As more people select high-rise living in cities across the country, they are facing the tremendous challenge of how to get lighting where they want it, when the construction is primarily concrete. Often they are given a few junction boxes from which to draw power for their lighting needs. Sometimes they don’t even have that. more
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High Tech Lighting Solutions for High Rise Living
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Can We Say, ‘Primitive’?
Prehistoric Altamira cave paintings, France In the 1990s, I recall watching Sister Wendy Beckett, the reluctant celebrity spokesperson for a popular PBS series on art appreciation. This sequestered nun, who for decades had lived under a vow of silence, had gained notoriety for her views on famous works of art and now stood in her more
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Haitian Relief Effort- A Special Request
Our minds become numb and our eyes glaze over as the harsh reality of yet another natural tragedy in the world enters the corner of our visual field. Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, has once again been devastated by disaster. Having the misfortune to be built over one the many tectonic faults more
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Pinta Latin American Modern & Contemporary Art Fair, 2009, Scores Big Success
Three years ago the newly hatched, Pinta Latin American Modern & Contemporary Art Fair, jumped bravely into the ever-growing, melange of art fairs and biennales. Opening at the Metropolitan Pavilion/Altman Building in New York City, “The fair’s primary aim”, according to its director, Diego Costa Peuser, was “to bring Latin American art to the world.” more
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Recent Paintings by Connecticut Artist, Lenny Moskowitz, Currently on View
The seaside village of Stony Creek, Connecticut lays under a blanket of white. The January wind whips up a dusting of confection, frosting any figure or form that stands its ground in defiance of the cold with sweet, but merciless, revenge. The Willoughby Wallace Library Art Gallery sits close by the harbor road and tonight, more
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Diane Dewey Offers Key Points on Art Valuation
Recently, Diane Dewey, Contributing Editor for ARTES e-Magazine gave a presentation in which she described to the audience what she, as an appraiser, looks for when evaluating a work of art. These factors, that give value to art, are one aspect of the appreciation of an artwork. “When a work speaks to us we should more
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Chinese Contemporary Art is Symbolic of a Changing Market
Ancient pictographs depict China as the Land of the Middle Kingdom, suspended half way between heaven and earth and blessed by splendid isolation from the rest of the world. In this century, this sprawling nation of 1.3 billion sits squarely in the real world, striving to find a place and a voice in a vast more
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Opinion Poll: Contemporary Art and the Revelation of Meaning
E.H. Gombrich’s, The Story of Art, famously begins with the thought that, “There is really no such thing as Art. There are only artists.” Contemporary art has indeed fulfilled Gombrich’s prescience and insight with a somewhat sorrowful consequence, probably unforeseen when first published in 1950. The past half century has birthed an art in which more
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Robert Damora- Architect and Photographer: A Life Remembered
November 10, 2008 In this, the last interview Robert Damora gave before his death in March, 2009, I explore his work as an architectural photographer and learn more about his commitment to his craft. Honed by training at Yale and his unfailing attention to the minutest detail, Damora was once described by architect, Walter Gropius more
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Guggenheim Museum Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Kandinsky Retrospective
If you think you know Kandinsky’s work, look again! The current retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Kandinsky(through January 13, 2010), is an eye-opener. Best known for his early, Blue Rider period works, this handful of images has come to serve as art-historical shorthand for a lifetime of artistic evolution. more