ARTS&FOOD®™: September 2017

Saturday, September 30, 2017

A Sunday Afternoon Walk Through The Met Museum in NYC

The first and last thing you see,
the flowers at the front of the Museum, in the Grand Hall.

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A Sunday Stroll

Through The

Metropolitan

Museum of Art

New York City

There is a peaceful and calming painting by the artist Georges Seurat, titled: "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." In the painting, Seurat depicts ordinary people relaxing in a suburban park, on a typical Sunday in Paris (painted around 1884).

Today, many people find it just as relaxing to stroll through Les Grande Salles of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a typical Sunday afternoon in New York City.

Here are some photos from a very short stroll I took through the Met on a recent Sunday. I only went through a small portion of the ground floor, taking snaps of whatever objects caught my eye.

I am sharing my afternoon here, with you. Enjoy!

Door Knocker

The underside of the grand staircase facing the entrance,
each stair-step was carved out of a rough stone,
the building opened to the public in 1880.
I thought this was interesting!

The first and last thing you see,
the flowers at the front of the Museum, in the Grand Hall.

(Source: All photos taken by ARTSnFOOD staff, with permission of the museum.)

Until later,

Jack

ARTS&FOOD is an online magazine dedicated to providing artists and collectors around the world with highlights of current art exhibitions, and to encourage all readers to invest in and participate in “The Joy of Art” and Culture. All Rights Reserved. All concepts, original art, text & photography, which are not otherwise credited, are copyright 2017 © Jack A. Atkinson, under all international, intellectual property and copyright laws. All gallery events', museum exhibitions', art fairs' or art festivals' photographs were taken with permission or provided by the event or gallery. All physical artworks are the intellectual property of the individual artists and © (copyright) individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.
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Friday, September 29, 2017

Jerry Saltz - The Art Critic as The Artist

Artist: Jerry Saltz

"Dante's Inferno: A map." This is looking down

at the funneling cone of the Inferno. Depicted are

the ten divisions of hell with Satan at the center

gnawing on three sinners, Brutus, Cassius, and Judas.

The various punishments are sketched in under

the murky color. In addition to an altarpiece,

Saltz had intended to do huge versions

of these drawings.

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When the Critic

Was the Artist!

Jerry Saltz, one of NYC's

most in-your-face Art Critics,

shows the art world his art.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This article first appeared in the April 17, 2017, issue of New York Magazine. Go to their website for the complete text.)

"I can’t only dance naked in private.

I have to dance naked in public." Jerry Saltz

Jerry Saltz looks at art this way. You must "dance naked in public" to ever start being an artist... holding nothing back, being vulnerable, being very, very honest with only the truth being exposed... that is the essence of art.

Saltz seems to be the most interactive art critic in NYC, he is everywhere the game is played, at all hours. He is married to the ever-so-respected (at the top of the art mountain) art critic and New York Times reporter, Roberta Smith. As a team they are the Salt and Pepper plus the Garbage Disposal for the huge feast of international art served up in New York City every year.

Saltz says it pains him to say it, but he is a failed artist himself. He says he misses the act of creating art. During his 20s and 30s he was living the starving artist, bohemian lifestyle - delving into his studio practice from dawn 'til late into the night. Of course he believes anyone not making art is also a failed artist!

His road was long from being an "artist" to becoming an "art critic" (literally he became a long haul trucker to pay for his life). Art History was a constant never-ending passion. Ultimately he became an Art Critic in New York City and has done a deep dive into that profession, with his never ending energy to go to one more show, one more museum or one more art fair before he sleeps.

(EDITOR'S NOTE)

I believe art needing long explanations, is missing the visual language that is art. I also believe I would never have loved Jackson Pollack's art if someone in my youth had not explained exactly what he was attempting to accomplish with his drip paintings.

Rather than caption each piece - know you are looking at illustrations and Saltz's visualizations of Dante's "The Divine Comedy."

(Source: This article first appeared in the April 17, 2017, issue of New York Magazine. Go to their website for the complete text, art and captions.)

Until later.

Jack

ARTS&FOOD is an online magazine dedicated to providing artists and collectors around the world with highlights of current art exhibitions, and to encourage all readers to invest in and participate in “The Joy of Art” and Culture. All Rights Reserved. All concepts, original art, text & photography, which are not otherwise credited, are copyright 2017 © Jack A. Atkinson, under all international, intellectual property and copyright laws. All gallery events', museum exhibitions', art fairs' or art festivals' photographs were taken with permission or provided by the event or gallery. All physical artworks are the intellectual property of the individual artists and © (copyright) individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.
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Thursday, September 14, 2017

The Affordable Art Fair NY Fall 2017... IT'S BACK ! ! ! !

Stephen A. Davids (SAD), The Art Movement, London UK

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The AAF NY

The Affordable Art Fair

is here again for its

NYC Fall 2017 Exhibition

It's September, bring on the Fall ARTS Season! First add a new pleasure to your home by investing in "affordable art" from the Affordable Art Fair's NYC Fall 2017 edition.

AAF is returning to the Metropolitan Pavilion, 18th Street between 6th & 7th Ave., for their 24th NYC fair (held 2x a year, Fall & Spring). This edition welcomes a large contingent of artists from the UK, along with some New York artists and galleries, plus other international exhibitors. The fair showcases original contemporary artworks from over 400 living artists, and the highest price point at the AAF is lower than most NYC art fairs lowest price points. Therefore the title: The Affordable Art Fair! Not all collectors can afford $80,000 to $40,000,000 for one artwork in their home, but at AAF everyone can afford something. Galleries and the show organizers carefully curate these artworks to all be in the $100 to $10,000 range, with more than half priced under $5,000.

Discover the art collector in you, at the Affordable Art Fair NYC Fall 2017!

(Here are a few examples of work being shown at the 2017 Fall AAF.)