NEW- Georgia O'Keefe Abstractions

The best of Georgia O'Keefe is in her abstractions. The Whitney Museum (Madison and 75th) not to be outdone by her MA neighbors has launched into O'Keefe abstracts as a real thing. More refined than Arthur Dove's and somewhat overworked, they are yet a delight of color and form. Forget the critic's erotic interpertation and let the paintings take you higher. Whitney closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Show runs until January 17.
More to come- Linnie

Thinking of You

A day to remember the consummate male cat, Cupid,

and the woods he loved.

We love them; then they leave.

1929, Artist and Patrons-

Remember Kandinsky  at the Gugghnheim?

Pictured between Mrs. Guggenheim and Baroness Rebay, Kandinsky poses with Solomon R. Guggenheim, who built the museum and bought the paintings!

The Guggenheims, An American Epic, by John H. Davis

Goodbye to Leaves, Golden and Falling

Statue of Liberty at Dawn

Photo of the Statue of Liberty in the New York Harbor at sunrise. The sunlight has not yet reached the Brooklyn roof-tops where Craig Chessari took this photo at dawn. It was exhibited at the Pacific Street Gallery in New London, CT where the show is now all packed up and off to other walls. Sorry, if you missed it!

Safe Journey and thank you for all the love, Spam

"Open you heart more to love."

Harold Klemp, Talk- The Secret Path to Heaven

What Painting Reveals

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

Minneapolis Art Exhibits Passing By

• Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA)- Masterpieces from the Louvre
• Weisman Art Museum- Raushenberg collages
• American Swedish Institute- local Swedish life
• Walker Art Center- contempoary videos and sculpture
• The Museum of Russian Art- photographs of Silk Road, Tsar commissioned

More to come- Linnie

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
Rembrandt (1606-1669)

Beauty Around Us

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne

Wolf Kahn in Kent, Connecticut

Pastelist Wolf Kahn is exhibiting at the Morrison Gallery in Kent on Route 7 in NW CT.http://www.themorrisongallery.com/ You will not be the same after you see his new work. Throw out olive and drab red. Bring on orange and yellow. Begin a painting, even if in your imagination. Large and bright.
More to come- Linnie

Novel Unveiled at Hudson Valley Writer's Center: 72 attend

Litchfield Times writes about writer, Mary Carroll Moore
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2303&dept_id=478844&newsid=20379057&PAG=461&rfi=9

Amazon link to QUALITIES OF LIGHT and this blogger's review.
http://www.amazon.com/Qualities-Light-Mary-Carroll-Moore/dp/1935226061/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255954184&sr=1-1

Check this one out. Next public reading is at The Hickory Stick Bookstore, Washington Depot, CT on Sunday, November 1st at 2:00 PM. See you there!

Local Coffee Stops for Art

If you have art pieces to show and no gallery scheduled for this year, begin small at coffee shops. The most popular ones want advance bookings of up to one year, but schedule now. I was surprised how much art flowed out of my hands when I knew I had three shows each year at coffee houses. To up the traffic and sales, make announcement postcards and have an opening event. Your fans and friends will support you and buy your art if the prices are reasonable to them
More to come- Linnie

Roof-top Garden at the Met

The Met exhibits that are currently running may keep you inside for the day: Vermeer's Milkmaid, Cinnabar, Luo Ping, Saint-Gaudens, Robert Frank, and Pablo Bronstein. But dont forget the outdoor roof for the splendor of Central Park. The roof access will be closed this winter, so get there this month!
More to come- Linnie

Read my Book Review

Author Pete Brooks with his wife Gloria, Pacific Street Gallery owner Cindy Samul and this blogger at the gallery where Pete unveiled his new book, God's Love is a Two-way Street, last month.
This is the URL on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Love-Two-Way-Street/dp/1448682312/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254918120&sr=1-2
This books covers real life adventures as seen through the eyes of one who loves God. Miracles abound.
Let me know how you like it!
More to come- Linnie

"FOOD IS ART"

                                       Pie Maker Nancy and art blogger Linnie

Writer Isa Morton (The Capstone Decision by Isabelle Morton on Amazon) responded, "Food is art!"
              http://www.amazon.com/Capstone-Decision-Isabelle-Morton/dp/0615271561/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254848519&sr=1-1
More to come- Linnie

Art of the Harvest- Apple Pie

After weekends of attending community events to commeorate the harvest- from cornmazes to tractor parades- this blogger votes for the apple pie made from Bethlehem's March Farm apples. Nancy McMillan is the baker of pie, composer of soul-rending piano compositions, and March Farm advocate.

Free Entry to MoMA

Remember that Friday night from 5:00 to 8:00 PM is free admission to the Museum of Modern Art at 11 West 53rd Street. The huge Monet Waterlilies are waiting for you! And so is the mammoth Balzac by Rodin.

Denver Art Museum

Maybe the folks in Colorado spend too much time on the mountainsides hiking up and down. Nothing seems plumb or square in Denver's art world. I lived there for years, sustained by the European and American collections. It was an odd building, but the art was nourishing. Especially the traveling shows from all over the world, traded for the opportunity to use Denver's finest.

Fast forward 15 years, and DAM now competes with the world of sculptured steel. Dashing though it may be, it feels violent, Pointed out over the street, the cutting edge makes one nervous about the intent of the art toward the city.

Maybe it is reminiscent of rock-climbing experiences, but a precipice is not an easy Sunday climb. Neither is the investment of this art museum toward that which is not art that can be shared with the world.