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According to Pablo Picasso’s son Claude, nearly 300 authentic works created by his father have been discovered and were unknown before today because they were possibly stolen in the last several years of the artist’s life. Pierre Le Guennec was an electrician who worked in several homes owned by Picasso and claimed that the 271 [...]

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Please excuse our appearance and brief hiatus as we experience technical difficulties with our media image files.  We’re working hard to get the problem fixed so we can get back to providing you with more arts & culture news as soon as possible! Come rain or come shine…

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I’m excited to announce that another one of my photographs has been accepted for sale on professionally made and sold bags.  My Vinyl Underground photo sold so well on these messenger bags that the company put it on the website’s header and sidebar!  This design, a colorful peacock feather, will be displayed on a sturdy, [...]

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After a brief hiatus, I’m back and armed with the details of a wonderfully comprehensive and informative gallery exhibition I attended last night at The Katonah Art Museum in Katonah, NY. Well I have to say that, with my literary and art history background, my appreciation and expectations were high for this show: Bold, Cautious, [...]

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It was announced today that 74-year old artist Jeanne-Claude has past away due to brain aneurysm complications. The environmental artist became famous creating temporary works of art throughout the world with her husband, Christo. Their website tells the story of this couple, who met in Paris in 1958, discovering they had the same birthday, and [...]

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Sorry for the delay in posts!  Busy week indeed.  I vow to keep up with this a bit more I did spend some of the weekend with some great photo opps and last night I submitted some new photographs to my Imagekind page.  I still have more to put up, but here are just a [...]

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“Warning: Models in this ad may not seem as real as they appear.” I love, love, love the fact that the French Parliament is considering a “Full Photoshop Disclosure” law for advertisements.  This would require that these entities inform the viewers if any Photoshopping or airbrushing was done on a given picture.  This would be [...]

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What could beat taking a walk and browsing through the works of talented artists on such an absolutely beautiful day as this past Sunday?  Apparently nothing.  This weekend’s show at the Staten Island Museum of Art was extremely successful!  Thanks for the support, everyone.  On sale was my photography and jewelry.  I found it interesting [...]

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Still getting used to this whole keeping-up-with-Twitter thing.  While I realize its worth and appreciate that it’s free publicity, I can’t help but notice that it appears to be a congregation of businessmen and –women promoting their own projects.  So I’m wondering how many people use the site who aren’t actively promoting their own business, [...]

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A quick note about what I hope to accomplish with this blog: My aim will never be to blather on about nothing but to provide news, occasional musings, and always, always an utter appreciation for creative inspirations, intentions, attempts and curiosities. Always with my finger on the pulse of current popular culture and “the arts,” [...]

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