Tag Archives: Alexander Calder

eccentric patrons

By October 1942, Peggy Guggenheim was ready to open in New York a new gallery, Art of This Century, surely the most eccentric pleasure dome ever decreed for the inspection of art. Lights flashed on and off, with great rushes … Continue reading

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joys of movement

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: 1962 World’s Fair “Century 21 Exposition” United States Commemorative Medal Sculptor: George Tsutakawa (1910-1997) Fifty years ago today, the 1962 World’s Fair opened in Seattle. This little item is probably my favorite that I’ve collected over … Continue reading

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linear madness and crazed impulses

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: The Village Voice January 4, 1994 issue Illustration: J.d. King (b. 1951) Art Director: Jennifer Gilman Design Director: Robert Newman …as in the past few posts I’ve drawn attention to, an illustrator I’ve known and worked with … Continue reading

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snap up the bargains: the price is slight

You can think of it as a country fair, a high end flea market, a tombola. There is so much art work out in the hands of collectors that these type of circus events are required as another outlet to … Continue reading

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fine art “motorama”: hawk to the rubes

Guest blog by Art Chantry.Its a cheezy embarrassing system, one in which the squeaky wheel gets the grease. The most ruthless hustlers and self-promoting con-men become the wealthiest and most celebrated in the fine art world… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): When … Continue reading

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TAROT GARDEN: Daddy & Arcanes of the Dark Psyche

Not a typical garden….. at least an Eden, chaotic and radical whose gatekeeper was the intuitive feminine whose charged powers of women were absorbed with the magical and spiritual power of objects. Niki De Saint Phalle kept delving deep into … Continue reading

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ECSTASY OF GEOMETRY: READING BETWEEN THE LINES

What was the nature of the quest that moved the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) to abandon the representation of nature in favor of an art of pure abstraction? What, exactly, did Mondrian believe that he had achieved? In any … Continue reading

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MONDRIAN:BOOGIE-WOOGIE BATTLING INTO ABSTRACTION

Piet Mondrian ( 1872-1944 ) had a profound belief in progress, the key to which he believed lay in man’s innate dissatisfaction with the merely “natural” world. He disliked classical representational art, for example, because he felt it simply reproduced … Continue reading

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A FETISH FOR MOVEMENT

In 1973, Rowland Emett( 1906-1990 ) created The Aqua Horological Tintinnabulator, more popularly known as the Victoria Centre clock, or the Emmet Clock. The unique water-powered structure is an icon of Nottingham and a popular meeting place for shoppers.Mr Emett also … Continue reading

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SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT

”Movement is unpremeditated being; it is the uncritical expression of life. As we begin to meditate we begin to stop living. . . First comes life; and if we meditate prematurely, if we lend to physical things a critical self-consciousness, … Continue reading

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