Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART

  ART Doing Art on a Small Scale Miniatures have always had a warm spot in collector’s hearts, because one must get very intimate and up-close to see the details of the craftsmanship. Any artist who can create a work, which most talented artists make on a human scale, but they do on a “micro” […]

ART PEOPLE: Agnes Gund Agnes Gund has received the President’s National Medal of Arts, a Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, NYC’s Doris C. Freeman Award, the NY Governor’s Award, the Montblanc de la Culture Award, the ArtTable Award, Service to Visual Arts Award, four honorary doctorates and the Garden Lobby of MoMA is named for her. Agnes […]

ART: Worlds Collide! International Center of Photography 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd, NY, NY 10036 January 21, 2011 – May 8, 2011 http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/wang-qingsong-when-worlds-collide Buddha, played by artist Wang Qingsong, holds up Western “material wealth” icons which now have become integrated into contemporary Chinese life. Title: Requesting Buddha No. 1, 1999 © Wang Qingsong. […]

ART: Big Week  for Collectors  There are three major events in the world of art and collectibles worth visiting this week. January 22-30, 2011, Something for every collector. 1) Sotheby’s introduces its first Old Masters Week show & sale, New York City. An old master work is any European work of art from 1280 through […]

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The Chicago Picasso ART: PUBLIC SCULPTURE The “Chicago Picasso” in Daley Plaza, Chicago, IL. Up in the sky – it’s a Bird, no it’s an Afghan Dog, no it’s a Baboon! Seriously, what is it? It IS an abstracted Picasso sculpture of a Woman’s Head. Wouldn’t you be disappointed if a Picasso wasn’t slightly weird! […]

ART NOW SHOWING: “Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart’s Renaissance” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. Jan Gossart has never before been the subject of an exhibition in the United States. The Met’s show includes 50 of the artist’s 63 known paintings, 35 drawings, and six prints from collections in the U.S. and […]

  ART – “William Eggleston is widely recognized as a master of color photography, a poet of the mundane, and proponent of the democratic treatment of his subjects. His inventive use of color and spontaneous compositions profoundly influenced a generation of photographers.” LACMA   I met William Eggleston in Memphis, Tennessee when I was the […]

ART –  Now Showing Leonardo’s Last Supper Recreated on Park Ave. Inside the Park Avenue Armory, NYC, Peter Greenaway has perfectly recreated Milan’s Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery refectory and its famous 1498 cracked plaster fresco painting, Leonardo DaVinci’s “Last Supper” at its exact size.  Although, one of the most famous paintings in the world, […]