Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Sinatra’s Birthday
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Orange Mass
"Blue Eyes took his Sunday painting seriously."
In memory of Jackie Collins, a post on Sinatra's favorite color.
Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Tuesday October 5, 2004
Tea Privileges
On Janet Leigh,
who died Sunday:
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MARCO — What’s your last name? ROSIE — Chaney. I’m production assistant for a man named Justin who had two hits last season. I live on 54th Street, a few doors from the Modern Museum of Art, of which I’m a “tea privileges” member, no cream. I live at 53 West 54th Street, apartment 3B. Can you remember that? MARCO — Yes. ROSIE — El Dorado 5-9970. Can you remember that? MARCO — Yes. |
On the redesigned
Museum of Modern Art,
11 West 53rd Street:
“… the ultimate judgment will have to wait: Taniguchi himself told a MoMA curator who’d complimented him that considering the building without the art in it is like admiring the tea cup without the green tea. Next month the museum will have art on the walls and crowds in the galleries—and then the tea ceremony will begin.”
— Cathleen McGuigan, Newsweek,
issue dated Oct. 11, 2004
Related material:
Review of A Man and His Art, a book of paintings by Frank Sinatra:
“… he’s a solid abstractionist with an excellent eye for color, composition and geometric precision.”
— Booklist (Jan. 15, 1992)
“Blue Eyes took his Sunday painting seriously.”
— Eric Banks in Artforum Magazine,
September 2004
See also
Art Wars.
Thursday, October 10, 2002
Thursday October 10, 2002
In Lieu of Rosebud…
On this date in 1985, Orson Welles died
…sitting at his typewriter, working on the next day's script changes for his movie,"The Other Side of the Wind."
— Louis Bülow, The Third Man and Orson Welles
From a review of "Leaving Las Vegas" — a film starring Nicolas Cage that includes a tribute to Welles:
At least Cage dies without saying "Rosebud."
To me, the musical equivalent of "Rosebud" in this film is a song that Sting sings on the soundtrack, "Angel Eyes," which of course was rendered to perfection in Vegas by Sinatra long before Cage and Sting.
One visual equivalent, in turn, of "Angel Eyes," is to me a sketch for a painting I did in 1976. This has been likened to the many eyes of an angelic creature named Proginoskes in a novel for children and adolescents by Madeleine L'Engle.
Perhaps the dark cynicism of Leaving Las Vegas (the book) might be somewhat counterbalanced by the looney religiosity of A Wind in the Door, L'Engle's novel.
At any rate, here are links to the "Angel Eyes"
© 1976 Steven H. Cullinane
Also, "Angel Eyes" is now the background music for this site; one night of the Bach midi was enough.