Chopin – The Poet of the Piano You and your Valentine should pour two glasses of champagne, sit on the couch touching shoulders, close your eyes and listen intently to Chopin’s Fantaisie Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. 66 while you sip your bubbly. You will definitely fall in love with the music, and the mood […]
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SUPER BOWL SUNDAY It is our only unofficial U.S. National Holiday. 100 million viewers gather in front of a TV somewhere to watch America’s professional football championship game. More often than not, the game is less than interesting with one team dominating the other. In an effort to keep all 100,000,000 viewers tuned in, the […]
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“The Steerage” by Stieglitz – He loved to recount how Picasso had praised the collage-like dispersal of forms and shifting depths of “The Steerage” ART: Great Masters of Photography – Stieglitz, Steichen and Strand The Metropolitan Museum of Art has produced a magical exhibition from its own collection of photographic prints, taken and printed by the first great […]
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ART PEOPLE: Agnes Gund Agnes Gund has received the President’s National Medal of Arts, a Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, NYC’s Doris C. Freeman Award, the NY Governor’s Award, the Montblanc de la Culture Award, the ArtTable Award, Service to Visual Arts Award, four honorary doctorates and the Garden Lobby of MoMA is named for her. Agnes […]
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ART: Worlds Collide! International Center of Photography 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd, NY, NY 10036 January 21, 2011 – May 8, 2011 http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/wang-qingsong-when-worlds-collide Buddha, played by artist Wang Qingsong, holds up Western “material wealth” icons which now have become integrated into contemporary Chinese life. Title: Requesting Buddha No. 1, 1999 © Wang Qingsong. […]
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ART: Big Week for Collectors There are three major events in the world of art and collectibles worth visiting this week. January 22-30, 2011, Something for every collector. 1) Sotheby’s introduces its first Old Masters Week show & sale, New York City. An old master work is any European work of art from 1280 through […]
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ART: VIP Art Fair.com World’s FIRST Virtual Art Fair Will it work? January 22-30, 2011 The art world’s first online international art fair is scheduled to launch on January 22, 2011. The galleries buy booths, just like the bricks-and-mortar versions and customers who want to purchase art are given passes by the galleries or […]
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First, a thank you to all of the readers from 32 different countries who have found and read this blog, which I only started two months ago. Please help keep the momentum going, by recommending www.ARTSnFOOD.blogspot.com to your friends; by keeping the link on your desktop as a place to go when bored at your computer; […]
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The Chicago Picasso ART: PUBLIC SCULPTURE The “Chicago Picasso” in Daley Plaza, Chicago, IL. Up in the sky – it’s a Bird, no it’s an Afghan Dog, no it’s a Baboon! Seriously, what is it? It IS an abstracted Picasso sculpture of a Woman’s Head. Wouldn’t you be disappointed if a Picasso wasn’t slightly weird! […]
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ART NOW SHOWING: “Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart’s Renaissance” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. Jan Gossart has never before been the subject of an exhibition in the United States. The Met’s show includes 50 of the artist’s 63 known paintings, 35 drawings, and six prints from collections in the U.S. and […]