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! […]
Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART
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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 […]
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At the Vesterneim Norwegian American Museum http://store.vesterheim.org/product_info.php?cPath=35_39_340&products_id=2267 Sølje Brooch #2 (Silver with Silver Spoons) 3032 $66.00 This Museum Shop Gift Guide has quite a number of pictures. Enjoy these unique gift ideas and share this link (www.ARTSnFOOD.blogspot.com) with your friends. At the Field Museum in Chicago http://store.fieldmuseum.org/browse.cfm/2,32.html Lotus Slippers Red Cotton w/ Birds & Flowers / […]
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Dali’s Priceless Ruby Lips Pin can yours for a bargain at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, red Austrian crystals and faux pearls. Salvador Dali designed these sensational lips in 1949 using Mae West as his inspiration. REPRODUCTION $110.00 http://shop.lacma.org/ HOLIDAY SHOPPING? Some of the most interesting and unique gifts anyone could ever desire to […]
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Inspired by comic books, movie posters, surfer art, hot rod illustration, etc. the work of ROBERT WILLIAMS at Tony Shafrazi Gallery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CSN9AUN_yM&NR=1 (FUN WITH artist TONY OURSLER, click on link above, use the back arrow to return to this blog.) There is a debate in the art world as to which city […]