Sunday, October 4, 2026

Sharing a Peaceful ~Galactic Dust SunSet October, 1, 2026 6:40 PM, Jamie Forbes

Jamie Forbes is the Publisher of FineArtMagazineblog.blogspot.com, and SunstormFineArtMagazine.com 

This serene sunset on the water is capture form Jamie's backyard.   

 ©Jamie Forbes~Galactic Dust SunSet, October, 1, 2026 6:40 PM



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The Lew Allen Galleries announce they are representing Bette Ridgway, and her Color Abstractionist works. See details below.

 Bette Ridgeway's works below is linked to an online display of the works available.

She displays her process for pouring the media she uses to achieve the fluid look of transparency seen in the images displayed. 

 

Announcing Representation of New Work by Lyrical Color Abstractionist: Bette Ridgeway

 
Bette Ridgeway     American, b. 1940     Various Exhibition Pieces

Explore Bette Ridgeway’s stunning new works online through an interactive virtual viewing experience. Scroll through her dynamic studio process, discover the inspiration behind her luminous poured and stained color-field compositions, and preview select works from Chromatic Luminosity before the gallery opening.

 
 

MORE WORKS BY BETTE RIDGEWAY

 
Bette Ridgeway     American, b. 1940     Spinning Jewels, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 42in
 
 
Bette Ridgeway     American, b. 1940     Blue Mood, 2000, acrylic on canvas, 64 x 64in
Bette Ridgeway     American, b. 1940     Enraptured, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 42in
Spinning Jewels, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 42in
​Blue Mood, 2000, acrylic on canvas, 64 x 64in
​Enraptured, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 42in
 
 
 
 
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The Pollock-Krasner Study House and Study Program will resume virtual arts programs October 9, 2026. Catch the youtube channel linked below for free art vides.

My opinion: I like the programs that Joyce Ramunido puts on Virtual , and you tube for art learning. See her link blow to subscribe.  Thanks for reading, Jamie Forbes, Publisher of Fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com, and SunStromfineartmagazine.ocm

An Invitation from Joyce Raimondo

Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center

We will resume our live virtual Art Programs on October 9. In the meantime, I invite you to visit my You-Tube channel for over 100 art video lessons. Free!

Please support the you-tube channel by SUBSCRIBING.

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THE MATURE ARTIST Video

Have you ever told yourself you are too old to follow your creative dream? Think again! Discover how artists Lee Krasner, Henri Matisse, Alma Thomas and others created their greatest masterpieces in their older years truly defying ageist stereotypes. . 


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Offered by Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center

 

Image: Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock


Contact: Joyce Raimondo

Call 917 502 0790,joyce@imaginearted.com


 
 

 
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Friday, October 2, 2026

the Philadelphia Museum of Art update. Van Gogh Sunflowers, Workshop of the World, and more see details below.

 


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Last Chance
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers A Symphony in Blue and Yellow
Two oil paintings place side-by-side of yellow sunflowers in vases

On view through October 11

 

Two sunflower paintings: one completed in August 1888, on loan from the National Gallery, London, and one completed in January 1889, from our collection, are shown together to reveal Van Gogh’s artistic practice at the time.

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Workshop of the World: Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia
Detail of the oil painting "The Weavers of New Hope" by Violet Oakley

On view through October 11


This exhibition celebrates the creative innovations that emerged from a network of Philadelphia artists, architects, and manufacturers in response to the problems of urban industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Looking Ahead
Family Festival: Make Some Noise
Photo of two children holding musical instruments in a museum gallery

Celebrate Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month with music and art!

 

Free with Pay What You Wish admission. Kids 18 and under are always free.

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Marcel Duchamp

 

Opens October 10

 

Marcel Duchamp, one of the most innovative figures in modern culture, transformed the definition of art by taking a wrecking ball to traditional notions of skill, aesthetics, and taste. This exhibition brings together more than 200 works—from rarely displayed objects to his most renowned creations—showcasing the phenomenal range of his provocative ideas.

 

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New and Now
Colorful illustration featuring plants against an abstract background

Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month Celebration

 

Friday, October 9, 5:00–8:30 p.m.

 

Enjoy a night of live music, art-making, and themed talks.

Visitors at Friday Night

Friday Nights

 

Every Friday, 5:00–8:45 p.m.

 

Enjoy access to the museum after hours with music, drinks, and Pay What You Wish admission.

Seated visitors sketching in a museum gallery

Sketching in the Galleries

 

Every Friday, noon–1:30 p.m.,
Every Saturday, 10:30 a.m.–noon

 

Explore the galleries with drop-in sketching sessions. Participants enjoy a 20% discount on art supplies from the museum store.

 

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Marcel Duchamp book cover
Van Gogh's Sunflowers book cover

 

Browse our Marcel Duchamp and Van Gogh's Sunflowers catalouges.

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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow is made possible by the Gloria and Jack Drosdick Fund for Special Exhibitions and the Harriet and Ronald Lassin Fund for Special Exhibitions, and an anonymous donor.

Workshop of the World: Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia is made possible through the generous support of the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Katie Adams and Tony Schaeffer, Art and Debra Castelbaum, and Martha Hamilton and I. Wistar Morris III.

Terra Foundation for American Art

Funding for the catalog is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Fund for Scholarly Publications at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Decorative Arts Trust, and Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

 

Art Kids is supported by

 

PNC Arts Alive Be Part of Art

 

With additional support from The Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Jennifer and David Cardy, Julius and Ray Charlestein Foundation, Ellen T. and Ronald L. Caplan, Lori and Matthew Espe, Mr. And Mrs. D. Christopher Le Vine, Marrazzo Family Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Leo W. Pierce, Jr., The John J. Pohanka Family Foundation, and an anonymous donor.

Marcel Duchamp is organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, with the generous collaboration of the Centre Pompidou.

 

This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of the Annenberg Foundation Fund for Major Exhibitions, the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Fund for Exhibitions, the Lois G. and Julian A. Brodsky Installation and Exhibition Fund, Gloria and Jack Drosdick Fund for Special Exhibitions, the Harriet and Ronald Lassin Fund for Special Exhibitions, the Robert Montgomery Scott Endowment for Exhibitions, the Kathleen C. and John J. F. Sherrerd Fund for Exhibitions, Barbara B. and Theodore R. Aronson, The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation, Audrey Escoll, Jaimie and David Field, Sueyun and Gene Locks, The Honorable John J. Medveckis, Mitchell L. and Hilarie L. Morgan, Zoë S. Pappas, Marsha and Richard Rothman Family Foundation, Barbara A. Podell and Mark G. Singer, Katherine Sachs, Jack Shear, and Robbi and Bruce Toll.   

 

All exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art are underwritten by the Annual Exhibition Fund. Generous support is provided by Andrea Baldeck, M.D.; Julia and David Fleischner; Robert Hayes; and Mark W. Strong and Dana Strong.

 

Support for Pay What You Wish admission has been generously provided by an anonymous donor and

William Penn Foundation

Sunflowers (details), 1889 and 1888, by Vincent van Gogh ([Left] PMA: The Mr. and Mrs. Carroll S. Tyson, Jr., Collection, 1963-116-19); [Right] The National Gallery, London: Bought, Courtauld Fund, 1924, NG3863). The Weavers of New Hope (detail), 1920, by Violet Oakley (Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art, Scranton, Pennsylvania: Gift of Northeastern Bank of Pennsylvania, 84.2). ​Art Kids Family Festival image by Albert Yee. Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month artwork by Linda Fernandez. Friday Night image by Albert Yee. Sketching in the Galleries image by Gregory Wright. Catalog images by Rob Cusick.

 

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