ART Doing Art on a Small Scale Miniatures have always had a warm spot in collector’s hearts, because one must get very intimate and up-close to see the details of the craftsmanship. Any artist who can create a work, which most talented artists make on a human scale, but they do on a “micro” […]
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“The Modern” Art Museum of Fort Worth (above) was designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. It has five flat-roofed glass pavilions magically rising out of a beautiful reflecting pool. All of Fort Worth’s Art Museums were designed by world renowned architects: the Kimbell Art Museum was designed by Louis I. Kahn with an annex […]
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ART If Gold and Jewels are the Medium – What is the Message? With the value of gold soaring towards $2000 an ounce, I thought it was a good time to feature art made of precious materials. When I was in undergraduate school, one of my Art History professors said something nonchalantly that stuck […]
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ART: FASHION at the MET Alexander McQueen was the greatest fashion designer of his generation, admired by his peers for technical detail and idolized by students of design for his fearless risk-taking. “Lee” McQueen, as his friends called him, committed suicide last year at the age of 40. He once said, “People don’t want to see clothes. […]
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ART: Norman Rockwell at The White House The famous Norman Rockwell painting, “The Problem We All Live With”, shows a young black girl, Ruby Bridges, on her way to start first grade in New Orleans, after the school board mandated desegregation of two New Orleans schools. This depicts an actual event which happened in 1960. The […]
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Aerial view of Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao ART: The Fun Architecture of Frank Gehry Architect Frank Gehry thought his long career was coming to a graceful end before lightening struck, when he designed a single building in a relatively unknown city in Spain. The year was 1997 and the city was Bilbao, Spain when […]
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“Blow-Ups” – ink on art paper – Art as Journalism “painting from life as it unfolds in front of me” – by Jack Atkinson ART: Dr. David Holcombe on Art Collecting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvsMYf4SqVw 1 BREAKING NEWS: Original Art and original editioned art is better than museum posters. Even bad original art is better than a museum […]
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Artist Mick Madzo from Excelsior, MN ART: This Denver Arts Festival brings together artists from across the USA Every Fourth of July weekend, Denver Colorado hosts the Cherry Creek Arts Festival in it’s upscale Cherry Creek shopping district. It is a very competitive, juried festival and the artists are selected from around the […]
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ART: Review of the art fair: ART HK 11 Asia’s preeminent Art Fair and one of the most eagerly anticipated events on the international art calendar was held at the Convention and Exhibition Center in Hong Kong, where 260 galleries from 38 countries came together to offer the largest display of contemporary art ever on view […]
Dear Readers I will be on vacation for a week and will not have access to a computer. Enjoy checking out many of the web sites for the galleries at last week’s Art Basel. I have also included a new video of the fair and I have divided the […]