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Art

By Jessie | Published: February 23, 2010 Leave a comment
“Remember, art is fun. Like magic, it brings you into another world.  The trick is to trick yourself into entering that world.” — Dennis Mc Mahon
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James Ensor

By Jessie | Published: February 2, 2010 Leave a comment
I spent some time wandering the streets and museums of Paris just before Christmas, and stumbled upon a really intriguing exhibition on Belgian artist James Ensor at the Musée d’Orsay.  There are many popular and beautiful pieces at this museum from the likes of Gauguin, Monet, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Van Gogh, Vuillard, etc., but I [...]
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Andrew Bush

By Jessie | Published: January 30, 2010 Leave a comment
I love these photographs by Andrew Bush, a nice tribute to subtle things.  He has so many of them, dating back to 1992.
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Erró

By Jessie | Published: January 26, 2010 Leave a comment
The Reykjavík Art Museum is currently holding a retrospective on Icelandic pop artist Erró (Gudmundur Gudmundsson). His paintings appear more like collages and are quite mesmerizing. Many of the works on display were completed in the 70’s, though are somehow eerily prescient in terms of some of the potential “messages” they appear to [...]
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Charles Burchfield

By Jessie | Published: December 18, 2009 Leave a comment
An avid admirer of John Burroughs and Henry David Thoreau, who firmly believed in the presence of the divine in nature, Burchfield was less attracted to prim gardens and brilliant autumnal foliage than to the power of storms; the wild, decaying undergrowth found in ravines; and the muddy remains of a dying winter. Rather than celebrating [...]
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Louise Bourgeois

By Jessie | Published: December 14, 2009 Leave a comment
“Art is a guarantee of sanity.” — Louise Bourgeois I recently read this interesting article on Bourgeois, and I believe that she continues to hold her “Sunday Salons” not far from my old apartment in Manhattan.   I would have loved to have met her (not that I’d have had any work to show – how [...]
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Richard Wright wins Turner Prize

By Jessie | Published: December 8, 2009 Leave a comment
“To see a work knowing that it will not last, said Wright, ‘emphasises that moment of its existence’.” (More here)
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Banksy: White Horse in Palestine

By Jessie | Published: December 7, 2009 Leave a comment
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