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Sir Richard Sheridan Patrick Michael Aloysius Franklin Bowling OBE RA, known as Frank Bowling,(b. 1934), ca 1969 New York, British artist, born in Guyana, working in New York and London So, knowing almost nothing about artist Frank Bowling, I went to the large current SFMOMA exhibition of his 1966-1975 New York paintings*. These were the famous ‘Ab Ex”...

Maybe because I still type on her iphone with one finger, I’m not a fan of video art.  But I am a fan of poetry, humor, brilliant insight, stillness, quiet and such so I Loved TV Buddha by the “Father of Video Art” Nam June Paik. To stay au current for herself and art tour clients, I went reluctantly to SFMOMA’s huge retrospective...

Maybe because I still need to type onto my iphone carefully with one finger, I’m not a particular fan of video art.  But I am a fan of poetry, humor, brilliant insight, stillness, quiet and such so I Loved TV Buddha by the “Father of Video Art,” Nam June Paik (1932-2006). To stay au current for myself and art tour clients, I went reluctantly...

Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen, Corridor Pin Blue, 1999, stainless steel, aluminum and glazed acrylic enamel  (de Young Museum, San Francisco) So, I was reading about outdoor sculpture gardens and some of their lovely, harmonious artistic offerings to nature.  Then I thought of our local de Young Museum’s sculpture garden which is just off...

Here it is a little closer:  It’s at the highest point of the Church of Sant’Ignazio in Rome, near the Pantheon.  And….it isn’t a dome at all. Ie, the ceiling up there is flat. Backtracking a bit, I was thinking about those high church ceilings and wondering how artists got up there to decorate them. Many of us, particularly those who...

Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821-1872), Landscape with Rainbow, 1859, 30 x 52.25″, oil on canvas I didn’t catch this pastoral landscape on WSJ Live on Inauguration Day, but perhaps some of you watching on television did.  It had been selected by Jill Biden from the Smithsonian Collection to be on prominent display in the U.S. Capital during the...