Sometimes art is Stevie Nicks. She has an exhibition opening later this month at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York.
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malala
“At just 17 years old, Malala Yousafzai has inspired people around the world with her passion and determination to make sure girls everywhere can get an education.” – President Obama. Yousafzai is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Total boss.
mag + art
I’m actually surprising myself with how much I like this series. Here’s hoping the artist, Phillipines-based multimedia producer Eisen Bernardo, does this as more of a tongue-in-cheek thing than actually trying to elevate the status of magazine art. Right? Check out the rest of his series, “Mag + Art”, here.
daphne
Apollo just told Daphne it’s a school night. Ugh, Apollo! You RUIN EVERYTHING.
Curious about the story of how these two got together? Well, she started off being a housekeeper for Apollo’s brother. After a few seasons of will-they-or-won’t-they, they finally gave it go. I think they even got married by the end of the series!
Oh, shoot. I’m thinking of Frasier and Daphne. My mistake.
bernini’s a show off
Bernini sculpted Saint Longinus when he was 32. Thirty-two! Look at that drapery! Good gravy. I can barely make that happen with cotton on a sewing machine, and I am a PRO at a simple gather.
According to medieval folklore, Longinus was a blind Roman who put the spear in Christ’s side, but was healed with his blood. His lance is in one of the four pillars above the altar in Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
Make all of your accomplishments seem feeble when you compare them to Bernini here.
vase with daisies and poppies
So, if you have between $30 and $50 million, this van Gogh could be yours when it goes on the auction block November 4th. I’ll extend the same offer I made to anyone who stepped forward to save Detroit’s art collection — call me.
playoffs
Sometimes art is a crooked motivational sports poster that doesn’t lay flat, no matter the amount of painter’s tape.
draw, paint, and print
There’s a whole LIST on the back of an old receipt somewhere called, “Stuff I Should Have Come Up with First, and Someone Beat Me to the Punch!” And so let’s just add Marion Deuchars to my list. She has a book called “Draw, Paint, and Print like the Great Artists.”
I mean, I’m all for Matisse. The idea of painting without the mess? I’m intrigued…but you’re saying all I need to have in my craft box is crappy construction paper and some scissors to assimilate a world-famous artist? I’ll tell you what, Marion, I went more above and beyond in my program guides when I was an underpaid intern.
Come on, Marion — you use Frida, for crying out loud. You’re not going to have us get hit by a bus, endure 30+ surgeries, or paint ourselves with a rented monkey? No domestic feuds with a terribly unattractive male counterpart!? Yeesh, so boring. I’ll just paint me yawning in one of these decorative frames.
how to view art
Below are 5 steps the Washington Post‘s Phillip Kennicott wants you to take along in your satchel as you head out to museums today.
1. Take time.
The raging debate today about whether to allow the taking of pictures inside the museum usually hinges on whether the act of photographing is intrusive or disruptive to other visitors; more important, the act is fundamentally disruptive to the photographer’s experience of art, which is always fleeting. So leave all your devices behind. And never, ever make plans for what to do later in a museum; if you overhear people making plans for supper, drinks or when to relieve the baby sitter, give them a sharp, baleful look.
First of all, Phillip — is this debate really raging? I mean, I’m all for leaving ridiculously-oversized cameras that flash at home, but I don’t know you expect my friends to know where I am if I don’t geotag a Gauguin with a “Ugh. Hashtag hate!” caption.
2. Seek silence
Always avoid noise, because noise isn’t just distracting, it makes us hate other people.
Yes. Just always, yes.
3. Study upOne of the most deceptive promises made by our stewards of culture over the past half century is: You don’t need to know anything to enjoy art…So study up. Even 10 minutes on Wikipedia can help orient you and fundamentally transform the experience.
Or me. You’re welcome.
4. Engage memory
Always try to remember the name of and at least one work by an artist whom you didn’t know before walking into the museum.
This is actually easier when you bring your smartphone, Phillip.
5. Accept contradiction
Some practical advice: If you feel better about yourself when you leave a museum, you’re probably doing it all wrong.
Unless you break all of these rules…which I plan to do.
where have i seen this…
Interesting selection, Washington Post Sunday Museums section…coincidence I used the same image yesterday? I’m intrigued and awaiting your correspondence regarding my hire.
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