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Prisoner Pup $28 ART SHOPPING: COSTUMES FOR DOGS Halloween is just around the corner! ChasingFireflies.com offers an array of dog costumes that will have everyone howling! See their offering below, followed by some great adult costumes for you and a few for your infant or toddler. Halloween FUN is all about a wonderful costume that helps create […]

ART The Joy of a Farmer’s Market A Photo Essay by Jack A. Atkinson Summer of 2013 is coming to an end and we have enjoyed our weekly visits to buy fresh produce from the growers responsible for the quality. Before September starts here are a few photos of the beautiful produce and products at […]

Ella Hendriks Senior Conservator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam   Impression of the original colors of: The Bedroom, 1888   Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)   Oil on Canvas, 72 X 90 cm located at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Van Gogh’s bedroom in ‘The Yellow House at Arles’ was simply furnished. With his brother, Theo’s, […]

ART: PHOTOGRAPHY Under Foot at The Museum  of Fine Arts, Houston    For a while now when you walk across the underground bridge from the parking garage to the museum, at The Museum of Arts, Houston, there is a photographic installation under your feet. These back-lit photos seem to be starring up at you from their watery trap, […]

  ART New Art’s “Millennium Cocktail” The Current Era in Art   (Editorial by Jack A. Atkinson)   Ever since 2001 I have been wondering what the next phase, epoch, -ism or era of art the 21st century would reveal. The statement (below) best sums up the current direction, this new International mix of multi-faced […]

ARTS The Cherry Creek Arts Festival Features Crafts this Year (Denver, Colorado, USA) Every year ARTSnFOOD covers the Cherry Creek Arts Festival in Denver, Colorado, because of its sampling of art from across the U.S.A. The fair features the kinds of art “occasional collectors” throughout America appreciate and buy. This year the CCAF was dominated […]

Source: MOCAtv     ART: Jeffery Deitch talks: Why art affects and engages us.   A six-minute interview, by filmmaker Jesse Dylan, with the former director of L.A.’s MoCA* museum, Jeffrey Deitch. Deitch shows himself to be a person who is uniquely passionate about art’s everlasting effects on society. *The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.  Filmmaker Jesse Dylan is the son of singer, […]

Paul McCarthy’s giant Balloon Dog (above) graced the front lawn at this year’s Frieze Art Fair, a smaller, residential friendly version of McCarthy’s “Balloon Dog” was available at Hauser & Wirth Gallery’s booth. I guess Jeff Koons really doesn’t own the balloon dog? Artist Jeff Koons Balloon Dog by Jeff Koons Koons is curently suing everyone – claiming […]

ART Frieze Art Fair, 2013 (end of coverage)   Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles   Thr Breeder Gallery, Athens/ Monaco paintings, Greek Icon Style   Tonya Bonakdar Gallery NYC – “Splasmiopylea” by Ernesto NETO – textile & styrofoam beads   children’s play area Ryan McGinley, 2013 c-print (edition of 3)   Ryan McGinley, 2013 c-print (edition of […]

ART FRIEZE ART FAIR, NYC 2013 continued… Continued coverage! Frieze NYC was one of the best surveys of contemporary art, world-wide, but was only available to visit for one weekend in New York City this past spring. We want to share the highlights.  Cheim & Read, Jenny Holzer “Heap” 2012 LED Signs   Cheim & Read, […]