Category Archives: Art

Le Livre de Philippe Waty

November 15, 2014 – 9:11 pm

The Steamin’ Musselmen or les Muselmans Fumant were an artistic troupe de force in Paris through the 1980s and 1990s. Philippe Waty co-founded the group and his vibrant iconography adorned the walls of the abandoned city quarters. Philippe painted with the spirit of Chester Hines’s Black America matched by his collaborators; Fabrice Langlade, Tristam de […]

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ADAM AND EVE by Charlotta Jansen

October 15, 2014 – 4:51 pm

Charlotta Jansen at the Sphinx Gallery in London tonight with her painting ‘Adam & Eve, Greene County, GA 1941’. She is one of 30 artists up for the Young Masters Prize. I love her work. 125 Kensington Church St London W8 7LP United Kingdom +44 20 7313 8040

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Serious Art

October 7, 2014 – 9:28 pm

Damn, cool finger painter.

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Yves Klein’s Leap

September 6, 2014 – 10:17 am

Yves Klein was a pop minimalist genius. In 1960 he staged the photo SAUT DANS LE VIDE or LEAP INTO THE VOID from a rooftop in the Paris suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses. His friends caught him in a tarp. The photo was then published in a fake newspaper at Paris news kiosks. I love Yves Klein. […]

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Graceful In Slumber

June 29, 2014 – 1:04 pm

Some people born graceful even in slumber.

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