ART “Tomma Abts: Mainly Drawings” Aspen Art Museum Exhibition Tomma Abts creates her paintings and drawings using a rigorous process that combines the rational with the intuitive. Starting with no external source material and no preconceived idea of the final result, Abts makes complex abstract compositions that ultimately take as their subject the process of […]
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ART “Late Rembrandt” Exhibition at the Rijksmuseum Crystal Bridges through the eyes of P. Allen Smith DAM The Denver Art Museum and Nick Cave’s Graphic Explosion of Movement 75 Years of The Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN The Art Institute of Chicago Impressionism + An Encycolpedic Museum x x The Modern an art museum in […]
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ART A PHOTO ESSAY The National Western Stock Show & Rodeo has a “different” kind of parade through a modern day canyon of office buildings in Denver, Colorado. The recent National Western Stock Show and Rodeo Parade through Downtown Denver, Colorado was unlike most other city parades. For 45 minutes 17th Street in downtown […]
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ART of LIFE A Look Back & A Look Forward! Fortune Magazine Ponders 2015 Courtesy of Fortune Magazine (CLICK LINK BELOW TO GO TO FORTUNE’S WEBSITE) (http://fortune.com/2014/12/04/predictions-2015-future-business/) (Source: Fortune Magazine, Researched and written by Scott Cendrowski, Erika Fry, Leigh Gallagher, Stephen Gandel, Erin Griffith, Robert Hackett, Beth Kowitt, Adam Lashinsky, JP Mangalindan, Chris Matthews, Tory Newmyer, […]
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Detail of a “Public” Poster (for Hamlet) painted by Paul Davis. Director Joe Papp Artist Paul Davis ART PAUL DAVIS PAINTS THE “FACES” of the PUBLIC THEATER, NYC Last week, the Public Theatre turned the lobby of its Newman Theatre into a gallery showing an exhibition of their theatrical-posters by artist Paul Davis. For sixteen […]
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This statue at Coventry Cathedral in England is by sculptor Josefina de Vasconcellos, who made it at the age of 90. It was installed at the Cathedral in 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. Replicas of this statue can be found in Berlin, Hiroshima, Dresden and Belfast. THE QUEEN’S SPEECH, 2014 England’s Offical […]
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ART: Giovanni Battista Braccelli – Surrealism Seems to Have Been Invented in 1624 SURREALISM (definition) a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, often using irrational images and odd juxtapositions. The Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Réserve des livres rares has released this compilation of amazing engravings […]
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The Thinker, by August Rodin (French, 1840-1917) this version from The Baltimore Museum of Art $89.85 11.75″ tall Bonded Bronze The Thinker is a statue by Auguste Roden, intended to represent Dante himself at the top of a monumental sculptured door based on his Divine Comedy. He is reflecting on the scene below. However, […]
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As you walk into 21c, behind the front desk are three Kehinde Wiley oil paintings. (above) Kehinde Wiley’s “The Prophet and the King II (Columbus)” 2006 ART A Night in the Museum The 21c Museum Hotel where you sleep with the art! 21c founders: Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson Museum Director: Alice Gray Hidden in the […]
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in Bentonville, Arkansas has become one of the great destination museums of the world. Photo By Arkansas Parks and Tourism State of the Art / Artist: Teri Greeves from Santa Fe, NM, exhibits her “Abstraction-Kiowa by Design” created this year, 2014, and made from canvas, beads, (sneaker elements) and high heels.. […]