Category Archives: COLUMNS

1st Person stories about each subject in the magazine.

DESIGN: SF MoMA’s Beautiful Custom Prints

Custom Print of a table full of sweet dishes

Museum Quality Art For Your Walls! The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art now has a Custom Print on Demand Wall Art Service!   Have you ever wanted true museum quality art on your walls? The traditional museum posters have always been printed in fugitive offset printing inks that fade over time leaving your framed […]

Our Meal in Las Vegas isn’t Staying in Las Vegas… We’re Sharing ALL the Details!

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By Zane Beck THE LAGO RESTAURANT in the BELLAGIO in LAS VEGAS !   A meal at LAGO, is one of the very best you can have in Las Vegas. The restaurant is located in the Bellagio Hotel and Casino. This meal started with crabmeat, quinoa, & baby greens, then we moved on to veal and ricotta […]

Cooking with Cathy: 3 Perfect Sides for a Summer BBQ

Delicious dishes

By Cathy Addoms Summer is a time to enjoy the great outdoor weather and the long days. If you’re planning a summer BBQ or a 4th of July celebration, these sides will make a festive addition and are sure to be a hit. Cheese and Pea Macaroni Salad A summer treasure from the past. This […]

“Before the Fall” : ILLUSIONISM & CHAOS INSUED at the Neue Gallerie

Hitler

Photo used in editorial support for the book “Before the Fall” published by Prestel. (See Amazon.com book availability at the end of this article.) BEFORE THE FALL, German and Austrian Art of the 1930s an Exhibition at Neue Gallerie, NYC   The reason the artworks in this article are tiny and impossible to see thumbprints, leaving […]

First Person: An Evening with Kathryn Petroff

Dear Ghost in Art Blog

By Anna Addoms I first discovered Kathryn Petroff and her work through a networking group on Facebook. She shared an image of a piece that was recently completed for her upcoming show at Valkarie Gallery in Denver, CO. The painting is titled, “Wrote You A Song” and depicts an old-style gramophone blowing bubbles. The colors […]

1st Person: Artist Howard Harris Creates Layers of Photography

colorful lights

Howard Harris has immersed himself with tremendous passion in the pursuit of his art. A Denver native he earned a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute, then studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He has focused on photography ever since. These current photos are nearly impossible to classify regarding their medium, they are […]

My Favorite Hotel: The Palmer House

Drawings on the ceiling

      Currently operating as the Palmer House – A Hilton Hotel, it is a Historic Hotel of America member, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Palmer House was the city’s first hotel with elevators and the first hotel with electric light bulbs and telephones in the guest rooms. It has also […]

Leonardo’s Drawing Aid, the Camera Obscura

etching of camera obscura

The CAMERA OBSCURA The dictionary definition: 1) A darkened box with an aperture (convex lens) for projecting the image of the external scene onto a surface inside, based on the way our eyes see. It is important historically, because the concept lead to the development of photography once film was invented. 2) A small round […]

My Favorite Designer: Mirko Ilic

People in a truck

GRAPHIC DESIGNER MIRKO ILIC Ilić was born in Bijeljina, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, and graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Zagreb. He published his first works in 1973, publishing comics and illustrations in magazines and was the art and comics editor of the students’ magazine Polet in 1976. He organized an informal organization of comic book creators Novi kvadrat (The New […]

DUO Restaurant in Denver, Colorado

Spring Salad with onion vinaigrette dressing

DUO Restaurants in Denver & Vermont A Review During Denver’s Restaurant Week, 2018 by Zane Beck (confessed foodie) Zane tried many items on the menu, but only photographed a few. He and his companion for the evening were very impressed with the Denver version of DUO restaurant. ARTS & FOOD will have to take a […]