From The Curator. “In a city where buildings seem to change as often as fashion, the shop is one example of attention to detail designed to last. The inside shelves and stairwell are handmade by a craftsman from Nagano. There are papers of many sizes, colors, and textures gathered from across Japan. Often traveling extensively [...]
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Local Color
In painting, the term Local color refers to the natural color of an object unmodified by adding light and shadow or any other distortion. Local color is best seen on a matt surface, due to it not being reflected, and therefore distorted. In literature, regionalism or local color fiction refers to fiction or poetry that [...]
Beautiful Losers
A documentary produced in 2008 that we thought would be of interest to many of you. Here’s the theatrical trailer and a synopsis from IMDB.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyRAHKTy6hI] “The greatest cultural accomplishments in history have never been the result of the brainstorms of marketing men, corporate focus groups, or any homogenized methods; they have always happened organically. [...]
Music Kitchen
NYTimes.com Just three blocks from Lincoln Center, they arrived at the concert on Thursday night by shelter bus, not taxi or limousine. They took their seats around scarred, round folding tables. The menu was chicken curry and rice served on paper plates. These concertgoers were eight tired, homeless men who had been taken to the [...]
At 94…the Hot New Thing in Painting
NYTimes.com Under a skylight in her tin-ceilinged loft near Union Square in Manhattan, the abstract painter Carmen Herrera, 94, nursed a flute of Champagne last week, sitting regally in the wheelchair she resents. After six decades of very private painting, Ms. Herrera sold her first artwork five years ago, at 89. Now, at a small [...]
Jose Limon
José Arcadio Limón (January 12, 1908 – December 2, 1972) was a pioneering modern dancer and choreographer. He was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, the eldest of 12 children. He moved to New York City in 1928 where he studied under Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. In 1946, Limón founded the José Limón Dance Company. [...]
Frida
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico and European influences including Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. Many of her works are self-portraits that symbolically articulate her own pain. Kahlo was married to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Frida Kahlo was born [...]
Just call him 'Goya'…
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. The subversive and subjective element in [...]
A bit of art history…
One of my very favorite artistic movements is that of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The Brotherhood was founded by William Holman Hunt , John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1848. These three were later joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner. Their collective intention was to return to [...]
Gustavo Dudamel – conductor
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amSqQ5XNaGE&feature=player_profilepage#] Check out Wikipedia to learn more about Gustavo Dudamel.
