The docent pointed to one Hockney painting of a fat guy sitting on an art deco sofa and said it was reminiscent of The Annunciation.
Huh? Maybe in some far away dope-smoking docent universe.
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Getting “inside” the arts…
Posted: 21st January 2018 in ArtTags: David Hockey, guitar, Hockney, Hockney met, John Lennon, music, painting, the beatles, The Met
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The Beatles White Album “store”
Posted: 9th March 2013 in ArtTags: art, new york, Recess Gallery, Rutherford Chang, soho, the beatles, The Beatles White Album
Imagine a “store” containing nothing but The Beatles historic White Album…
The thrill of traveling….
Posted: 3rd August 2012 in ArtTags: ca' d'zan, florida, florida museums, john ringling, Ringling museum of art, sarasota, travel, travel discoveries
I’m not a huge fan of traveling which may surprise some of you because I do seem to travel non-stop (mostly for work) but , honestly, it’s not my bag. Still, when I do travel, I love the thrill of discovery as much as the next guy. And what I’ve discovered is that you can […]
Thomas Kinkade and the foreshadowing of self-publishing…
Posted: 16th April 2012 in Art, LifeTags: art for art's sake, painting, paul larosa, self-publishing, susan orlean, the new yorker magazine, thomas kinkade
I never really thought all the much about the populist painter Thomas Kinkade until he died earlier this month. Then as I began reading the obits, testimonials and the great piece in The New Yorker published more than ten years ago by Susan Orlean, I thought — hell, yeah, Kinkade was my kind of […]