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 […]
Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART
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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 […]
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Link: for MoMA Museum Store – https://store.moma.org/ Shopping at The Met Museum Store Link: for the Met Museum Store – https://store.metmuseum.org/ Shopping at The Whitney Museum Store https://shop.whitney.org/gifts.html
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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 […]
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Twisted, offensive, yet still funny rejects from the wastebasket of The New Yorker’s cartoon editor. BOOK – “The Rejection Collection” is a series by Workman Press – Every year thousands of cartoons are rejected by The New Yorker magazine and are sent back to the artists only to languish in their files. WARNING: If you are […]
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Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1834) Eugène Delacroix is simply in the AIR these days – his work is being talked about everywhere. He’s the “IT” man of art history currently. We will take a deep look into the genius behind his work and the current Met exhibitions featuring his paintings, drawings, and writings. French […]
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“Thelma and Louise”, two youthful ladies (aka: Mary Claire and Kay) took a week long road trip from Houston, Texas to San Diego, California. Mary Claire made a photo essay using her iPhone’s camera… covering this once in a lifetime, 5 DAYS filled with sights, wine, adventures and experiences worth remembering. WINERIES IN THE PLAINS […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]