Mike Leavitt's Outrageous Art Star Action Figures

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Giacometti and the Etruscans

Giacometti's "Tall Standing Woman I"

"The Shadow of the Evening," an Etruscan statue from approximately 350-300 B.C."

"Showing Alberto Giacometti's best-known works — "Walking Man," "Tall Standing Woman," and the "Woman of Venice" series — alongside the art of an ancient culture dating to 900 B.C. comes as a bit of a curatorial surprise. But that is just what the Pinacothèque is doing, in "Giacometti and the Etruscans," a new show of 30 sculptures by the Swiss artist and over 150 Etruscan objects that runs through January 8.
One work in particular provides an essential link between the ancient civilization and the modern existentialist work of Giacometti: "The Shadow of the Evening," a small bronze statue that probably dates to the Hellenistic period and depicts a very young man with a slender, elongated body, as if stretched upwards to the divine. It's an enigmatic figure — does it represent an offering, a person making an offering, or a god? The resemblance between this thin, intense, and fragile figure from so long ago and Giacometti's "Walking Man" is incredibly striking."

"Giacometti saw the statue in Tuscany in the early 1960s and was fascinated by it — an interest that began when he visited an exhibition of Etruscan art at the Louvre in 1955. The exhibition includes notes that Giacometti took on the Louvre show — scribbling on the catalogue, covering it with little sketches, and scattering drawings of warriors on the map of Etruria. Could Giacometti have found some kind of ideal synthesis of humanity in this stripped-down, emaciated figure and the smiling, voluptuous bodies on the Etruscan tombs?"

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Snakes Know It's Yoga - tNathalie Djurberg

The awesomely art of Nathalie Djurberg







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Duet III - A Pair of Art Trip Paintings

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Duet III - Acrylic on Watercolot paper - 17 x 23 each - $100 each - arttrip@live.com

Famous Artists as Nude Models in Body Paint

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Duet II - A Pair of Art Trip Paintings

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Duet II ~ Acrylic on watercolor paper - 15 x 20 and 16 x 20 inches - $150 each - arttrip@live.com

Muses and Mistresses In Art History

"Alice Ernestine Prin, nicknamed Queen of Montparnasse, and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, became a nude model for sculptors when she was 14, posing for Alexander Calder and Jean Cocteau. She was the longtime mistress and muse of surrealist photographer Man Ray. Ernest Hemingway provided an introduction to her autobiography. Her defiant and sultry attitude helped define femininity in the 1920's. In hard times, she was reported to have said: "all I need is an onion, a bit of bread, and a bottle of red [wine]; and I will always find somebody to offer me that."

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Duet I - Paintings of Art Trip

Duet I ~ Acrylic on watercolor paper - 15 x 20 inches each - $125 each - arttrip@live.com

Groundbreaking Views of America

Car Hops, Early Drive in Restaurant, Hollywood, California, 1935
John Gutmann (American, 1905–1998)

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Ravi Coltrane at Black Rock

Always good to be able to hear awesome jazz a few minutes from home. Ravi was tearing it up with:

Dave Gilmore - Guitar
Massimo Biolcati - Bass
EJ Strickland - Drums





A clip from a way early gig with Ravi and his mom Alice. Jazz royalty for sure!


And how he sounds today...from Newport 2011


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Ravi Coltrane is the son of the legendary tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and jazz pianist Alice Coltrane. He is also cousin to experimental music producer Steven Ellison aka Flying Lotus. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, and was named after sitar player Ravi Shankar.

Ravi was two years old in 1967 when his father John Coltrane died. In 1986, he studied music, focusing on the saxophone at the California Institute of the Arts. Ravi has worked extensively with M-Base guru Steve Coleman, a significant influence on Ravi's own musical conception. Coltrane has played with Geri Allen, Kenny Barron, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, Stanley Clarke, Branford Marsalis and others.

In 1997, after performing on over thirty recordings as a sideman, Ravi entered the studio to record his first album as leader Moving Pictures, working with drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts, bassist Lonnie Plaxico and pianist Michael Cain. This led to extensive touring with his working featuring Andy Milne on piano, drummer Steve Hass, and bassist Lonnie Plaxico. His second disc, From the Round Box (2000), finds Coltrane in the company of pianist Geri Allen, trumpeter Ralph Alessi, bassist James Genus, and drummer Eric Harland. Followed by Mad 6 (2002) his first release for Sony music, featuring drummer Steve Hass, pianist George Colligan, and bassist James Genus and In Flux (2005) he has been working with bassist Drew Gress, pianist Luis Perdomo, and drummer E.J. Strickland.

My Three-Way Incident - An Art Trip Painting

My Three-Way Incident ~ Acrylic on Canvas - 24 x 36 inches - $500 - arttrip@live.com

My Three-Way Incident ~ Detail


My Three-Way Incident ~ Detail

Emotional Dimensionality and Departure - An Art Trip Painting

Emotional Dimensionality and Departure - An Art Trip Painting ~ 22 X 28 inches - Acrylic on watercolor paper - $200 - arttrip@live.com

Grace Kelly at the Rosslyn Jazz Festival

Went down to the Rosslyn Jazz Fest to catch Grace Kelly, the hot, wailing, 19 year old alto sax player that has strains of Bird...It's interesting to find her doing classic jazz and surprised that she is trying to 'pop' her music with a tune that she sang that sounded like a country song.





Not from the Rosslyn Jazz Festival, but this is her band and what they sound like.

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) VII

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) VII ~ Pastel and Acrylic on watercolor paper - 18 x 24 inches - $150 inches - arttrip@live.com

The apartment via Google maps...

Five paintings from the Museum of American Art

George Inness




Edward Hopper



Grace Hartigan



Wayne Thiebaud

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) VI

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) VI ~ Acrylic on watercolor paper - 24 x 24 inches - $200 - arttrip@live.com

The apartment via Google maps...

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) V

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) V - Acrylic on watercolor paper - 18 x 24 inches - $200 - arttrip@live.com - more paintings