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 [...]
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Mosquito In Our Midst
Posted in Art, Ohio, tagged Art, Canton, Ohio, Public Art, ShutterBug on October 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
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. [...]
Best Modern Public Art Ever
Posted in Art, Travel, tagged Art, Les Halles, Modern Art, Paris, Public Art, St. Eustache, Travel on May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I love public art, but I’m not a huge fan of most modern public art. With few exceptions — the Calder works come to mind — a lot of the public modern art looks like rusting hunks of junk that people tend to avoid, whereas the whole concept of public art is to engage and, [...]
From The Top Of The Pomp
Posted in Art, Travel, tagged Art, Dome Church, Eiffel Tower, Modern Art, Pantheon, Paris, Pompidou Center, Sacre Coeur, Travel on May 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today Richard and I walked over to the Pompidou Center, which is located a few blocks in from the right bank of the Seine. The Pompidou Center is famous as the “inside-out” building, where all of the piping and wiring for the building is on the outside and is color-coded, with separate, bright colors for [...]
Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters
Posted in Art, Family, Travel, tagged Art, Family, Mona Lisa, Paris, The Louvre, Travel on May 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today Richard and I went to the Louvre. We saw rooms of Greek and Egyptian sculpture, works by the Dutch masters, more religious paintings than you could count, and the full panoply of Renaissance art. One highlight — or, more accurately, lowlight — was the visit to the Mona Lisa. It is easy to tell [...]
The Horse In The Lobby
Posted in Art, Humor, Travel, tagged Art, Four Seasons Houston, Horses, Hotel Lobbies, Hotels, Houston, Humor, Travel on April 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Good hotels seem to like to have some sort of landmark in the lobby. Maybe it is just an added feature to make the lobby a bit more memorable, or perhaps its true purpose is to give guests a distinctive place where they can link up after dropping off their bags in their rooms. (“OK, [...]
Mona Ghoulish
Posted in Art, Science, tagged Art, DNA, Leonardo da Vinci, Lisa Gherardini, modern culture, Mona Lisa, News, Saint Orsola, Science, Silvano Vinceti on April 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Obviously, some people wonder about who Mona Lisa really was — but is it really worth digging up the remains of some woman who has been buried for centuries in the potentially forlorn hope that you can figure it out? Italian authorities apparently have answered that question in the affirmative. An art historian named Silvano [...]
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 on March 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Masters on Main Street exhibition in Catskill, New York has been up and running for about a month now, and it appears to be doing pretty well. I know that Russell has been spending a fair amount of time there at the Vassar College storefront gallery space. artdaily.org has a review of sorts of [...]
