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robsutherlandrobsutherlandMember
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Originally posted by The Old Man:
Steve Martin wants L.A. to know, and love, Canadian painter Lawren HarriS


Lawren Harris is exactly the type of "Canadian" art I dislike. I"m not a big fan of any of the Group of Seven but Harris' northern art makes me shudder.

I respect that, Rob.
That said I'm not shy to say that Lawren Harris is my favorite of the Group of Seven by a very wide margin. Love his work!


And I can respect that. A great many people do love his work. No one's art tastes are any more right or correct than the next. If Harris floats your boat, cool just like if it's crushed velvet Elvises (Elvi?).

He was too good at capturing the stark, desolate coldness that can pervade Canada and looking at many of his works makes me feel uncomfortable, cold and lonely/alone. I don't feel enjoyment from those feelings!
The Old ManThe Old ManMember
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I triggered a Canadian showdown!

Big Grin Rob is a great guy. It was a true pleasure to break bread with he and his better half a few months ago in Montreal...even if we don't share the same taste in Art or aged Barolo Wink

Well I wasn't expecting fisticuffs. Wink

Interesting, I've never typed or written that word in my life--had to look up the spelling.
W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by wine+art:
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Hammer Museum's Lawren Harris show curated by celeb Steve Martin raises concern in art world


I fail to see any controversy, and any such is far outweighed by the good in my opinion.


Hey, I'm a bystander. I'm just your humble reporter (at least in this case.)


OM, comments not toward you at all. The story mentioned the word controversy which I was responding to.

Thanks for sharing....
F fcsMember
Cuban Gallery will exist for collectors on vacation, simultaneuosly establishing a beachhead in a new caribbean locale. Brilliant move which gives them first-mover status. Rents are probably very low right now...

2016 we will start to see cruise lines from the US pulling into port there, high-end merchants of all types will soon be setting up shop. If you are a retail business and have the money to open your doors and wait it out a few years, rewards will be exponential.
The Old ManThe Old ManMember
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I caught up on some reading this week. The reviews on the MoMA Picasso Sculpture exhibit leads me to think I will be visiting NYC in the coming months. Cool


I just read in the NYT that this is a once in a lifetime exibition.

NYC just made our travel plans!

Picasso, Schmcasso.
G g-manMember
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Originally posted by GlennK:
I don't and never will understand the value people ascribe to art. $170M for that?


if your government is cracking down on insider trading, graft and misappropriation of public resources where would you put your money?

a piece of art is incredibly transportable. you could literally pack a small crate with a billion dollars worth of art pieces.

There is no international restrictions on moving art pieces through out the world.

Now you have alot of money stranded in china, the govt asks you to keep your money in the country but you dont trust them, So you set up a broker, give him a lot of money and buy random art pieces and you move the art you won somewhere else.

Now, once you're state side, you can sell it back again, you can get it insured and lose it, or, decorate the apartment that you just bought with all tha tmoney you wanted to keep away from the chinese market.

i dont have official numbers, nor is it readily available, but I would not be very surprised if art works have become the defacto method of money laundering for the very wealthy.

not to say everyone is money laundering, but it's simply raising the price of the pieces if you did want to acquire it for your pleasure.
W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by Italian Wino:
The Modigliani is a beautiful nude painting


IW, I have seen this masterpiece in person, and it is truly stunning. Modigliani had such a short life and far too few paintings that the pricing for his work will only continue to escalate.

The same can be said for his sculpture, his first true love.
F fcsMember
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Modern Art has something that impressionism, classicism, and many other art periods clearly lack.

Doesn't Modern Art encompass Impressionism?


I am sure you could make that argument, but in my book modern art has an edge that impressionism only hinted at. Impressionism broke the ground that led to so many wild movements going forward, but still a little too romanticized for my taste...
sunnylea57sunnylea57Member
Saw the Turner exhibition at Toronto's AGO this past weekend. The exhibition focuses primarily on the latter years of his life. It does a very good job of giving context to his experimental techniques and style, and to the response from his peers, critics and the public.

There are some major works on display, most on loan from the Tate - notably "Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth", "Peace, Burial At Sea" and "The Three Rigis" watercolours, as well as a number of his Venice paintings.
G g-manMember
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http://nypost.com/2015/11/18/b...amex-for-the-points/


The Charlie Rose show last week was talking about how museums can no longer compete at these price points. The show also mentioned how some of these masterpieces would never even be unpacked, just held as a currency safety net. Frown


annnnd...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...?cmpid=yhoo.headline

i'm not saying the buyer in this particular case is money laundering, but that in general, i'd be curious to see if the high soaring prices in the art market cools down.
W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by sunnylea57:
Saw the Turner exhibition at Toronto's AGO this past weekend. The exhibition focuses primarily on the latter years of his life. It does a very good job of giving context to his experimental techniques and style, and to the response from his peers, critics and the public.

There are some major works on display, most on loan from the Tate - notably "Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth", "Peace, Burial At Sea" and "The Three Rigis" watercolours, as well as a number of his Venice paintings.


Sunny, thank you for the note.

Turner is not a style I deeply appreciate, but an excellent painter nevertheless. Unfortunately his choice of pigments was not always wise ( carmine) and too many of his works have faded severely. I do appreciate how his oils have a translucency to them.
sunnylea57sunnylea57Member
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Originally posted by wine+art:
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Originally posted by sunnylea57:
Saw the Turner exhibition at Toronto's AGO this past weekend. The exhibition focuses primarily on the latter years of his life. It does a very good job of giving context to his experimental techniques and style, and to the response from his peers, critics and the public.

There are some major works on display, most on loan from the Tate - notably "Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth", "Peace, Burial At Sea" and "The Three Rigis" watercolours, as well as a number of his Venice paintings.


Sunny, thank you for the note.

Turner is not a style I deeply appreciate, but an excellent painter nevertheless. Unfortunately his choice of pigments was not always wise ( carmine) and too many of his works have faded severely. I do appreciate how his oils have a translucency to them.

Not only faded, but falling apart. Mixing oil and watercolour - and spit - wasn't wise. One of the descriptive notes in the exhibition explained that chunks of pigment have cracked and fallen off some paintings.

I love the urgency and raw energy in paintings like "Peace, Burial At Sea". I also like some of the watercolours that were on display. Some of the others left me cold, especially those that combined his manic impressionistic landscapes with weirdly primitive human figures - usually in the foreground in the bottom quarter of the canvas.
W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by Jcocktosten:
We went to the Dali Museum in St. Pete on Friday. In addition to the Dali works, there was a large MC Escher exhibit. We had a wonderful time.


Very nice, JC.

A nice pairing methinks. I always think of Kandinsky's work as having a strong musical feel and Escher's work having a strong geometric/mathematical feel.
J jcocktostenMember
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We went to the Dali Museum in St. Pete on Friday. In addition to the Dali works, there was a large MC Escher exhibit. We had a wonderful time.


Very nice, JC.

A nice pairing methinks. I always think of Kandinsky's work as having a strong musical feel and Escher's work having a strong geometric/mathematical feel.


Very true. The mathematic elements were pretty incredible. I was obviously familiar with the stairs and other works but not so much the Tessellation - Metamorphosis II was an amazing work - I could have studied it for hours
sunnylea57sunnylea57Member
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Originally posted by VinT:
Interesting list from Mutual Art: 20 of the World's Masterpieces to See in 2016. I've see 7, some in situ but most others as traveling exhibitions.

How many have you seen?

Seven as well.

When we were in Milan last fall we had hoped to see The Last Supper, but for some reason the building was closed on the one day we were in town. I need to get to Madrid (and Barcelona) which should be in the cards for 2016.

But of the 13 I haven't seen, I think the Rothko Chapel has the greatest appeal to me.
S seaquamMember
The Paris Museum of Modern Art at the Palais de Tokyo is a having a major Warhol show in October. We are going to be there, with a special after-hours showing set up (I think that means we can drink while we stroll through the place). And at the glorious Pompidou at the same time will be a chronological retrospective of the sculptures of Brancusi.

I figure it'll take a good 3 weeks to see all of that (and much more) really, really slowly. Smile
W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by Seaquam:
The Paris Museum of Modern Art at the Palais de Tokyo is a having a major Warhol show in October. We are going to be there, with a special after-hours showing set up (I think that means we can drink while we stroll through the place). And at the glorious Pompidou at the same time will be a chronological retrospective of the sculptures of Brancusi.

I figure it'll take a good 3 weeks to see all of that (and much more) really, really slowly. Smile


Cool ... And remember, Bran- cous. ( no I) Wink
T thereweresevenineightMember
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I watched the documentary on Beltracchi on Netflix last week...what a talent...what a shame!


MJ, I was just thinking about you. Have not seen you here or FB... Hope all is well.

I might be heading your way this year. I will contact you if I do.

All the best...
w+a, yes, please do reach out if you make it up here; it would be great to see you! I haven't been on FB for awhile, but all is well! Cheers!
E eyesintimeMember
Not really sure if this is the appropriate thread and I realize that this will unlikely have no meaning to those on here, but I felt compelled to share the loss of a great man in Columbus, OH. I just found out that Denny Griffith passed away today.

Denny was an artist and the recent past president of the Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD). I was lucky enough to know Denny as his wife was my former boss. Together they have been a great positive influence on my life. Denny was one of the kindest, most compassionate and funniest people I have ever met. Beth and Denny both retired and were looking forward to their next adventure in life when he was diagnosed soon after with cancer. He spent the last year or so feverishly painting, and what will now be his last show opened at CCAD earlier this month. I'm no art afficiando, but I always enjoyed his paintings. But I enjoyed having him in my life more. Even though I hadn't seen him much since his battle began two years ago, I will miss him.
W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by eyesintime:
Not really sure if this is the appropriate thread and I realize that this will unlikely have no meaning to those on here, but I felt compelled to share the loss of a great man in Columbus, OH. I just found out that Denny Griffith passed away today.

Denny was an artist and the recent past president of the Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD). I was lucky enough to know Denny as his wife was my former boss. Together they have been a great positive influence on my life. Denny was one of the kindest, most compassionate and funniest people I have ever met. Beth and Denny both retired and were looking forward to their next adventure in life when he was diagnosed soon after with cancer. He spent the last year or so feverishly painting, and what will now be his last show opened at CCAD earlier this month. I'm no art afficiando, but I always enjoyed his paintings. But I enjoyed having him in my life more. Even though I hadn't seen him much since his battle began two years ago, I will miss him.


Sorry to hear of your loss, eyesintime. Sounds like he was a special person in so many ways.
T thereweresevenineightMember
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I'm sure no one other than me has been following the trail against the once great Knoedler & Co. art gallery but it has been so interesting.

An art gallery for 165 years in NYC and over 100 years in London and Paris and the amount of fraud which finally caused their demise is shocking to me.
Thanks for sharing w+a, I had not been following this. Sadly, I cannot imagine how many private and public art collections contain fraudulent works unknowingly.
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Wine + Art, this is a great story. Happens all to often, unfortunately. Every couple of years we get a bombshell exposé about dealers crossing the line. Apparently Knoedler's director, Ann Freedman, started acquiring work for resale from a discredited LI art dealer, Glafira Rosales. There were several pieces Rosales had that were KNOWN fakes from previous cases. Rosales was also secretive about the provenance of the work, a major cause for suspicion, a Caveat Emptor deal-breaker in most people's eyes!

Either Freedman was working in collusion with Rosales, or she just had enough trustful buyers lined up that she just thought they would not question her authority. Hubris unchecked...
W wine+artMember
Where do you put your money in this uncertain economy? Seems many are putting their money in art.

I talked to two friends that own galleries here in Santa Fe and both said they are having their best January and February, ever. A friend and I bought the wine for a private opening for Dallas artist JD Miller a couple of weeks ago at his Samuel Lynne Gallery. JD told me he was leaving the next day to deliver $500,000 of his art to a couple in Aspen for their new home. This was the single largest onetime purchase for JD.

I read this morning that Ken Griffin just paid $500M for one de Kooning and one Pollock.
italianwinoitalianwinoMember
Here is the story about Ken Griffin spending 500M on two pieces of art

Billionaire art collector Ken Griffin has dropped $500 million on two paintings, effectively breaking the record for the most expensive private sale of art.

The 47-year-old hedge fund tycoon closed the deal last fall, according to Bloomberg, which had the story, reportedly paying Hollywood magnate David Geffen $300 million for Willem de Kooning's 1955 oil painting Interchange, and around $200 million for Jackson Pollock's Number 17A (1948).


The estimated sale of these paintings is a record for both of the Abstract Expressionist masters. For context, the de Kooning piece fetched a mere $20.7 million back in 1989—already an auction record for the artist at the time. According to the artnet Price Database, his current auction record is $32 million, set in 2013 at Christie's New York by Untitled VIII. Pollock's most expensive sale at auction to date is Number 19, which fetched $58.3 million at Christie's New York in 2013.


The $300 million price tag on the de Kooning matches the 2015 private sale of Paul Gauguin's Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?). The seller, Swiss art collector Rudolf Staechelin, is rumored to have sold the record-breaking canvas to the Qatar Museums.

While this recent sale is sure to shock, it isn't necessarily surprising considering the collector in question. As founder of the investment firm Citadel, Griffin is the state of Illinois's wealthiest person, boasting a net worth of $6 billion.

Furthermore, Griffin has been an active force in the art world, serving as member of multiple museum boards including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago. Just last December, Griffin gifted the Museum of Modern Art in New York a lofty $40 million donation. According to Bloomberg, Griffin's art collection was valued at $2.3 billion before the most recent transaction.

Acquiring market-hot art, after all, is a common method for turning a profit—as long as the works come with flawless provenance, of course. Ten years ago, Geffen sold a painting by Jackson Pollock for a hefty $140 million, then the highest reported price ever paid for a painting.

Private sales tend to facilitate higher prices than the auction market, where the record for a single artwork remains a comparatively paltry $179.4 million, for Pablo Picasso's Les Femme d'Algers (Version "O").
S stefaniawineMember
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JD told me he was leaving the next day to deliver $500,000 of his art to a couple in Aspen for their new home.


This is a guy who paints in '3-D' with layered oil paint?

If so I have two pieces a floral one I always just considered decorative and an abstract one which I like a lot and is in my office right now. I remember these being under $1000. That was more than 10 years ago, maybe 15? Same guy? Sounds like I should raise my insurance rider on them.
W wine+artMember
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JD told me he was leaving the next day to deliver $500,000 of his art to a couple in Aspen for their new home.


This is a guy who paints in '3-D' with layered oil paint?

If so I have two pieces a floral one I always just considered decorative and an abstract one which I like a lot and is in my office right now. I remember these being under $1000. That was more than 10 years ago, maybe 15? Same guy? Sounds like I should raise my insurance rider on them.


Paul, same guy. He went by Jay Miller 10+ years ago, now JD Miller. Depending on the size his works are $10,000 - $60,000+. Go to the Samuel Lynne Gallery ( Dallas) to see his current work. He and Phil Romano ( Fuddruckers, Macaroni Grill, EatZi's, heart stent early investor ) own the gallery.

JD's wife ( Lea Fisher) is also an artist represented by Samuel Lynne Galleries. JD's brother, Scott is a very successful photographer. All are really solid people and a lot of fun to be around.
S stefaniawineMember
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Originally posted by wine+art:

JD's wife ( Lea Fisher) is also an artist represented by Samuel Lynne Galleries. JD's brother, Scott is a very successful photographer. All are really solid people and a lot of fun to be around.


Thanks great info. I like the style of built up paint and 3-D a lot. One of my favorites is a New Orleans artist Natalie Boos who also adds glass, slate and other solid objects to her paintings. She paints in a style like early Michalopoulos but with layers and what I might call a little grittier tone, which to me makes it more authentic New Orleans.

She called me over New Years to say she's going to start painting again (she's been in Belize since 2012). I knew her stuff was going for 5x-8x what we paid for it and she said that was one reason she wanted to start painting again. Commercially it was always difficult for her, each painting took 3-9 months and was really impossible to do prints or lithos of. I remember many times visiting her and she'd only have 3 or 4 paintings for sale.

Both Miller paintings I have are square the flowers slightly smaller than the abstract, I'd guess 36 x 36 and 40 x 40.
W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by Stefania Wine:
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Originally posted by wine+art:

JD's wife ( Lea Fisher) is also an artist represented by Samuel Lynne Galleries. JD's brother, Scott is a very successful photographer. All are really solid people and a lot of fun to be around.




Both Miller paintings I have are square the flowers slightly smaller than the abstract, I'd guess 36 x 36 and 40 x 40.


Paul, nice. An insurance value of $20-$30,000 I would guess.
The Old ManThe Old ManMember
Viewing alert: Every Monday this month TCM is featuring films about art and artists. Now many of these films are pure shit, like the mostly fictionalized biopics about El Greco, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, etc. It might be worth a look to see the rarely shown Charles Laughton 1936 film, Rembrandt. Of interest is a rare on screen performance by theater superstar Gertrude Lawrence.

There is also a film W+A and I strongly disagree on, Picasso Summer, based on a Ray Bradbury story first published in Playboy. Never released in theaters it is available on DVD if you're looking for a present for W+A.

Finally there's one of my favorite low budget Roger Corman films, A Bucket of Blood. Nerdy Walter Paisley is a lowly busboy who suddenly has a talent for making very anatomically correct sculptures. At the same time people, mostly beatniks, seem to be disappearing. Is it simply another low budget Corman film or a satire on the late 50s state of modern art? You be the judge.
W wine+artMember
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"Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict" is a terrific documentary, years of old audio and video interviews that were rediscovered in a box a few years ago by an art historian. Should be on Netflix in the next year or so.


fcs, I hope you are well.

D and I saw this film the opening weekend. Excellent indeed. We can't wait to see it again.
W wine+artMember
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Nice spotlight on the Dallas Art Museum's Jackson Pollock exhibit on CBS Sunday Morning.


The finest exhibit I have been to in many years and one of the very finest ever.

I have been twice and the DMA recently reported that over 20% of their attendance was for a second or third visit. On my second visit I sat on a Barcelona bench and just listened to peoples conversation for almost an hour. I wish there was a recording of the conversations in each room.... Fascinating in so many ways.
thelostversethelostverseMember
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Streaming on Netflix now is, Raiders of the Lost Art. Each episode looks at art that was lost or stolen and sometimes recovered. History Channel style documentary, but apparently unlike HC, well done. Some episodes include, "Hitler's Art Dealer" and "Vanishing Vermeers."


I've added this to my watch-list. Thanks.
W wine+artMember
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The average Broad visitor age is 32 — a full 14 years younger than the national average for art museum attendance in the U.S.


This just made my day! Cool

My children tend to be outliers ( thank goodness) and I worry we have a generation or two that no longer appreciates the Arts and Letters.

I took our three year old granddaughter to several galleries yesterday. When she comes to our home she always wants to do an 'art walk' with her Papa. This child will be well taken care of in our will. Big Grin
W wine+artMember
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W + A, a great great idea, but I wonder if he is already too expensive or hard to work with? From what I have heard, he is more than a little crazy.


fcs, they have worked with the likes of Hockney, Stella, Warhol, Rauschenberg, Koons and many other so I'm thinking all will work out. Wink

If you have never visited their exhibit in Munich you should do so if you have an opportunity.
F fcsMember
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W + A, a great great idea, but I wonder if he is already too expensive or hard to work with? From what I have heard, he is more than a little crazy.


fcs, they have worked with the likes of Hockney, Stella, Warhol, Rauschenberg, Koons and many other so I'm thinking all will work out. Wink

If you have never visited their exhibit in Munich you should do so if you have an opportunity.


Cool
The Old ManThe Old ManMember
Simultaneously with the major joint Getty/LACMA exhibit on Robert Mapplethorpe HBO released a documentary titled, "Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures." I found it really overblown. The theme of the exhibition, according to two curators, is to show the human side of the artist. Unfortunately the movie runs to the extreme with this and we find out, for instance, that Mapplethorpe in his pre-teens was a pogo stick master. For me the whole thing was semi-annoying.
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W wine+artMember
I was reading this morning about the many exhibitions featuring Gordon Parks scheduled for around the world in 2016 and 2017.

I have long been a fan of this mans work and will make a point to attend one of the exhibitions.

I have always been curious about his long term love affair with Gloria Vanderbilt that only ended at his death. Oh my, what a fly on the wall heard over the last two decades of his life.

Gordon Parks, a true artist.
The Old ManThe Old ManMember
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The Broad is a category on tonight's Jeopardy.


Can I play? Big Grin

The Answers:
Who is Koons? (100% chance)
Who is Cindy Sherman? (50/50)
Who is Warhol? (100%)
Who is Lichtenstein? (75%)


Ha, perhaps. Others I could see are...

Rauschenberg
Basquiat
Twombly
Johns
Ruscha
Haring

I'm impressed, three of the clues were a picture of an American flag, a comic book heroine, and a graffiti-style skull. So score you two out of three.

Then there's this dumb one: "Naming an L.A. artist is above Jeopardy! genius level, even. Trebek identified Under the Table as the work of Robert Therrien and then asked what literary characters it evokes, 'a man created in 1726 and a girl from 1865.' Correct response: Who are Gulliver and Alice?"

And now the one that's going to blow your mind, "The $400 clue was Warhol’s Double Marilyn. Host Alex Trebek didn’t ask for Warhol or Monroe but rather for the 'printing technique also known as serigraphy.' The correct answer was 'silkscreen,' phrased as a question, please."
W wine+artMember
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The Broad is a category on tonight's Jeopardy.


Can I play? Big Grin

The Answers:
Who is Koons? (100% chance)
Who is Cindy Sherman? (50/50)
Who is Warhol? (100%)
Who is Lichtenstein? (75%)


Ha, perhaps. Others I could see are...

Rauschenberg
Basquiat
Twombly
Johns
Ruscha
Haring

I'm impressed, three of the clues were a picture of an American flag, a comic book heroine, and a graffiti-style skull. So score you two out of three.

Then there's this dumb one: "Naming an L.A. artist is above Jeopardy! genius level, even. Trebek identified Under the Table as the work of Robert Therrien and then asked what literary characters it evokes, 'a man created in 1726 and a girl from 1865.' Correct response: Who are Gulliver and Alice?"

And now the one that's going to blow your mind, "The $400 clue was Warhol’s Double Marilyn. Host Alex Trebek didn’t ask for Warhol or Monroe but rather for the 'printing technique also known as serigraphy.' The correct answer was 'silkscreen,' phrased as a question, please."


So, I own one of the answers. Big Grin
W wine+artMember
We greatly enjoyed the Prado Museum. They have such a large collection of the greatest painter ( my opinion) ever. A modest museum with brilliant art.

We also spent hours at the Reina Sofia which is much more our style of art. The opportunity to view in person what is considered the most important painting to Spain by the greatest artist since the High Renaissance was worth the trip to Spain alone.
K ksc02Member
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We also spent hours at the Reina Sofia which is much more our style of art. The opportunity to view in person what is considered the most important painting to Spain by the greatest artist since the High Renaissance was worth the trip to Spain alone.

I felt the same way when there and experiencing this masterpiece.
The Old ManThe Old ManMember
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Originally posted by wine+art:
We greatly enjoyed the Prado Museum. They have such a large collection of the greatest painter ( my opinion) ever. A modest museum with brilliant art.

We also spent hours at the Reina Sofia which is much more our style of art. The opportunity to view in person what is considered the most important painting to Spain by the greatest artist since the High Renaissance was worth the trip to Spain alone.

I didn't know you thought so highly of Luis Quiles. I'm not even sure I would consider him the greatest Spanish artist, but his work is thoughtful. However, I always say to each his own.
W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by wine+art:
We greatly enjoyed the Prado Museum. They have such a large collection of the greatest painter ( my opinion) ever. A modest museum with brilliant art.

We also spent hours at the Reina Sofia which is much more our style of art. The opportunity to view in person what is considered the most important painting to Spain by the greatest artist since the High Renaissance was worth the trip to Spain alone.

I didn't know you thought so highly of Luis Quiles. I'm not even sure I would consider him the greatest Spanish artist, but his work is thoughtful. However, I always say to each his own.


OM, politics are on everyone's mind in Madrid. It is so screwed up they don't have any party in control currently as no party received the minimum seats required.
W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by wine+art:
We also spent hours at the Reina Sofia which is much more our style of art. The opportunity to view in person what is considered the most important painting to Spain by the greatest artist since the High Renaissance was worth the trip to Spain alone.

I felt the same way when there and experiencing this masterpiece.


K, it was like the very first time I turned the corner and saw David. I just stopped in my tracks and was frozen.
The Old ManThe Old ManMember
Visited the newish Hauser, Wirth & Schimmel gallery in the fastest growing LA hot spot: The Arts District. The building is over 100,000 sq ft. with almost 30,000 of it dedicated to galleries. Located in a long abandoned flour mill it has been torn open and reconfigured into an amazingly inviting, and open, space. In addition the current show (which is not a retail show, but simply a "here we are" announcement) is a show dedicated to women in sculpture from the 50s to the present. Many of the works are on loan from 13 US museums including, MOCA, MCA, the Whitney, and the Art Institute of Chicago. The show ends in September and is HIGHLY recommended.
W wine+artMember
I was so sadden to see that Francois Morellet died during our holiday to Spain.

He was such a great artist and I was so pleased that France was having five different retrospectives of his work throughout France this year while he was still alive. ( it was well know his health was failing)

I'm also glad we bought two of his works that we so enjoy. My art consultant was a dear friend of Francois and pointed us to his work a few years ago.

R.I.P.
The Old ManThe Old ManMember
At Frank Lloyd Wright's designed Kentuck Knob today in PA, besides the great house the current owner's (Peter Palumbo) sculpture collection is mind blowing. Starting with this first piece in 1992 by Andy Goldsworthy there is now a second. In addition three Anthony Caro's, a Chicago fav Harry Bertoia, an Oldenburg and 24 more works. But if there weren't enough there's also a unbelievable furniture collection: From Wright's long destroyed Imperial Hotel a Peacock chair, a George Jetson looking office chair from the Price Tower in Oklahoma and another Wright chair from 1904. A Wright children's' chair from the Coonley Playhouse. How about six, yes six, Josef Hoffman chairs? Alvar Alto's, leather Eames chairs, it just goes on and on. Not enough? There's even a working Rennie Mackintosh clock. I was just there for the building, I didn't know about the other stuff and it's just about as signnificant.
The Old ManThe Old ManMember
This pretty much sums up my feeling up visiting the Pittsburgh Andy Warhol Museum's new show.

I did not know that it had traveled, in another form, first. When doing my planning for the trip I saw that there would be a Weiwei exhibit at the Warhol. I was a bit disappointed because I'm not a fan. And indeed a number of Warhol's works were removed for the show.

However, an art highlight for us in Pittsburgh was The Mattress Factory. A good old collection of funky re-adapted buildings with cite specific art installations. Among the highlights were David Bowen's Space Junk and Sarah Oppenheimer's Scary Matta-Clark like cut through the building with it's inserted sculptural form.

A truly fascinating place that is highly recommended.
W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by The Old Man:
This pretty much sums up my feeling up visiting the Pittsburgh Andy Warhol Museum's new show.

I did not know that it had traveled, in another form, first. When doing my planning for the trip I saw that there would be a Weiwei exhibit at the Warhol. I was a bit disappointed because I'm not a fan. And indeed a number of Warhol's works were removed for the show.

However, an art highlight for us in Pittsburgh was The Mattress Factory. A good old collection of funky re-adapted buildings with cite specific art installations. Among the highlights were David Bowen's Space Junk and Sarah Oppenheimer's Scary Matta-Clark like cut through the building with it's inserted sculptural form.

A truly fascinating place that is highly recommended.


Thanks for the post!

As for Allen and his review, I have never been a fan of his. Always seemingly devoid of wit and imagination IMO. I'm glad he no long is with Financial Review.
S seaquamMember
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Heading to the Nasher Sculpture Garden to see the Joel Shapiro exhibit this weekend.




What a fantastic venue for displaying art! We loved walking around outside there, a very special place seemingly removed from the hustle and bustle just outside its walls. Nice to have a place like that in your town, huh?
W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by wine+art:

Heading to the Nasher Sculpture Garden to see the Joel Shapiro exhibit this weekend.




What a fantastic venue for displaying art! We loved walking around outside there, a very special place seemingly removed from the hustle and bustle just outside its walls. Nice to have a place like that in your town, huh, eh?


Sea, special indeed.

Their evening concerts are wonderful in such a grand setting and they have many ( free) events for children of all ages. Our 3 year old granddaughter loves going there.