Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART

Artist Vance Kirkland is best known for his dot paintings and his paintings based on the cosmos.   One of the premier museums in Denver: Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, in Denver, Colorado, allows visitors to time travel through about 150 years of art. The evolving […]

The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver) explores the art and culture of our time through rotating exhibitions and public educational programs. Featuring regional, national and international artists, MCA Denver offers a wide range of exhibitions promoting creative experimentation with art and ideas. Through adult and youth education programs and other creative events, the […]

ARTS&FOOD® Magazine recently visited Crystal Bridges Museum and walked through their wonderful Yoyoi Kusama Infinity Room. Here are our photos from that visit. The lights inside the balls are constantly changing colors making this infinity room an ever-changing world.       (Source: A staff member visited the exhibit and all photos were taken with […]

Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 – June 23, 1980) was an American painter and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II. Still has been credited with laying the groundwork for the movement, as his shift from representational to abstract […]

The Whitney Biennial is an unmissable event for anyone interested in finding out what’s happening in art today. Curators Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley have been visiting artists over the past year in search of the most important and relevant work. Featuring seventy-five artists and collectives working in painting, sculpture, installation, film and video, photography, […]

Monet in his garden at Giverny with his Lily-Pond and Japanese Bridge.   DAM – DENVER ART MUSEUM: The blockbuster sold-out exhibition, “Claude Monet, The Truth of Nature,” at the Denver Art Museum had huge crowds every day. ARTS&FOOD® had the honor of going to view this project, and it was an immense undertaking for […]

Sacred & Transcendent Hailed as a precious mineral with mysterious and even sacred qualities by many cultures around the world, crystal has been viewed as a substance with the power to help connect people with the divine. The luminous, ethereal, and prismatic qualities of rock crystal have inspired and facilitated spiritual and religious devotion. Many […]

A Native American Brave (detail of marble sculpture) Artist: Randolph Rogers 1825-1892 title: “Atala and Chactas” c. 1854 ART in 2016 an exhibit, titled “Changing Perspectives of Native Americans” at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art – showed how the American Indians were portrayed by European and early Euro-American artists.   In Crystal Bridges’ museum […]

ART Samurai Armor at LACMA LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) presented an exhibition of samurai armor on loan from the collection of the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum in Dallas. The Barbier-Mueller has one of the largest and most important collections of its kind in the world. It is composed of nearly three […]