After doing some work this morning I walked down to the Columbus Arts Festival. The 2012 Festival has moved back to its traditional location on the riverfront, and the relocation was an inspired decision. There’s lots of room for artists’ booths, street food tents, seating, and three performance stages. The booths and tents run along [...]
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Columbus Arts Festival 2012
Posted in Art, Columbus, tagged Art, Columbus, Columbus Arts Festival, Downtown Columbus, Main Street bridge, Rich Street bridge, Scioto River on June 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We All Scream For The Scream — An Update
Posted in Art, tagged Art, Edvard Munch, The Scream on May 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Edvard Munch’s The Scream is now officially the most expensive painting sold at auction — in fact, the most expensive artwork of any kind sold at auction. It went for $120 million to an anonymous bidder in an auction that lasted 12 minutes.
We All Scream For “The Scream”
Posted in Art, tagged Anders Breivik, Art, David, Edvard Munch, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Mona Lisa, Norway, The Scream on May 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Not many pieces of artwork become iconic. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa obviously is one; Michelangelo’s David is another. I would put Edvard Munch’s The Scream in that category. Munch painted four versions of The Scream in 1895. Three are in museums in Norway, Munch’s native land. The fourth is being auctioned tonight. It is [...]
Gray Brushstrokes Above
Posted in Art, Photography, weather, tagged Art, Clouds, Morning Walks, New Albany, Photography, Walking, weather on April 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It was cold, wet, and overcast all day yesterday, and on this morning’s walk we saw that the last few clouds were being swept away, leaving a powder blue sky behind. Low on the southern horizon the delicate wisps of clouds looked intentionally placed, as if The Great Artist had decided that the canvas called [...]
Art In The Basement
Posted in Art, Family, tagged Art, Basements, Family, Russell Webner on March 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
One of the many benefits of trying to clean out our basement is that I’ve uncovered a lot of Russell’s artwork. For a year or so, Russell used our basement as a studio, and if he felt like creating some art on the walls, he just did it. Since he’s left home, the artwork has [...]
Our Beautiful Dome
Posted in America, Art, Photography, Travel, tagged America, Architecture, Art, Photography, Travel, U.S. Capitol on March 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I was in Washington, D.C. today, and got a chance to stop by the Capitol. Americans can and do disagree about what happens inside the Capitol, but we can all agree it is a beautiful building. The dome is a particularly inspiring architectural feature — enormous yet somehow delicate, perched atop the rest of the [...]
The Arnold At The Arnold
Posted in Art, Columbus, Humor, Movies, Photography, tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Sports Festival, Art, Columbus, Humor, Movies, Photography, Public Art, Statues, The Terminator on March 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Columbus has a new statue, and it’s a whopper. Yesterday — with the Arnold Sports Festival in full swing — the City dedicated this colossal rendering of Arnold Schwarzenegger. It’s located outside the Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, where many of the Arnold events are held, just across the river from downtown Columbus. The statue is a [...]
Robot Art
Posted in Art, Technology, tagged Art, Portraits, Robot Art, Robotics, Robots, Technology on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve gotten used to constant advances in robotics. Robots have beaten humans at chess and Jeopardy. Robots do lots of driving and flying for us. Robots have taken manufacturing jobs formerly held by humans. Could the next frontier be robot art? Not yet — but now a robot has been programmed to draw human portraits. [...]
World Of Black And White (IV)
Posted in Art, Ohio, weather, tagged Art, Jackson Pollock, New Albany, Ohio, Photography, Snow, weather, Winter on February 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The black asphalt walking path around the Yantis Loop is like a dark canvas waiting for the artistic touch of snowflakes. Typically the snowfall will simply drop a white blanket that covers everything, but in some spots, where trees catch a few flakes, the path will look like a monochromatic, negative image of a drip [...]
The Eisenhower Memorial
Posted in America, Art, tagged America, Architecture, Art, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisenhower Memorial, Frank Gehry, Martin Luther King Memorial, National Mall, Washington D.C. on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
You can’t build a new memorial in Washington, D.C. without there being some controversy about the concept, the design, and the location. The Martin Luther King Memorial, which opened recently, has experienced its share of criticism — as has virtually every other addition to the National Mall area in the past 50 years. Now the [...]
The Subway Perspective
Posted in Art, tagged Art, Christopher Street/Sheridan Square Subway Station, New York City, One-Point Perspective, Photography, Subway on December 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you live in New York City, you no doubt grow tired of the subway system, with its noise and congestion. If you are a visitor to the City, however, the subway stations have a very cool geometry. Yesterday, as we waited in the Christopher Street/Sheridan Square station for the next train, I was struck [...]
Modern Art Along The Scioto Mile
Posted in Art, Columbus, tagged Art, Chicago, Columbus, Millennium Park, Modern Art, Public Art, Scioto Mile on December 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Columbus wants to complete its Scioto Mile Park with a monumental sculpture. The plan is to add a large piece of artwork along the riverfront that will become as identifiable with Columbus as the Gateway Arch is with St. Louis and the Space Needle is with Seattle. The proposed piece would be abstract, six stories [...]
Russell’s Video
Posted in Art, Family, tagged Art, Family, Russell Webner, Videos on November 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Russell’s artistic reach has expanded from paper and canvas to video. He’s posted a few videos of his creation on the Vimeo website. The video below is about 2 1/2 minutes long and is set to an instrumental version of The Doors’ Hello, I Love You. It features images of Brooklyn, trains, the Vietnam War, [...]
Mount Rushmore’s 70th
Posted in America, Art, Travel, tagged America, Art, Gutzon Borglum, Mount Rushmore, Travel on October 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow is the 70th anniversary of the completion of work on Mount Rushmore. From start to finish, the blasting and shaping of the colossal heads of four American presidents took 14 years to complete and cost less than $1 million. Mount Rushmore was the dream of one man, Doane Robinson, and became the obsession of [...]
