Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART

A Look at the Recent Whitney Biennial – NYC

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, […]

Denver Art Museum’s “Claude Monet, The Truth of Nature”, OUR MUST SEE COVERAGE!

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 […]

Merry Christmas – Santa Art by Haddon “Sunny” Sundblom – A New Christmas Dinner Menu

Haddon “Sunny” Sundblom illustrated Santa for the CocaCola Company for years. Haddon “Sunny” Sundblom (1899 – 1976) is the Swedish / American artist best known for the painted images of Santa Claus for The Coca Cola Company. The artist turned to the description in Clement Moore’s poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas” for inspiration. Sundblom […]

CRYSTALS IN ART – an exclusive exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art

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 […]

Changing Perspectives of Native Americans

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 […]

Superb! North Forest Lights at Crystal Bridges Museum

North Forest Lights – When it comes to a Christmas Light Extravaganzas, like at your Zoo or Botanical Gardens, “North Forest Lights” in the wooded area surrounding Crystal Bridges Museum, has set the bar VERY HIGH! It is a Wonder-Filled and a Audio/Visual Experience! As I wandered through the exhibit last week, all I could […]

ART IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE PRADA MARFA – STORE FRONT / ART INSTALLATION!

Prada Marfa is a permanently installed sculpture by artists Elmgreen and Dragset, situated about 26 miles northwest of the city of Marfa, Texas. The installation was inaugurated on October 1, 2005. The artists called the work a “pop architectural land art project”. Literally in the middle of nowhere, I came across this PRADA storefront along the […]

250 Years of TEXAS ART – at San Antonio’s Witte Museum

    The Witte Museum, established in 1926 in San Antonio, is dedicated to telling the ‘Stories of Texas” from prehistoric times to the present. It is best known for it’s dinosaur exhibits. This article is about their unique (one venue only) history of Texas through Artworks where Texas or Texans are the subject and […]