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The Arts Seen in NYC (Pierre Cardin Is Totally Brilliant Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town the other weekend to spend some time a-museuming and say, it was swell. After navigating the usual midtown Manhattan mishegas to get to our usual hotel, we took the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Dürer, Andrew Carnegie, Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, Basquiat’s “Defacement”: The Untold Story, Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall, Berthe Morisot, Brooklyn Museum, Cai Guo-Qiang, Carrie Mae Weems, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Edvard Munch, Elizabeth Cleland, Francisco Goya, Franz Kline, From Expressionism to Surrealism: Highlights of Modern Art from the Collection, Garry Winogrand: Color, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Guggenheim Museum, Henri Matisse, James McNeill Whistler, Jenny Holzer, Jewelry for America, Joan Miro, Joseph Beuys, Julie Mehretu, Käthe Kollwitz, Louis Armstrong House Museum, Louise Nevelson, Mark Rothko, Max Ernst, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, New York Times, Non-Brand, Pablo Picasso, Paul Chan, Peter Plagens, Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion, Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance, Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper, Richard Prince, Roberta Smith, Sport and Leisure: Sailing on the Sound, The Bauhaus Spirit at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Vasily Kandinsky, Vincent Van Gogh, Wadsworth Atheneum, Wall Street Journal
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Dead Blogging ‘Alfred Maurer’ at Addison Gallery
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Andover yesterday to catch Alfred Maurer: At the Vanguard of Modernism at the Addison Gallery of American Art and, say, it was swell. Maurer was an early 20th Century artist who morphed from … Continue reading
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Tagged Addison Gallery of American Art, Alfred Maurer, Alfred Maurer: At the Vanguard of Modernism, Boston Globe, cubism, fauvism, Henri Matisse, impressionism, Light/Dark White/Black, On the Scene: 20th Century Street Photography, Searching for the Real, Sebastian Smee
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Dead Blogging ‘Picasso to Warhol’ at Lowell Textile Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Lowell over the weekend to catch Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol at the American Textile History Museum and, say, it was swell. From their website: The American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Circus’ at RISD Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled down to Providence yesterday to catch Circus at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and, say, it was swell. For starters, there was the exhibit itself. The spectacle of the American and European … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Calder, Alison Chang, August Lehrecke, Chifferobe Events, Circus, Design the Night, Dizzy the Clown, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot, Kristen Minsky, Kylie Why, Marc Chagall, Matthew Muller, Max Beckmann, Paul Carpentier, Pneuhaus, Rhode Island School of Design, RISD, The TropiGals
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NYT ‘First Crush’ Series Crashes
Okay – this has happened to the hardworking staff and the Missus once too often. We looked at yesterday’s New York Times front page and here’s what we saw: That lede – “I’ve been writing about art professionally for more … Continue reading
Travels With The Missus On The Côte d’Azur
Well the Missus and I trundled over to the French Riviera for our 30th wedding anniversary (and to walk in the footsteps of Alicia Markova in advance of the Missus’ forthcoming book), and here’s how it went . . . … Continue reading
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Tagged AC Hotel Nice, Air France, Alain Jacquet, Alicia Markova, Arman, Azur Alive, Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Bella, BNP Paribas, Brand Zombies, Cannes, Cannesterprise, Côte d'Azur, Côte of Arms, Christian Estrosi, Cimitière du Château, City of Light Service, Cocteau Chapel, cubism, David Ogilvy, Dejeuner sur l'herbe, Duke Ellington, Ephrussi de Rothschild Villa & Gardens, Eze Village, French Riviera, Henri Matisse, Jardin Maréchal Juin, Jean Cocteau, Joseph Garibaldi, L'Atrium, La Comédie Humaine, La Tête Carrée, Lignes d'Azur, Lionel Hampton, Lomography, Lonely Planet, Louis Armstrong, Manet, Marc Chagall, Miles Davis, multi-schmucker, Musée Chagall, Musée D'Art Moderne et D'Art Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée Masséna, Musée Matisse, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice, Orly Airport, Palais Lascaris, Paris, Place Masséna, Promenade des Anglais, Rade de Villefranche-sur-Mer, Robert Delauney, Roissy Charles de Gaulle, Sacha Sosno, seven statues, Sol Lewitt, sports facility, St. Jean Cap Ferrat, stay.com, The Making of Markova, Tina Sutton, tram system, tubism, Utrip, Villefranche-sur-Mer, Virus Compris, Wall Street Journal
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