American Modern Art

En Blog Of Travel el 2009.03.07

There are many possibilities for finding flights from UK to New York for quite low prices, both direct and with scale. Many companies have acceptable connections, so it is recommended if you can, be as flexible as possible on the dates and resort to all possible combinations of search. For those who wish to fly to New York without a stop, there are direct flights from several companies from Madrid and Barcelona. Since direct flight to Madrid is one of the two city airports (JFK or Newark)...

En DMonKaZ el 2009.03.03

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En Médico Asesino Serial el 2009.02.27

<BR><BR><BR><BR>Peter Brooke, Benwee Variation #2, 2008, oil on paper, mounted to panel. Courtesy Dolan/Maxwell<BR><BR><BR>NEW YORK.- In 1988, art and antiques fair producer Sanford Smith noticed a trend, ?Almost every gallery I visited had a closet full of works on paper; drawings, prints, watercolors?Works that could not compete with more expensive artworks for wall space.? <BR><BR>Inspired by this often overlooked art, Smith invited a selection of...

En nub lag teh server el 2009.02.24

Talking Heads – Burning Down the House – Listen free and discover music at Last.fm Listen to Talking Heads ? Burning Down the House for free. Burning Down the House appears on the album Stop Making Sense. One of the most important, influential and enduring new wave bands, Talking Heads regularly modified their sound, bringing in elements of punk, pop, African rhythms and funk among others to add to their original jerky stripped-down art-punk stylings. Talking Heads first appeared on the...

En aangirfan el 2009.02.04

David A. The de Rothschilds seem like a typical upper class British family. Geography-loving David de Rothschild is to embark on "Plastiki Voyage", a 7,500-mile journey from San Francisco to Sydney in a boat made of plastic bottles. (David de Rothschild: Voyage of the Plastiki Message in a Bottle?Reconsidering Plastic ) He has spent time in the Ecuadorian rainforest documenting the damage international oil companies have created by drilling the vast oil reserves, and in turn disturbing the...

En An American in Lima el 2009.01.27

Beautiful women -- three Inca noblewomen face the sunset in Jimenez Mercado's series "Munay Warmikuna" (Inca Princess Project) A tourism company in Cusco is sponsoring an intriguing photo project to highlight indigenous beauty and women’s growing influence in South America. No prize money or payment is involved, but chosen photographers have their projects featured in a select Web-based gallery. The Inca Princess Photo Project invites professional photographers to submit ideas...

En weblogart - internet and arts el 2009.01.18

Committed Explanations in Geography, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Pablo Helguera, is an upcoming show at the School of Art at The Cooper Union that showcases his recent artworks highlighting cultural and linguistic gaps specific to the Americas (January 27-February 21, 2009). Helguera's four-week, multi-disciplinary exhibition will feature video, sculpture, collage, printmaking and performance that will provide the viewer with an opportunity to reflect on the significant cultural change...

En ARTISMARE el 2008.11.01

ARTE Y CULTURA NOTICIAS SOBRE ARTE Y CULTURA - París. En el Grand Palais: "Emil Nolde (1867-1956)", hasta el 19 de enero de 2009 ( elpais / vanguardia / rive-gauche ). Para saber más de Emil Nolde y su obra: wikipedia / babab / lemonde / artcyclopedia / aut.org / rmn / youtube.- Riehen (Suiza). En la Fondation Beyeler: "Venice: From Canaletto and Turner to Monet" (Venecia: Desde Canaletto y Turner a Monet), hasta el 25 de enero de 2009.- Viena (Austria). En el Leopold...

En ARTISMARE2 el 2008.11.01

ART & CULTURE NEWS ABOUT ART AND CULTURE - Paris. In the Grand Palais: "Emil Nolde (1867-1956)", until January 19, 2009 ( rive-gauche ). To know more about Emil Nolde and his work: wikipedia / lemonde / artcyclopedia / aut.org / rmn / youtube.- Riehen (Switzerland). In the Fondation Beyeler: "Venice: From Canaletto and Turner to Monet", until January 25, 2009.- Vienna (Austria). In the Leopold Museum: "Christian Schad. Retrospectiva", until January 6, 2009. To know more...

En Jazz Review el 2008.09.24

Wynton Learson Marsalis (b. October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter and composer. He is among the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era and is also a well-known instrumentalist in classical music. He is also the Musical Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. A compilation of his series of inspirational letters to a young jazz musical student, named Anthony, has been published as To a Young Jazz Musician. Marsalis has made his reputation with a combination of skill in jazz performance...

En Bits of houses el 2008.09.23

Modern art seems to be so so incredible and sometimes even awkward. We all have seen sand sculptures but have you ever heard about butter variants? An innovative American artist has revealed his new bizarre collection. Jim Victor has created sculptur [...] Link: Style, design, decoration of interior. House architecture tips Tags: Modern, seems, incredible, sometimes, even, awkward., have, seen, sand, sculptures, have, ever, heard, about, butter, variants?, innovative, American, artist, revealed,...

En Vintage & Chic el 2008.09.03

La pareja formada por Charles y Ray Eames diseñaron La Chaise (La silla, en francés) en 1948 para el Concurso Internacional de Diseño de Muebles de Bajo Coste, organizado por Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York. Se inspiraron para ello en la escultura "Floating Figure" del escultor Gaston Lachaise. Al final, este diseño resultó ser demasiado costoso de producir pero, paradojas de la vida, editada hoy en día por Vitra, podéis haceros con una...

En Full Halloween el 2008.08.16

Early horror writings Horrific situations are found in some of the earliest recorded tales. Many myths and legends feature scenarios and archetypes used by later horror writers. Tales of demons and vampires in ancient and more recent folklore were often quite horrific. Modern horror fiction found its roots in the gothic novels[citation needed] that exploded into popularity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, typified by Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) as a prototype, and...

En El Castillo de la Impureza el 2008.08.11

No vivo en Nueva York. Nunca he vivido en Nueva York. Voy mas alla: jamas he viajado a Nueva York... Y sin embargo creo en mi Nueva York. Aquellas personas que me conocen bien saben que tengo una extraña fascinacion con esa megalopolis afectuosamente conocida como "la gran manzana", especialmente por la famosa isla de Manhattan. Durante muchos años he tenido el recurrente sueño de vivir ahi. Algunos diran: "pero si ahi hay mucho crimen", mientras que otros alegan la...

En En Fotos.com el 2008.08.08

. SantiMB . posted a photo: Sitges, Barcelona (Spain). View Large On White Something very valuable must be behind this rickety window to have the alarm connected to a security company? Algo muy valioso tiene que haber tras esta desvencijada ventana para tener la alarma conectada a una empresa de seguridad... ENGLISH Sitges (pronounced [?sid??s] in Catalan; [?s?d??s] in English), Catalonia, Spain is a small city about 35 kilometers southwest of Barcelona renowned worldwide for its Film Festival...

En CarlosQC el 2008.07.17

It's summer in DC and the last thing someone expects to see is a school full of students eager to learn. Well, that is what I saw a couple of days ago, when a friend invited me to visit a charter school located in the northeast section of Washington, DC. The "Young America Works" Public Charter Vocational High School is a very innovative learning center that focuses on high school students who face difficult personal situations that could prevent their success in life. Charters school in DC...

En Rancho las voces el 2008.06.23

. Collage de los expositores. (Foto: Archivo) Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. 8 de junio de 2008. (RanchoNEWS).- A partir de hoy comienza la exposición «Art Binational ? 2008 ? Binacional de Arte», según detalla el Museo de Arte de El Paso: The El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) and the Museo de Arte Ciudad Juarez (INBA) announce Art Binational ? 2008 ? Binacional de Arte, the first binational juried exhibition which will be hosted by EPMA and INBA from June 8 though August 24, 2008 ....

En The Mex Files el 2008.06.15

How is the Monroe Doctrine like a vampire? (it’s undead). Losing Latin America, Greg Grandin (Mother Jones): Most interestingly, in [the Ecuadorian-Colombian] conflict, an overwhelming majority of Latin American and Caribbean countries sided with Venezuela and Ecuador, categorically condemning the Colombian raid and reaffirming the sovereignty of individual nations recognized by Franklin Roosevelt long ago. Not Obama, however. He essentially endorsed the Bush administration’s drive to transform...

En desdebcn.com el 2008.06.10

Hoy los invito a pasearse por la biografía y página web de mi profe de fotografía. Este señor tiene trayectoria. Mariano Zuzunaga Lima, Perú, 1953 Consagrado fotógrafo peruano residente en España. Ejerce en Barcelona como profesor de arte y fotografía Parte de sus obras se pueden encontrar en los siguientes MUSEOS y COLECCIONES públicas: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Nueva York. - The Museum of Fine Arts-Houston (Allan Chasanoff Collection) -...

En Groenlandia el 2008.05.13

TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him a reputation as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died, his gallery representative said Tuesday. He was 82. Rauschenberg died Monday, said Jennifer Joy, his representative at PaceWildenstein gallery. Rauschenberg, who first gained fame in the 1950s, didn't mine popular culture wholesale as Andy Warhol did with Campbell's soup cans and Roy Lichtenstein...