A Mark Rothko Painting in Houston’s Rothko Chapel. Art: Enjoying HOUSTON’S ROTHKO CHAPEL “The Rothko Chapel is a place apart. It calls for a different form of attention, a more hypnotic gaze than we are accustomed to expect.” –David Anfam If you are ever in Houston, Texas, you must search out and visit the […]
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Now Showing: At MoMA – Picasso Guitars 1912-1914 At the Met – Guitar Heroes Sometimes things just come at us in waves for reasons we never quite understand. 2011 might be the Chinese “Year of the Rabbit”, but it looks more like the year of the guitar everywhere I look. At the Museum of […]
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To skip to the Valentines Issue, which has also been expanded, click here. PressPausePlay – a new creative era! PressPausePlay is an exploration into how the audio, video, and film world is changing with both old and new technologies leading the way. Mainly the Internet and small affordable equipment have created a democratization of recording […]
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Chopin – The Poet of the Piano You and your Valentine should pour two glasses of champagne, sit on the couch touching shoulders, close your eyes and listen intently to Chopin’s Fantaisie Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. 66 while you sip your bubbly. You will definitely fall in love with the music, and the mood […]
SUPER BOWL SUNDAY It is our only unofficial U.S. National Holiday. 100 million viewers gather in front of a TV somewhere to watch America’s professional football championship game. More often than not, the game is less than interesting with one team dominating the other. In an effort to keep all 100,000,000 viewers tuned in, the […]
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“The Steerage” by Stieglitz – He loved to recount how Picasso had praised the collage-like dispersal of forms and shifting depths of “The Steerage” ART: Great Masters of Photography – Stieglitz, Steichen and Strand The Metropolitan Museum of Art has produced a magical exhibition from its own collection of photographic prints, taken and printed by the first great […]
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ART: VIP Art Fair.com World’s FIRST Virtual Art Fair Will it work? January 22-30, 2011 The art world’s first online international art fair is scheduled to launch on January 22, 2011. The galleries buy booths, just like the bricks-and-mortar versions and customers who want to purchase art are given passes by the galleries or […]
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Coming soon to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is a photo arts dealer’s fair: PHOTO L.A. The show will run from January 13 until January 17, 2011 Opening Reception on January 13. WILLIAM EGGLESTON IS THIS YEAR’S HONORARY GUEST HOST OF THE RECEPTION! | Benefit tickets are $80 and include cocktails and light refreshments as well as […]