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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Art’
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 »
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 [...]
A “Performance” Life
Posted in Art, Humor, tagged Art, Giving Birth, Humor, Life, modern culture, Performance Art on October 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I read with interest the article about the pregnant “performance artist” who gave birth inside a Brooklyn art gallery. She contended that the delivery of a child is the “highest form of art” and that the experience would help to address social taboos about the human body. The “artist” specializes in performances about everyday existence [...]
Mosquito In Our Midst
Posted in Art, Ohio, tagged Art, Canton, Ohio, Public Art, ShutterBug on October 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’m all for public art, but I found this piece unappealing. Called “ShutterBug,” and created by PR Miller, it can be found perched on its long, spindly legs on a street corner next to a parking lot in downtown Canton, Ohio. It looks like a mosquito rising from a fetid pool of water, ready to [...]
The Alexander McQueen Exhibition At The Met
Posted in Art, tagged Alexander McQueen, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, Art, Fashion, New York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
During our brief visit to New York on Saturday, at Russell’s suggestion we stopped by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. I was not familiar with McQueen, a radically creative clothing designer who tragically committed suicide at the height of his fame, and I was dubious of waiting [...]
The Graceful Beauty Of A Colossal Bridge
Posted in Art, Ohio, tagged Art, bridges, Cleveland, Ohio, The Flats on June 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In my stroll through the Flats area of Cleveland early Wednesday morning, I was struck by this view of the shoreway bridge spanning the Cuyahoga River and the gravel yards and industrial facilities along the riverbed. The bridge, which has been painted bright blue, is a gigantic construct when viewed from below, but it nevertheless [...]
MF Husain, R.I.P.
Posted in Art, World, tagged Art, Hindu, Husain, India, MF Husain, Mother India, World on June 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
This week has seen the passing of one of the world’s most legendary artists — a painter who was as celebrated and vilified in India as he was unknown in America. His name was MF Husain (also spelled Hussain). Husain, who often was called “India’s Picasso,” was a highly controversial figure. He was an artist [...]
2011 Columbus Arts Festival
Posted in Art, Columbus, tagged Art, Columbus, Columbus Arts Festival, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus Discovery District, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus State Community College on June 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This weekend is the 50th Columbus Arts Festival. The Festival is being held in the Discovery District neighborhood of downtown Columbus, adjacent to the Columbus College of Art & Design, the Columbus Museum of Art, and Columbus State Community College. The area is just a few blocks down Gay Street from my office. So, when [...]
Cleveland’s Free Stamp
Posted in Art, Ohio, tagged Art, business, Claes Oldenburg, Cleveland, Communications, Coosje Van Bruggen, Dodo, Free Stamp, Paper, Public Art on June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Another piece of modern public art that I really like is Free Stamp, a large painted steel and aluminum sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen. For years, Free Stamp has graced a small park along East Ninth Street in Cleveland, just south of the expressway that separates the Rock and Roll Hall of [...]
Russell’s Senior Art Show
Posted in Art, College, Family, tagged Art, College, Family, Poughkeepsie, Russell Webner, Vassar, Vassar College on May 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday we went to Russell’s senior art show. It was held in two floors of a large, empty, decrepit building in a somewhat run-down part of Poughkeepsie, where Russell’s work was displayed along with the work of many other seniors graduating with arts degrees from Vassar. Although the conditions were not what you might find [...]
Vassar Reflections
Posted in Art, College, Family, tagged Art, College, College graduation, Family, graduation, Russell Webner, Vassar, Vassar College on May 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday, Russell will receive his diploma from Vassar College. I’m sure every parent of a graduating college student says this — but it is hard to believe that it has been four years since we first drove to the Vassar campus and, on an excruciatingly hot day, moved Russell and all of his stuff [...]
Russell And The Masters On Main Street (Cont.)
Posted in Art, Family, tagged Art, Catskill, Catskill Arts Initiative, Catskill Storefront Arts Project, Family, Masters On Main Street, Russell Webner, Vassar College on May 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It is very hard to believe that Russell will be graduating from Vassar College in less than two weeks. Lately, he has been working hard on his senior art show, which is part of the graduation process for a Vassar studio arts major. Russell’s senior art show will be displayed at a gallery in Poughkeepsie. [...]
