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- Small Gems: Arts for Giving by All Art Is Quite Useless on Nov 23, 2009 in Announcement Barefaced Ballyhoo Gallery Show Utilizing art Blue Door Gallery exhibit paintings
Come shop for holiday art gifts in Yonkers! My paintings will be included in a group show at Blue Door Gallery. I will be attending the opening reception so do come by and say hello. Smal...
- Half-Naked Thursday: Gerhard Richter by All Art Is Quite Useless on Nov 13, 2009 in Art Review Half-Naked Thursday The Death of Painting abstract painting Atlas Gerhard Richter I.G. Lucio Pozzi Marian Goodman Gallery nudes Olympia painting Torso
For the last few weeks I had been anticipating last Saturday’s opening at Marian Goodman Gallery here in New York: Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings 2009 which runs from November 7, 2009 to January 9, 2010. I’ve been looking forwa...
- Elegantly Dressed Wednesday: April Gornik by All Art Is Quite Useless on Oct 22, 2009 in Art Review Elegantly Dressed Wednesday April Gornick Eric Fischl landscape painting
In a world where audacity and infamy are given accolades, one can hardly be surprised when mere brilliance and virtuosity garner relative obscurity. That’s why it’s understandable if the name April Gornik doesn’t ring a bell. G...
- Half-Naked Thursday: Lucian Freud by All Art Is Quite Useless on Oct 15, 2009 in Art Review Half-Naked Thursday Benefits Supervisor Sleeping Bernie Madoff Girl in a Blanket Jake Auerbach Lucian Freud Naked Man on Bed Picasso Portrait of Francis Bacon Roman Abramovich the economy
I’ve been painting specifically for a gallery show coming up in December here in Yonkers. The Blue Door Gallery show’s theme is Small Gems: Arts For Giving and is promoted as an “affordable” holiday sale. The gallery&#...
- Half-Naked Thursday: Élizabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun by All Art Is Quite Useless on Oct 2, 2009 in Art Review Feminist Rant Half-Naked Thursday Stuff We Were Never Taught In School Allegory of Poetry Ariadne Bacchante Bacchus French Revolution Lady Hamilton Louis XVI Marie_Antoinette painting portraits
Let them eat cheesecake! Queen Marie-Antoinette had King Louis XVI pull some strings to get her favorite portrait painter, Élizabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, admitted to France’s Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture as a painter of histo...
- Elegantly Dressed Wednesday: Fashionable Feminist Forerunners by All Art Is Quite Useless on Oct 1, 2009 in Art Review Elegantly Dressed Wednesday Feminist Rant Stuff We Were Never Taught In School art history Artemisia Gentileschi Baroque Berthe Morisot Clara Peeters Fashionable Feminist Forerunners Internet Judith Leyster Maria Sibylla Merian Mary Cassatt painting Renaissance Self-portrait Sonfonisba Anguissola women artists
I am fortunate that I live in the age of the Internet. The Internet allows easy access to information that before was very limited. With the availability of the Internet I learn something new every day. Writing about art as I do here require...
