Throwback Thursday

"Woman in Deep Thought"
(Robin Thinking About Leaving Him)
Hand-colored stone lithograph, edition of 5
c. 1981 by F. Lennox Campello
4.5x2.5 inches framed to 7x5 inches

Call for Artists

Who:  505 North Gallery

What:  CALL FOR VISUAL ARTISTS

Where:  505 N. Market St.  Frederick, MD 21701

Deadline Extended: June 12, 2015

Reception Date: Saturday, July 4th, 2015

Web CALL FOR ART:  https://www.505north.com/calls-for-artists.html

Gallery Website: www.505north.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/505NorthArtiquesGalleryStudio?fref=ts

Twitter: www.twitter.com/505NORTH

FREE Jury Review via email.  

Submit up to 6 2D &/or 3D artworks for  consideration. 

Images need to be 150 dpi, size 500-800 pixels for each piece.  

For 2D artworks, submit one high quality jpg per work, (300dpi, 7-10 inches.) 

When submitting 3D artworks, please submit 2-3 high quality jpgs per work.   (Please note that not all submitted pieces may be accepted.

SUBMIT  INFORMATION  TO:   gallery505north@gmail.com   

"Blue Moon 2015 Entry" in the subject line. 

New public artwork in the DMV

A new public artwork by DMV sculptor Alan Binstock is coming to the University Town Center Gateway in Hyattsville this October, at the pedestrian plaza of the new Safeway Retail Plaza, only a block away from the Prince George's Plaza Metro Station.

The UTC development in Hyattsville is just 10 minutes away from the County Gateway Arts & Entertainment District.

Leadfoot Rubia

The NYT reported over the weekend that Presidential candidate Marco Rubio had received four traffic tickets since 1997... cough, cough...

His wife got 13! Cough, cough.... fast rubia!

For the probably car-less New Yorkers who wrote this, cough, cough... article, and their witless editor, this apparently amounted to a story worthy of precious newsprint in the NYT. However, for someone who travels to Miami as often as I do these days, and who drives around that gorgeous city, it is clear to the most casual Captain Obvious that Miami drivers are only second worst to DMV drivers.

But it seems like a local DMV paper may have busted the NYT's source or tipper for this non-story!

And also here.

And so, in the spirit of news tips, I've got a tip for the once mighty NYT: I heard that Rubio, or maybe it was his wife, once parked temporarily in a loading zone and didn't actually load or unload anything!!

Sam Steinberg: Brooklyn outsider artist

He was an outsider who flitted at the fringes of one of the country’s most elite universities, a Brooklyn-bred, Bronx-dwelling candy peddler who charmed and enthralled generations of Columbia University students with the greeting: “Hey boys, I got paintings here!” Or, “I got those Hoishey bars.” 

From the 1930s until 1982, when he died at 85, few students passed Sam Steinberg outside the student center or the Low Library steps without buying a candy bar at least once. Those who lingered a little longer also learned about Sam’s world through his Magic Marker illustrations: the stylized celebrities (Rudolph Valentino, Elvis, Richard Nixon), the surrealist animals (hoofed cats, mermaids, potato-headed dogs), the vivid whimsies (a pair of legs in Columbia gym shorts).

Read the NYT article here.