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Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation is the worlds largest privately owned collection of art available to the public. They also have internships! There’s so much cool stuff on this site I really want to go to it. It’s in Florida!

I’m just gonna post some of the cool art that I found on there because woah!!

The second line is from the “New Shamans” collection. Artists and names of work from left to right;  Martyrdom - Thiago Martins de Melo; the middle image was just on the header but I love it; assume vivid astro focus - Eli Sudbrack

Third Row, from High Anxiety: New Acquisitions. Artists/work:  Gibbet Island and Lewis Smith at Black Watch Pass - Cy Gavin; Cost of Living - Josh Kline

There’s so much happening I love this place!!

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Sonia Gomes

Tantas Estórias, 2015 thread, fabric and rope

Rubell Family Collection

Right off the bat, I know what you’re thinking. “Wait I don’t speak Spanish, what does that title mean?” Ok well it’s actually in Portuguese, so shame on you for assuming that just because there’s an accent it’s Spanish. But if you must know, the title translates to “Many Stories”

I love a good title, and this one takes the cake. It’s a weighty title, with cultural significance. It sets the tone well for the piece, which is itself not one story necessarily, but many. 

This piece has an obvious focal point, so that seems like a good place to start. It’s the two eyes near the middle, and the only part of Gomes’ piece that indulges in color. If we were to interpret this work as that of a face, then these eyes would be weighty, and watching. And how does it make you feel, to be watched by a story? It makes me feel a touch uneasy to be honest. Like the piece expects me to show it something, like I’m supposed to be the art being interpreted.

That was a bit of a tangent, more to the point, I think Gomes wants us to see a face, but I also think she wants us to see roads, and cracks in a well-floured slab of bread dough, and all sorts of things. That’s what’s wonderful about operating in the realm of abstraction that Gomes does, it invites our brain to have a field day trying to interpret the abstract entity as a concrete shape. It’s much more interesting than just making a portrait.

I don’t have much else to say in terms of interpretation, I get the feeling that Gomes’ process was one of feeling and expression rather than blatant conceptualism. I will say though, that I heavily jive with her choice of medium. She works almost exclusively with found or gifted threads, fabrics, and cloths. So it’s a guarantee that each piece of material comes with a story. Comes is like a painter, working with precious dyes, each blessed by a priest, it’s almost impossible not for her to make something enchanting with all that magic. Furthermore, while her chosen media certainly offers coherency, each rope and string is bound to be different and offer a new flavor to the piece, like the imperfect skin mosaic of the human face.

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http://www.soumaya.com.mx/index.php/esp

As a long time Tracfone user, I was fascinated to discover Carlos Slim’s art collection, now the basis for his private museum.  Telecommunications mogul and richest man in the world Slim appears to run his collection as he does his businesses, saving and stretching out dollars.  Just as Tracfones are a good deal for those on a budget, Slim seems to be concerned with amassing budget woks from great names, such as cheaper, lesser known works from Van Gogh and Degas, kind of like “deep cuts” in the music world.  Critics have focused on how he could afford much better pieces and to contribute more to the art world.  At least his museum, the Soumaya Museo linked above, is free and open to the public, which gets more people out and appreciating artwork than perhaps there would be otherwise.  

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First I click on the Crystal Bridges link. I was immediately drawn to the “Nature” tab. From there I found the different trails they have. Some of which include: Art Trail, Crystal Spring Trail and Crystal Bridges Trail. Since the website didn’t give very much information on each trail, I googled the Crystal Spring Trail and found beautiful pictures of green tree, pink flowers, tiny bridges, and short waterfalls. The path looked like it was very well-kept and mostly flat apart from a few stairs. It doesn’t look like something you could ride your bike on, but I think the walk would be pretty easy. According to the official website, it is only 1/3 of a mile, which is disappointing. But at least it would allow a lot of time to go on all the other trails. I suppose it is more about what you get to see, and less about exercise. Another link I looked at was Pier 24. It describes itself simply as “a place to view and think about photography.” Although it is a cool little building right under a bridge, and sitting on the water, the inside looks a little plain and boring to me. Therefore, I googled reviews for the place and was pleasantly surprised to find that most people gave it 4-5 stars. Many said it had plenty of art pieces and some said the staff was very knowledgeable and friendly. I kind of want to go now- even though it is all the way in San Francisco.

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I found a lot of very interesting art with my foray into the collection at Marciano Art Foundation. Much of this collection consists of contemporary art, which for me is a genre that is very hit-or-miss. As is typical of much contemporary art, many of the works featured here are conceptual in nature. This doesn’t mean that these works can’t stand alone as pieces of visual art, but rather that the concept behind these works serves to add more depth to the art.

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Image from Doug Rickard’s website.

I stumbled upon Doug Rickard’s project A New American Picture after looking through Pier 24′s videos. As a person who loves photos of other people and scenes of their daily lives, I was struck by the simplicity (yet complexity) of Rickard’s project.

After listening to an audio clip of Rickard talking about his project, (listen to it here) I learned that all the pictures were simply from Google Earth Streetmap photos. Having taken some “tours” around the world through streetmap myself, I thought the idea of framing particular moments caught by Google Earth was intriguing.

Rickard looked to neighborhoods in America that have been neglected, those that provoked definitions of the United States that often times Americans themselves do not use to describe their home country. The idea that America is doing fine is negated when observing these photos. The images portray loneliness, poverty, and sometimes danger.

For having been taken by a car driving down the road, no person was keeping in mind composition or content. Yet composition and content come through, simply because it was just caught. A story is told, without having any intention of being told.

There is the issue regarding the personal lives of those being documented by the images. Their lives, not particularly glamorous, are exhibited front and center through Rickard’s project. Yet Rickard defends his collection of these photographs—street photography, he claims, will always be intertwined with the intricacies of what it reveals. He rather likes the discussion that comes forward because of such photographs.

Check out Rickard’s website here.

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This project made by Robert Indiana, that is the really simple sculpture but I am really like it. the words love to made the sculpture that is a great idea. space and the environment that come together, letter O is different than other letters, let people more focus on.

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Private Collections

First I click on the Crystal Bridges link. I was immediately drawn to the “Nature” tab. From there I found the different trails they have. Some of which include: Art Trail, Crystal Spring Trail and Crystal Bridges Trail. Since the website didn’t give very much information on each trail, I googled the Crystal Spring Trail and found beautiful pictures of green tree, pink flowers, tiny bridges, and short waterfalls. The path looked like it was very well-kept and mostly flat apart from a few stairs. It doesn’t look like something you could ride your bike on, but I think the walk would be pretty easy. According to the official website, it is only 1/3 of a mile, which is disappointing. But at least it would allow a lot of time to go on all the other trails. I suppose it is more about what you get to see, and less about exercise. Another link I looked at was Pier 24. It describes itself simply as “a place to view and think about photography.” Although it is a cool little building right under a bridge, and sitting on the water, the inside looks a little plain and boring to me. Therefore, I googled reviews for the place and was pleasantly surprised to find that most people gave it 4-5 stars. Many said it had plenty of art pieces and some said the staff was very knowledgeable and friendly. I kind of want to go now- even though it is all the way in San Francisco.