Oslo Police Arrest Scream Suspect
Darn, and we were just looking on eBay to add "The Scream" to our art collection!
This week in art history
- April 6, 1520 - Raphael dies in Rome at the age of 37
- April 8, 1973 - Picasso dies at the age of 92
'Art Night' Falls to Nudity Ban
As the Kinks song goes, "Give the people what they want"
Critics lay into Hirst exhibition
"Village Voice's Jerry Saltz called Hirst's new show 'ordinary and academic.' Hirst might also be described as an avant-garde Thomas Kinkade...
Artist joins trade trip to China
"A fine artist seems an odd bedfellow for high-tech product companies and building material manufacturers."
Okay, enough BBC art news....
We're heading up to San Francisco today to visit SFMOMA. One of the featured exhibits is Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective. Bechtlel's painting style is called photo realism. His subject matter (middle class American culture) reminds me of the photographs of Bill Owens.
"One of the wonderful things about a museum is how you're jolted into confronting art from strange and wonderful civilizations and you look and learn and expand your horizons."
- Sister Wendy
SFMOMA Postscript:
The Robert Bechtle retrospective wasn't that inspring. Cars dominate Bechtle's subject matter...lot's of cars. Photography inside the exhbit area is not allowed, but you can take pictures of the building. Here's a few pictures of SFMOMA from Art a GoGo's archive (circa 2000).
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