Picked up sign at 1211 Ave of Americas. Kinkos appears to be a front — workers in purple shirts asking customers if they need any help, but when customers say yes, the worker walks away to do something else entirely unrelated and to ask another customer if they’ve been helped yet. Sign is in good [...]
Giorgio Vasari, an Italian Mannerist, is better known for writing Le Vite, an encyclopedia of artist biographies, and then for his architecture more so than his art. He did well enough at the latter two, though, to build himself a fine house and buy a decent position in Italian society.
A surprise post from a blog I didn’t remember signing up for sent me to Colette Calascione’s website, where I encountered this:
While much of Calascione’s work is more surreal than this, I like this one, “Swimmer”, because it contains both the surrealism she employs to great effect, as well as a nod to past eras [...]
I spent Thursday through Saturday in Los Angeles. I love LA. I know that might make you think less of me, the common argument being that I don’t know how shallow and insincere and vapid much of LA really is. I actually do know it and so do the people who live there. This is [...]
The Reynolds Center housing two museums, The National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum, reopened July 1st and I ventured over there on a walk home from Adams Morgan to Eastern Market. To be honest, it was the promise of air conditioning and some good building design that had lured me, rather than the [...]
Recently we visited the Cezanne in Provence exhibit at the National Gallery. I like the Impressionists (what lady doesn’t) but with the exception of Large Bathers, I wasn’t very excited about the whole thing. It was crowded and after awhile all the blurriness blurred together. I did like the use of few but intense [...]
Went to see the Hokusai exhibit at the Sackler Gallery–most favorite piece is “Thunder God”, though his later more spiritual works were also moving. I like this gallery quite a lot. It puts on thorough shows. You get a feel for the artist–enough so that you want to learn more–without it being overdone or overwhelming. [...]
