Category Archives: Art

Weekly Photo Challenge: Resolved

Resolved:  In 2013, I will try to create something new every day, or work toward creating something new (i.e, working on a painting), even if it is only taking one photo or writing a few words.  In the act of … Continue reading

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Posters I Like

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Create

This photo challenge gives me the opportunity to show off one of my paintings, “Central Park,”  displayed on my easel in my apartment.

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My Day in the Big Apple

In my last post I wrote about going to the Met and seeing Cloud City, yesterday, Friday. This post is about all the other things I did yesterday, other than the Cloud City experience, while in Manhattan. The ferry was … Continue reading

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Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud City on the Roof Garden at the Met

Every year from May through October, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has their roof garden open with a new exhibit. This summer’s sweet delight is called Cloud City by Tomás Saraceno, an Argentinian artist. Today, I visited the exhibit and took … Continue reading

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Staten Island’s Rock Sculpture Garden Demolished

Today I visited the Lemon Creek Fishing Pier with the intention of visiting a rock sculpture garden that was a short walk away on what is called the Mount Loretto Shoreline.  The last time I visited the beautiful rock sculptures was in 2007.  The sculptures were … Continue reading

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The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde–Exhibit at the Met

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The Stein family consisting of Gertrude, her brother Leo and another brother Michael and his wife Sarah lived in Paris in the WWI era.  The family held real estate and investments in San Francisco, the income of which supported them, … Continue reading

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Art Postcards

The Art Postcard are postcards that artists design themselves and then exchange with other artists.  Or, they can just be post cards that people have added their own art to.  There are also gallery exhibitions of art postcards. It’s fun … Continue reading

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Diego Rivera Murals on Display at MOMA

Visited the Museum of Modern Art in midtown NYC this morning to see the Rivera Murals which are on display now at MOMA.  I wasn’t allowed to take photos of the exhibit, but I found that I could buy postcards … Continue reading

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Sum of Days by Carlito Carvalhosa

When I visited the Museum of Modern Art last week to see the deKooning exhibit, I also saw this exhibit called Sum of Days by Brazilian artist Carlito Carvalhosa [born 1961].  MOMA usually has at least one exhibit that is participatory … Continue reading

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