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The Cove turns the Empire State Red
The Empire State is a truly magnificent and unique canvas, one that utilizes light and color to convey a narrative. The tradition of illuminating this Art Deco edifice has been an integral part of New York’s skyline since 1964. The building has changed floodlight hues to hallmark holidays, mourn the passing of esteemed personalities, salute home teams, and celebrate or observe other noteworthy occasions, people and events, today this revered Big Apple marker cast a red spotlight on a truly poignant and pertinent film, The Cove. The Cove, a 2009 Academy Award winning documentary directed by Louie Psihoyos features the concentrated efforts of Ric O’Barry to save dolphins from captivity…
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Cetus Cause by Asher Jay
Big Baleen Plea: Weigh our value against our worth Are we worth more dead than alive? You have just begun to uncover our story We deserve a chance, so help us survive We are the behemoths of the big blue, We grow up to 100 feet long We tip the scales over 200 tonnes And our lung capacity is curiously strong. Our size distinguishes us, Our adult heart is the size of a mini car We communicate in low frequencies Our whale song can travel 1000 miles far! We swim beyond your visual scope Into areas that you cannot reach We are not like other baleen whales, We come up…
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The Nude Ascending
Ever since she descended Duchamp’s staircase in 1912, the nude has had trouble climbing back up. With one destructive dictatorial gesture, Duchamp undid the beauty she had in antiquity, and, even more nihilistically, her body: Duchamp turned her into a cubo-futurist wind-up toy, a mechanical doll he sardonically manipulated at will. The divine nude of antiquity, her body at once graceful and seductive—an astonishingly seamless merger of the ideal and the real, the transcendent and the erotic, the dignified and the desirable—was gone forever in modernity. No more Aphrodite of Cyrene, ca. 100 B.C., or Aphrodite of Melos, ca. 150-100 B. C., but Archipenko’s 1918 Walking Woman, with a large…
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Jean Hans Arp ‘Demeter’
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The Eclipse
I stood out in the open coldTo see the essence of the eclipseWhich was its perfect darkness. I stood in the cold on the porchAnd could not think of anything so perfectAs mans hope of light in the face of darkness. Richard Eberhart The latest news in contemporary and modern art in New York, London, Paris and Berlin
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Peter Doig in his own words
Peter Doig draws from the collective unconscious main symbolsof New York City, gathered together in this painting. Buildings from Empire State to Rockefeller, Statue of Liberty,dark sky, yellow cabs designing an unbroken line closingstreet to other cars. « My paintings of this period were very much inspired by NY(which provided so much at that time). Amazing how these things survive… It was inspired by a story of a guy who lived in a cardboardbox on Bowery just south of Houston. He told me how he hadkilled his wife and her lover when he caught them in bedtogether‐ formerly he had worked in early computers trade.He had a nice girlfriend although they both drank a littletoo much… » Peter Doig, August 09 Peter Doig designs a decorative line on yellow cabs andtwinkling windows in the buildings as a Gustav Klimt reference. Another historical allusion to Edward Munch Expressionismappears in desperate human attitudes of the compositionsuch as in “The Scream”.Peter Doig uses Andy Warhol Pop Art colors and Roy Lichtensteincartoons drawings, adding a caustic humor in his historical sources,giving in this painting beyond a first comic viewing, a feeling of alienation. The acid palette and a permanent reference to Gustav Klimtdecorative patterns is a recurrent allusion in his work. Regenerating painting style digging in past classicalreferences and deeply inspired by contemporary preoccupations,Peter Doig appears asone of the very best living artistsand will make a deep impression in Art History. The latest news in contemporary and modern art in New York, London, Paris and Berlin
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HEDI FERJANI & SCOT THOMPSON The meaning of life @ Fine Art Gallery
HEDI FERJANI & SCOT THOMPSONThe meaning of life June 5th ‐ July 31st, 2009Opening Reception: Friday June 5th, 6‐9PM FINE ART GALLERY is proud to present “The Meaning of Life” an exhibition of works by New York based artists Hedi Ferjani & Scot Thompson, on view from June 5th through July 31st, 2009.The exhibition draws a parallel between two extreme, yet, complimentary visions of existence: On the one hand, Hedi Ferjani extols the superficial and barbaric nature of the human condition. On the other hand, Scot Thompson exults the cycle of molecular transformations from dust to shape and vice versa. Both address the transient nature of existence and remind us…
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NY Art Scene: East Village to LES: from Makeshift to Fine Art Gallery
The emerging East Village art scene of the 1980s invented new forms of cultural and economic linkages between the avant garde and urban space. For many the East Village art scene was “about making an ‘art movement’ seem more real by anchoring it to a concrete physical area.” The first galleries were makeshift exhibition spaces started by artists or their friends in apartments and eventually in storefronts. This rapid growth and decline may be accounted for by the international wave of art speculation and investment that was fueled largely by the profits from the finance and producer services growth sector. The increasing national and international media spotlight on East Village…
