There Was A Burgeoning Interest In Posters And Poster Art In The US In The 1890s. One Manifestation Of

Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time – Joshua Koffman

Artist: Andy Warhol, After, American (1928 - 1987) Title: Marilyn Monroe 2 Year: of Original: 1964 Medium: Serigraph, stamped verso by Sunday B. Morning Size: 36 in. x 36 in. (91.44 cm x 91.44 cm)

Opening bid: $600, Estimates $1,200 - $1,500

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8 About Art: Alanna Martinez

Your Twitter bio states “ask me about art & pasta anytime” so we must ask: For the love of pasta, what’s your favorite pasta dish?

Pasta is a beautifully versatile food, you can go so many ways with it, but my favorite pasta dish is about as simple as it gets. For the pasta itself: this dish goes best with shells (cocciolettte), campenelle, or penne. Add a whole lot of unsalted butter—at least a tablespoon—or you can substitute olive oil. Then, a generous amount of pecorino romano cheese. Then some pepper, and salt if you don’t think it’s salty enough already. Then enjoy! Simply put: pasta with butter and cheese. You can’t go wrong.

Do you have a personal background in the arts? How did you get started?

I grew up in the art world. My father is an artist, and I grew up in his studio. I went to an arts high school in Manhattan where I had a traditional conservatory-style education—drawing, oil painting, watercolor, basic anatomy, etc. After basically doing four years of art school in high school I was hesitant to do another four years at the college level, but I wasn’t ready to stop studying art all together, so I chose to attend a liberal arts school where I focused on photography, sculpture, and art history. While in undergrad, I ran the school’s visual arts publication, so after I graduated I looked for publishing opportunities in the art world and landed an internship at an art magazine. And that’s where I fell in love with art writing.

If so, what’s your favorite medium to work in?

I love the freedom of sculpture. In undergrad, I hit a point with photography where I started exploring video and installation in my work, and thankfully my professor suggested the following semester I sign up for a sculpture class to see if would open up new possibilities for my work. I was blown away by just how much it did.

Today, there are a lot of artists on Instagram. Are you seeing this trend? Any must follows you recommend?

Instagram is a great medium for artists to show off their work in the studio, and give people a view of how they see the world. I follow a lot of galleries, institutions, and artists, but I’ve also discovered a lot of comic artists and illustrators through Instagram and fallen in love with their work.

Are there any cities with an up and coming art market we should know about?

Plenty—though there are more up and coming regions than cities. Really, the Internet has widened the market exponentially. You can be a collector anywhere, and having a foothold at major fairs all over the world is becoming all the more important. Cities with multiple fairs, or new biennials are definitely ones to watch.

What’s your all-time favorite museum that you frequent?

The Met. It’s my favorite museum in the world. Something about it feels like home, even though there’s a massiveness to its collection and halls that makes me feel like I’ll never be able to know every inch of it. My favorite room holds the Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles, painted by John Vanderlyn between 1818 and 1819. While it’s meant to transport you—through minute detail and photographic realism—to the palace’s gardens, there’s something surreal and otherworldly about the palate and wide-angled perspective.

Any can’t miss art events happening this summer in NYC?

Works by French artist Pierre Huyghe are all over the city this summer, and not to be missed. His roof garden commission is currently on view at the Met—where visitors will also have a breathtaking and unique view across Central Park—and his sculpture Untilled is up in MoMA’s sculpture garden, in addition to screenings of his film The Host and the Cloud. I’m also excited personally to see the Brooklyn Museum’s “Rise of Sneaker Culture” and “FAILE” exhibitions.

Any advice for those interesting in breaking into the art market as a writer?

See as much art as you can, read everything being published by outlets you’d want to write for, and remember that tearing people down is not a critic’s main job. Instead, be open to discovering what’s new and exciting and sharing that with others.

חג סוכות שמח לכולם! 🌿🍋 I hope everyone is having a great Sukkot, and getting time to relax in their Sukkah (the struggles of living in an apartment are real during this holiday 😭😭). But I’m excited to go visit other people and their sukkahs they built, it’ll be fun! I hope everyone has had a meaningful Jewish holiday season (the holidays never seem to end, neither does the food). And I hope everyone gets a nice start to the cool October weather! I know I’ve missed it. 🍁🍂🌝🎃☕ #sukkot #chagsameach #happyholidays #sukkah #סוכות #חגשמח #חגים #יהודים #סתיו #שמח #jewish #judaism #october #happyoctober #fall #autumn #pumpkins #imissedthecoolweather

Old Jaffa, Israel

It may be summer outside, but this painting is giving us chills. Don’t miss “Discovering the Impressionists: Paul Durand-Ruel and the New Painting” before it closes on September 13. “Lavacourt under Snow,” c. 1878–80, by Claude Monet (The National Gallery, London. Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917)

My new vignette illustration for LA NACION’s Ideas section (an Argentine daily newspaper) 30/08/2015 I have drawn it for the article about museums and their mission. What do we mean when we say “museum”? Today, museums have turned into places of experimentation, entertainment, shopping, education and appreciation of other forms of art. © GOSIA HERBA 2015

“Upritchard’s proclivity for painting her characters’ skin in tones such as jaundiced yellow, mossy green, or calming lavender— sometimes in two tones or even a rainbow of hues—or having the patterns of their clothing continue onto their faces and hands, as if they have evolved to be able to camouflage themselves within their immediate surroundings, suggests that these creatures may signify a future race. But the combination of recognizable referents that appear to leave her figures nearly paralyzed—their partially opened eyes in a continuous state of rueful pondering— is what the viewer will recognize as disconcertingly familiar, a state of mind that syncs up perfectly with the contemporary moment.”

Hammer Projects: Francis Upritchard closes on Sunday: http://bit.ly/1GpKIbQ

West African women, unlike their East African sisters, eschew the bright reds and other primary colors. They allow themselves black, white, ocher, yellow and beige earth tones. They do employ blue, but it is the blue black, electric indigo or the soft, subtle blue of West African mornings. Maya Angelou, Art of Africa, Even the Stars Look Lonesome.

Design Patterns from Ghana. Though the colour palette is broader than defined by Maya Angelou I like that the excerpt distinguishes the way colours (and of course designs) vary in African countries and in particular how this is tied to the landscape.

The first pattern reminds me a little of a kolam called Sita Mudichu (Sita’s Knot). and the last of the simple pulli (dot) kolam.

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The company that makes Legos has landed at the center of a social-media firestorm after Chinese artist Ai Weiwei complained that it refused to supply a bulk order of the toy bricks for his art.

Ai said he wanted to use the bricks for an exhibition on free speech at Australia’s National Gallery of Victoria. The museum attempted to place an order but was told by the company that it “cannot approve the use of Legos for political works."A post on Ai’s Instagram account said:

"As a powerful corporation, Lego is an influential cultural and political actor in the globalized economy with questionable values. Lego’s refusal to sell its product to the artist is an act of censorship and discrimination.”

A free-speech advocate who was imprisoned by the Chinese government, Ai suggested that Lego was acting under pressure from authorities. The privately held Danish company recently announced that a Legoland theme park will open in Shanghai. 

In response, fans of the artist flooded Twitter and Instagram with offers of Legos, and Ai said he was setting up drop-off points for donations. He also posted a picture of Legos that had been left inside a car on a street in Berlin, where he is serving as a visiting professor at the University of the Arts.

Fans Flood Artist Ai Weiwei With Offers Of Legos

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