By Jack A. Atkinson – Editor & Publisher of ARTS&FOOD® I went to a special showing – hosted by a curator – of the new Keith Haring exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum. . Before we started the tour, we had a cocktail and were given some sratch off paper to have a go at our […]
Category Archives: MUSEUM SHOWS
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Nov
Nov
Maurice Sendak’s Ascension to become the Best of the Best in Children’s Picture Book Art During the 20th Century! Few artists manage to change the public expectations of an entire industry the way Maurice Sendak did for children’s picture books and their illustrations. His concepts and artworks were charming, earnest, sentimental, controversial, psychological, operatic, […]
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Jul
Jul
(A VR Experience currently touring the USA – At publication date, in Washington D.C.) Step into the world’s first free-roam VR expedition to Machu Picchu—a journey to the golden age of the Incan Empire. Explore sacred temples, vibrant plazas, and mythical landscapes brought to life through cinematic storytelling and cutting-edge technology. This isn’t just a […]
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Jul
Jul
A Great Exhibition is coming to a close this summer at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Alice Walton’s visionary art project in NW Arkansas). KAWS – the Jersey City graffiti artist, turned multi-millionaire art world Art Star, is on full display in Bentonville (one of my favorite museums in the USA.)! Because KAWS’s characters […]
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Jun
Jun
Book Club Review: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Reviewed for discerning readers who seek meaning, metaphor, and magic in the pages of a novel. IF YOU FIND THIS BOOK REVIEW INTERESTING — PLEASE PURCHASE THIS BOOK FOR YOUR LIBRARY – AVAILABLE AT AMAZON A Journey of Spirit in the Disguise of a Simple Fable Some […]
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Jun
Jun
Editor’s Note: I was born and raised in Arkansas, and I am deeply rooted in my home state. Today, it has an exceptional and thriving artistic community, but when I was growing up, it had no art museum worth mentioning. In Little Rock, I once saw a small Impressionist painting and a few works […]
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Mar
Mar
The Alexander Calder (Dissonant Harmony) exhibit at the SF Museum of Modern Art was being shown the day we went to the SFMoMA. Who doesn’t like Alexander Calder’s work? It never grows old, and Calder’s work is always playful and fun to be around. .
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Mar
Mar
Adam Weinberg at an exhibition opening at the Whitney Museum. (Photograph by Jack Atkinson.) The Visionary and the Building That Changed Everything Adam Weinberg’s 20-year reign at the Whitney Museum was, in true New York fashion, nothing short of a spectacle. A performance piece that mixed old-school curatorial chops with a new-age understanding that museums […]
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Oct
Oct
A new dress was made for Degas’s petite dancer. The sculpture is one of the most loved artworks in the Met. It is beautiful; however, when an artwork as famous as this is visually changed, one must decide if that change was appropriate or not. All of the past photos, postcards, reproductions, and textbook illustrations […]
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Sep
Sep
The Painting Girl with a Pearl Earring At the Frick Museum in New York City, an exhibition of fifteen paintings included the beloved Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665) by Johannes Vermeer. This exhibition continued the Frick’s tradition of presenting masterpieces from acclaimed museums not easily accessible to the New York public. Girl with a […]
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