Art Stuff Newsletter

the art newsletter about YOU....

OK, let's dive right into the web sites. If you haven't shared your web site with the rest of us send it to me and I guarantee it will be in the next newsletter. After years if highlighting your web sites I think I must have covered just about everyone. I say this because there are fewer and fewer submissions. So now is the time to act. This is not a juried submission. Just send me a link to your site and it'll be seen by over 3000 of your closest friends!

Before getting into the web sites I wanted to invite those of you within shouting distance to come to my opening at Pleiades Gallery Thursday, November 5, 5 - 8 PM. Pleiades is at 530 West 25th street on the 4th floor. Come say hi and share a glass of wine.

Web Sites

See the fine arts and crafts - and thoughts, of Canadian artist Liz Campbell.

San Diego artist Judith D'Agostino is getting her lovely web site together but if you click on "Just Off The Easel" you can see her work. Nice dog too.

New York City artist Judith S. Miller has a whole series of paintings of water reflections on the streets of New York.

Check out the inspiring landscapes of of New South Wales, Australia artist Neville Connor.

I'm including the web sites in memory of two artists who meant a lot to me. Charles Sovek and Gale Bennett.

Quang Ho is a special guy. He teaches at the Art Students League of Denver - the school I founded.

Here's the exciting work of NYC artist Carleen Sheehan, whom I met at the local dog run.

Miscellaneous

Don't forget that the San Miguel de Allende workshop with Timothy Horn is starting to fill. Don't delay! San Miguel is one of the most painter-friendly villages ever. The hotel is great, the food is outstanding, the art scene is vibrant and the painting subject matter is special.

Bordeaux was fantastic! Much prettier than I expected. What an incredible job mayor Alain Juppé and others did on turning this city into a mini-Paris but so much more pedestrian friendly. Here is the link to the slide show of our workshop - just returned a few weeks ago. Go to the link listed and watch it as a slide show- first choice near top left of page.Thanks to Nancy M. for putting together this slide show.

Here's a new web site (well, new to me anyway) that can help you choose the travel and trip insurance that best meets your needs. They're called QuoteWright.

Oh this is interesting... for what it's worth. The Art Review has what they call the 2009 edition of the Power 100. It purports to be a list of the 100 most powerful and influential people in the art world. Here's a link to that. Let me know if you see your name there.

The New York Times had an op ed piece called "Has Conceptual Art Jumped the Shark Tank?" Interesting if a little overly intellectual piece of writing. Read it here.

A really fabulous video/audio of David Hockney.This is a NY Times link so they might ask you to sign in but I believe that once you do they never ask you again.

Another site, this one is a link to the work of Alice Neel. Near the end of her life she received some tremendous recognition and during that long life was never fashionable or in step with avant-garde movements. These two links were sent to me by friend and dog owner Andrea D.

ArtFrames.com is giving a 10% discount on their frames for anyone coming from this newsletter and entering the code Phil-1. It's kinda like saying: "Phil sent me".

artist quotes

"If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh, I wouldn't want anyone killed. I'd be satisfied with just a little buckshot to begin with." -Degas

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance"... Aristotle

"Sometimes we have to descend into our personal darkness, root around in there a while, then come back up - with the help of grace, into the light again!"....Anonymous

"You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint"..... Francis Bacon

"They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things"... Constantin Brancusi

"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it".....Salvador Dali

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