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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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The Arts Seen in NYC (‘Summer with the Averys’ Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town last weekend to check out this that and the other thing and, say, it was swell. After the usual funhouse ride through Six Flags Over Midtown Manhattan, we headed … Continue reading
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Tagged Almeida Theatre, Bertie Carvel, Bruce Museum, Bryant Park, Camp: Notes on Fashion, Donald Margulies, Dora Maar, Edmund de Waal, Elective Affinities: Edmund de Waal at The Frick Collection, Elie Nadelman, Fox Broadcast Network, Fox News Channel, Gagosian Gallery, Ink, James McNeill Whistler, John Richardson, Jonny Lee Miller, Larry Lamb, Lincoln Kirstein's Modern, Long Lost, Man in the Open Air, Manhattan Theatre Club, March Avery, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Milton Avery, Minimalism/Maximalism, Pablo Picasso, Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee, Philip Johnson, Picasso's Women: Fernande to Jacqueline, Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Rupert Murdoch, Sally Michel, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Sharks! Myths and Realities, starchitect, Summer with the Averys [Milton | Sally | March], Susan Sontag, The Art Newspaper, The Frick Collection, The Met Breuer, The Mirror, The Museum at FIT, The Red Flame Diner, The Sun, Whistler as Printmaker: Highlights from the Gertrude Kosovsky Collection, Yoga Night
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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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While We Were Out (The Art Seen In New York)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town last week and here’s some of what we saw. For starters, a couple of galleries in Chelsea. (Sign o’ the Times: A billboard for a storage facility that said, … Continue reading
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Tagged Against the Grain, Ai Weiwei, Chelsea, Chim, Claes Oldenburg, DC Moore Gallery, Duane Michals, Edwardian Opulence, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gagosian Gallery, German Expressionism 1900-1930, Giovani Boldini, Helen Frankenthaler, ICP, International Center of Photography, James McNeill Whistler, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Laura Roth, Leonard Lauder, Met, MFA, MOMA, Museum of Art and Design, Museum of Modern Art, Neue Galerie, Painted on 21st Street, Roman Vishniac, Ron Lauder, Société Anonyme, The Painted Photograph, The Street and the Store, Wear it or Not, Yale Art Gallery, Yale Center for British Art
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