Happy Holidays
Your path is illuminated by the light. Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright. ~J.L.W. Brooks Photo taken in Johnson City, Texas, January 2010.
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New York City: Sights, Scenes and Suggestions
Home again…..after three stimulating days in New York City. I’ve loved this city for 40 years. It is filled with memories of visits during my early married years, excursions with our children and multiple trips to cover the fashion shows for the Press. Before the children were...
ArtPrize moves into the last week
No, this isn’t a beauty salon. It is the roof of the Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts and it is what ArtPrize is all about…….. creativity in many forms. Questions. Aha moments. Major Wows. Smiles. Connections. ArtPrize has totally taken over Grand Rapids, the...
ArtPrize moves into Week Two
ArtPrize has taken over our town and wonderfully so. Grand Rapids is packed with young and old, families, old folks using walkers, groups and singles. The diversity is palpable. For example on Friday I visited the tony Grand Rapids Art Museum, the massive white Modernist box filled with...
Going to Chicago for a Day of Art
I am totally in awe of the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. In fact, I’m so taken with the this rock star of photojournalism that I went to see his work twice–at two different museums. The first time was in NYC last May at the Museum of Modern Art. It captured my interest to the...
Chicago: a visual feast
Recently I went to Chicago for the day to go to two art exhibits–a wonderful photography presentation at the Chicago Institute of Art and a Calder exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Both were interesting, stimulating and worth seeing.
ArtPrize: Twittering, Tweeting, the Buzz is building
I am so geeked about ArtPrize. The first ArtPrize stories are hitting Facebook, MLive.com, TV stations and blog and web pages like Social Diary and I’m sure national publications. What has me immediately excited is the larger than life mural already in the works on the side of the seven-story...
Canal Saint Martin in Paris a delightful surprise
A couple of years ago some friends of ours visited Paris, enjoying a long weekend with some friends of theirs who were living in the City of Light and attending the Cordon Bleu. They returned with tales of taking a canal ride in Paris. Hmmm. This had me a intriqued. Yes, I think of...
Agua Building in Chicago Fascinating
A week or so ago I did a post about the current Matisse exhibit at the Chicago Institute of Art and a bit about a building nearby–the Aqua Building. Got some interesting comments and am personally quite fascinated with this building. Still can’t decide if I like it. That seems to...