Happy New Year - 2024

Here’s something to think about as you kick off 2024: we are all stardust. Every atom of oxygen in our lungs, of carbon in our muscles, of calcium in our bones, of iron in our blood—was created inside a star before Earth was born. Wishing everyone a happy & healthy New Year!🎇 pic.twitter.com/fjw1QaWZiN

— American Museum of Natural History (@AMNH) January 1, 2024

Happy New Year's Eve!

 

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Happy New Year's Eve 

Fireworks at Ryōgoku bridge 

Utagawa Hiroshige 

Woodblock Print on Paper

 1858 

Ashmolean Museum 

New Year’s Eve Foxfires by the Enoki tree at the Shōzoku Inari Shrine in Ōji 

 Ōji, Shōzoku Enoki Ōmisoka no kitsunebi | 王子装束ゑの木大晦日の狐火 

Series	One Hundred Famous Views of Edo | Meisho Edo hyakkei | 名所江戸百景
Artist/maker	Hiroshige Utagawa, I (1797 - 1858) (designer)
Associated people	Eikichi Uoya (mid-19th century) (publisher)
Associated place	Asia > Japan (place of creation)
Date	1857 (date of creation)
Material and technique	nishiki-e (full colour) woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation) Ashmolean Museum

Thank You! On to 2024

Leonard Cohen lifts his hat in appreciation of all of you who ventured to my studio this year and to those who engaged with my artwork online! 

Deepest thanks to my collectors, supporters, and friends who helped make 2023 memorable. Thanks to my fellow @18thstreetarts artists who worked tirelessly to make this happen - especially @rebecca.youssef_studio and @alexandradillonartist!!!! 

And deep thanks to the folks at @18thstreetarts who support us day in and day out. And thanks to the city of Santa Monica for your financial support for our events. Leonard has found a new home and I am more inspired than ever to create. 

On to 2024!

Happy New Year! 

#art #contemporaryart #santamonica #santamonicarts #LosAngeles #music

Why did Frans Hals paint monsters in his friend's portrait?

From the National Gallery in London:

"Curator Bart Cornelis explains the meaning behind a hidden monster and skull in this 17th-century portrait by Frans Hals, and how they helped to identify the sitter as Isaac Massa.

He's accompanied by one of our restorers, Paul Ackroyd, and Larry Keith, Head of Conservation and Keeper, who help reveal this painting's secrets.

🎨  Find out more about the artist Frans Hals: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/frans-hals

🎨 Book tickets now for 'The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Frans Hals'

Open 30 September 2023 – 21 January 2024

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/the-credit-suisse-exhibition-frans-hals

Hals was one of the most sought-after painters of his generation. A gifted artist whose deft brushwork was unparalleled, he built his reputation on a new style of portrait – highly unusual in his time – that showed relaxed, lively sitters, often smiling, and even laughing.

This exhibition, the first major retrospective of Hals in more than thirty years, means a new generation can discover why he deserves his place as one of the greatest painters in Western art."

 

Merry Christmas!

‘Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - into something whole.' - Louise Bourgeois, born on Christmas Day in 1911. #LouiseBourgeois, Maman, Outside Tate Modern 2008 https://bit.ly/3xN04J1

A Milwaukee Christmas!

While in Milwaukee, President Biden stopped by Rashawn Spivey’s small business. Merry Christmas delivered to my friends and family in MKE

PERFECT DAYS from Wim Wenders - Official Trailer

Hirayama is content with his simple life cleaning toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Unexpected encounters reveal more of his story in a deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the world around us.

A Film by Wim Wenders

Starring Koji Yakusho

Anselm (2023) by Wim Wenders

Hear The Painting With Remko Kühne | Almond Blossom | Music Inspired By Van Gogh

Happy Winter Solstice!

On the #WinterSolstice, we're dreaming of the first snow ❄️

🖼️: #ChildeHassam, "Charles River and Beacon Hill" (about 1892), oil on canvas pic.twitter.com/0gcHx9gnx1

— Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (@mfaboston) December 21, 2023

Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere & the first day of winter! What causes our planet’s shift in seasons? Its tilt. Today, Earth’s Northern Hemisphere is at its most-tilted away from the Sun. pic.twitter.com/cFJs2ZNGUo

— American Museum of Natural History (@AMNH) December 21, 2023

R.B. Kitaj | London to Los Angeles | Exhibition Film

In London, the Piano Nobile Gallery presents the exhibition -  R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles. This short film features interviews with Marco Livingstone, a leading specialist on Kitaj’s work; Simon Martin, Director of Pallant House Gallery; and the artist’s daughter Dominie Kitaj.

R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles is the first retrospective of the artist’s work in a decade. It provides a chronological overview of Kitaj's career, exploring the relationship between his art and the places he lived. 

The Piano Nobile Gallery explains that "Although he travelled widely, spending seasons and sometimes whole years in California, Catalonia, Paris and New York, Kitaj made London his home from 1959 – the year he entered the Royal College of Art – until 1997. For the last decade of his life, from 1997 to 2007, he lived in Los Angeles. The exhibition includes little-known early work of the fifties, the groundbreaking ‘collagist’ work of the sixties that established his reputation, and the life drawings and glowing paintings of the seventies, continuing through to Kitaj's rediscovery of painting in the eighties and his final period in Los Angeles. An accompanying publication includes original essays by Andrew Dempsey, Marco Livingstone and Colin Wiggins, in addition to extended excerpts from Kitaj’s letters to Livingstone, now held by the Tate Archive and published here for the first time."

Much more on Kitaj at: https://greggchadwick.blogspot.com/2007/10/rb-kitaj-exits.html

Gregg Chadwick
The Diasporist (Portrait of R.B. Kitaj)
30”x22” monotype on paper 2011

 

« Les animaux sont des gens comme les autres ! » | Exposition Gilles Aillaud | Centre Pompidou

Lions, giraffes, seals… Gilles Aillaud, who died in 2005, painted animals a lot, often in captivity. Asked about his choice of animals as subject matter, Gilles Aillaud replied: “because I love them”. The fragility of our relationship with living things shows the relevance of his work.

Vinciane Despret, philosopher of science, shows us four paintings by the artist, in the company of Didier Ottinger, curator of the exhibition “Gilles Aillaud. Political animal »

👉 Info: https://bit.ly/CP_ExpoAillaud

👉 Ticket office: https://bit.ly/CP_Billetterie_Aillaud

Gilles Aillaud with one of his paintings in 1995

Jeff Koons Killed Her Review

The decision by an arts journal to allow the famous artist to veto a historian’s essay about his work created “a chilling effect on the critical culture,” a journalism expert said.

Gift Link Below:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/17/arts/design/jeff-koons-brooklyn-rail-tulips-golan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G00.hR-u.zIeVAr45iyK6&smid=tw-share

From the Article:

A 1937 mural by Fernand Léger and Charlotte Perriand, titled “Essential Happiness, New Pleasures,” at Tate Liverpool in 2018. The outstretched hand with flowers reminded Romy Golan, a historian and author, of Koons’s Paris sculpture and she decided to write about the two works.Credit...Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris; Photo by Paul Ellis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Christmas With the Colonel by Yukari Sakamoto

Delighted to share my @KFC_jp #Christmas in #Japan story with @cathaypacific inflight magazine.

Ever grateful to my first #Tokyo editor Tama san who still supports me 20 years later. Arigatō. 🥰 pic.twitter.com/OzC5H32P63

— 🌾Food Sake Tokyo🍙🌻坂本ゆかり (@YukariSakamoto) December 15, 2023

 

1982: STEVEN VAN ZANDT on The Old Grey Whistle Test

Holiday Gathering and Open Studios Sunday, December 3, 2023

Gregg Chadwick
The Golden Hour - Venezia
30" x 24" oil on linen 2023 


 I am excited to invite you to my studio at the Santa Monica Airport for an afternoon of art and camaraderie.

 

Holiday Gathering and Open Studios 
Sunday, December 3, 2023 from 11 AM-3 PM
Location:
Studio #15, 18th Street Arts Center, 3026 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90405
 

 

Free to all. Feel free to invite friends and family. All ages are welcome!
Free Parking
Please register in advance:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-at-the-airport-1-year-anniversary-event-tickets-742947795857?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

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Art At The Airport is made possible by Art of Recovery, an initiative of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, https://www.santamonica.gov/programs/art-of-recovery

To learn about upcoming Art At The Airport events, visit: https://www.artattheairport.org/

Pattie Gonia - Won't Give Up (feat. Yo-Yo Ma and Quinn Christopherson)

From 

Yo-Yo Ma

@YoYo_Ma

Out today! “Won’t Give Up” with

@pattiegonia

and Quinn Christopherson (

@BucketHatQuinn

), a song reminding us not to give up on nature or each other.

Pattie Gonia, Yo-Yo Ma and Quinn Christopherson came together to write a song about not giving up on this planet and not giving up on each other. Climate justice and environmental justice are inextricably linked. How we treat this planet is how we treat each other. Produced by Grammy award-winning Producer Tyler Chester (Madison Cunningham, Blake Mills, Andrew Bird) and with performances by players violinist Paul Cartwright (Kendrick Lamar, Bright Eyes, Olivia Rodrigo) and drummer James McAllister (Taylor Swift, Ed Sheerhan, Sufjan Stevens) – the new single was created as a climate movement anthem.

Follow Pattie Gonia: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pattiegonia/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@pattiegonia TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pattiegonia Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pattiegonia/
LYRICS We’ll I’m not I’m not gonna say goodbye I won’t see you on the other side Even when I feel tired I won’t stop You & I Made up of the same things Nature running in our veins Even when I feel tired I won’t stop trying I’ve seen the sun shine before all this gray Always find light still the breaking of day I won't give up for a minute Never giving up on you Never giving up on you Well we’re caught Caught up in the fire of time How do we stay strong, stay kind? We don’t have to say goodbye Don’t say goodbye I saw you burning Up in the night I’ll always keep searching Searching for light I won't give up for a minute Never giving up on you Never giving up on you I won’t give up for a minute Never giving up on you Never giving up on you I won’t give up for a minute Never giving up on you Never giving up on you VIDEO CREDITS A Wondercamp Production Directed by: Abdul Kassamali Executive Producer: Davis Goslin Producer: Katie Graham Assistant Producer: Ellen Bradley Production Supervising: Jenny Dugan Cinematographer: Greg Balkin First AC: Ethan Scoma Photographer: William Woodward Editors: Tim Kressin, Abdul Kassamali Color: Zachary Hetlage CREATIVE CREDITS Outfits/Dress by: Lisa Jiang Wig by: Drag Daddy Wigs Boots: Xtratuf SPECIAL THANKS Native Movement Our Common Nature Jose Alvarado Zion Jackson Ben Mandelkern Sophie Shackleton Liquid Adventures The Office Performing Arts and Film SONG CREDITS Songwriters: Pattie Gonia, Quinn Christopherson, Tyson Motsenbocker, Tyler Chester Produced by: Tyler Chester Recorded by: Tyler Chester Recording assistant: Aaron Feeny Mixed by: James Krausse Mastered by: James Krausse String arrangements: Paul Cartright Yo-Yo Ma’s cello arranged by: Hrishikesh Hirway and Jesse Lewis Yo-Yo Ma’s cello recording engineers: Téa Mottolese, Carl Talbot, Christopher Moretti Yo-Yo Ma’s cello mix engineer: Kyle Pyke Vocals: Pattie Gonia, Quinn Christopherson Cello: Yo-Yo Ma Synths, Pianos, Guitars, Programming, Bass: Tyler Chester Strings: Paul Cartwright Drums: James McAllister

Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight

This short documentary film explores artist Betye Saar’s process creating "Drifting Toward Twilight," a site-specific installation at The Huntington, and her recollections of her life and career. Learn more about the exhibition at Huntington.org Directed by Kyle Provencio Reingold Digital video, 16mm film, still photographs, archival video, animation, sound. Cover Art by YAYA Studio (@yaya_studio_)

Tom Morello/Rage Against The Machine - Induction Speech Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

and...

The one and only @JimmyPage is in the building, absolutely rocking the stage with "Rumble" in tribute to 2023 Inductee @Link_Wray.
Stream #RockHall2023 NOW on @DisneyPlus! pic.twitter.com/6QgI4dBIuo

— Rock Hall (@rockhall) November 4, 2023