Category: New York

Slumped against the pillows

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Feeling

…Exhausted…
…Bored…
…Don’t mind me, go ahead…
…Melancholy…
…Wake me up the day after the day after…
…Mellow and relaxed…
…Waisted…
…Pretty fucked up…
…Peaceful…
…Alone, together at last…
…Too old for this…
…Happy, tired and excited… (as seen through the humorous eye of Gil. You can check Gil’s funny, happy, tired and excited cartoons on his blog les dessins d’humeur de gil).
……..
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I am the female version of this man, if only for a few minutes on any given day. Except bored – I’m never bored. And haven’t had a hangover in a long-long time.
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Rudolf Singel

Untitled (After Sam), 2005-6
Oil on canvas

The Whitney Museum of American Art

September 10th, 2016

New Yorkers I

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Howard Kanovitz
New Yorkers I, 1965
Acrylic, graphite pencil, fabricated chalk on linen

This painting depicts composer Richard Rodgers who, together with Oscar Hammerstein, co-wrote such legendary Broadway musicals as Oklahoma!, South Pacific and the Sound of Music. Howard Kanovitz based the painting on a newspaper photograph because he was impressed by its low definition quality which suggested an isolation of the figures from their environment. It was the same quality that made me want to capture the detail on the first photo above.

September 10th, 2016 at The Whitney

Ethel Scull 36 Times

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Love him or hate him, Andy Warhol is one of the most important pop icons of the twentieth century, his art still gaining both in popularity and value. I’m on the side of the haters to be honest, but that doesn’t prevent me from admiring some of his works, like the Screen Tests or this screenprint of Ethel Scull which I audaciously borrowed for my blog profile pic.

”Ethel Scull 36 Times” was one of Warhol’s first commissioned portraits for which he escorted Ethel Scull, a patron and collector of modern art, to a Photomat in Times Square. There, under his direction, they took more than a hundred photos with Ms Scull posing with or without sunglasses, making serious or playful faces; in short having some silly fun. Warhol chose 36 of these poses and here is the end result. What attracts me most about it, is this personification of joie de vivre with a certain je ne sais quoi, emanated from every pose.

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Andy Warhol
Ethel Scull 36 Times, 1963
Acrylic and screenprint on canvas

The Whitney Museum of American Art

September 10th, 2016

3 | 2 | 1 – START

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2016 ~ Α year in pictures. From Brussels to New York.

Nova Cinema Brussels
Kaaitheater Brussels
Autoworld Brussels
Antwerp ~ playing with infinity
Art Nouveau ”triangle” Antwerp
Day after Zaventem airport and Maelbeek Metro station bombings – Brussels
Bristol, U.K.
Bath, U.K.
Doctor Who Experience, Cardiff
Doctor Who Experience, Cardiff
Garrick Theater, London
Alice in Wonderland, London
Stocklet Brussels
Ouziel Quarter, Thessaloniki
Rotonta, Thessaloniki
Alexandre Iolas, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Accidentally Rothko, wall in Athens’ old town of Plaka
Brussel’s Botanical Garden in Meise
Herakleion, Crete
Lake Kournas, Crete
Vrytomartis Resort, Crete
Chania, Crete
Eratyra, Greece
Nature’s goodies in Eratyra, Greece
Kavala, Greece
Square Ambiorix, Brussels
European Quarter, Brussels
Cité Administrative, Brussels
Broadway, New York
Brooklyn Bridge, New York
Society of Illustrators, New York
Back Room, New York
Rainbow Room, New York
Midtwon New York views
Back Room, New York

HAPPY NEW YEAR YOU ALL!
Stay healthy, live in peace, be cool and keep smiling – because smiling is contagious.

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Duck Santa

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Still waiting for Santa?… I hear you ask, with a bit of eye-rolling in the background.
Well, yes you do, if you’re a Greek kid. For in my country of birth, Santa – or Saint Basil (Agios Vassilios – ‘Αγιος Βασίλειος) to be precise – comes all the way from Caesarea in Asia Minor to bring gifts to the children on December 31st. That’s because the Greek Orthodox Church honours the memory of the kind Saint who was always on the side of the needy aiding the poor,  on January 1st. And every Greek family serves vasilopita, a round brioche-like cake with a coin inside. The cake is then swirled around before cutting it in equal pieces for everyone present, not forgetting those living in the family’s memories, the church and, of course, Saint Basil.

Tradition has it that who finds the coin is blessed with good luck the whole year round.

You see my friends, all good things to those who wait…

Quack Quack Quack! Ho Ho Ho!
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December 31st, 2016

There can be no X-mas W-out Doctor Who

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And the fact that the Doctor landed in New York and joined forces with a brand new superhero in his effort to save Manhattan, made the story all the more poignant.

Also, ”The Return of Doctor Mysterio” marked the return of the universe’s most resilient Doctor on the screens after a full year’s absence, and got us Capaldi-deprived Whovians even more excited about his – eagerly awaited – next adventure.wp20161229_190124 wp20161229_190125

Viewed on a big screen in AMC Empire 25. Edited to include a link to the current wpc.

December 29th, 2016

Marilyn Pursued

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Marilyn Pursued by Death, 1963
Rosalyn Dexler
Acrylic and paper collage on canvas

From the accompanying caption: [… On the day this source photograph was taken in 1956, Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller were to announce their upcoming marriage; in the frenzy to cover the event, a car carrying reporters crashed, killing at least one member of the press. Drexler’s painting is an eerie evocation on the sometimes tragic results of our society’s insatiable desire for celebrity news.]

The Whitney Museum of American Art

September 10th, 2016