Results tagged “normanrockwell”

'Tis the season...not only for typical holiday shopping, but for auctions as well (the auction season kicked off earlier this month when a Matisse sold for over $33M). So what's the ultimate gift this year? If you missed out on the $18.5M Faberge egg, how about the Norman Rockwell painting of Santa Claus? The painting, titled Extra Good Boys and Girls, is expected to take in between $2.5 and $3.5 million, according to Christie's New...

According to Turkey Carving for Dummies, every year hundreds of thousands of people wind up in hospital emergency rooms as a result of kitchen accidents involving knives. Don’t become a statistic! In yesterday’s article about the best way to carve the turkey, the Times helpfully points out the wrong approach, to be read aloud in a southern accent: “One year the turkey took a long time to cook and I went to carve it...

Shepard Fairey won counterculture acclaim in the ‘90s for his iconic OBEY Giant campaign which spread virally around the world in what he dubbed "an experiment in phenomenology”. The many faces of Andre the Giant on street lights and buildings have become so ubiquitous that it’s hard to recall a time when they weren’t always in the corner of your eye. Now his success as an established artist – movie posters, album covers, Fender guitars – is probably what drives The Splasher to smear his sour grapes on Fairey and others working their way up from the streets. But Fairey’s transition from renegade street artist to insider art professional doesn’t seem to have dulled his radical edge. In town to install his new solo exhibit, Fairey sounded off on The Splasher, Giuliani and his crazy encounters with New York City cops.

Sometimes the best way to catch up with an old friend is to dine in a new restaurant. Conveniently, on my way to the Little Owl, recently announced in The New York Times, Time Out New York, and New York Magazine as being newly open, I had looked in on Lederhosen, an establishment of self-purported German goodness and thought to myself, “If I had known about that place it would have been perfect.” Discovering Lederhosen made it okay with me when I popped my head in the door of Little Owl to find out from a young man at the top of a ladder that they were not yet open, but hoped to open in the next two weeks.