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Editor’s Note: Armory Arts Week Coverage will continue.  Please enjoy this lightharted shopping spree while we organize more Arts Coverage!   Japanese pop culture has always celebrated all things charming and overwhelmingly adorable. That is reflected in these too-cute-to-be-true stuffed animal suits known as Kigurumi. ART Shopping: A Kigurumi Invasion!   The latest fad sweeping Japan are these Kigurumi. The […]

The still images in this article are from the internet promotions posted for the exhibition. ART: Searching for the Origin of “NEW ART”  at the Edge of Society Who is creating art before it becomes a headline? Where is today’s epicenter of “NEW ART” in the art capitol of the world, New York City? An […]

Artist: Rembrandt Peale Rubens Peale with a Geranium 1801 oil on canvas ART Art in the LOO   Most museums don’t have visuals inside their bathroom areas, but on a recent trip to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the following posters (portraits from the Natl. Gallery’s collection) were in the hallway leading […]

An enlargement (wall mural) of George Bellows’ painting A Stag at Sharkey’s at the entrance to the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. Paddy Flannigan – George Bellows 1908 Oil on canvas 30 1/4 x 25 in. (76.8 x 63.5 cm) Forty-two Kids – George Bellows 1907 Oil on canvas 42 x 60 in. (106.7 x 152.4 cm) ART: […]

The iconic work “LOVE” by Robert Indiana ART: THE VALENTINE of the art world Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” graphic prints, paintings and sculptures. Born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana, artist Robert Indiana designed the colorful LOVE graphic in 1964. He first stacked the letters in a poem he wrote in 1958, in which LO was […]

  Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde” An Exhibition focused on the African art collected by New York’s avant-garde following the landmark 1913 Armory Show of “Modern Art”. Charles Sheeler  (1918 Photo of the African sculpture below) African Negro Wood Sculpture Portfolio of 20 photographs – gelatin silver print H. x […]

ART A Close Look at Raphael’s painting “St. George and the Dragon” In this, our third close inspection of an artwork in a row, we have selected a very small painting by the great master of the Renaissance, Raphael. It is arguably his best and most interesting piece! St. George was an English knight, who went […]

Thomas Moran (artist) American, 1837 – 1926 Green River Cliffs, Wyoming, 1881 oil on canvas 25″ x 62″ ART A CLOSE LOOK AT THE PAINTING   “GREEN RIVER CLIFFS,   WYOMING”   by artist Thomas Moran A National Gallery of Art Special Exhibition Up until June, 2013   In June 1871, Thomas Moran, a gifted young […]

  A young curator currently at The Whitney has organized a show that makes a cogent case for Digital Art, “Wade Guyton, OS.” Guyton is a 40-year-old New York artist who uses digital tools to create large-scale “paintings” on linen and digital “drawings” by printing over found offset book pages.   ART: “WADE GUYTON OS” The Whitney […]