1stAngel & Friends

A small bronze sparrow which was part of a Tracey Emin sculpture has gone missing from its home in Liverpool.

The £60,000 artwork, which features the 10cm (4in) bird on a 4m (13ft) pole, was commissioned by the BBC for the art05 festival three years ago.

The pole remains in place outside The Oratory, by the Anglican Cathedral in Upper Duke Street, but the bird vanished about two weeks ago.

Merseyside Police are investigating its disappearance.

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The Farm

A 1955 painting by LS Lowry not seen in public for more than 40 years has been sold at auction for £276,000.

The Farm, showing a pastoral scene in Lytham, Lancashire went for double its expected price at Bonhams in London.

But a second Lowry painting, The Footbridge, failed to sell at the 20th Century British Art auction.

The Manchester-based Co-Operative Financial Services (CFS) put the works up for sale to fund its programme of community art projects.

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Booth B26 at the Grand Opening of the Art-a-Fair on June 25th 2008 was packed with people wanting to see the unique wood sculptures crafted by first time International exhibitor, Rey Larreinaga, who emigrated here from Cuba less than 4 years ago. For Rey, doing business as: Afro Cuba Creations (website of the same name http://www.afrocubacreations.com )opening night was a dream come true, proving to him that America truly is the land of opportunity.

Rey’s unusual Scorpion and Lobster carvings and elegant nude torsos had conversations buzzing with excitement. Rey shared his story in his heavily accenting English; “I had no idea that I had this talent inside of Me.” He told curious art lovers.

I had no idea that I had this talent inside of Me.

In Cuba, Rey made a living selling Cigars to tourists, which is illegal and cost him a brief stay in Cuban jail in the late 1990s. After this experience, Rey went to cooking school and became a Chef in Cuba. Not once did Rey pick up a chisel in Cuba. His only “experience” in wood sculpting was watching is long-time Cuban friend carving while they discussed the trials and tribulations of living in Cuba.

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3 July-19 October 2008, Admission £5 (concs £4.50/£4), Porter Gallery
Press View: Wednesday 2 July 11am-1pm (curators’ tour at 11.30am)
Supported by Christie’s

‘The greatest portraitist of this or any other time’ Walter Sickert

Froanna (Portrait of the Artist’s Wife) by Percy Wyndham Lewis, 1937
Copyright: The Estate of Mrs G A Wyndham Lewis; The Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust

- The first exhibition to focus on the portraits of Wyndham Lewis, one of the most important modernists of the first half of the 20th century
- 58 paintings & drawings, iconic & rarely seen portraits of Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Sitwell & Woolf, texts include the cult journal ‘Blast’

An important new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, will show the striking portraits of the great British modernist artist and writer Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), bringing together for the first time a unique visual record of some of the most important cultural figures of the first half of the twentieth century.

Mr Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro by Percy Wyndham Lewis, 1921
Copyright: The Estate of Mrs G A Wyndham Lewis; The Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust

58 portraits ranging from delicate drawings to large oil paintings assembled from collections worldwide will chart Wyndham Lewis’s range and achievements as a portraitist. Among the highlights of the exhibition will be his now iconic renderings of his fellow ‘Men of 1914,’ credited with revolutionising 20th-century literature, the writers Ezra Pound, T S Eliot and James Joyce.

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I have picked a whole gallery today as I found this gentleman quite by accident just as I was off to bed and could not choose just one image!! Fantastic!

Imagekind Gallery Interesting
Copyright (C) 2008

Golden Gate Bridge



An HDR photo of the venerable Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco California. This photo was taken during a break in the first big winter storm of 2008.

Santa Barbara Sunset



The sun setting over the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara, California.

Have A Seat



A frozen bench at Jump Off Rock Trails in Hendersonivlle, North Carolina.

Dining Venice Style



A little outdoor cafe in the Jewish Ghetto area of Venice.

Blue Eclipse



The sun beginning to set behind a mountain in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada.

Capri Harbor



A view of the harbor at Marina Grande in Capri, Italy.

Lombard Street



A view of America's crookedest street.

Painting El Matador



A painter on El Matador Beach just north of Malibu, California.

Venice on Fire



A picture of a neighborhood in Venice, Italy.

St. Peter's Square - Vatican City



Wide angle view of St. Peter's Square just prior to our tour of the Vatican.

Condos



A view from the water of Brickell Avenue and the colorful condominiums that dot Biscayne Bay.

Colosseum



A view of the Roman Colosseum.

U Turn on the Grand Canal



A Gondola making a u-turn not to far from the Rialto Bridge.

Capitol at Sunset



A view of the United States Capitol as the sunset was setting.

The Piet?



The Piet? by Michelangelo in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. Michelangelo carved the Pieta from a single slab of marble in less than two years. His interpretation of the Pieta was far different than those previously created by other artists. Michelangelo decided to create a youthful, serene and celestial Virgin Mary instead of a broken hearted and somewhat older woman. According to Giorgio Vasari, shortly after the installation of his Piet? Michelangelo overheard someone remark that it was the work of another sculptor, Cristoforo Solari. Michelangelo then carved "MICHAELAGELUS BONAROTUS FLORENTIN[US] FACIEBA" on the sash running across Mary's breast. It was the only work he ever signed. He later regretted his outburst of pride and swore to never sign another work of his hands.

A Wet Fisherman's Wharf



A view of a boardwalk adjacent to Pier 39 in San Francisco on a cold and stormy night.

Golden Night



A view of the Bay Bridge on a wet and stormy night with either a comet or plane streaking across the sky.

Escape from Alcatraz 2



The No. 19 cable car with Alcatraz in the background.

Lombard Street

Miami Marina



A marina near Coconut Grove.

Murano



"bell tower" boat brick canal clouds color factory glass "glass blowing" "glass factory" gondola italy megashot murano "murano glass" pastel rain storm taxi tower venetian "Venetian Glass" venezia venice water watertaxi

Rush Hour



"Rush Hour" on the 101 Freeway on a Sunday night.

New York, New York

Murano Drive-by

Amateur dramatic group, The Pantiles Players, will present Shakespeare’s ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ in the charming walled courtyard of Runcie Court at Salomons.

The play is believed by many scholars to be Shakespeare’s first play and expresses themes that are revisited in his later plays. The over-riding theme of the play is love and focuses on the relationship of two childhood friends, Valentine and Proteus (the two gentlemen of the title) and that between Valentine and Silvia and Proteus and Julia.

The Pantiles Players is an amateur dramatic group originally formed in 1942 to provide local wartime entertainment. They were first invited to play on the Pantiles bandstand in 1983 and have performed a play, usually Shakespeare, there every year since. [Read more →]