Telluride's Sheridan Arts Foundation (SAF) hosts 21 nationally recognized plein air artists Wednesday, June 28- Tuesday, July 4, 2017. The group gathers in Telluride for the 14th annual Telluride Plein Air. Artists will spend a week painting outside capturing the light, color, and unique character of this...
T’is the season. That is the season of bright sunshine, river music, and tourists wandering through our streets, jaws agape. Summer also means Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts is fully geared up to launch 10 weeks of youth summer art camps and Fabulous Fridays for ages 4 – 18. To...
Yes, we know. Just post-Mountainfilm, yet another grand slam for Daivd Holbrooke & Co., Telluride is now officially up to its ankles at least in the summer festival season. But there is some unfinished business from our fall trip: for anyone who might be passing through Boston,...
Telluride Arts promotes a culture of the arts within the Telluride Arts District, which contains a remarkable concentration of activities that engage artists from around the region and across the globe. Telluride Arts’ First Thursday Art Walk is a festive celebration of the art scene in downtown Telluride...
Clams on the half shell. Meh. Babes? Now we are talking. Specifically we are talking about Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, nicknamed, Sandro Botticelli (“Little Barrel”) and his most famous painting, 'The Birth of Venus." The iconic image is a celebration of human desire, one of the...
The American Academy of Bookbinding's national bookbinding exhibition, OPEN–SET, opens in the Ah Haa School's Daniel Tucker Gallery on April 24 and runs through May 20, 2017. This month, the Ah Haa School for the Arts unveils perhaps its most prestigious exhibition to date. The gallery show...
Turner’s "Modern and Ancient Ports" at The Frick through May 14. “The Great Comet” is now up at The Imperial Theatre. The two shows have little in common other than the timing, early 1800s, circa Napoleon. And both razzzle-dazzle – though very differently. One is hot and leads with knowing...
The 78th installment of the Whitney Biennial, the longest running survey of contemporary American art, features 63 artists at various ages and stages of life and work. The art happening is now through June 11 at the Whitney, the first in the relatively new Renzo Piano building, a masterpiece...
"Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern," at the Brooklyn Museum through July 23. Go here to learn more about the jazz club, Mezzrow. [caption id="attachment_65406" align="aligncenter" width="474"] Image, Alfred Stieglitz. Courtesy, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe via Brooklyn Museum.[/caption] As a pioneering modernist painter and feminist icon, the lady...
We went to the Broad Contemporary Art Museum on LACMA's campus for Picasso and Rivera. We stayed for McLaughlin. I know- Who? After World War II, the center of the art world shifted from Paris to New York. From the super reality of Surrealism, where dreams intersected with reality, to...
