Speed of Life

Gregg Chadwick  ‏ @ greggchadwick     1m 1 minute ago Sant a Monica, CA Happy birthday J.M.W. Turner! # Turner # PaintingSetFree Currently @ GettyMuseum http://www. getty.edu/mobile/ gettygu ide /center/exhibitions/turner/artifacts/248344_2111.html   … More Thoughts to Follow...

Gregg Chadwick  ‏ @ greggchadwick     3m 3 minutes ago Sant a Monica, CA Google Doodle celebrates 140th birthday of Japanese artist Shoen Uemura 1875-1949 http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uemura_Sh %C5%8Den   …

by Gregg Chadwick Turn the nightly news on today, or scan the latest headlines on your iPhone, and it would seem that the world grows uglier each day. Eleven years ago,  I wrote  about my search for images of peace. I  hearken  back to those thoughts prompted by a memory  of a time in Perth, Australia  reading  an art review concerning an exhibition about non-violence. The title of the review was "How do you paint peace?" Prompted by these ongoing concerns, I have been creating a new series of paintings using ideas of New Urbanism - Los Angeles in particular with peace as a subtext. What the amazing writer, actor, and teacher Claudette Sutherland, in my studio yesterday evening, called "Love Songs to the City."  Gregg Chadwick Third L.A. (for Christopher Hawthorne) 30"x24" oil on linen 2015 Three books published in the last few years should be on every peacemaker's bookshelf: Steven Pinker's  The Better Angels of Our N...

by Gregg Chadwick Julia Elliott's new novel,  The New and Improved Romie Futch , takes us on a Southern adventure that seems inspired by the absurdly picaresque world of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces , the cyber/ historic cosmography of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas,  the dangerous science of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , the obsessive hunt of Herman Melville's  Moby Dick , and the eerily foreboding scape of Don De Lillo's White Noise, blended with the environmental warning of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, all played to a soundtrack by the pioneering electronica musician Delia Derbyshire.  Romie Futch lives in an alternative yet still contemporary South Carolina, where hipsters seem to have swarmed South from Brooklyn and East from Portland to mingle and clash with characters that still haven't moved far from their High School glory days. Romie Futch is one of these down at the heels locals.  Romie's ex-wife haunts his d...

Curator Guillaume Kientz on Velazquez at the Grand Palais @ GrandPalaisRmn : http:// bit.ly/1GVUwh7  

Gregg Chadwick  ‏ @ greggchadwick     14s 15 seconds ago Sant a Monica, CA Sad News Upon Sad News: German Artist Juliane Noack Died in Germanwings Crash - artnet News https:// news.artnet.com/in-brief/artis t-juliane-noack-died-in-germanwings-crash-288026   … ?

Gregg Chadwick  ‏ @ greggchadwick     13s 14 seconds ago Sant a Monica, CA Imelda Marcos Bought LACMA’s “Goya” Los Angeles County Museum on Fire http:// ARTINFO.com   http:// blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/201 5/04/15/imelda-marcos-bought-lacmas-goya/   …

Musée du Louvre  ‏ @ MuseeLouvre     3m 3 minutes ago # Onthisday in 1452 was born # LeonardoDaVinci . Admire "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" : http:// bit.ly/1NHx8YD  

And now for the big reveal . . . introducing Fragonard’s “Portrait of a Woman with a Book” (simulation)! Our researchers were able to establish that “Portrait of a Woman with a Book” existed as a “complete” painting for at least six months before it was changed into “Young Girl Reading.” The composition once showed a woman with her head turned outwards, looking at the spectator. She wore a large feathered headdress dotted with colored beads, a thinner neck ruffle than in the subsequent painting, and she was illuminated by a frontal light source. An amorphous folding shape in the background behind her was suggested to be a curtain on the basis of precedents in 17th- and 18th-century French portraiture. Read the full story of how we came to this discovery: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/press/2015/fragonard.html This simulation, generated by cross-referencing various imaging techniques, was created by Gallery staffers Becca Goodman and Denis Doorly. Stay tuned as our three d...

by Gregg Chadwick Today is Slow Art Day at galleries and museums across the globe. The idea behind Slow Art Day is simple. In our hurried lives, we rarely take time to look deeply at anything - whether it is our lover's eyes, our child's smile, or the new leaves on the tree outside our window. Slow Art Day helps us stop and look. The technique is quite easy, but can lead to deep insight.  First, visit one of the galleries or museums listed on  the  Slow Art Day site . (Deep appreciation to the Slow Art Day site  for the comprehensive guide.) Second, while at the art venue, look at five works deeply and slowly.  Third, after viewing the work meet up with other participants and the volunteer host for a bite to eat and a time to discuss what you saw and how it made you feel. Most of all - breathe and enjoy! The 2010  ARTNews  article,  Slow Down You Look Too Fast , provides a nice overview of Slow ...

by Gregg Chadwick photo by White House photographer Pete Souza of President Obama and rainbow  April 9, 2015 in Jamaica Today the White House released an historic video on its YouTube channel calling for a ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ individuals. I am heartened by this important development that follows up on President Barack Obama's support for a ban on all forms of so-called "conversion" therapy for minors, also known as "reparative" or "ex-gay" therapy. These efforts by the White House to lovingly support LGBTQ folks are game changing. The White House provides a clear statement of intent on their video page: "The overwhelming scientific evidence demonstrates that conversion therapy, especially when it is practiced on young people, is neither medically nor ethically appropriate and can cause substantial harm. As part of our dedication to protecting America’s youth, the Obama administration supports efforts to ban the use ...