American artist Lauren Halsey (b. 1987, Los Angeles) was commissioned to create a site-specific installation for The Met’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Halsey created a full-scale Egyptian structure imbued with the energy and imagination of South Central Los Angeles–where she was born and still works today. title: “the eastside of south central […]
Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART
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May
May
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC has the most complete collection of any encyclopedic art museum in the United States. Their collection is so vast that only a fraction of it is on display at any one time. That is why it’s always exciting to return to the Met in NYC over and over […]
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Mar
Mar
Vermeer’s famous “Milkmaid” painting. As I walked through the Rijksmuseum in Holland, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. I was about to enter the Vermeer exhibition, a collection of works by the renowned Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. I have always been fascinated by Vermeer’s use of light and […]
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Jan
Jan
As long as we are looking at ceilings we thought a photo essay of NYC’s Grand Central Terminal Ceiling would be appropriate. (Source: Photos from various sites, if a photo has been used without proper credit or permission, please let us know and we will remove it or credit the photo correctly.)
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Jan
Jan
A Sistine Chapel Exhibition is touring the US. It’s time ARTS&FOOD® revisited the Vatican and one of the most important works of art in all of art history – THE SISTINE CHAPEL PAINTED BY MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI. Michelangelo was a sculptor, not a painter, and had come to Rome to work on the Pope’s tomb. Pope […]
ARTS&FOOD® — Feature Articles on ART. For art lovers who can never get enough. The wealth gained from consuming and creating creativity is a purely psychic reward, call it “The Endorphins of Culture!” Every society of mankind from the very first Homosapians… to every tribe, then every civilization, every country, and now every community–has its […]
ART&FOOD® was founded on a love for visual arts and for enjoying wonderful food. When surrounded by those two things life stays extraordinary! -Jack A. Atkinson Editor and Publisher of ARTS&FOOD® Official Journal of the ARTS&FOOD® SOCIETY. LIFE: BEAUTIFUL & DELICIOUS™
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Apr
Apr
ALBERT SCHWEITZER PHOTO IN ASPEN. Albert Schweitzer in Aspen during the first week of July 1949 was significant. He was the keynote speaker for the Goethe Bicentennial Convocation, which essentially launched the Aspen Music Festival, the International Design Conference in Aspen, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, and the foundational values that brought the best […]
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Dec
Dec
On December 11, 1980, Ettore Sottsass organized a meeting with designer friends, and in 1981 they formed a design collaborative named MEMPHIS. The name was taken after the Bob Dylan song “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” which had been played repeatedly throughout the evening’s meeting. The Memphis Italian Design Group drew […]
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Dec
Dec
This year, across the USA, the fall temperatures were exceptionally mild–meaning a frost did not take the intense colors from the changing leaves, but left the bright reds, yellows, and oranges contrasting with the light and dark greens, for our visual pleasure–until they fell to the ground. What a magnificent color wheel nature has, even […]