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. […]
Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART
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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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First, a thank you to all of the readers from 32 different countries who have found and read this blog, which I only started two months ago. Please help keep the momentum going, by recommending www.ARTSnFOOD.blogspot.com to your friends; by keeping the link on your desktop as a place to go when bored at your computer; […]
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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! […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
ABOVE: Bing Crosby sings White Christmas, from the movie “Holiday Inn”. (Clip is quite long, consider listening to the audio while you go on through this issue.) TRUE STORY: At one time, I was the Corporate Art Director for Holiday Inns, International. A little known fact is, “Holiday Inn” was written, as a joke, in the project […]
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Book: Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera $40.00 NOW SHOWING AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera During the first half of the 20th Century, radio brought news and music into American homes but the visuals, for adults, came through the mail, in the form of slick national magazines. The Illustrators who decorated these […]
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Charles LeDray Mini – Sculpture at The Whitney ART – NOW SHOWING AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART “workworkworkworkwork” by Charles LeDray One day last month I walked into the Whitney Museum on Madison Ave. in NYC, without knowing what I was going to see. I stepped off the elevator into the giant foyer […]