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Arts and Culture

Modern Art Monday Presents: Study For June 2, 2018 By Fred Tomaselli

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American artist Fred Tomaselli’s works frequently combine bold graphic forms or intricate patterns with detritus from popular culture, nature, and mass media. His materials include pills and drugs, butterfly wings, and, as in Study for June 2, 2018 (2018), fragments of magazines and newspapers. Tessellating images like the tiles of a mosaic, Tomaselli uses resin and other binding agents to create a flat, unified panel surface.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Meret Oppenheim, Octopus’s Garden

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In the early 1970s, Meret Oppenheim (1913 – 1985) began enthusiastically making collages. Octopus’s Garden (1971) is among the largest and most spectacular of those. This work depicts a fantastical underwater landscape, complete with calcified coral forms, trails of bubbles, and cut-out reproductions of peacock feathers.
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Ten Creative Ways to Express Yourself Through Art

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Creativity is a crucial part of our lives, allowing us to express ourselves in unique and innovative ways. By embracing your creative potential, you get the opportunity to build on existing ideas while creating something entirely new. Continue reading Ten Creative Ways to Express Yourself Through Art →

Design and Innovation

Instagram Photo of The Week: Gail at the Louis Vuitton 200 Trunks Exhibit

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I spent a couple  of very fun and visually stimulating hours yesterday at the Louis Vuitton: 200 Trunks, 200 Visionaries exhibit, which is staged across three floors at the former location of Barneys on Madison Avenue and 61st Street. Admission is free and you can reserve your timed entry at This Link! This experience  is very highly recommended by me!

In case you’re curious, the trunk featured in this room, by photographer Francesca Sorrenti, is below.

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Modern Art Monday Presents: Jasper Johns, Field Painting

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Jasper Johns’ Field Painting (1963 – 64) is one of many works the artist has made throughout his career that suggest tactile as well as visual interactions. Sometimes, as in the case of the hinged letters in this canvas and the dangling strings of his later Catenary series, the appended objects actually marked the painted surface.

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