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Fine Art Daily - January 6, 2011

Posted: January 06, 2011 05:36 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon Sanders

I realize that yesterday's video of the Nick Cave installation might have been slightly off-putting to some of you. The War Lord rattled his saber a little, and opined that the whirling Dervishes yesterday might make for some fine cannon fodder. There are a few of those wooly Muppet-like creatures in the exhibit, but there are also some incredibly intricate and artfully constructed arrangements with flowers and tea cups and this fellow – every square inch covered in white buttons, sewn so tidily with orange thread. Alice would feel quite at home. Amazing. Hippity hop to the Norton!

Fine Art Daily - January 5, 2011

Posted: January 05, 2011 06:39 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon Sanders

Run, do not walk, to the Norton Museum right away. You only have until January 9th to experience Nick Cave: http://www.norton.org/Exhibitions/Current/NickCaveMeetMeattheCenteroftheEarth/tabid/459/Default.aspx The Tall One's eyes were opened to the possibilities of contemporary art with this exhibit. You will be amazed by the wit and charm of Cave's creations. They are like Red Hot hats on acid!

Fine Art Daily - January 4, 2011

Posted: January 04, 2011 06:06 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon Sanders

Happy 2011! We had a quiet New Year's Eve. Best Beloved and I shared a chilled bottle of Prosecco with Cary Grant, Grace Kelly and all those marvelous jewels along the Riviera. On Sunday we took the Tall One down to Palm Beach for a little culture. Lunch at Howley's was a bit of an eye-opener for him. He had expected an atmosphere like the Colony, I fear. Instead we tucked into our club sandwiches and tuna melt side-by-side with some well-inked characters. There was one group, just out of church, with the requisite tufted pink Chanel and a very nice Hermés, but they were the odd duc...

One Corner of the Chihuly Ceiling at the Norton Museum

Fine Art Daily - September 30, 2010

Posted: September 30, 2010 04:31 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon Sanders

September 30, 2010Here is my interpretation of a tiny corner of the Chihuly Ceiling at the Norton Museum in nearby West Palm Beach. You need to abandon your inhibitions and throw your head back to marvel at the bold colors and myriad shapes and layers and his sheer audacity. You are under the sea, awash with the sound of a waterfall, marveling at his ingenuity, abandoning the conceit that art is flat, rectilinear and on a wall. And now you need to go see it for yourself! The Norton Museum. Visit Fine Art Daily to read more, and The Chestertown Spy to see my latest illos.

Fine Art Daily - September 29, 2010

Posted: September 29, 2010 05:18 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon Sanders

September 29, 2010As much as I enjoyed the visiting Van Gogh on Free Museum Day I was also giddy with our old friends in the Norton Museum's permanent collection. This is a humble little homage to the real Chagall Anniversary Flowers, which he painted when his dear wife died. His pain is palpable in this exquisite, shimmering canvas. And imagine this, you can find just around the corner, any day of the week. Amazing. And I haven't even begun to wax poetical about the Chihuly Ceiling! The Norton Museum. To read more, stop by Fine Art Daily. And to see new illos, visit The Chestertown...

Visiting Van Gogh - at the Norton Museum

Fine Art Daily - September 27, 2010

Posted: September 27, 2010 05:25 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon Sanders

September 27, 2010Did you take advantage of the Smithsonian's Free Museum Day? I sure did. I mooched around the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach for a couple of hours, brushing shoulders with lots of arts lovers, trying out the cell phone tour, watching a worker painting gallery walls a satisfying Blue Man Group blue, and toured the galleries, dancing with Chihuly, Warhol, Dufy, Wyeth, Rockwell, Henri, Degas, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Matisse, Hassam, O'Keefe. Eakins and the blindingly brilliant visiting Van Gogh. You have until February to visit the man, so take yourself down there. Wear ...