The Friday Afternoon Challenge returns after a brief respite! The latest Art in the Nooz for ya!

[CTyankee]

What's going on here?

And please don’t cheat and “guess”...it’s really inconsiderate of others who play fair...

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[pinboy3niner]

1. Oh noes!1!! They've captured Princess Leia again!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

4. Princess Leia at a Flaming Lips concert! (n/t)

[CTyankee]

6. well, she sure has a similar hair-do to Princess Leia but I doubt if there is a connection here...

[WorseBeforeBetter]

2. #5... Snowden Towers in Russia.

Amiright?

[CTyankee]

5. Not sure I ever heard of that...but it is not the Snowden Towers...

there is an art tie-in in all of the items displayed...

[pinboy3niner]

3. #6: They're baaaaaaack...

[CTyankee]

7. I toldja I'd be back...

you and your evil plans!

[pinboy3niner]

8. #2: Edward Hopper - Study for Nighthawks

How Edward Hopper Storyboarded ‘Nighthawks’
http://www.artnews.com/2013/07/25/how-edward-hopper-storyboarded-nighthawks/

[CTyankee]

10. Yup. I'm going to see it next month in Noo Yawk...

[sufrommich]

9. I think #1 was a fashion shoot in London

in the 1960s.Not sure why it would be in the news now.

[CTyankee]

11. things come back in different ways which is what I guess happened here...

[Tansy_Gold]

12. #3 The Boundless Sea by David Lynch

But why it's in the news? I have no idea.

[CTyankee]

13. Ah, that's the Challenge!

[Tansy_Gold]

14. Is it because Bernardaud is putting them on plates?

(edited because I can neither spell nor type correctly today)

[CTyankee]

15. Yes, Ma'am!

There's a new collection coming out...

[pinboy3niner]

17. David Lynch tells his story of the Boundless Sea using 12 @Bernardaud plates.

http://www.bernardaud150.com/lynch

[Call Me Wesley]

16. No. 1 clearly is Richard Avedon.

But what's noozy about it escapes me ...

[CTyankee]

18. No, this is an art piece by a totally different artist...

using art of one medium to make art in another...but even that is not quite the story here...

[Call Me Wesley]

21. Ohhh, I see now.

Won't tell. But if this isn't Avedon-inspired I don't know what is.

Good to see the challenges back! I'm off and bid you a good night from afar.

[pinboy3niner]

19. #1: Melvin Sokolsky - Bubble Series Over New York, New York 1963

Exhibition is showing Sokolsky's photographs from the "Bubble" and "Fly" series:

Melvin Sokolsky: "Fashion in a Bubble"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/evelyne-politanoff/melvin-sokolsky-fashion-i_b_908860.html

[CTyankee]

20. Yes, but why is it in the news NOW? What happened to bring it up?

[pinboy3niner]

22. Amazon Re-Enters Online Art Market

August 6, 2013, 2:26 pm
By PATRICIA COHEN

A day after the news that Amazon’s founder and chief executive, Jeff Bezos, is buying The Washington Post, his company officially entered another cultural arena: art. On Tuesday, the online retailer announced the start of Amazon Art, where customers can buy original and limited-edition art from more than 150 dealers and 4,500 artists, ranging in price from a $10 screen print by the up-and-comer Ryan Humphrey to a $4.85 million painting by Norman Rockwell.

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/amazon-expands-to-sell-art-online/?_r=0

[CTyankee]

23. there ya go! It's great...

[pinboy3niner]

24. #4: Anton Domenico Gabbiani - Portrait of Three Musicians of the Medici Court

Exhibition at the Uffizi and Palazzo Pitti:

A Largely Forgotten Medici Who Was Both Musician and Art Collector
By RODERICK CONWAY MORRIS
Published: August 6, 2013

FLORENCE — Ferdinando de’ Medici had the misfortune to be born the first son of Cosimo de’ Medici, a narrow-minded religious fanatic who became Grand Duke seven years later, in 1670. The father went on to rule Tuscany for 53 years, the longest reign of any of the Medici, outliving his eldest son and putative successor by a decade.

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The untidy and frequently farcical decline and fall of the Medici has obscured the achievements of the one member of the clan during this period to have left a lasting legacy: Ferdinando. The nature of that legacy is amply revealed by “The Grand Prince Ferdinando de’ Medici: Collector and Patron,” an exhibition curated with learning and insight by Riccardo Spinelli, at the Uffizi and Palazzo Pitti.

Ferdinando’s first passion from his earliest years was music. He became an accomplished harpsichordist, able to sight-read a piece and then play it from memory. He built up a sizable permanent group of players and financed the development of new types of instruments. He brought Bartolomeo Cristofori from Venice to be his chief instrument maker — and in 1700 Cristofori invented and constructed the first piano. Ferdinando attracted to Florence musicians from all over Italy and beyond, making the city a center of excellence and innovation. Among those who enjoyed his patronage was the 22-year-old Handel, whose first Italian opera “Rodrigo” was staged in Florence in 1707.

The first section of the exhibition contains both formal dynastic portraits of Ferdinando — including a magnficent marble bust by Giovan Battista Foggini that was executed when the prince was still in his teens — and an array of more informal portraits of Ferdinando’s musical friends and associates.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/arts/07iht-conway07.html?pagewanted=all

[CTyankee]

27. terrific, isn't it? It sure is the exhibition in the Uffizi and Palazzo Pitti!

That Gabbiani painting...ugh, not so much...how bad is that...

[pinboy3niner]

25. #5 and #6 remain unsolved...

Kick.

[jberryhill]

31. #5 is the little-known WTC 5 building

Which mysteriously combusted on 9/11...

[CTyankee]

34. It is a LONG way from the WTC...

[jberryhill]

36. That's why the official story makes no sense

[CTyankee]

40. Uh, wut?

[jberryhill]

26. #2 - Concept Sketch For R2-D2 by Steven Spielberg

[CTyankee]

28. aw, jeez, it mighthave been, right?...

[pinboy3niner]

29. You must...

[CTyankee]

30. We are left now with #5 and #6.

Hint: #5 has serious repercussions on fine art, #6 takes on a serious historical event....

These are not frivolous art ventures...

[pinboy3niner]

32. #6: New novel, The Art Forger, about 1990 art heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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Every Character in 'The Art Forger' Faces a Moral or Ethical Dilemma
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/173826-the-art-forger-by-b.a.-shapiro/

Edited to correct that this post refers to #6, not #5.

[CTyankee]

33. Actually, no.

That is not the event. Something else more recent...

[pinboy3niner]

35. Sophie Calle’s “Last Seen” series of photos and texts w/b shown at the Isabella Stewart Gardner

Loss That Lingers, in Memory and Place

By CAROL VOGEL
Published: July 25, 2013

Human behavior isn’t the French conceptual artist Sophie Calle’s only source of inspiration. In 1990, when she was in Boston for a show of her work at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Ms. Calle visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. “It was then that I fell in love with ‘The Concert,’ “ she said of Vermeer’s celebrated canvas from 1658-60 that depicts two women and a man engaged in an at-home musicale. “Every time I had a meeting I would make it in front of that painting so I could see it again,” she recalled.

Later that year came the museum’s famous theft — when two men dressed as Boston police officers entered the Gardner, tied up the guards and made off with 13 works, including the Vermeer. Ms. Calle has recorded that profound loss in two sets of work, one in 1991, called “Last Seen,” and again last year, in “What Do You See?” Both will be shown in the Gardner’s new wing from Oct. 24 through March 3. Ms. Calle said she got the idea to create “Last Seen” after Sheena Wagstaff, then the director of collections and exhibitions at the Frick Collection, interviewed her for a magazine article in front of “The Concert.” In the piece, published after the theft, Ms. Wagstaff joked that perhaps Ms. Calle had something to do with the Vermeer’s robbery because she loved the painting so much.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/arts/design/loss-that-lingers-in-memory-and-place.html?pagewanted=all

[CTyankee]

38. there ya go, Pinboy! Good for you!

Can't wait to see this exhibit in the Hostetter Gallery of the Gardner later in the fall with my daughter. I am so fortunate to have grown children in Boston, NYC and LA...I can hit the museums and visit the grandkids in on trip!

[pinboy3niner]

69. Lucky you!

I'm just encountering her work for the first time in this Challenge, and it looks very interesting.

Pardon me when I don't make a timely reply to your comments in these threads--I'm usually off knocking myself out in searches for the Challenge solutions, so you keep me too busy to chat.

[BainsBane]

37. the Dutch guy

[CTyankee]

39. We still haven't gotten #5, folks! And it's not a Dutch guy! (no Dutch guy here actually...)

So...?

[BainsBane]

41. I actually can tell that much

It was a joke. I recall that being someone else's regular answer.

I don't know that building.

[CTyankee]

42. It is a recent story, but no one has guessed where it is located...it's interesting, actually...

and involves a world famous architect...

[BainsBane]

43. I know exactly two world famous architects

Santiago Calatrava and Frank Gehry. Doesn't look like either.

[CTyankee]

44. It is not either, but I am so excited that you know about Calatrava!

I was SO hoping to get to Valencia to see his City of Arts and Sciences next spring, but it is not to be, unfortunately...

I saw Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in 2008 and it changed my life...have you seen it?

[BainsBane]

45. No, we have a Gehry museum here

at the University of Minnesota. Honestly, it doesn't do much for me. Calatrava is amazing though.

[CTyankee]

57. Evidently, Valencia asked Calatrava to do for Valencia what Gehry did for Bilbao, a rustbelt type

of industrial towns before it was changed by the likes of Gehry and Sir Norman Foster, who designed Bilbao's fabulous new subway. Here we had a late 20th century city transformed by art! And Valencia was the same and needed more tourists. Calatrava took an old, rundown section of the city and built the City of Arts and Sciences. Not many Americans seem to know much about Valencia, which is too bad. I wanted to take my granddaughter there because they have the largest aquarium in Europe now and my granddaughter is a budding marine biologist...but she's been pretty awful lately and my dtr and husband to take away the trip. It's too bad because it was also going to be a 3 generation trip (grandma me, my dtr and 17 yr. old granddaughter)...I also did a lot of research planning it...oh, well....

[pinboy3niner]

63. You can always take me

I won't be pretty awful.. I PROMISE!

[CTyankee]

65. Yeah, not only that, but you'd APPRECIATE it!

I'm hoping she'll be better behaved her freshmen year of college, and we could go then...

[BainsBane]

46. The Weisman Museum

[jberryhill]

47. Jesus that's ugly

It looks like it was designed by that OTHER Dutch guy

[jberryhill]

48. You'd be surprised

Like 1 out of 10 times, it IS either the Dutch guy, his father, or the other Dutch guy.

[BainsBane]

50. There is almost always an Italian guy

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You can count on that.

[jberryhill]

51. But there's a mess of them

I can never remember between Mario and Luigi, which one was the painter.

[CTyankee]

58. It was Tony, who designed the FIAT and also fixes them...get your Italian artists straight, man!

[pinboy3niner]

49. #5: Reflected light from the Museum Tower in Dallas (Brandon Thibodeaux for NYT)

The sculpture center was designed by Renzo Piano and Peter Walker.

Fake Comments Muddy a Debate in Dallas
By ROBIN POGREBIN
Published: August 6, 2013

Many people have offered opinions in the long-running and literally heated battle between the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas and a next-door condominium called Museum Tower. The condominium stands accused of producing glare that has compromised the museum’s galleries and garden.

But few have gained the notoriety of Barry Schwarz of St. Louis.

“Louvers won’t work, they reflect light too,” he wrote in June in a blog comment on dallasnews, a Dallas Morning News Web site, “and retrofitting on a 42 story building has never been tried and the makers say they would rip off in high winds prevalent in Dallas.”

An honest opinion, except that there is no such Barry Schwarz.

This post and others — including some from “Brandon Eley” of the Bronx — proved to be the work of a former Dallas television anchor, Mike Snyder, long a fixture in the city and now a public relations executive who had been hired by the tower’s outside law firm.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/arts/design/fake-comments-muddy-a-debate-in-dallas.html?ref=design

[BainsBane]

52. You've been Googling

[pinboy3niner]

53. Googling is legal

What is not legal (cheating) is using an image recognition app.

CTyankee encourages googling Challenge puzzles as a way of exploring and learning about the subject. And it still takes some work to find information--sometimes a LOT of work!

Maybe we need a brief boilerplate explanation on a Challenge OP to explain what is--and is not--fair play/cheating.

[BainsBane]

54. Oh, okay. Cool.

[CTyankee]

55. My point here is not to stump anyone, but to encourage folks to find out what these marvelous works

are. Some folks tell me that just researching online turns out well and they find an artist they develop a liking for. I think it helps make people aware of all the treasures there are out there. Besides, if I just stumped everyone, they'd feel kinda deflated and then they'd hate art.

What I like best about doing these Challenges is reading the stories people tell me about recognizing the art from a course they took in college and how much they appreciated it later in life. A really good art teacher can be a wonderful source of delight...my husband (a poli sci major) STILL talks about a paper he did on Sienese Renaissance art and that was a super long time ago...

[CTyankee]

56. I'll include it in next week's Challenge...I used to do so but I stopped cuz it seemed repetitive

but maybe it would help.

[jberryhill]

59. Like I was told years ago...

If you want to know the law, ask a bad man.

[CTyankee]

60. I gotta good one for next week...just for YOU, jberryhill...heh...

yer gonna love it...

[pinboy3niner]

62. Odds are, he's gonna guess that Dutch guy again...

[pinboy3niner]

61. Well, you soitenly came to the right place...

But you're such a one to talk, as they say.

[blogslut]

67. Ah, so now Dallas has two BIC Lighters in the sky:

[burrowowl]

64. K&R!!!!!

[CTyankee]

66. thanks, burrowowl, nice to see you!

[pinboy3niner]

68. For the record, THE ANSWERS ARE:

#1: Melvin Sokolsky - (Bubble Series) Over New York, New York 1963; offered for sale by Amazon's new online art market

#2: Edward Hopper - Study for Nighthawks; one of Hopper's Nighthawk studies now brought together for the first time on exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York

#3: The Boundless Sea by David Lynch; now being issued in a series of collector plates

#4: Anton Domenico Gabbiani - Portrait of Three Musicians of the Medici Court; being exhibited at the Uffizi and Palazzo Pitti

#5: Photo of Museum Tower in Dallas; embroiled in a current dispute over glare of reflected light and effects on museum

#6: Sophie Calle’s “Last Seen” series of photos and texts will be shown at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston

(Subject to correction by CTyankee, as always.)

[CTyankee]

70. #4 is the painting by Gabbiani but my understanding is that it is but one of several in a collection

of the last Medici in the family dynasty being shown at the two galleries. Too bad I'm not going to Florence again any time soon...