Sunday, April 14, 2013: I'm driving up to the Boston area to attend The Sandbox Summit, an annual conference that addresses the subject of "nurturing kids' imagination in the digital age." It's a great opportunity to hear some speakers, attend some workshops, and network with other professionals in regards to my work at Artsology.com. But it's also a good opportunity to go on an arts adventure, since the conference doesn't start until Monday, and so I have the full day Sunday to drive up and ... read full story
Posted on: April 27, 2013, by The Arts Adventurer 0 comments
As I detailed in the last post, I had spent the morning exploring the Cimetière du Montparnasse, which included graves for Charles Baudelaire, Constantin Brâncuşi, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Susan Sontag, among others. After a morning of exploring the unusual grave markers, I headed out into the streets of Montparnasse, both to explore the neighborhood, and to find some lunch. Most of the area seemed to be low 2-3 story buildings with a lot of ground floor shops and restaurants, 
I had a very fortunate opportunity come my way: my wife had to travel to Paris on business, and I was able to take time off from my work and join her. While her work schedule didn't allow for a lot of joint exploration together, I found myself in a unique situation: no responsibilities of work, children or pets, and the whole city of Paris in front of me, with multiple days to soak up as much art as I could.
At first thought in regards to art, the city of Paris brings to mind the Mona Lisa 
As we saw in our last Virginia Beach post, there are a lot of great murals throughout the Virginia Beach area. But most of them seem to be sanctioned murals - which is all good - but it made me wonder if the more-clandestine street artists had simply avoided Virginia Beach? While I wasn't seeing much of what one would consider regular graffiti, the sticker art graffiti artists have definitely made their presence felt. Below is a selection of some of the sticker art graffiti that I saw ... look 
I've been to Virginia Beach before, several times in fact. But I guess I had never explored the area with a focus of looking for art. What you see below is what Virginia Beach means to most people: a big, expansive beach, a boardwalk, big hotels and lots of people. I was pleasantly surprised to find quite a bit of art, once I started looking for it.
Matter of fact, one of the first things I saw as I drove in from the south side on General Booth Boulevard (where it turns into Pacific 
As I mentioned in the last post, the 42 acre park that is the Grounds for Sculpture is kept in beautiful condition, which makes it a fantastic destination for viewing a wide variety of sculpture. They even have what they call a "Park Etiquette" list, which explains things such as which sculptures can be touched (those with a green tag) and which sculptures should not be touched (those with a red tag). They tell you that you shouldn't mess with the peacocks (if you do, they make a fantastic squawking