Photo By Geoffrey Dicker
Geoffrey took this fun picture of me standing inside of the Maelstrom sculpture by artist Roxy Paine, which currently installed on the roof of the Met. As you can see, yesterday was a beautiful day in the city.
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Bacon Thing of The Day: Francis Bacon Retrospective at The Met, NYC
Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953
Most Sundays, Geoffrey and I like to have what we call an Urban Adventure. The plan for today called for G and I to head uptown to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue, with the intention of checking out their latest acquisition, The Torment of St Anthony – the first painting by the great Michelangelo. But while we were stumbling through the dozens upon a dozens of galleries clotted with Renaissance artworks, looking desperately among them for the one 12-inch square canvas that we’d come to gaze upon, we made an intentional detour through a dense retrospective of the paintings of Francis Bacon (1909 – 1992), the famous Irish-born English artist. Continue reading Bacon Thing of The Day: Francis Bacon Retrospective at The Met, NYC
Pink Thing of the Day: Cotton Candy Storm
Photograph by Daniela Edburg
Pink Thing of the Day: Pink Garbage Bag Project
“Think Pink”
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Disney’s Haunted Mansion Celebrates 40 Scary Years
I can’t remember now where I first saw this online (Boing Boing maybe?) but I figured you Disneyland freaks out there would want a head’s up.
SHAG Haunted Mansion Product Release & Signing
Date: Sunday, August 9, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Purchasing Location: Disneyana Shop, Disneyland® park
Signing Location: Main Street Cinema, Disneyland® park
Product & Event Information:
Artist, SHAG (Josh Angle) will be on hand for a special meet & greet and signing opportunity as we celebrate the release of his “Haunted Mansion” inspired artwork created in commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland® Park. Represented in the artwork are some of the attraction’s most beloved scenes, including the Stretching Portraits, the Ballroom, the Seance Room, the Attic, Graveyard, among others.
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