Category Archives: Art

Adrian Dannatt – My Obituarist: DOOMED AND FAMOUS @ Miguel Abreau Gallery

February 9, 2021 – 6:15 pm

Last week I walked into Miguel Abreau Gallery on Orchard Street to see Adrian Dannett. The smartly dressed Welsh writer, comedic child actor, discerning art spiv, poetic flaneur, global interlocutor, and arcane curator, was busy at work on a computer, messaging interested parties to schedule a tete-a-tete viewing of his art collection and promote his […]

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Signori Mona Lisa

September 27, 2020 – 9:14 pm

Scholars have long sought the identity of the cryptic smiler of the Mona Lisa hanging in the Louvre. Lisa del Giocondo, Isabella of Aragon, Cecilia Gallerani, Costanza d’Avalos, Duchess of Francavilla, Isabella d’Este, Pacifica Brandano or Brandino, Isabela Gualanda, and Caterina Sforza lead the list, but my ducats are on Salfi, Da Vinci’s lover, whose […]

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I Am A Redhead Too – Yayoi Kusama

July 31, 2020 – 11:01 am

Yayoi Kusama has been one of the greatest conceptual artist of the modern era. Her works revealed a clear visual regard for feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, while exploring the sensuality of her life. She ruled the cool 60s. Sadly the artist suffered a breakdown in 1977 and committed herself […]

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Yayoi Kusama – The Queen Of Dots

July 31, 2020 – 6:13 am

<> The artist Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929. Her hometown was Kyoto. Her family made money from selling seeds. At the age of 19 she studied the formal Meiji painting style. Nihonga was not for her and she said years later, “When I think of my life in Kyoto, I feel like vomiting.” After […]

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An Orgasm of Sneezes

May 30, 2020 – 2:06 pm

Der Speyer by FX Messerschmidt. Franz Xavier Messerschmidt stunned the Baroque Age with his sculptures of contorted facial expressions. The artist lost favor with the Viennese court and he retreated to Swabian Alps to complete the 64 studies while studying necromancy under the influence of the pagan prophet Hermes Trismegistus. My Art 101 professor at […]

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