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Summer at a Chelsea Gallery Show + A New Grilled Chicken Marinade

Kasia Domanska’s oil paintings show us life at the beach during summer. ART It’s hot outside! “ENDLESS SUMMER” Paintings at the beach by Kasia Domanska 532 Gallery (Thomas Jaeckel Gallerist)A salty warm breeze, the sound of waves crushing and people playing, the beach during the summer is a place where life is “go-with-the-flow”. So forget […]

FLAG Art Foundation’s June 2012 Show: Tara Donovan, Lynda Benglis, Kiki Smith & Other Great Artists Featured + Fly-Over Food You May Have Missed

Tara Donovan’s “FOG” is made from clear drinking straws stacked together. When seeing the work, it is hard to know whether you are looking at a solid, a liquid or a cloud – your eyes simply cannot focus on it, when viewed straight on.   ART The FLAG Art Foundation shows works from a different perspective! […]

ARTISTSwanted.org Occupies Times Square + Paris Bistro Sandwich: Croque Madame

Title: “Jasmine/Never Sorry (for Ai Wei-wei)” Photography by Vicki DaSilva         ART     An event to promote an online art site makes it to a “BIG Screen” in Times Square. Thirty-five-thousands artists, from all over the globe, submitted art for a shot at having it displayed the evening of June 18, […]

The ART of YOGA – Coffee in the East Village

ART Yoga is a beautiful site to behold, with the practitioners twisting and stretching the human body into shapes and line. It is so athletic as to it being considered as a sport for the Summer Olympic Games. Below please view some of the surreal theater that is “Competitive Yoga”.            […]

Albert Bierstadt’s: “The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak”+Easy Veggie Stew

The painting, “The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak” by Albert Bierstadt, as it looks in the museum. It was donated to The Metropolitan Museum of art in 1907, where it remains on permanent display.   ART The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) 1863 Oil on canvas The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak is a major work by […]

VERGE ART FAIR NYC, May 2012

“THE USE AND ABUSE OF TECHNOLOGY” an installation/performance piece by Chin Chih Yang Technology is neutral in itself, but is utilized in art to realize an aesthetic presentation and it becomes a part of the message – while at the same time making a statement about technology’s role in how humans communicate, today. ART VERGE […]

PULSE Art Fair NY 2012 + Bourbon Chicken

At Pulse Art Fair 2012: Annie Han’s “2 Lead Pencils” a large installation at entrance to the fair.   ART Enjoy our tour around the Art World, literally, as we finish-up our coverage of the May 2012, NYC Art Fairs. This issue we look at PULSE ART FAIR, NY 2012. Ivan Capote’s “Happiness” created from […]

The Frieze Art Fair, NYC 2012 + Food at Frieze

ART The Frieze Art Fair pitches collectors some great contemporary art and their new tent in NYC. A week ago, the Frieze Art Fair ended their first New York Fair in a $1.5 million, 1/2 mile long, white, twisting-snake-like tent on Randall’s Island.Randall’s Island, as it turns out, is the most difficult place to get […]

Maurice Sendak RIP – the last of the great picture book authors! – How Picture Book Publishing Works, Today.

Christopher Walken reads & comments on “W.T.W.T.A.” Maurice Sendak  (1928-2012) Sendak was the best known children’s book author/illustrator of the last half of the 20th century. He was “The King of Children’s Picture Books” and what every children’s book author who followed him wanted to emulate. The only problem being, the process dramatically changed and […]

Affordable Art Fair, NYC 2012, Great Coffee at Home

Diana Dufton’s sculptural wall hangings shown at Will’s Art House, Sadler’s House – London, UK   ART     Affordable Art Fair, 2012 Late Spring Art Fairs This fair is about the joy and excitement art can bring to everyone’s life.         The crowd at AAF, Spring 2012 “Turf” Found Oject Collage […]