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.)
Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART
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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 […]
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Sep
Sep
Legacies of Exchange: Chinese Contemporary Art from the Yuz Foundation Featuring Ai Weiwei, Huang Yong Ping, Wang Guangyi, Xu Bing, Yue Minjun and more, Legacies of Exchange: Chinese Contemporary Art from the Yuz Foundation brings together works of Chinese contemporary art created in response to international trade, political conflict, and global artistic exchange. Pulled from the Yuz […]
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Sep
Sep
Paintings from the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age have been a highlight of The Met collection since the Museum’s earliest days. This exhibition presents sixty-seven of the Museum’s greatest artworks in fresh combinations—including paintings by Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer—to shine a new light on this remarkable chapter of art history. Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century—the […]
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Sep
Sep
In Praise of Painting – Dutch Masterpieces at the Met Paintings from the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age have been a highlight of The Met collection since the Museum’s earliest days. This exhibition presents sixty-seven of the Museum’s greatest artworks in fresh combinations—including paintings by Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer—to shine a new light on this remarkable […]