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christina’s world
first of all, MoMA definitely has a magic glow about it. i looked at many things, but i focused on Christina. (Wyeth, Andrew Christina’s World 1948 Tempera 32 1/4 x 47 3/4 in. The Museum of Modern...
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Woman with Her Throat Cut
Not a grand connoisseur of art, I know very few works. I have walked past her several times, I am sure. This time around she attracted me. I did not look for a while at the title of the sculpture, did...
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Cendrars captures him much better than any art historian. In short lines the poet jots down the magic, the rebellion against gravity, the macramé of goats, sardines, churches, Bella, etc. – the...
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I found out about Eliasson’s installation on the East River, The New York Waterfalls, from NYT. I surely deemed the project interesting, but did not read up on it due to the lack of time. Several days...
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East Village on Guernica
I should have posted this entry while Filthy was still up The original: Pablo Picasso. Guernica. 1937. Oil on canvas. 349 × 776 cm. Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid East Village remix: Must look up the...
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become your dream
i should begin in the beginning. at first there was fish. then there was elmo, mom, sheep and what not. every time i waited for a seat at Mogador, i would check out the window of the De La Vega‘s shop....
View ArticleThe Mosaic Man
As I was walking to pick up my laundry this afternoon, I spotted the famous Mosaic Man fixing up the details on one of the lampposts of the Mosaic Trail. Surely I stopped to chat. The celebrity is...
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Andrew Wyeth died
“One’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes.” Andrew Wyeth Today Internet is full of announcements about Andrew Wyeth’s death. He was one of my favorite artists and thought provokers. I have...
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Goya: staged
I saw Il Trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera yesterday. According to the program, David McVicar’s “look” of the production was taken from Goya’s visuals: “The Third of May, 1808″ and The Disasters of...
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Richard Avedon’s women: movement
Twiggy by Richard Avedon Surely I have two midterm exams tomorrow, and my arse will be viciously kicked by Indian MBAs, who, mind you, are no regular MBA students. Many of them are restlessly studying...
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