Laffanour Galerie At Milan Design Week. April 20-26th, 2026. Great Nectar Bronzes by Kris Van Assche

Laffanour | Galerie Downtown currently presents Nectar Vessels Bronzes by Kris Van Assche   At Milan Design Week   from 20th to 26th April 2026 from 10am to 7pm   at Fondazione Sozzani Via Enrico Tazzoli 3 - Milano

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François Laffanour : ©De Pascuale+Maffini #laffanourdowntowngallery#designweek milan #krisvanassche#ineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com#sunstormfineartmagazine.com#artfunforever#designartfun   Based in Paris, Laffanour | Galerie Downtown is a leading reference in the field of postwar design, representing iconic figures such as Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, Pierre Jeanneret, and Le Corbusier. Since its opening in the 1980s, the gallery has been actively committed to preserving and promoting this heritage, while highlighting the contemporary resonance of these works within today’s design landscape. In the aftermath of the Second World War, designers and architects introduced a new approach to the art of furnishing, driven by a need for freedom and efficiency. Furniture thus became a reflection of a new way of living, shaped by technological and scientific advances, as well as by sociological, demographic, and social changes. The gallery also preserves the archives of Galerie Steph Simon, which, from 1956 to 1974, represented and produced furniture by Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, Serge Mouille, Georges Jouve, and Isamu Noguchi.

Fun Theater Art at the Martin E. Segal Theater Center Monday Today April 20th, at 6:30 PM

 

Looks like a fun event Live in Person or Streaming.  Register below for the event!!! 

BUENOS AIRES in NEW YORK  Romina Paula's Sombras, of course (Argentina) Today, Monday, April 20th, 2026  The Martin E. Segal Theatre 6:30 PM Live / In Person | FREE and OPEN to the public Click here to register for the live event The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street Livestreamed via HowlRound Join us for an evening celebrating New York's artistic exchange of Buenos Aires in New York with Romina Paula, one of Argentina’s most celebrated playwrights and filmmakers. In her work Paula breaks down barriers of artistic genres, while investigating the synergies between documentary and fiction, gender and biography, love and art. Paula will direct excerpts of her new play Shadows, of course (Sombras, por supuesto), a translation-in-progress by APRIL SWEENEY and BRENDA WERTH. Followed by a panel with artists and presenters of the Buenos Aires / New York Artistic Exchange, moderated by FRANK HENTSCHKER. Reception to follow. With with the artistic team of Paula's Fauna & The Whole of Time, the Drama Desk nominated surprise hit with over 70 performance in New York at TORN PAGE and THE BRICK: BEN BECHER, JOSEFINA SCARO, DAVID SKEIST, APRIL SWEENEY, BRENDA WERTH, and others. Special Thanks to TONY TORN. About the play: Two unlikely police officers arrive at a couple’s house to investigate the disappearance of their son. On the edge between a mundane, stark reality and a luminous absurdity, Paula's dialogues slowly weave a mysterious web: the right to withdraw from society, the meaning of parenthood, the search for truth and a police officer’s supposed ability to act as a psychic medium in order to connect with the disappeared. Like in Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," Shadows, of course represents the distorted and blurred realms of reality—as well as the shadows of the underworld that exists around and within each of us. The play is inspired by two recent cases of police violence and disappearance in Argentina.   Events are FREE and open to the public on a first come, first served basis at The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street. Subway: Herald Square, lines B/D/F/M/N/Q/R/W www.theSegalCenter.org Info: 212-817-1860 The Martin E. Segal Center | 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Follow us @SegalCenter Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email

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Ray Grasse on Thinking VS. Meditation Looks like an art form to me!!

 

Just a Different Art From from Ray Grasse, 

Thinking vs. Meditation 

RAY GRASSE APR 19

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I don’t teach meditation anymore, for various reasons, but back in the day when I did, a fellow come up to me after a class where I taught a particular breathing technique, and asked me:

“So what am I supposed to be thinking while I’m meditating?”

I was a bit surprised by that. After thinking about it for a few moments I said, “Okay, imagine someone you know is about to have sex for the first time and they come up to you and ask, ‘So, what am I supposed to be thinking while I’m having sex?

How would you answer?”

Ray Grasse is a writer, astrologer, and photographer living in the American Midwest. His websites are www.raygrasse.com and www.raygrassephotography.com. 

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Jamie Forbes, A Diary Memory of Jane Goodall, and more current image of Baboon and Girl.

I had the pleasure of meeting Jane Goodall at an event hosted by publisher Louise MacBain in 2007, I think. The round table she sat at was small. During a break I came to sit beside her, and we spoke for a short while about her work. In telling her I was struck by the poignancy of her work, her response there was humble. Jane was reticent to talk about herself saying she had always pursued her goals without people approving of her. Later when my personal journey began to segway out of publishing, and the travel required I picked up a Masters in Eco- art Awareness, Photographic Theory, and Environmental ethics. As an environmentalist I was concerned about people’s relationship to the world around them.

Baboon and Girl/San diego Zoo/ ©rights reserved JamieForbes/SunStormArtsPub.Co.Inc 2026

As time moves forward last year, I participated in showing my environmental ~Galactic Dust SunSet Series. ~  in San Diego at the EC Gallery opening of a Native American art exhibition. While there I went with my family to the San Diego Zoo, one of our favorite spots.  The below image ~Baboon with Girl~ I captured while observing a large male Baboon walk over to place his hand on the separating partition.  He was looking at a small girl. He waited for her response. After several seconds I leaned over and said” I think he wants you to put your hand up too.” With my suggestions she placed her hand on his.

Observe the hands. What strikes me most is that I see the Baboon’s happiness resulting in a real connection. I was touched. You know I think all creatures aren't very different. Jamie Ellin Forbes, Publisher if the FineArtMagazine bog.blogspot.com, and SunStormFineartmagazine.com  ©rights reserved JamieForbes/SunStormArtsPub.Co.Inc 2026 /https://sites.google.com/view/eco-advocacy/home Jamie Ellin Forbes, Publisher if the FineArtMagazine bog.blogspot.com, and SunStormFineartmagazine.com  ©rights reserved JamieForbes/SunStormArtsPub.Co.Inc 2026 /https://sites.google.com/view/eco-advocacy/home

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Jamie Forbes: ~Turkey in Mating Season Full Color~ 2026 Art Environmental Fun fun fever!!!!

Jamie Ellin Forbes is an Eco-Art Photographer, based on Long Island New York. Jamie's  work features local environmental  imagery. Her process was honed while earning a MA, the process documented at https://sites.google.com/view/eco-advocacy/home 

Jamie Art images can be seen https://sunstormfineartmagazine.com/jamie-forbes-photography/

Jamie Forbes is the publisher of the Fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com, and Sunstormforneartmagazine.com

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Art Laguna World : Ashlin McAndrew Body and Craft, Constructions as Images :

ASHLIN McANDREW Body and Craft

Ashlin McAndrew (New Jersey, 1994) began her artistic journey with a gift: a handmade doll, given to her by her babysitter. That early encounter sparked a lifelong pursuit of sewing and handcraft. When her formal studies failed to offer what she called the "lost art of handcrafting", she sought it elsewhere, building relationships with makers who could cultivate and pass on that knowledge directly. Her work centers the body as a means of engaging with the material world — a practice that becomes not only a physical expression of our humanity, but a meditative ritual through which we understand ourselves as part of nature.

In Divisible, 2025 Discover FINALIST ARTWORK - Upcoming exhibition in Arsenale Nord (Venice) The work In-Divisible (2025) was created using the fabric of old decommissioned American flags. The piece references the artist's early memory of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in school on the morning of 9/11. The work addresses the role of ritual in propaganda, personal and collective memory, and veneers created versus the reality lived. Flags are taken apart and stitched back together to create the word "Indivisible," questioning the actions and false image that has been coupled with this word, while holding hope for genuine unity and repair. More info

THE QUILTING As mentioned previously, the theme of quilting connects not only to artistic representation, but to the body itself. What the artist values the most about this technique is its fundamentally human, imperfect quality. Each stitch carries will and intention — not mechanical repetition, but the deliberate presence of the person making it. There is magic and special care embedded in what is sewn, and it is precisely here that McAndrew begins her work.

“To me, art has always been, first and foremost, an act of seeing and paying attention. People often think of art as our capacity to render or create things — but to create anything meaningful, we first have to learn how to see and pay attention. To me, paying attention is the deepest act of care. ”   - A. McAndrew

THE INTERVIEW   The Body is a central element of your artistic career: it’s implicitly present in every artwork, establishing a relationship between body and materials. How does this concept integrate with your work? To me, relating to and having a dialogue with materials — and even other humans — is a dialogue my body is engaged in, rather than my intellect. I perceive our bodies to be extremely intelligent, holding ancient wisdom, with a much deeper capacity to perceive, feel, and hold nuanced and varied perspectives. So many ancient cultures have been rooted in a practice of making and craft. We can’t make things purely with our minds. [...] Full interview →

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