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David Hockney posing for Freud in his studio. Freud – Full Length Nude Self Portrait (detail)   ART: Lucian Freud (1922-2011) painted reality in the flesh   Lucian Freud, grandson of the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, passed away last year. He was considered one of England’s great artistic treasures and although collected by many conservative […]

ART: “de Kooning, a Retrospective” at MoMA, NYC (Closing January 9, 2012) Dutch American Abstract Expressionist Artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) He was a part of the group of artists who came to be known as the New York School. Other members of this group included Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston and Clyfford Still.   “In […]

“The Wilton Diptych” (right panel) c.1395 Christmas 2011 Artworks with Christian themes have dominated “Western Art” for most of the past 2000 years. www.ARTSnFOOD.blogspot.com is read by art lovers of every faith, around the world. I offer this special exhibition depicting two of the most popular subjects in all of “Western Art History”: “The Nativity” and “Madonna & […]

Eames House Bird from LACMA http://shop.lacma.org ART More Museum Websites  with Unique Gifts  (After Christmas, you might consider buying something for yourself, these items are just too cool to pass up!) Red Mutewatch Meet the Mutewatch, a new time management tool that features vibrating alarm and timer functions on a hidden touchscreen. The Mutewatch is designed to be […]

  Tom Otterness – ‘Mama Bear’ – at The Whitney ART Museum Websites  Make for Unique Holiday Shopping  If you are looking for something different,the Museum Gift Shops could be your best option!   Craig Damrauer – “Linen Tea Towel”  at The New Museum Shop Craig Damrauer (b. in Denver, Colorado) is a graduated with an MFA from […]

ART THE NEW  CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM  A GREAT MUSEUM, FOCUSED ON  AMERICAN ART, OPENS!   18th Century: Portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stewart (detail 1797)  Mid 19th Century: Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait  “The Life of a Hunter: A Tight Fix” (1856) Mid to Late 19th Century: Winslow Homer “Spring” (1878) Mid -Late 20th Century: Louise Nevelson’s painted […]

Wheat Fields  |  ca. 1670  |  Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch)  |  Oil on canvas     ART CLOUDS Keith Christiansen, Chairman of European Paintings at Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), loves to lay back and look at clouds. He also has really looked at how clouds are depicted in paintings at the museum.   Keith Christiansen Wheat Field […]

Happy Thanksgiving America! PHOTOGRAPHY: Brandon Stanton’s Humans of  New York  Brandon Stanton, a photographer, is trying to take as many portraits of New Yorkers he possibly can (3000 snaps so far) to create a visual census of the city for 2011. His project is called Humans of New York. See his Humans of New York […]

Interior of Clyfford Still Museum (Copyright Clyfford Still Museum) ART: The New Clyfford Still Museum   Painter Clyfford Still was one of the most important abstract expressionists and ranks with the greats like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Today, 31 years after his passing, he is finally ready to exhibit his work.      Clyfford Still […]

  The artist had holes cut through the floors of The New Museum to create a two story tube slide.             ART: ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? Now Showing “Carsten Höller: Experience”  The New Museum until January 15, 2011 Exhibition Transforms the Museum Galleries into a Participatory Environment featuring a 102-foot Slide […]