In the permanent collection of The Whitney Museum of Art in New York City. FROM OUR ARCHIVES: This article was first published by ARTS&FOOD on Sept. 27, 2013 “Early Sunday Morning” A Painting by Edward Hopper “Early Sunday Morning” A […]

PHOTO L.A. 2019 & The Early Days of Photography

PHOTO L.A. celebrating its 27th Anniversary is the longest running art fair west of New York and is the largest photo-based art fair in the country by attendance. It brings together photography dealers from around the globe, displaying the finest contemporary photography, video and multi-media installations along with masterworks from the 20th and 19th centuries.    These old […]

Yasuhide Kagii- Featured Artist: Solo Exhibition

Yasuhide Kagii (Japanese Artist) starts his artwork with a painting on board or canvas. Love, passion, song, music and Japanese culture are his subjects.   Then he transitions that two-dimensional image into a multi-dimensional digital delight created on clear acrylic film and suspended in layers, forming a moving image as the viewer walks around the […]

The Guggenheim Museum – NYC- Great Art in an Iconic Building

Museum at New York

The Guggenheim Musem or The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is an art museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street in and area named the Museum Mile, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously expanding collection of: • Impressionist • Post-Impressionist • Early Modern and • Contemporary Art […]

“Art New York 2018” – A Newer Fresher International Art Fair at Pier 94

Naked Woman Painting

  Art New York 2018 Presented by Art Miami, returned to Pier 94 offering noteworthy and fresh works by important artists from the contemporary, modern, post-war and pop eras, featuring paintings, photography, prints, drawings, design and sculpture. The 2018 edition welcomed over 95 international contemporary and modern galleries from 30 countries representing over 1,200 artists […]

Milton Glaser: The Designer of I ❤️ NY

An artist

Milton Glaser Designer, Renaissance Man, Creative Thinker, Born NYC (1929) Working pro bono on a marketing campaign for the state of New York in 1977, Milton Glaser designed the now ubiquitous “I Love New York” logo – perhaps the most instantly recognizable logo on earth. Though he was arguably the most famous graphic designer in […]