NOW SHOWING “CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS” A Film By Director Werner Herzog has just been released in selected theaters. Above is a photo of the interior of an ancient cave in the Ardeche region of southern France. A cave filled with hundreds of 35,000 year-old wall paintings of animals which have been protected from the elements ever since a […]
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May
May
Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926 Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son 1875 Oil on canvas – National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.29 ART NOW SHOWING: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces From the National Gallery of Art While taking an Easter trip through the southern US, I […]
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Apr
ART: Now Showing Last Chance to View George Condo: Mental States at NYC’s New Museum Painter and Sculptor George Condo, born 1957 in New Hampshire, has three-decade’s of his work displayed on the walls of the New Museum, in NYC. He studied art history and music theory at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, but […]
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Apr
ONLY ONE POSTING THIS WEEK DUE TO EASTER HOLIDAY ROYAL BRIDE & GROOM The Royal Wedding will be held in London on April 29, 2011 The Mad Hatters of London Hats fell out of favor for most of the world, but never for the British and this wedding has sparked a fever for fancy hats […]
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Apr
NEW At the Galleries! Courtesy of Stux Gallery © Ruud van Empel, 2011 As I write this issue, there is a driving, cold rain beating on my window, but for several days recently the weather has been great for a stroll through Chelsea to see what’s new. At Tria Gallery: Keun Young Park shows off her […]
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Apr
Apr
Merete Rasmussen Contemporary Applied Arts, London ART / SHOPPING SOFA NY Sculpture, Objects & Functional Arts Fair SOFA, the World’s Fair of Contemporary Decorative Arts & Design, will open to the public on Thursday, April 14, and continue through Sunday, April 17, 2011. This show is about ART OBJECTS from furniture to fine art. Some of the […]
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Apr
Apr
Omar Chacon Represented by Margaret Thatcher Projects in Chelsea Arts District The Gallery System Several cities around the world have art galleries clustered for easy access. If you have ever tried to make the rounds of galleries, or museums for that matter, in London or Los Angeles or Paris you know it can be exhausting, […]
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Apr
Apr
The Card Players, 1890–92Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)Oil on canvas Now Showing Cézanne: The Metropolitan Museum of Art shows us how his Card Players paintings were constructed bit, by bit. Exhibition runs through May 8, 2011 Of his two paintings of “Three Men” Card Players, this version (53″ × 71″) is the largest canvas Cézanne ever painted. […]
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Mar
Now Showing at MoMA German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse Erich Heckel (German, 1883-1970) Portrait of a Man (1919) Woodcut composition: 18 3/16 x 12 3/4″ (46.2 x 32.4 cm); sheet (irreg.): 24 1/4 x 20″ (61.6 x 50.8 cm) The essence of German Expressionism was to show real life emotions. Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”, 1893 […]
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Mar
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau An OPINION on the phrase “But… is it ART?” I have been fascinated for many years by the question everyone asks,“But… is it ART?” I look at a large volume of visual art and a percentage of what I see, does […]