What is to become of the Whitney Museum Building?

Great discussion on today's NY Times article about the fate of the Marcel Breuer building on 75th Street now that the Whitney has plans to vacate the site for new digs downtown.

The "uptown bunker for difficult art" is how I have referred to the Whitney for years; my wife calls it the "Whip-me Museum". It is both beloved and beleaguered and not unlike the Museum of Art and Design which has inherited the scorn of many from the Huntington Hartford building.
People joke about Target becoming the new owner but it will be worse: another Hermes / Lacoste / Ralph Lauren corporate showcase for sure will seize this museum and erase all the wonderful history of the love/hate relationship to the city that we all lave/hate.

Brushes on the iPad: Drawing in the 21st Century

Announcing a launch of a new blog about Drawing on the iPad using Brushes
Drawing 21
 http://drawing21.blogspot.com/


It's official: a major artist embraces the iPhone/iPad Brushes app to create a series of images for an exhibition!
David Hockney: Fresh Flowers at the The Fondation Pierre Bergé


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Canvas is just so 20th century

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-21/world/hockney.iphone_1_iphone-ipad-british-artist-david-hockney?_s=PM:WORLD

Gerhard Richter@The Drawing Center

Gerhard Richter
Lines which do not exist

"...approximately 50 graphite, watercolor, and ink on paper drawings made by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932, Dresden, Germany) over a period of five decades from 1966 to 2005."

September 11 – November 18, 2010
I was planning to go to the opening reception but something else came up. Gerhard Richter is always interesting. Here is a body of work that has never been shown before. Richter's huge retrospective at MoMA in 2002 apparently was not exhaustive, since drawings were not included in the 40 Years of Painting exhibit.
The New York Times reviewed the exhibit saying it was "superb".

A Daily Dose of Architecture

Here is an interesting blog about Architecture.

Sarah Morris: Pools

I've been asked to feature more women artists and so here is one of my favorite contemporary painters (who happens to be a woman). This is painting that is smart, insightful and thoroughly hip.

Personal Geometry @ Lori Bookstein Fine Art

Jan Müller
Untitled (Polyptych)
c. 1955
Oil on seven wood panels
46" x 40"

This is a show that is a must-see for me. I am always looking for a fresh perspective on geometric abstraction.
"Müller and Wilson, two painters whose work has been split between abstraction and representation, provide adept examples of paintings composed from the arrangement of humble squares, but which function foremost as matrices for the study of color relationships and personal moods." -from the press release for the exhibit


Personal Geometry
January 08, 2009 - February 07, 2009
Lori Bookstein Fine Art | 37 West 57th Street 3rd floor | New York NY 10019 | 212.750.0949 |

Women in Art

Here is a very engaging video that morphs through five hundred years of portraits of women in art. Enjoy!

Animatus Animation Links

Animatus Animation Links

Chromacolour | Pegbars | Canada

Chromacolour | Pegbars | Canada

Flash Frame-By-Frame Animation: Detailed Animation Part I

Flash Frame-By-Frame Animation: Detailed Animation Part I

3D Books

3D Books

Light Boxes for Sale: Cartoon Supplies

Disney Inks Stan Lee | Animation Magazine

Disney Inks Stan Lee | Animation Magazine

the TAB | Paperless 2D Animation Software for Web Designers and Broadcast | Download

the TAB | Paperless 2D Animation Software for Web Designers and Broadcast | Download

Music to See in NYC: Summerstage

Grat acts coming to NYC this summer: Joss Stoe. Cassandra Wilson and Television

Cubist Mashup #3

This image combines several components: a carafe, a wine bottle, a glass goblet and a projector contemporaneous with those seen by Picasso and Braque. The goal is to re-create a Cubist image that incorporates elements of the early Cinema apparatus (the projector) to prove the theis that Picasso and Braque embedded the machinery into there Cubist images.

Cubist Mashup #2

Starting with a photograph of a woman from the Victorian era, Photoshop was used to create a second image transformed by simple reflection; the was then overlaid onto an image of a tripod in an effort to replicate effects found in several images by Picasso.

Cubist Mashup #1

Using Photoshop, an image of a cinematograph was combined with an image of a Mandora (a type of guitar) in an effort to duplicate effects in a painting by Braque. In Photoshop, the clone stamp tool allows for painting multiple sections offset from the original Mandora.

Abstract Views of Maine - April 26, 2007 - The New York Sun

Abstract Views of Maine - April 26, 2007 - The New York Sun
This looks like an interesting show at the Anita Shipolsky Gallery.
http://www.nysun.com/article/53703

Van Gogh and Expressionism @ Neue Galerie by Al Doyle

Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
White Tree Trunks, 1908
Oil on canvas, 67.5 x 77.5 cm
Brücke-Museum, Berlin

Here is a review of an outstanding exhibit at the Neue Galerie in New York City by Al Doyle.