Musings: a visit to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian – New York Most of my art and museum travelogues take place less than a day’s drive outside of New York City. However, as we enter the month of Thanksgiving, I thought, “Why not stay close to home and draw attention to the Smithsonian Institution’s National…
The James A. Michener Museum in Bucks County, Pennsylvania The James A. Michener Art Museum, located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, is a scant two-hour drive from mid-town Manhattan on a morning without heavy traffic (https://www.michenerartmuseum.org/). You can shoot over to Newark, pick up Interstate 78 and mosey your way over to Route 202 to get there via the local scenic…
A Day in the Berkshires: The Berkshire Botanical Gardens, Schantz Gallery, & the Frelinghuysen Morris House It doesn’t take much to convince me to take a day trip up to the Berkshires. Several friends of ours have retired in these lovely gentle highlands of Western Massachusetts. Technically, the Berkshires are a southern extension of the Green Mountain range of…
Every now and then, I look forward to getting out of the “Big Apple” for a short overnight trip or weekend excursion. Any drive less than two and half hours from Queens, New York sets the parameters for exploring new and interesting destinations. The choice for this Veteran’s Day weekend was Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia is affectionately known as the…
By Andrew Buck, Ed.D. Background When I was an undergraduate student over 35 years ago, the artwork of Suzanne Helmuth and Jock Reynolds caught my eye. They were a west coast Bay area artistic duo working on a project of photographic juxtapositions. They cropped and placed found historical images adjacent to one another creating atypical juxtapositions. This created visual…
I doubt social media platforms could trademark the line “make new friends, but keep the old” but, in a nutshell, that’s about what they do. Sometimes, it is nice to stay in touch, especially when you have a positive history to share. For example, on Linked-In I noticed an announcement for the Jenkins Johnson Gallery exhibit “Dialogues in Drawing”…
Preface: Liner Notes originally appeared on the cover of record albums to tell the story of the band and the genesis of the recorded music. Liner Notes in this context is used to denote samplings of the artist’s creative, fluid thought process. ____________ Artists occupy a space between what is and what could be. While artists may be stereotyped…
Preface: Liner Notes originally appeared on the cover of record albums to tell the story of the band and the genesis of the recorded music. Liner Notes in this context is used to denote samplings of the artist’s creative, fluid thought process. ____________ Featured Ceramic Artist: Noriko Kuresumi I was truly taken by Ms. Kuresumi’s ceramic artwork which I saw initially at the…
Preface: Liner Notes originally appeared on the cover of record albums to tell the story of the band and the genesis of the recorded music. Liner Notes in this context is used to denote samplings of the artist’s creative, fluid thought process. ____________ “Philosophers find meaning in the spaces of words. Ceramic artists find meaning in the hollows of…
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