Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Nervous fish?
We often get together with my wife's family at Hinode Sushi in Rockville, a hidden gem of a Japanese restaurant in Rockville.
One of my nephews is very much into aquariums and pet fish, etc. and next to Hinode is a pet shop with a lot of fish to choose from... anyway, my nephew usually wonders into the pet shop, buys a fish, they put it in a plastic bag filled with water, and then my nephew walks back to Hinode, and eventually we all go our respective ways.
I've often wondered if the fish, elated to be "rescued" from the boredom of the tank in the pet shop, is all excited that someone has finally bought it, and is looking forward to a new place to swim... and then is walked into a sushi shop.
Does the fish think: "oh, oh... crap!"
One of my nephews is very much into aquariums and pet fish, etc. and next to Hinode is a pet shop with a lot of fish to choose from... anyway, my nephew usually wonders into the pet shop, buys a fish, they put it in a plastic bag filled with water, and then my nephew walks back to Hinode, and eventually we all go our respective ways.
I've often wondered if the fish, elated to be "rescued" from the boredom of the tank in the pet shop, is all excited that someone has finally bought it, and is looking forward to a new place to swim... and then is walked into a sushi shop.
Does the fish think: "oh, oh... crap!"
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Friday, December 21, 2012
World will not end without a fight!
Just in case you were wondering... I'm in the middle of a gigantic struggle fighting the dark side in an epic fight to save the world today!
Battle is still going on, but so far nothing is looking shimmery, like Marty McFly does every time that he's about to be eliminated from the future when he's in the past.
Struggle on!
Battle is still going on, but so far nothing is looking shimmery, like Marty McFly does every time that he's about to be eliminated from the future when he's in the past.
Struggle on!
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Score one for the Mayans
Since tomorrow is the end of the world, I'm gonna be saving big bucks, because the day after tomorrow is my wife's birthday, and since tomorrow is the end of the world... do you see my logic?
Of course, no one wants the world to end, except maybe those mutant Ayatollahs in Iran, but there's that whole "present-buying" angle to work...
Of course, no one wants the world to end, except maybe those mutant Ayatollahs in Iran, but there's that whole "present-buying" angle to work...
Hirst leaving his dealer...
But “these superstar artists are self-propelled machines,” said Tobias Meyer, director of Sotheby’s contemporary art department worldwide and its principal auctioneer. “Just as actors left their studios in the 1950s, artists have become bigger stars than their galleries. The world is their oyster, and they know it.”Read the NYT story here.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
When modern art baffles
"If you've ever stared at a piece of modern art and felt you just didn't "get it," you're probably among the majority.Read the whole story by WTOP's Madeline Tallman here.
The Smithsonian is trying to change that. The American Art Museum has begun hosting discussions aimed at helping museum-goers grasp the meaning behind some of the museum's more enigmatic works."
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Wake effect continues
Remember me harping about the "wake effect" of art fairs?
Review: The "wake effect" is akin to the wake that a ship leaves behind as it sails through the water. In artfairese, it is what happens (sales, contacts, articles, etc.) after an art fair is over.
Since Aqua ended, we've closed a deal for four 30x40 photographs by the amazing Dulce Pinzon - all to be sent to a major private collection in NYC which although "private" is open to the public.
And ballsy Cuban photog Cirenaica Moreira will be the focus of a profile article in VOGUE magazine.
And yours truly has been offered his first museum solo!
Yay!
Review: The "wake effect" is akin to the wake that a ship leaves behind as it sails through the water. In artfairese, it is what happens (sales, contacts, articles, etc.) after an art fair is over.
Since Aqua ended, we've closed a deal for four 30x40 photographs by the amazing Dulce Pinzon - all to be sent to a major private collection in NYC which although "private" is open to the public.
And ballsy Cuban photog Cirenaica Moreira will be the focus of a profile article in VOGUE magazine.
And yours truly has been offered his first museum solo!
Yay!
Blake Gopnik Laid Off at Newsweek
Former WaPo art critic Blake Gopnik, who escaped the sinking ship known as the WaPo's Style Section for Tina Brown's nearly submerged Newsweek, has been fired ; according to NY Magazine:
Also leaving Newsweek/The Daily Beast amid substantial layoffs is art and design critic Blake Gopnik, he confirmed to Daily Intel. Gopnik joined Tina Brown's magazine from the Washington Post in 2010, along with Robin Givhan, the first and only fashion writer to win a Pulitzer Prize. Givhan was let go in the downsizing as the company kills its print edition. "It's been a wild ride, and a strange one," Gopnik said.Before he left, the Blakester had this great article on the coming explosion of the art market bubble... I sorta agree with him. Read that here.
Yoga
In this work, the digital imagery completes the narrative of the visual image.
We see the woman’s mind begin the effort to clear the mind of all things and achieve the perfect state of a blank mind.
Her struggles are followed through the digital imagery of food, drinks, candy, space, Mr. Spock and other images before settling on a perfectly blank mind.
Furthermore, the buyer of this piece has the option to request to have me add some specific “distracting” digital images to the piece, if so desired, and thus become a “contributor” to the work.
Yoga
Charcoal and Conte on
Paper with Embedded Electronics
© 2012 F. Lennox
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Newtown
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
Opportunity for Artists
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Zero Dark Thirty
As I've noted before, I am not really sure why I continue to get passes to many press previews of movies, but every once in a while, I do have the time and interest to go see one ahead of time and I saw Zero Dark Thirty and came away entertained, but as usual disappointed as to how Hollywood distorts historical events in order to make a film... ahhh... entertaining.
My basic issue with Zero Dark Thirty, and almost every single Hollywood movie allegedly representing a historical event, is that I am a pedantic Virgo, who tends to over notice little "wrong" things about celluloid history... little things such as a military ribbon out of place, an uncovered salute from a sailor, a wrong line.
To start, the very start of the movie is made up and never happened. But even before the start of the movie I have an issue.
"How can you have an issue before the movie starts, Lenster? ", you ask.
The title is wrong.
No one in the military says "Zero Dark Thirty." The statement used to depict a very early hour in the day is "O Dark Thirty" -- "O" as in the letter; not "Zero" -- and I understand that this may confuse some folks who never served, but if I'm going to be pedantic, then I might as well start with an erroneous title.
Back to the start of the movie.
There were only threepeople terrorists who were water boarded by the CIA in their effort to gather intelligence from the bad guys (and thousands of US military people as part of the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) school - at least when I was in, being water boarded was part of the school curriculum); the dude being water boarded in the movie was not one of them, so why make that up?
That's two strikes already, and we're not even finished the first few minutes of the film, but Hollywood has already seeded suspicion about nearly everything that follows and that bugs the pedantic me.
The vast left wing nut house is going bananas over this film because it thinks that it is too flattering to the CIA, to the US Government, to whatever... they also rightly complain about perceived historical inaccuracies (although I didn't recall any such complaints on equally intellectually dishonest efforts such as Oliver Stone's "W" or Michael Moore's pick any documentary).
As a work of historical fiction, the film was splendid in its entertainment factor... and Hollywood will tell you that it is a "film and not a documentary." The problem is that a lot more people will see this film, and take it for a full, true story, than will ever read the actual facts about the OBL hunt.
My basic issue with Zero Dark Thirty, and almost every single Hollywood movie allegedly representing a historical event, is that I am a pedantic Virgo, who tends to over notice little "wrong" things about celluloid history... little things such as a military ribbon out of place, an uncovered salute from a sailor, a wrong line.
To start, the very start of the movie is made up and never happened. But even before the start of the movie I have an issue.
"How can you have an issue before the movie starts, Lenster? ", you ask.
The title is wrong.
No one in the military says "Zero Dark Thirty." The statement used to depict a very early hour in the day is "O Dark Thirty" -- "O" as in the letter; not "Zero" -- and I understand that this may confuse some folks who never served, but if I'm going to be pedantic, then I might as well start with an erroneous title.
Back to the start of the movie.
There were only three
That's two strikes already, and we're not even finished the first few minutes of the film, but Hollywood has already seeded suspicion about nearly everything that follows and that bugs the pedantic me.
The vast left wing nut house is going bananas over this film because it thinks that it is too flattering to the CIA, to the US Government, to whatever... they also rightly complain about perceived historical inaccuracies (although I didn't recall any such complaints on equally intellectually dishonest efforts such as Oliver Stone's "W" or Michael Moore's pick any documentary).
As a work of historical fiction, the film was splendid in its entertainment factor... and Hollywood will tell you that it is a "film and not a documentary." The problem is that a lot more people will see this film, and take it for a full, true story, than will ever read the actual facts about the OBL hunt.
Art Purchase Awards
Heading out to hand out some art purchase
awards from the Prince George's County Arts and Cultural Heritage
Division... congrats to Robert W Kincheloe, Ric Garcia and Celestine Ranney-Howes!
Friday, December 14, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
When governments fund art...
Government support of the arts allows art to become definable by the state. That is, if the government is going to give tax breaks, grants, or funding to organizations or businesses that sell art, they have to define what art is.Read the whole piece by Lauren Galik by clicking here.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Art2Art Auction
TO PURCHASE TICKETS & MORE INFORMATION CLICK HERE.
Online bidding of featured artwork in the show ends at 10 p.m. on December 20, 2012. Click here to visit the website.
All proceeds from artwork sales will support the DC Collaborative’s flagship program, Arts for Every Student, which provides arts experiences for 30,000 DC public school and public charter school students each year to attend Washington’s world-class art and cultural institutions.
What to do this Saturday?
The Washington Glass School is having their Holiday Open House on Saturday, December 15th, 2012. The opening is around Noon, through 5:00pm on Saturday.
As I've noted many times before, this is one of my favorite places to do some Christmas shopping for special people! What better present than original art?
The artists and instructors of the glass school will be exhibiting artworks.
The WGS invites the community to visit and experience a unique DC area arts venue. And there's more: the adjacent studios - Red Dirt and Flux Studios will also be open - a great chance to see whats going on in the very vibrant Gateway Arts District!
See ya there!
Holiday Open House and Sale
Saturday, December 15, 2012, from Noon til 5 pm.
Washington Glass School
3700 Otis Street
Mount Rainier, MD 20712
As I've noted many times before, this is one of my favorite places to do some Christmas shopping for special people! What better present than original art?
Works by DMV uberstar artist Tim Tate will be available. |
Beautiful works by Syl Mathis will be on exhibit and for sale! |
Get yourself a Sean Hennessey - his work is hot, hot, hot! |
Metal artist Chris Shea will be there with his stunning forged iron work |
Check out Nancy Donnelly's colorful artwork. |
See ya there!
Holiday Open House and Sale
Saturday, December 15, 2012, from Noon til 5 pm.
Washington Glass School
3700 Otis Street
Mount Rainier, MD 20712
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