Category Archives: Art
Dress Codes
Dress Codes (October 2, 2009 – January 17, 2010), the International Center of Photography’s third triennial of photography and video, was a fantastic exhibition exploring fashion, in the broadest sense. It exhibited the works of 34 photographers from around the … Continue reading
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Print Fair window-shopping
The 2009 International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair is on this weekend at the historic Park Avenue Armory, an amazing late nineteenth-century building with a massive, arched main hall that is much like a grand European train station shed. … Continue reading
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Watteau to Degas
Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection is on at The Frick Collection until January 10, 2010. Frederik Johannes Lugt (1884–1970) was a Dutch art connoisseur and collector, and the exhibition presents sixty-four delicate eighteenth- and nineteenth-century … Continue reading
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A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many
I discovered John Brack’s Collins Street, 5pm (1955) way before I worked a 9 to 5 job. One of my favorite Australian paintings, it depicts stony-faced workers trudging out of office buildings, heading for trams and trains to carry them … Continue reading
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