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MoMA Trip 2011
MoMA Trip 2011
June 2, 2011 – 9:15 pm | Comments Off

On June 2nd, 25 students from Morgan Village Middle School went on what will hopefully be our annual trip to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.
The trip was EDUCATIONAL !!!  (Six Flags… Physics?…  Come On!!)  It invited a dialog on Modern Art and inspired a higher level of thinking that challenged [...]

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David Buckingham
May 26, 2011 – 7:55 am | Comments Off

With all the emphasis on Going Green these days, it is nice to find an artist that is doing great things with found materials. But lets face it, there are found materials and then there are FOUND MATERIALS!!

In this case we are talking David Buckingham and the scrap metal found in the abandoned factories, industrial areas, and the low deserts of Southern California.

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Ai Weiwei
January 15, 2011 – 8:05 pm | Comments Off
Ai Weiwei

By Martin Gayford
We like to talk about contemporary art being edgy and risky, but there are risks and risks. In Britain Damien Hirst or Tracey Emin might get a bad review; last year Ai Weiwei, China’s most famous living artist, was almost killed.
He was in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, on August 12 2009. At [...]

Fallingwater – A Holiday Open House
December 29, 2010 – 11:01 am | Comments Off
Fallingwater – A Holiday Open House

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater is a western Pennsylvania mountain retreat home built 1936-38 for the Edgar J. Kaufmann family of Pittsburgh, owners of Kaufmann’s Department Store. The home was used by the Kaufmann household, Edgar, Liliane and their only child until 1963. It was then opened to the public in 1964 after being entrusted to [...]

Francis Bacon
October 28, 2010 – 11:33 am | Comments Off
Francis Bacon

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
It’s usually around Halloween I offer a look at an artist who’s work tends to be on the scary side.
If there is one thing that the work of Francis Bacon gives you, it is the sense of a deepening mystery. The territories of Francis [...]

The Simpsons… Banksy style.
October 12, 2010 – 11:50 am | Comments Off
The Simpsons… Banksy style.

Celebrated street artist Banksy has turned his talents to The Simpsons, creating an opening sequence featuring an Asian sweatshop.
The minute-long opening sequence begins almost as usual, but with Banksy’s tag being sprayed across Springfield monuments, and a masked Bart writing “I must not write all over the walls” over the walls of his schoolroom.
It then [...]

Brice Marden
August 28, 2010 – 9:52 am | Comments Off
Brice Marden

It is said that his lineage can be traced cleanly through MoMA’s family tree, from late de Kooning right back to Mondrian.
Born in Bronxville, New York, Brice Marden received his BFA from the Boston University, School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1961 and relocated to New York in 1963, where he did what any [...]

The Heist
April 15, 2010 – 9:19 am | Comments Off
The Heist

So I got to thinking the other day when one of my students talked of stealing Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night from the Museum of Modern Art (good luck with that by the way) …. What was the largest art heist in U.S. history?
The paintings were priceless. The heist, however, was worth $300 million. This [...]