Thursday, October 23, 2008

MODEL SESSION

Just a reminder November 7th is our next model night. We plan on having two models. Melanie is making the arrangements and FIT is covering the cost. It will be held in the new building where we had our Alumni meeting (236 W 27). Maybe we can start plans for a holiday gathering that night as well? Hope to see many of you there.

SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS
Vicki G. at FIT is working on having papers for us. This will make visiting the campus easier and will not entail a visit to the guard station or frantic calls to Melanie. Hopefully we will have them on the 7th.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

David Levine: American Presidents Exhibit




David Levine has a show at the Forum Gallery in midtown until Nov 8th GO SEE IT!!! There are presidential caricatures dating back from the 1960s through today as well as over 30 of his watercolors. There is also two new illustrations one done in pencil of Barack Obama. The artist has begun using pencil instead of ink now that the artist is 81 and suffers from macular degeneration, a diseases that is slowly making him blind. The show makes me think of another political artist that had two very different visual lives that also went blind at the end of his life. Goya anyone?

LOCATION: 745 5th Avenue at 57th Street, 5th Floor

HOURS: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Tuesday - Saturday

TELEPHONE: 212-355-454

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

[FYI] Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors


I saw the exhibition of Jean de Brunhoff and his son, Laurent de Brunhoff, and it was really nice.

Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors
September 19, 2008, through January 4, 2009
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street
Hours
Tuesday through Thursday: 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday: 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission is free on Fridays from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Click here to see about the exhibition