A Parisian Post Card showing: a Gargoyle atop Notre Dame; and the Eiffel Tower. ART Gargoyles of Notre Dame There are few sculptures in western art history that are as intriguing as the Gargoyles that peer out from Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, located on an island in the middle of the River Seine. The purpose of Gargoyles […]
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Jul
“It was a party, and they were all super excited to be there.” The title of this artwork sums up the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, 2015. Kina Crow – Artist Mixed Media ART Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, CO Artists & Artisans 2015 – Part 3 This issue is the last in our series on the […]
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ART THE MURALS AT BRENNAN’S Restaurant in the French Quarter, New Orleans, LA Interior designer Richard Keith Langham and architect John Williams designed Brennan’s recently reborn restaurant and the dramatic Chanteclair Dining Room. Langham hand painted the gouache murals to offer relief from all of the green trélliage (gridded lattice) in the room. The murals were based on 19th-century New Orleans’ Mardi Gras Ball […]
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Aug
ART Doing Art on a Small Scale Miniatures have always had a warm spot in collector’s hearts, because one must get very intimate and up-close to see the details of the craftsmanship. Any artist who can create a work, which most talented artists make on a human scale, but they do on a “micro” […]
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Jan
ART PEOPLE: Agnes Gund Agnes Gund has received the President’s National Medal of Arts, a Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, NYC’s Doris C. Freeman Award, the NY Governor’s Award, the Montblanc de la Culture Award, the ArtTable Award, Service to Visual Arts Award, four honorary doctorates and the Garden Lobby of MoMA is named for her. Agnes […]
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Jan
ART: Worlds Collide! International Center of Photography 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd, NY, NY 10036 January 21, 2011 – May 8, 2011 http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/wang-qingsong-when-worlds-collide Buddha, played by artist Wang Qingsong, holds up Western “material wealth” icons which now have become integrated into contemporary Chinese life. Title: Requesting Buddha No. 1, 1999 © Wang Qingsong. […]
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Jan
ART: Big Week for Collectors There are three major events in the world of art and collectibles worth visiting this week. January 22-30, 2011, Something for every collector. 1) Sotheby’s introduces its first Old Masters Week show & sale, New York City. An old master work is any European work of art from 1280 through […]
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Jan
Jan
First, a thank you to all of the readers from 32 different countries who have found and read this blog, which I only started two months ago. Please help keep the momentum going, by recommending www.ARTSnFOOD.blogspot.com to your friends; by keeping the link on your desktop as a place to go when bored at your computer; […]
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Jan
The Chicago Picasso ART: PUBLIC SCULPTURE The “Chicago Picasso” in Daley Plaza, Chicago, IL. Up in the sky – it’s a Bird, no it’s an Afghan Dog, no it’s a Baboon! Seriously, what is it? It IS an abstracted Picasso sculpture of a Woman’s Head. Wouldn’t you be disappointed if a Picasso wasn’t slightly weird! […]
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Jan
Jan
ART NOW SHOWING: “Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart’s Renaissance” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. Jan Gossart has never before been the subject of an exhibition in the United States. The Met’s show includes 50 of the artist’s 63 known paintings, 35 drawings, and six prints from collections in the U.S. and […]