More and more contemporary homeowners are realizing that indoor lighting is a key factor in any home’s design, setting the tone throughout the home. With so many modern designs available to help you make a statement, indoor lighting should never be just an afterthought in your dcor scheme This is especially true when it comes [...]
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RELEASES: Impressionist/Modern Art + Art of the Surreal Evening Sales – including Art from The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor
The Impressionist and Modern Art and The Art of the Surreal Evening Auctions will take place on 7 February 2012 at 7pm with a pre-sale estimate of £86,205,000 -127,090,000 (corresponding estimate in 2011: £73.8-109 million). Combined with the Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist works which will be offered in Living with Art – A Private European [...]
Waterways Art Gallery opens its doors at Sponge Docks
Published: February 2, 2012 Updated: 02/02/2012 10:16 am TARPON SPRINGS – Sponge Docks tourists and shoppers with an affinity for the visual arts received a new option to potentially pique their interests. The Waterways Art Gallery, located across from the Tarpon Springs Aquarium and within the Lighthouse Shoppes Building, opened its doors for business on [...]
Painting an African identity
The fourth Luxor International Painting Symposium brought together 10 Egyptian artists and 15 from other parts of Africa. Venus Fouad writes from Luxor Click to view caption Clockwise from top: Abdel-Fattah; Talat; Ogunfowodu; and Hosni The setting was perfect: a series of bedsit/workrooms overlooking the Nile, all connected by a veranda. The 25 artists taking [...]
Alexander Calder’s Mobiles
Vocabulary:Mobile – a sculpture frequently of wire and sheet metal shapes with parts that can be set in motion by air currents In our case, we will be making mobiles that will hang and use balance. Stabile – an abstract sculpture or construction similar in appearance to a mobile but made to be stationary Mobiles• [...]