Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART

Édouard Manet’s controversial painting “The Luncheon on the Grass”, 1863 shows a 19th-century picnic in the woods, where a nude female sits in mixed company with two upper-class and fully clothed men, as another woman finishes her bath in the distance. All are so comfortable in the situation and act as if nothing unusual is happening. […]

The Broad Art Museum’s exterior is an unusual lattice-like facade that floats around the outside walls of a rectangular building. The Broad Museum on Grand Ave. (downtown) is a contemporary art museum founded by philanthropists Eli Broad and his wife Edythe, to exhibit their personal collection of modern (post-war) and contemporary art. The very unusual […]

Njideka Akunyili Crosby with her diptych painting “Garden, Thriving”, 2016. Photograph: Photo by Graeme Robertson taken for the Guardian. Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian born artist living in Los Angeles. The painting below, “Garden, Thriving” is in the permanent collection of the LA MOCA Grand Avenue, in downtown Los Angeles, CA.   The left […]

“Rene François Ghislain Margritte, The Fifth Season” At the Museum of Modern Art San Francisco René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for creating witty and thought-provoking images, often depicting ordinary objects shown in unusual contexts. His work is known for challenging observers’ preconditioned perceptions of reality. Surrealism was […]

Edward Joseph Ruscha IV (pronouned roo-SHAY) born December 16, 1937, is an American artist associated with the pop art movement in California. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California. Ruscha, originally from Oklahoma, studied art in Los Angeles at the Chouinard Art Institute from 1956 […]

  At “The Other Art Fair” last spring in Brooklyn, NY, we discovered the work of Isabella Di Sclafani. Born and raised in Montreal where she still lives and works full-time as a painter. Di Sclafadni is inspired by just about anything: sunsets, TV shows, movie trailers, magazines, food packaging, other people, bus rides, etc. I mostly paint portraits, […]

NSFW EDITOR’S NOTE: this article includes photos of man-made NUDE SCULPTURES from the most visited museum in NYC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (This exhibition at the Met Breuer on Madison Ave. location.)  This exhibition features classical, modern and contemporary nude sculptures. People nonchalantly walk past these types of man-made sculptural objects every day of the year in […]