ARTS ART /42 / BASEL Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. More than 2,500 artists, ranging from the great masters of Modern art to the latest generation of emerging stars, are represented in the show’s multiple sections. The exhibition includes the highest-quality paintings, sculptures, drawings, […]
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Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774–1840) Woman at the Window, 1822 Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie ART: Now Showing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC “ROOMS WITH A VIEW: THE OPEN WINDOW IN THE 19TH CENTURY” Exhibition runs through July 4, 2011 I had the privilege to spend quite a bit of time […]
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ART New Sculpture in Rome, Everyone is a critic! A new 16 foot tall bronze statue of Pope John Paul II was recently unveiled in the piazza of Rome’s main train station to a public outcry. The conceptual sculpture depicts an abstracted Pope opening his cape to embrace […]
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FOLK ART Hex Signs In Pennsylvania Dutch Country First, a little background about the Old Order Amish in Pennsylvania. Amish drive only horse drawn carriages. All around the Pennsylvania towns of Intercourse, Bird-in-Hand and Paradise are Amish communities made up of German speakers of Swiss origin – a devotedly faithful subgroup Mennonites. The Amish are […]
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ART: Graffiti Artist: Bansky BANSKY is one of the world’s favorite artistic rebels. Realistically there is graffiti the “art form” and there is graffiti “the crime”. The latter is spray-paint illegally and poorly applied to other’s property caused by the misplaced thoughts of an immature brain to gain street creds from a peer group. The […]
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IN NEW ZEALAND: Dismemberment Site 1, 2003-09 © Artist Anish KapoorDismemberment Site I is explicitly Land Art, as underscored by its title and the term “site”. Its anchoring in the landscape is both spectacular and supernatural; will his artwork “dismember” the hill by appearing as a shape oscillating between muscle and an ancestral trumpet? As is often the […]
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ART The Venice Biennale June 4 – Nov. 27th In the last issue I featured the artists selected for the US Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale and in this issue I want to share some of the other art available at this 54th “Worlds Fair of Art” in Venice, Italy. The selection of Pavilions […]
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The collabrative performance art team of Allora & Calzadilla, from Puerto Rico, will represent the USA at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Above their prop for: “Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on ‘Ode to Joy’ for a Prepared Piano” ART Coming Soon The Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale is one of the most prestigious contemporary arts […]
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NOW SHOWING “CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS” A Film By Director Werner Herzog has just been released in selected theaters. Above is a photo of the interior of an ancient cave in the Ardeche region of southern France. A cave filled with hundreds of 35,000 year-old wall paintings of animals which have been protected from the elements ever since a […]
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Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926 Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son 1875 Oil on canvas – National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.29 ART NOW SHOWING: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces From the National Gallery of Art While taking an Easter trip through the southern US, I […]