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Tag Archives: Matisse
Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show: What the-!
Well the Missus and I watched the doggies at the 139th Westminster Kennel Club Show the past two nights and say, it was swell. But we never expected it to be. For starters, we couldn’t stand half of the seven finalists. … Continue reading
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Tagged 139th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Best in Show Judge, Charlie, David Merriam, Madison Square Garden, Matisse, Miss P, New York Times, Old English sheepdog, Patricia Hearst-Shaw, Patty Hearst, Portuguese water dog, Richard Sandomir, Skye terrier, Swagger, Uno, USA Today
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Why The New York Times Is A Great Newspaper (Nazi Art Plundering Edition)
In their prime (which is to say the 1940s), the Nazis seized roughly 100,000 works of art – worth maybe $10 billion – from German families who happened to be Jewish. This is the story of 400 of those artworks … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Rosenberg, Braque, Cezanne, Marianne Rosenberg, Matisse, Nazi art plundering, New York Times, Norway, Paul Rosenberg, Picasso, Renoir, The Crusades
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Cezanne’s Card Players
Hidden gem alert: The Courtauld Gallery at Somerset House in London. On view now is the exhibit “Cezzane’s Card Players,” which assembles all but two of Paul Cezanne’s studies and finished works of what many think is his greatest painting. … Continue reading
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Tagged Card players, Cezanne, Courtauld Gallery, Derain, Diaghelev, Dufy, Matisse, Somerset House, V&A, Vlaminck
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The Arts Seen In New York
Well, the Missus and I went down to The Big Town for a few days, and here’s some of what we saw (not counting Eliot Spitzer on the Upper East Side after a run in Central Park – his, not … Continue reading
