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Memory lane: the visionary filmmaker, painter, and musician discusses his remarkable life and career on the occasion of a retrospective of restored films at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures ....
(RNS) Artist Pamela Colman-Smith dismissed it as ‘a big job for very little cash.’ Now the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck is her legacy and has brought her renewed recognition. ....
Since the US government has largely abdicated control, payment processors are the de facto censors of the Internet. If they don’t approve of your business, it can be nearly impossible to make money, no matter how great your idea is. ....
As a teenager I would often mistake Alexander Calder’s work for that of Joan Miró and sometimes even Picasso. Bold, playful and abstract, the sculpture of these three art giants appeared interchangeable. Visits to Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona and Musée Picasso in Paris only seemed to confirm Calder’s European influences, even though the darker elements at play in their work seemed absent from his own. Being introduced to the wire lion tamers and acrobats in his “Cirque Calder” several years ago in the lobby of New York City’s Whitney Museum, at that time in Marcel Breuer’s brutalist edifice, reinforced that European connection. It also reminded me of another: Calder’s enormous, red “Flamingo” in front of Mies Van der Rhoe’s Kluczynski Federal Building in Chicago. ....
Grant Wood Revealed: Cedar Rapids exhibition shows versatility of state s most famous artist “The Coil Welder,” 1925, oil on canvas, 25 5/8 inches by 29 3/4 inches, is part of Grant Wood’s J.G. Cherry Series, “which I don’t think we’ve had completely up in years,” said Kate Kunau, associate curator at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. The paintings were created to display at trade shows, and were a gift to the museum from the Cherry Burrell Charitable Foundation. (Courtesy of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art) A centerpiece of the “Grant Wood Revealed” exhibition at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art is “Corn Cob Chandelier,” 1925-1926, made of copper, iron and paint, a gift of John B. Turner II to the museum. Designed by Grant Wood and forged by George Keeler, the work measures 94 inches by 32 inches by 42 inches. The chandelier was created for the now-demolished Montrose Hotel in downtown Cedar Rapids. (Photo courtesy of Cedar Rapids Museum of Art) ....