Andy Warhol / silver screen. Can't tell 'em apart at all => Unseen Andy

Unseen Andy - Interview Magazine:
... now the 37-unit building at 345 West 14th Street is dedicating half of its ground floor to a temporary exhibition of never-before-seen portraits of Andy Warhol, photographed by Steve Wood.

Exhibit at 345 Meatpacking (nyc), May 3-12

Andy, lost at the Deauville American Film Festival

Wood spent a free afternoon photographing the then-53-year-old—and notoriously guarded—Warhol, capturing an openness and vulnerability the artist rarely exhibited. "He seemed to be quite pleased with the way I looked at the light," Wood recalls. "I suppose I photograph people the way he himself would like to be photographed: clear and crisp with no veil.

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Symbolic alchemy greeting cards for the Winter Solstice - December 22

Mythological Beasts and see also: The Mysterious Wold of Alchemical Arts

serpent ouroboros cards by mythological_animals

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Collecting Information on Collectors (Via art market monitor)

Collecting Information on Collectors:

"“The history of collecting is so deliciously interdisciplinary,” says Inge Reist, who directs the fledgling Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Collection in New York. “It opens so many doors.” The center was established in 2007, after years of planning, “to stimulate awareness and study of the formation of fine and decorative arts collections from colonial times to the present, while asserting the relevance of this subject to art and cultural history.”"

So far, the archives directory encompasses about 5,000 collections in 500 repositories documenting the lives and activities of 1,500 American collectors. Researchers who visithttp://research.frick.org/directoryweb/home.php find, for example, that information about New York taxi tycoon Robert C. Scull and his wife, Ethel (known as “Spike”) — who collected contemporary art voraciously in the 1960s and scandalized the art world when they cashed in at auction in 1973 — is available in interviews, papers and record books at the Archives of American Art in Washington and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Last gasp petition to keep the Barnes Collection in Merion + Related stories

Stop the vandalism before its too late « Ob Populus:

"Although the art work is scheduled to be moved by 2012 [[and the new building is nearly complete -ed.]], it is not too late to stop this act of vandalism. A petition has been filed with Judge Ott (the judge made the original decision) to reconsider his earlier decision based on the new evidence that the hearing was rigged. If the judge refuses to act, then the state legislature should get involved in the matter. Funding for the new museum should be withheld and hearings held to see if laws were broken. "

Petition to keep the Barnes Collection in Merion, PA created by Albert C. Barnes

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UPDATE: Havana Film festival discount TODAY ONLY + Cuba Art Now: 21c Museum Hotel exhibit celebrates depth of island's art

Cuba Now: 21c exhibit celebrates depth of island's art | The Courier-Journal

Sarah Lyon prepares the exhibit of Cuban art at 21c Museum Hotel last month. Nearly 100 works are on view through July.

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#tattoo #Collecting museum shop in Winston/Salem, MA

The Tattoo Archive, studio honors the art of the skin | JournalNow.com

His Fourth Street storefront, The Tattoo Archive, is part museum, part studio and is without a doubt one of the coolest ways you can spend an afternoon in Downtown Winston-Salem. Whether you're covered in more ink than the carpet at Kinko's or the closest you've come to a tattoo was writing "Buy milk" on the back of your hand, you'll still appreciate Eldridge's passion for the needle-powered art form and his knowledge of the artists who have — literally — left their indelible marks on history.

The walls, shelves and hallways of his shop are covered in paintings and posters, antiques, and one-of-a-kind artifacts, but the earliest pieces of his collection are kept in a more … permanent location. "This all started with the tattoos I wear," Eldridge said. "A sailing ship was my first tattoo, when I joined the Navy."