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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flick.

Today was a beautiful day, a little chilly but bright and clear. An auspicious beginning to the Spring Flickr, at least I hope so.

I took a walk up to the Metropolitan museum this morning to see their current photography exhibit, Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play. These are commercial photographs shot by working photographers employed by newspapers and government services. It was very interesting. There were photos by Weegee, a pseudonym for Arthur Fellig, who covered crime scenes for the New York tabloids in the 30’s and 40’s. He had an uncanny ability to arrive at crime scenes, sometimes before the police, perhaps because he had a portable police band shortwave radio in his car. He would show up at the scene of the crime, take his shots and then develop them in an improvised dark room he kept in the trunk of his car. This is one of his more lurid photos, Head in Cake Box Murder http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/265622 I can easily see that on the cover of the current New York Post. Those of an age who live in the NY Metropolitan area will remember one of the Post’s most famous front page headlines, Headless Body Found in Topless Bar. http://tinyurl.com/jcgxrw3 The Daily News wasn’t afraid of a little blood either showing the aftermath of Carmine Galante’s murder at a restaurant. http://tinyurl.com/zuqsw52 It’s hard to see on the reproduction of the front page but Carmine managed to keep his cigar in his mouth as he was being shot. http://tinyurl.com/hryz7fo

This is a link to a New York Times article about the exhibit and it has a slide show with a dozen images. The first is my favorite, it shows a bank robber aiming and shooting his gun at the security camera in the bank trying to avoid being captured on tape. He was, unfortunately for him, too slow as the camera caught him aiming before he blew it up. http://tinyurl.com/h4xcfbz The show was macabre and a little gruesome but fascinating nevertheless.

While I was at the museum I also took in their Jan Van Eyck exhibit, A New Look at a Van Eyck Masterpiece. This is a show made up mostly of items in the Met’s permanent collection, with the emphasis on Van Eyck’s diptych The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment It’s a remarkable painting with lots of action, the left panel, solely by Van Eyck, showing the crucifixion and the right panel, Van Eyck and his workshop, showing Heaven above with Hell below. Hanging next to the painting is a drawing done in anticipation of the painting which is from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Seeing it right after seeing the Van Eyck drawing at the Met Breuer last week was a real treat. It’s not one hundred percent agreed upon that it’s fully Van Eyck or his workshop but it very closely approximates the diptych painting. This is a link to a New York Times article about the exhibit. http://tinyurl.com/j5fevs5 And this is a link to the Met website with all the images. http://tinyurl.com/j9acq5s

And on that religious note, let’s wander off to the Flickrs.

Andy G.

Boys wearing aprons making silly faces

https://www.flickr.com/photos/simpleinsomnia/25872193006/

Holiday Time!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/128562662%40N05/25150346055/

Just me crossdressing again ;)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/133877150%40N07/25029749901/

01-11-15 004aa

https://www.flickr.com/photos/31901678%40N04/23181128555/

Maid

https://www.flickr.com/photos/capitolchill/24477783094/

Forever red

https://www.flickr.com/photos/alina_694/24165192074/

2016-01-31_02-34-54

https://www.flickr.com/photos/14479876%40N04/24101764464/

Scarlet Stance

https://www.flickr.com/photos/103977268%40N06/24560849194/

DSC_2079 Milk White Dress

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125961445%40N02/24816212880/

Strike another pose

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stefanied/24931519962/

light pink top, white frilly skirt, heels

https://www.flickr.com/photos/adrii06/25929433601/

Easter Dress Curtsy

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AndyG, your weekly posts always make me wonder why some of the links are wide open, some are "must be logged in to view," and some are "adult content must be logged in." I have concluded that at least 99.9% of the difference must be in the mind of the person doing the posting.  Unless it is showing certain "body parts" "Adult Content" means the poster thinks seeing guys in drag will somehow corrupt the minds of the youth.  Not sure about the difference between the other two groups....


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Hi,

I've always found Flickr to be quite arbitrary. When they made this last big update to the website they somehow fiddled with the search to the point that for the most part I only get hits on a few of my search terms and I have dozens. I also sometimes wonder why things come up when based on my search term there should be no reason for it.

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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

Well, March seemed to have been a bit bi-polar, never quite being able to make up its mind as to whether it was going to be warm or cold. A high of 38 early on, followed a week later by a high of 82 And here we are in April, cold and rainy today with high winds and some snow in the forecast. Spring is still just a date on the calendar as far as I’m concerned.

Despite the inclement weather I took the bus into the City this morning and visited the Morgan Library. There are always a number of exhibits on display, some of which are more appealing to me than others but this time there was really only one that I especially wanted to see, Pierre-Jean Mariette and the Art of Collecting Drawings. Mariette was an 18th Century French art collector. He collected Old Masters and contemporary artists and was an artist himself. He developed a technique for separating single sheets which had drawings on both sides of the paper, verso and recto, without damaging them. And he also repaired damaged prints by adding paper and touching up images which he was able to do fairly seamlessly. This is a link to a description of the exhibit, http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/mariette  The entire exhibit is online at this link. http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/mariette  Each of the prints is listed to the left for you to click on and then you can enlarge the view. At the bottom of the Overview page is a short video which replicates the separation of a sheet into two drawings. He did not leave instructions as to how it was done so this experiment was a guess at his technique. If it’s not the actual method it must be close as the experiment ends in the successful separation of one sheet into two undamaged sheets. Very interesting. I enjoyed all of them but I thought this View of the Vatican Palace from the Colonnade of St. Peter’s by Giovanni Paolo Panini was especially nice. When you click on the print to enlarge it, you ‘ll notice controls at the bottom for increasing the magnification and moving the image up and down and side to side. The last button on the right brings the image to full screen which helps considerably in the viewing. Zoom in on the building in the background and look at the details.   http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/mariette/8#

Not much else to report today. I like to joke that I’ve been playing a senior citizen at the museums for the last ten years but on Monday I officially become one. On  0404 Andy G turns 65.  Seems to me that the people who post here on a regular basis are all senior citizens. Don’t the kids have anything to say or show? 65 is the last milestone for us in life unless we’re lucky enough to become a centenarian. As to that achievement I will end with a comment from Steven Wright. I’m trying to live forever. So far so good.

And with that note of levity on to the Flickrs.

Andy G.

Dsc_0022

https://www.flickr.com/photos/9913641%40N03/17032530795/

Sissy French maid. New video and more photos available soon at my site: AlinaWangXXX.com

https://www.flickr.com/photos/alina_694/24392851865/

June 2007

https://www.flickr.com/photos/14631241%40N07/3335769925/

Mistress enjoys her good little sissy

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissy_maid_claire/1154857865/

Hello Sir glad your home

https://www.flickr.com/photos/aleesha_w/3847423456/

Sissy Dress Saturday

https://www.flickr.com/photos/24078110%40N08/8535291112/

pink sissy portrait

https://www.flickr.com/photos/22704178%40N07/9341142285/

My new dress

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissycindy/24278968786/

Untitled1(1)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sophie_louise69/9952848254/

423.12

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10474062%40N07/1008145517/

Make me your personal sissy princess.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/135648714%40N08/25139596010/

Dreamy Dutch Damsel...

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Happy Birthday!

Every year is a milestone at our age because our time left has become limited, & we don't know for sure by how much. My 2 oldest brothers, now in their upper 60s have lived longer than any male ever has in our family. No male in our family has ever made it to 65 before. The women live a little longer. My Mom died of complications caused by COPD at 70. But at 70, she lived longer than any female in my family ever did. So 5 more years is a big milestone for us.

Actually we get a lot of younger & older people here. We just don't get many middle-aged though.

Up to & through the college years we're full of curiosity, excitement, & at our sexual peaks. Then as careers & relationships settle in as we get older, we sideline or forget about this stuff a while, & their whole sissy side gets stored away in a small box in an attic to be visited every few months.

But after 20-30 years of living the same life, or being through a few relationships, or divorce, they want to put some spark & excitement back into their lives. The box in the attic gets bigger, & visited more often. Next they're ordering a pretty dress & visiting Betty's.

So what we're having is people in their 40s or 50s returning back to things they liked in their youth. But that already happen to many of us when Betty's was still new over 20 years ago, so 20 years later we're even older.

It's sort of like why a man in his 40s or 50s suddenly buys a Corvette, motorcycle, climbs a mountain, or buys a boat. After passing his prime, & midlife, he's looking for something more, or to recapture some of the joys & toys of his youth.

We're just now getting revisited by people who used to visit us as college kids decades ago. Usually after college age, or just a few years after that they disappear, & it takes a couple decades before they come back to their sissy roots.

I put an "R" rating on our sites (no one under 17 permitted), because there are so many 17 & above visiting anyway. But the younger people just don't want to post here like they used to before tap screen tablets & phones. They seem to tweet, pin, & instagram enough, but just won't post here. The most I could do is make their tiny tap screens easier to use here, but it hasn't increased traffic or made them post more. They just stay longer now because it's easier to use on the mobile devices.

But there is also a generational gap between the real internet & some young people. They know twitter, pins, instagram, YouTube, or even Facebook on their tiny tap screens, but don't have a clue on how to join or post here. We're a site with an embedded forum (a forum that also acts as a website). How you join & post is pretty much the way you would on most forums but they can't do it. They have a hard time searching for us, because Bing & Yahoo don't like to link to sites like ours, but is the default search on many newer Windows machines & devices. They're missing more than half the internet by searching in Bing, Yahoo, or with Explorer or Edge browsers.

Some flunk the registration to join too. Almost half of them can't even type an e-mail address right on their tap screen because they're so used to auto-complete, & auto-correct. As an anti-spam & hack measure, we e-mail an activation link for them to click on to activate their membership. No membership without a valid mail. Some mistakes are obvious so I can fix them myself. I know that their mail at gmail.con is wrong, & fix it to gmail.com so it works. But the correct address isn't always that obvious.

Then there's boys that don't have a clue, using their favorite video game warrior as a username, & their gamer site's e-mail. A person registering under the name "killer" with an email of slasher at gamehacks.com will get rejected because I feel they are not sane, stable, & intelligent enough to play nice with our group. Or they register while using a proxy popularly used by spammers or hackers. One can visit from any proxy they want that isn't blocked by us. But when they want to be a member, I or my software have to decide if they're a friend or foe from the little info given in the registration. Registering through an untrustworthy proxy or mail server won't get them in. Usernames or addresses that indicate they're phucking nuts won't get them in either.

28F & snowing outside right now. About 2" of snow on the ground. 4" expected. Lows in the teens to 20s F with more snow expected the rest of the week.

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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

Betty and Angela have been commenting on the weather and I can add that the weather here has not been very good either. Spring continues just to be a season on the calendar. Today it was cold, windy, rainy and just plain nasty. Snow showers in the forecast but I don't think that's going to amount to much. Hopefully those aren't famous last words. The weatherman this morning said that Spring like weather probably wouldn't be visiting until the end of the seven day forecast. I couldn't be readier for it.

Up until about 20 years ago I still had a rotary phone and didn't see a need for one with buttons, nor did I think I needed any of the services they were trying to sell me such as call waiting and caller ID. But then I started looking for a new job and I realized I needed to buy a phone with an answering machine so my rotary phone became my other phone. It still is as my current phones are powered by electricity so in the case of a blackout I will still have service. Most people have cell phones for that but I still haven't come to terms with owning a cell phone, maybe next year when I am actually retired. But when I moved into my current home ten years ago I took on the FIOS package which included call waiting and caller ID. Call waiting isn't such a big deal for me as I'm not on the phone that often and if another call comes in, it's usually from someone I don't know. Which is why I now say that I couldn't live without caller ID. I don't get vast numbers of these scam calls but enough that I only answer the phone if I recognize the number. Takes a while for them to stop calling and once one stops, it seems that another one starts. Earlier I got a call with a Craigmont, Idaho number which I didn’t pick up and, of course, there was no message. When I Googled the number as I always do to see what other people have to say about it, this number brought up the following response: “This number called and my 4 year old daughter answered, they asked her to go into my wallet for my credit card. This is a new low, absolutely unacceptable!” Yes, I heartily concur. These people are criminals and should be prosecuted.

Despite the inclement weather I went into the City this morning to visit Christie's for their Old Master's auction previews. I've been looking forward to this since the announcement and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There were no really big ticket items like some of the previous auctions I've written about and as usual there were a lot of circle of, follower of, school of, etc., etc. But even these are generally lovely to look at. There was an unannounced auction which took me by surprise and which turned out to be something that made my day. It was a showing of an auction that will take place in London in July, Fifty Prints By Rembrandt Van Rijn A Private English Collection. This is a link to all the images in the lot http://tinyurl.com/glusxak I've seen many of the images before, one, Jan Lutma, I wrote about seeing at the Met in February in their Prints collection. This is a link to the version in this lot. http://tinyurl.com/zpdnfvx  This is a link to the catalog, which on the first page explains how the collection was assembled and it's very interesting. http://tinyurl.com/hj74qum
While I was I in the room going from print to print there was an older couple, German I think, who were clearly there to actually preview the collection with an eye to buying, unlike myself who was there strictly for the exhibition.  An employee of Christie's entered and greeted the couple and started pitching the lot explaining the provenance. He said that the original owner collected them between 1959 and 1968 and always bought quality prints. He kept them in three Solander boxes under his bed until he died. (I thought he said shoeboxes and I had to look up Solander which is defined as a protective box made in the form of a book, for holding such items as botanical specimens, maps, and color plates.) Then his son kept them in the three boxes under the bed until he died and now they’re up for auction. He wasn't an especially wealthy man and these weren't particularly pricy items back then but he only bought quality prints and now they are very valuable. The couple mentioned the lack of some images and the employee said that at the time the previous owner was collecting, the prints that he didn’t purchase went for more than he was prepared to spend. But it was a magnificent collection and really a treat to see. Unless a billionaire swoops in and buys the entire collection I imagine they will be sold to multiple bidders.

Another unexpected pleasure was a very large painting by Rubens, Lot and His Daughters, which will also be auctioned in London but for the time being was given the main space in the downstairs hall. A magnificent painting, you can see an image and read about it in this essay on the Christie's site. http://tinyurl.com/hwqkhzr

The current auction consisted of three lots, I will give you a link to all the images after the title of each phase, Revolution http://tinyurl.com/h5tjkbo Old Masters, Part 1 http://tinyurl.com/juv4psk and Old Masters, Part 2 http://tinyurl.com/hymscgt

Below are some of the items I especially enjoyed.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780-1867 Paris) - Portrait Of Ferdinand-Philippe-Louis-Charles-Henri Of Bourbon Orleans, Duke Of Orleans http://Tinyurl.Com/Jrqzde8 
I wrote about this back in January when this sale was announced and it was supposed to be on display but wasn't on the day I visited. But it's up now and it's a wonderful image by one of my favorite artists. Unfortunately for the Duke he died not long after the painting was finished and he never got to be King.

Jacques-Louis David (Paris 1748-1825 Brussels) - A Vestal - http://Tinyurl.Com/Hc7lf5g 
David was Ingres' teacher and one of the great artists of his generation, anytime you can see a David that’s new to you it's worthwhile making the effort. As are seeing the ones you’re familiar with.

I've written about the Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun exhibit currently running at the Met which I greatly enjoyed and there were a number of her paintings in this auction. I thought these three noteworthy. The pendant paintings of the Count and Countess - Portrait Of The Count Siemontkowsky Bystry; And Portrait Of The Countess Siemontkowsky Bystry - http://Tinyurl.Com/Gwxokfz  and this wonderful - Portrait Of An Artist. http://Tinyurl.Com/Hl7tq9g   Her work on the clothing, the green cloak of the Count and the red gown of the Countess are very good as is the depiction of the Countess's hair.

Two wonderful landscapes by the Breughel's.  Jan Breughel I (Brussels 1568-1625 Antwerp) And Joos De Momper Ii (Antwerp 1564-1635) - A Townscape With Figures And Horse-Drawn Carts, Carrying Vegetables And Other Produce To Market - http://Tinyurl.Com/Z5pgomf
 
Jan Brueghel II (Antwerp 1601-1678) - Travelers With Carts And A Wagon On A Country Road, A City Beyond - http://Tinyurl.Com/J7vhs3k 

A beautiful Botticelli which probably would go for more if it wasn't noted as being he and his studio. I like Botticelli, I find his images rather cartoonlike but very appealing and the ones I've seen are very bright and open. Alessandro Filipepi, Called Sandro Botticelli (Florence 1444/45-1510) And Studio - The Madonna Adoring The Christ Child With The Young Saint John The Baptist - http://tinyurl.com/jm3xqvo

I'm including this painting by Emanuel De Witte (Alkmaar C. 1617-1691/2 Amsterdam) -The Choir Of The New Church, Amsterdam, With Figures because it's similar to one in the Met that has always tickled me as it shows a dog peeing inside the church. Don't know if this is a trademark or if he was making a statement but putting it into two paintings make it more than a coincidence I would think. http://tinyurl.com/zrq8z8k This is a link to a biography of De Witte from Wikipedia, a very unhappy life it’s sad to say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_de_Witte

And finally, this painting by John Hoppner, R.A. (London 1758-1810) - Portrait Of William Russell (1767-1840), Three-Quarter-Length - a very pretty little boy in a dress -
http://tinyurl.com/jccetta

A nice lead in to the Flickrs I would think.

Andy G.

Womenless Beauty Pageant

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sciatfsu/26062136942/

Rubber Mistress....she who must be obeyed!..

https://www.flickr.com/photos/41321506%40N06/23424201489/

Tiffany LTU S4-2

https://www.flickr.com/photos/97867932%40N05/25302367035/

Untitled

https://www.flickr.com/photos/24078110%40N08/14265477974/

Floral Skirt

https://www.flickr.com/photos/secretjess/24984192102/

照片 047

https://www.flickr.com/photos/yammy_chow/5799702167/

vrd13

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lynnlynx/25205694929/

Juliette017

https://www.flickr.com/photos/noirjuliette/20973070593/

Celina :)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/celinatv/24626918124/

Sonja T

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sonjathompson/24995123052/

FOR YOU THIS VALENTINES DAY

https://www.flickr.com/photos/138156599%40N04/24994473726/

Instantané 4 (2015-06-18 20-01)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/97124493%40N07/18918296696/


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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

Looks to be a beautiful day, let’s hope winter is finally in our rear view window.

I read the Cement Garden when it was printed and never thought they could possibly make a movie of it so I was very surprised when they did. And it was a very good adaptation of the book and the scenes with Tom dressed up were a treat although the whole theme of the movie was very disturbing.

Anyway, I’m taking my friend into the City today to see several of the exhibits I’ve written about previously so this will be a short Flickr. Or should I say a brief Flickr.

Whatever.

Andy G.

My son #brandonlindsey makes a pretty little girl lol.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/137593272@N02/25678807933/

Burlesque Day

https://www.flickr.com/photos/trixydeans/25509396372/

satinsexy (353)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/77377251@N06/25780056546/

Right after coming back home

https://www.flickr.com/photos/138580735@N03/25140698164/

Hub the Scrub

https://www.flickr.com/photos/60741642@N06/25762058776/

A passion for the glamour fashion look: recent magazin feature

https://www.flickr.com/photos/juliapanther/25759896675/

An elegant pose, don't you think?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/98857454@N06/22061701380/

Don't Stand (The Police)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/55377997@N05/25673736836/

Juliette041

https://www.flickr.com/photos/noirjuliette/24286938436/

One in Vermilion

https://www.flickr.com/photos/103977268@N06/25185560226/

Leopard Romper

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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

It’s been a beautiful week weather wise but this morning suffered from the overnight hangover of rain. It was damp most of the time I was out although it never really rained enough to make me unfold the umbrella I was carrying. And when I arrived home at Noon it had finally ended and turned into another beautiful day.

I had what for me passes as a busy morning. Up early I did my exercises and went to the store then headed into Manhattan where I started off by walking down to Trader Joe’s to replenish my supply of almonds. Then I walked back uptown to my office to take care of a little business before heading over to Christie’s for their 19th Century art and contemporary prints previews. This was a very low key preview, no stars to speak of, very few recognizable names to me. At least in the European previews that is. Contemporary had the usual suspects none of whom I especially care for. A room filled with Andy Warhol soup cans, lots of Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein.  Many Joan Miro which are abstract but colorful as well as lots of Picasso prints. There were a few prints that were nice, several by Cassatt. This is a link to her Woman Bathing http://tinyurl.com/zrm82c4  One of the paintings that struck me was Moonlit Bay by Sophus Jacobsen http://tinyurl.com/jv63x5t Very atmospheric and haunting, it has a very white full moon dead center among rather ominous dark clouds. Everything is shrouded in mist with the few boats in the harbor blackened by shadows. Reasonably priced with a range of $30 to $50K. Reasonable if you have that kind of money to spend on art I guess. It appears to be a theme the artist liked as I found another painting at Wikimedia, Fishing by Moonlight, once again showing the big white moon. http://tinyurl.com/hr7v6y4  There is remarkably little about the artist himself on the web beyond his dates of birth and death. On the link page to the painting the following reference is posted:

Sophus Jacobsen was a Norwegian landscape painter. The artist was particularly interested in capturing dramatic effects of lighting on landscape, often through sunsets and strong moonlight, as in the present work.

The star of the auction appears to be FRANCESCO HAYEZ (ITALIAN, 1791-1882) IL BACIO or The Kiss which they’re hoping brings $1 million at the top end. http://tinyurl.com/z2y77n3 There is an essay at the website explaining why it’s the lead painting in the auction and its significance which you may find interesting. http://tinyurl.com/zwp2ew2

In wandering through the galleries I came across a painting by the French artist CHARLES-FRANÇOIS DAUBIGNY which is a pleasant landscape, http://tinyurl.com/zrprk26 but what I found notable about it is that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is letting it go to fund future acquisitions. This is commonplace and museums are allowed to sell their possessions as long as it’s done to purchase other items. Selling the art for needed funds is taboo and that’s what got the National Academy in New York in trouble.  Sotheby’s upcoming American art auction has a Norman Rockwell from the Met on the block and that surprised me as the Met doesn’t have very many Rockwell’s and this one is rather nice.  http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/american-art-n09503/lot.22.html

This is a link to the full catalog of the auction if you care to browse. http://tinyurl.com/gwu6333

Afterwards I went to the Ronin Gallery and saw a very nice exhibit, DEMIMONDE: THE FLOATING WORLD AND TOULOUSE-LAUTREC. http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/demimonde-the-floating-world-and-toulouse-lautrec  This exhibit juxtaposes Lautrec’s work, piece by piece, with a Japanese print that it emulates. Lovely items by both he and different Japanese artists. If you visit the site you’ll see the items side by side as I experienced them in the gallery and beneath them is an explanation as to why they go together. All of them are wonderful and in this case reasonably priced is even more achievable. I could have purchased a Lautrec and the Utumaro by its side for $4600. I confess I thought about it but I don’t really have bare walls to hang artwork on as most of my space is taken up by bookcases and much as I enjoy seeing the works I really can’t justify spending the money. And with the museums at my disposal I am constantly finding new things to enjoy. I’ve been to Ronin Gallery several times now and look forward to their next exhibition.

Well, I think we can head over to the Flickrs now.

Andy G.

FondantFancy

https://www.flickr.com/photos/13782433%40N03/7279933024/

Savannah Thorne

https://www.flickr.com/photos/68958443%40N08/23432277354/

Processed with MOLDIV

https://www.flickr.com/photos/27401732%40N05/25443060550/

Out in nature

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cutiemei11/25717651385/

20160316_34

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissymaidjoslyn/25848259925/

collette013

https://www.flickr.com/photos/130865463%40N08/25810471082/

Lovely yellow dress

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cutiemei11/25325514933/

33

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ladyboyshemale/2039246485/

78978988

https://www.flickr.com/photos/46110603%40N02/4234041884/

TM_BlackRed2

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tiffmich_2000/6801177137/

Time to prepare the beauty case for the new Fotoshooting :)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36028969%40N05/22377172002/

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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

It started out a little cooler today than I would have preferred but on the whole it's a beautiful day.

I headed into the City and took the long walk up to Sotheby's on 72nd Street for their Impressionist Auction preview. It was a wonderful exhibit filled with old friends and great art. Much more entertaining than the Christie's European auction I wrote about previously. Here are some of the things I especially liked.

Paul Signac - MAISONS DU PORT, SAINT-TROPEZ - http://tinyurl.com/z8zjobr - This was their star painting I think with an estimate of $8-$12 million dollars. It's a wonderful pointillist painting showing houses by the sea which are reflected in the water. Very bright and colorful.

Claude Monet - MARÉE BASSE AUX PETITES-DALLES - http://tinyurl.com/zyk5x2f  - This is a beach scene, the title translates to low tide at Little Dalles with the water contrasting the cliffs.

Camille Pissarro -  CHEMIN DE L’ÉCLUSE, SAINT-OUEN-L’AUMÔNE - http://tinyurl.com/hybljl3  - This is a lovely landscape with a town by a river and a man walking his horses on the bank.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - PORTRAIT DE JEAN RENOIR - http://tinyurl.com/z7ysfcc  - This is one of the many wonderful portraits of Renor's son Jean, with his long beribboned red hair. While his father loved the long hair Jean hated it and was thrilled when he was able to finally get it cut. There's a children's book that takes this as a topic with Jean getting his haircut, thus a happy ending. http://barronseduc.com/0764160419.html

Eugène Boudin - TROUVILLE, MARÉE BASSE - http://tinyurl.com/gl8xbzj - This is a nice example of Boudin's seascapes, scenes on the beach with boats in the background and in this one the cloudy sky dominates taking up more than three quarters of the space. But there's lots of movement on the beach with the horses pulling the wagon and all those people going about their business. There were a number of his seascapes in the auction but there was also a very nice still life, something I've haven't seen much of. NATURE MORTE À L'ORANGE OUVERTE   http://tinyurl.com/goe275p

Maurice Utrillo - RUE À SANNOIS (VAL-D'OISE) http://tinyurl.com/jghxoqn A street scene, an open road lined with houses with no people out and about, indicating an early hour and several sprouting green trees. Very tranquil, serene image.

Federico del Campo - A VIEW OF THE GRAND CANAL WITH THE PALAZZO CAVALLI-FRANCHETTI - http://tinyurl.com/jjf9gye  Del Campo is someone I only came across last year at a previous Sotheby's auction preview. He's Peruvian and paints in the style of Canaletto one of my favorites. This is a painting of a beautiful Palace on the canal with the boats traveling down it and more of the City in the background.

These are links for the full catalog of items in the two auctions, day and night  - http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2016/impressionist-modern-art-day-sale-n09498.html
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2016/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n09497.html

Additionally there were some previews of upcoming auctions, for one, the American in a few weeks which I am really looking forward to. They had three of my favorite artists on display.

Edward Hopper - CHURCH IN EASTHAM - http://tinyurl.com/z6r63r6 - A wonderfully bright landscape showing a portion of the church off to the side opposite the tree lined road.

Norman Rockwell - ROAD BLOCK (BULLDOG BLOCKING TRUCK; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS) - http://tinyurl.com/gpvog76 - This is one of Rockwell's busiest paintings for the Saturday Evening Post with 25 separate images in it showing a small dog blocking a street with an enormous moving van stopped and everyone in the neighborhood taking a look.

Andrew Wyeth 1917-2009 - THE PRUSSIAN - http://tinyurl.com/zp823kh - This is one of Wyeth's early depictions of his neighbor Helga.

From the upcoming Old Masters auction

Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli - AN ANGEL, HEAD AND SHOULDERS - http://tinyurl.com/zpg8x8z - I'm surprised that this painting of an angel, solely by the artist, not listed as studio or school etc, has a low range of $300-$500,000. It's very beautiful.

I could keep going but I will force myself to stop with one final image from the London Old Master's auction.

Jean-Etienne Liotard - A Dutch Girl at Breakfast - http://tinyurl.com/hlthbs2 - I've written many times about my visit to the Frick for the Liotard exhibit which was one of the best I've been to. It was filled with his drawings of Empress Maria Theresa and her children, one of whom was Marie Antoinette. This is a stunningly beautiful painting of a young girl sitting at her breakfast table wearing a voluminous dress that just allows a peek of her stocking and black buckle shoe. The little blue table with the tray on it and what appears to be a roll of ribbon unfurling off the table. I'm lucky to have seen this since I won't be able to get to London for the auction.

There was a lot to see and this was just a bit of it, I had an excellent time.

And so, on to the Flickrs.

Andy G.

 Early Summer #1

https://www.flickr.com/photos/45111478@N08/4584947711/

Winter Angel MISAKKY 002

https://www.flickr.com/photos/misakky/24009921976/

Young man holds a toy gun on another man wearing a woman's dress

https://www.flickr.com/photos/simpleinsomnia/25822964932/

Danielle CD

https://www.flickr.com/photos/45187053@N07/25901998681/

Hi, nice you stopped to visit.....

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ailananata/26065679835/

Right after the make over

https://www.flickr.com/photos/138580735@N03/25705101576/

Hamburger Marys

https://www.flickr.com/photos/empresslouann/25832887152/

Cociane (3)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127246885@N03/25291602564/

2016.03-10

https://www.flickr.com/photos/samyoliver/26083398885/

CharmOlatex

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lauracdgirl/25939973672/

k-ELL_3819

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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

Our unusual weather manifested itself again this week, it was wet and dreary, with temperatures never getting out of the 50’s and usually starting in the 40’s. I’d have to get out my Roget to list all the adjectives to describe the week but gloomy seems to hover over most of them, certainly my mood was gloomy based on the lack of warmth. Let me amend that to say gloomier since I’ve always said I’m not Mr. Sunshine insofar as demeanor. Today was damp but at least it didn’t actually rain and finally there is some sun and warm weather in the forecast for next week. I’m certainly ready for it. I received my utility bill  on Friday and it lists the average temperature for the prior three months and then compares that to the prior year. Feb was 15 degrees warmer this year and March was 11 degrees warmer. You would certainly have expected the trend to continue in April but this April was 1 degree cooler than last year and it certainly doesn’t look like May is going to be any different. Bring on hot and humid.

I stopped in my office this morning to do an annual mailing of annuals if that isn’t too redundant and left hoping that when this task rolls around next year I will no longer be responsible for it. Like most mailings it involves doing a merge of an excel spreadsheet into the program Word. I’ve been doing this for many years but every year I have to remind myself how to do it again since I only do it once a year. And Word doesn’t make it any easier by continually changing where things are kept and how things are done. Microsoft is a great believer in change for change’s sake which goes against my cardinal rule which is, if it aint broke, don’t fix it. But that’s a losing battle so I’ll just content myself knowing that soon I won’t have to deal with it any more.

From my office I walked uptown to the Met and took in the new Greek Exhibit,  Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World. It’s another once in a lifetime chance to see these ancient artifacts without traveling to Germany from whence they came. The Pergamon museum in Berlin is closed for renovations and roughly a third of the objects in this exhibit came from the museum. Statues, busts, earthenware, jewelry, etc., all of which was excavated by German archaeologists at the end of the 19th Century. It’s only in recent years that I’ve come to appreciate the marble statues and busts and this is a wonderful collection. Walking through the exhibit you marvel at what has survived and also regret what has survived in damaged condition. And it brings to mind ISIS in their mindless destruction of our millennia old artifacts, very sad. The German archaeologist Carl Humann arrived in Anatolia in 1864 and discovered the partially unearthed Pergamon and was able to stop the destruction of the relics while he waited for official sanction from the Ottoman government as well as his own to start excavating the ruins. So we have him to thank for this exhibit. It had many wonderful things in it. Here are links to articles in the New Yorker, Wall Street Journal and New York Times that discuss the exhibit and offer illustrations. The boy pulling a thorn out of his foot that heads the NY Times piece is a particularly nice example of the quality on display.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-show-about-the-hellenistic-one-per-cent
http://www.wsj.com/articles/mass-invasion-of-greek-art-comes-to-the-new-york-met-1460568224
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/arts/design/reaching-peak-greek-at-the-met-museum.html?_r=0

This is a link to the Met website with additional images http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/objects?exhibitionId=c81fa618-19f5-47a1-a089-fd1b22309109

And this is a link to the Met’s press release announcing the exhibit. http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2016/pergamon

Very enjoyable.

And now let’s view some images of a different nature as we wander over to the Flickrs.

Andy G.

IMG_3382

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10792226%40N00/26524927920/

6 month transformation!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/136382964%40N05/26178490953/

house.arrest.01

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kellystar518/23188408133/

Oh yeah!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/91219737%40N08/8289058100/

MISAKKY Scarf Style 002

https://www.flickr.com/photos/misakky/5602790875/

Ruby & Rouge x

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rubytv/13804637274/

.. trip ..

https://www.flickr.com/photos/camillla_cd/26156020572/

horny-trap-littlesissy-femboy http://ift.tt/1nZWeiL

https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldtgirls/14937352135/

DSC06946

https://www.flickr.com/photos/117560929%40N03/26165201185/

Floral Print

https://www.flickr.com/photos/amandarichards/25631168814/

BWBG13

https://www.flickr.com/photos/noirjuliette/26075003442/


 

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