Thursday, March 1, 2012

Welcome to Spring 2012....and Snow

This is a good day to share with you several activities/reading that have relevance to Contemporary Art.
Your looking will enhance your appreciation of NOW.
1. NEWYORKER.COM    watch the video of JR's work.  November 28,2011 issue of the New Yorker Magazine.  IN THE PICTURE, an arist's global experimen to help people be seen.

2. Also in this issue , THE PAINTING ON THE WALL, Diego Rivera in New York, by Peter Schjeldahl.  A good companion to the movie FRIEDA.

3. The New Yorker magazine of January 23, 2012, SPOT ON.  Damien Hirst's  global show.
A brief article that asks of the art world  WHY  AND WHY NOT.

4. The Year of Photography....Peabody Essex Musuem, Salem, Mass.
     Febuary 11 through May 13 2012   The Mind's Eye.
     April 14,2012   no closing date.  Natural Histories. Photographs by Barbara Bosworth.
    June 9, 2012 through October 8, 2012.  Ansel Adams,At the Water's Edge.....A MUST SEE
    EXHIBIT.

5. Travelling to NYC...Museum of Modern Art...Cindy Sherman...NEWYORKER.COM/GO/LETSSEE
    slide show:Schjeldahl on Cindy Sherman.
    The New Yorker Magazine, March 5, 2012.
    ALSO....The New York Times, Sunday edition, February 19.2012 Arts and Leisure section....Cindy
    Sherman Unmasked.   BOTH A MUST.....TO SEE, UNDERSTAND, APPRECIATE.

Your comments/ reactions are welcome .  Spring recess is near.  I do hope I meet you either in MASS or NYC.
Thank you.  Enjoy the arts that surrounds you.