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Dead Blogging ‘Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec’ at Currier Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled up to the Granite State over the weekend to catch The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters from the Museum of Modern Art (through January 7) at the Currier Museum of Art and say, it was … Continue reading
The Arts Seen in NYC (Fabulous Picasso Sculpture Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town the other week and say, it was swell. Our artinery: Friday We started out at the Museum of Arts and Design and – yes – we were MAD about the … Continue reading
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The Arts Seen in Western Mass. (Summer of Whistler Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled out to the Berkshires for a couple of days last week to catch this & that and, say, it was . . . swelling with people. Upon our arrival in Williamstown we headed right to … Continue reading
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Tagged Andreas Brown, Andy Warhol, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Boston Globe, Charles Prendergast, Clark Art Institute, Clark Museum, George Segal, Gotham Book Mart, James McNeill Whistler, Kathryn Price, Mark Feeney, Maurice Prendergast, Norman Rockwell Museum, Open Doorway, Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs, selfie, The Berkshires, The Clark Art Institute, The Loosening of Time, The Wheel of Doom, Three Centuries of American Art, Van Gogh and Nature, Van Gogh-Go, Wall Street Journal, Warhol & Collecting Books, Warhol by the Book, WCMA, Whistler Close-Up, Whistler in Paris London and Venice, Whistler's Mother: Grey Black and White, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale University Art Gallery
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Whistler Past the Graveyard: America’s Most Artistic Artist
Ever since reading the novel I, James McNeill Whistler by Lawrence Williams in 1972, the hardworking staff has been a fanboy of James Abbott MacNeill Whistler, the 19th century American expatriate artist who embodied “art for art’s (and my) sake.” (Just for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Ann Landi, artficionado, ARTnews, Charge of the Light Brigade, Charles Freer, Darren Waterston, Filthy Lucre, Frederick Leyland, Freer/Sackler, I James McNeill Whistler: A Novel, James McNeill Whistler, James McNeill Whistler: The Case for Beauty, John Ruskin, Lawrence Williams, MASS MoCA, PBS, Peacock Room, The Princess from the Land of Porcelain, Thomas Jeckyll, Uncertain Beauty, Winslow Homer
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Auction House Bakeoff in NYT!
It’s art auction season in the Big Town, and the Big Houses are having a swell donnybrook in the ad pages of the New York Times. What follows is a representative sample from Sunday’s Grey Lady. Start with Southeby’s. … Continue reading
The War of Art in NYC’s Auction Houses
It’s auction season for the arterati, and yesterday’s New York Times was the Antietam of tony gavel houses in the Big Town. There was, for instance, this Christie’s ad in the A section: Which sends us to this video presented by Loic … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Antietam, Bonhams, Christie's, Christopher Martin, Frederick Carl Frieske, Gary Gardner, If I Live, Jean-Michel Basquuiat, Jeff Koons, John Currin, Loic Gouzer, Mark Rothko, New York auction houses, New York Times, Richard Prince, Sotheby's, the arterati, The Garden Chair
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Dead Blogging Andy Warhol At The Rose Art Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled out to the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University the other day to catch Image Machine: Andy Warhol and Photography (through December 15) and, say, it was . . . interesting. From the Rose website: … Continue reading
The Art Seen In NYC
Well the Missus and I trundled down to The Big Town last weekend and here’s some of what we caught. Munch/Warhol and the Multiple Image We saw this exhibit at Scandinavia House the day before it closed. Via Norway.org: Organized … Continue reading
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Tagged American Folk Art Museum, Andy Warhol, Bill Traylor, David Hockney, Edvard Munch, Fashion Jewelry, FIT, Judith Light, Le Corbusier, MAD, Madonna, MOMA, Munch/Warhol and the Multiple Image, Norway.org. Scandinavia House, Other Desert Cities, Retrospective, Robert Irwin, Scrim Veil, Self-Portrait with Skeleton Arm, The Assembled Parties, The Brooch.Eva Mudocci, The Jugglers, The Scream, Tony Award, Whitney Museum
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