Matisse and Bellows at the Met

These shows are no photo shows.

Matisse is very good. The galleries a bit dowdy and dark for Matisse. His lesson beside the Picasso B/W show is the play beside his B/W drawings and color paintings, then combining them. I really like the Verve drawings.

Wallace Stevens through Keats says, "Death is the mother of beauty." I see the B/W as sparking the color up, different artists react differently to this phenomena.

Bellows comes out of Henri and Manet. He died young and would have changed the face of American Art I believe. My friend Paul Georges owes a lot to him.

The only picture I have is this as it is like a Homer where the theory of ocean painting is taken apart and delivered raw.

The portraits are great also.

Sorry you have to go see for yourself.

Metropolitan Museum, Japanese Art

Japanese Art at Met.

Sunday Uptown at the Museums

National Academy looking good with John Cage and Women's Self Portraits and a hanging, Salon Style of diploma paintings. These are paintings by artists given at induction to Academy.

A nice hanging of John Cage paintings. I couldn't get a nicer photograph. 

Salon Style on grey walls looks great.

New ceiling with Academician names.

Freilicher painting, in the Woman Artist's portraits show, also one by Louisa Matthiasdottir.

Picasso B/W

International Folk Art Museum

in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie

Newly acquired Botts paintings.

Dan Christensen and Bill Pettet

Ronnie Landfield

George Ohr Museum

Been her 3 or 4 times.

A Biloxi business man is crazy enough to add his name to George Ohrs and call it

Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art

It has to be one of the most beautiful Museums but as Ghery has ended control one see the local mishaps as in the degraded graphic design. The above poster really great-- then the graphics re designed by I guess a local concern? As in the sign out front-- Ouch.