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ARTIST-AT-LARGE

exploring cultures with eyes wide open

I have never traveled because someone tried to sell me a destination. I’ve chosen my destinations to travel to because someone told me a good story or tall tale about their experience there, or they showed me a few of their magical and personal photographs. I’m attracted to a place because it’s an important contemporary art center or historical in some art or cultural or archaeological or spiritual way and often the experience of being in a landscape also inspires me while the deeper mystery of a destination is what pulls me there.

That’s what I try to share with my readers of this site.

— Kimberly Kradel, publisher

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Movie Review: The Dig

February 4, 2021 By Kimberly Kradel

Archaeology is the part of history that smells, has substance, and has the ability to uncover ancient mysteries. I love archaeology, even the boring stuff. The Dig is not boring. Slow paced, yes, as archaeology is a slow paced science. But not boring. The scene is set in 1939 as Britain is preparing for war….

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MasterClass Review: Jeff Koons

January 18, 2021 By Kimberly Kradel

Art is a vehicle that lets us have imapact on the external world. – Jeff Koons Disclaimer: Masterclass has comped me an All Access Pass in order to audit and review the online classes they offer as a number of them relate to the topics covered here on ARTIST-AT-LARGE. Master of the Ready Made, I…

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Existence Is Longing: Wong Kar Wai Streams Through BAMPFA.org

December 16, 2020 By Kimberly Kradel

If you have been a reader of this site for awhile, you might know about my long drawn out love affair with the films of Wong Kar Wai. I even loved My Blueberry Nights which other people (who don’t know any better) dislike so much that it’s streaming for free on YouTube. Wong’s films are…

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2020 Gift Guide For Artists And Travelers

November 25, 2020 By Kimberly Kradel

To say that it’s been a crazy year is putting it mildly. And crazy doesn’t seem to be ending any time soon, at least not for the holidays. Usually I do a gift-guide for artists and travelers about this time, but you know what? I think the best gifts in 2020 are going to be…

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On This Day: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

November 24, 2020 By Kimberly Kradel

Les Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was born to aristocratic parents at the Hôtel du Bosc in Albi, Tarn, in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France on November 24, 1864. Despite being known as a prolific French artist, the painter and illustrator of the cafes, cabarets, and dance halls,…

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Food For The Table: Pumpkin Potato Curry

November 23, 2020 By Kimberly Kradel

Sometimes my cooking is just an excited mess. Who doesn’t love cooking in cast iron? This day, I had the makings for a curry and I made it up as I went along. Fall is here and it was starting to cool down – hot comfort food seemed to be in the plan. Organic Ingredients:…

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Food For The Table: Breakfast Quesadilla

November 22, 2020 By Kimberly Kradel

The Artist Life! It’s been a while since I’ve had access to a kitchen, with the ability to cook for myself, and I’m not wasting any time. Food for the Table posts have been few and far between here over the past year, since we’ve been locked down. Right now I have a two week…

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On This Day: René Magritte

November 21, 2020 By Kimberly Kradel

Magritte Impersonator by René Magritte Born as René François Ghislain Magritte on November 21, 1898 in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. As an artist, Magritte became know for his wit and his compositions that take ordinary objects – like apples, clouds, pipes, bowler hats – and put them in out of context environments,…

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Brunelleschi’s Dome

November 4, 2020 By Kimberly Kradel

Italy in the fall of 1986. Florence. Getting off of the train at the Florence Santa Maria Novella (SMN) Train Station in the center of Florence I put my bags down for a moment and wondered what to do. It was my way. To travel without a plan, deciding to travel without a guidebook. To…

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