Happy Holidays!

 

Henry Farrer, Winter Scene in Moonlight (detail), 1869. Watercolor and gouache on white wove paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Morris K. Jesup Fund, Martha and Barbara Fleischman, and Katherine and Frank Martucci Gifts, 1999.

Bleachers - chinatown (BLEACHERS ON THE ROOF live at electric lady)

Bleachers // “chinatown” feat. Bruce Springsteen // Out Now! Listen here: http://smarturl.it/xchinatown Listen to “45”: http://smarturl.it/x45 Watch the official video for "chinatown": https://smarturl.it/xchinatown/youtube Guitar and Vocals - Bruce Springsteen Guitar and Keys - Mikey Freedom Hart Drums - Sean Hutchinson Percussion and Bells - Mike Riddleberger Sax and Keys - Evan Smith Sax and Keys - Zem Audu Sax - Anna Webber Director - Nicholas Robespierre Producer - Casey Stein Executive Producer - Evan Brown Editor - Jesus Sepulveda VHS Footage - Carlotta Kohl DP - Casey Stein Engineer - John Rooney Colorist - Jenny Montgomery Production Company - Dreambear Apple Music: https://smarturl.it/xchinatown/applem... Spotify: https://smarturl.it/xchinatown/spotify Amazon Music: https://smarturl.it/xchinatown/az YouTube Music: https://smarturl.it/xchinatown/youtub... iTunes: https://smarturl.it/xchinatown/applem... Pandora: https://smarturl.it/xchinatown/pandora Deezer: https://smarturl.it/xchinatown/deezer Tidal: https://smarturl.it/xchinatown/tidal Subscribe to Bleachers’ channel for more videos: https://smarturl.it/BleachersYTSubscribe Follow Bleachers: http://www.bleachersmusic.com/ https://twitter.com/bleachersmusic https://www.facebook.com/bleachersmusic https://www.instagram.com/bleachersmusic Follow Bruce Springsteen: https://brucespringsteen.net/ https://www.instagram.com/springsteen https://twitter.com/springsteen https://www.facebook.com/brucesprings... ____ chinatown get in my backseat honey pie and i’ll wear your sadness like it’s mine because it’s just good to have what’s been missing yeah it’s bad when it’s good to always be missing but a girl like you could rip me out of my head black tears on your cheek i want them in my bed i’ll take you out of the city honey right into the shadow ‘cause i wanna find tomorrow yeah i wanna find tomorrow with a girl like you my chinatown baby sittin’ on your front porch crying out the crazy i’ll take you out of the city honey right into the shadow ‘cause i wanna find tomorrow yeah i wanna find tomorrow with you baby gimme gimme gimme that big red light and take the sadness out of saturday night because it’s so good to have what’s been missing we were bad to be bad to always be missing but a girl like you could rip me out of my head black tears on your cheek i want them in my bed i’ll take you out of the city honey right into the shadow ‘cause i wanna find tomorrow yeah i wanna find tomorrow with a girl like you my chinatown baby sittin’ on your front porch crying out the crazy i’ll take you out of the city honey right into the shadow cause i wanna find tomorrow yeah i wanna find tomorrow with you baby i wanna run i wanna chase every feeling i wanna run #bleachers #chinatown #live

Jon Batiste - Don’t Stop (Official Video)

Barbra Streisand - Don't Lie to Me (Official Video)

Watch Barbra speak truth to power!

Great Read: Portraits: John Berger on Artists

Really enjoying John Berger's new book which collects many of his perceptive pieces on art and artists.

John Berger’s Portraits shows how art teaches us to see: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2015/12/john_berger_s_portraits_reviewed.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top … via @slate

This Weekend at Esalen: The Courage to Create

WEEKEND OF DECEMBER 12-14, 2014

Gregg Chadwick
The Painter (il miglior fabbro)
24"x30" oil on linen 2013

What role does creativity play in our lives? Is it an inner imperative that helps us forge the well-lived life? This workshop at Esalen, situated along California's rugged Big Sur coastline, engages with the notion that creativity is a “battle with the gods” in light of its Latin origins in the word creare, the natural urge “to grow or make order of chaos."

Our point of departure is that creativity is an archetypal journey with recognizable stages, which are especially helpful when we are stuck or lost in our work. For the last thirty years, Phil Cousineau has used his three-stage model — Inspiration, Perspiration, and Realization — as a guide to help writers, artists, and filmmakers to deepen and complete their work. The artist Gregg Chadwick uses his own artwork and anecdotes from his lifelong study of painters to provide an inside look at practices that will help us find a balance between inspiration and the marketplace, traditional notions of beauty with daring acts of innovation, and personal discipline with the importance of building community. Together, they will alternate lecture, discussion, movie clips, slide shows, readings, and exercises that encourage cross-fertilization between the visual arts and the written word.

This workshop is designed for creative souls in every field who hope to rekindle their imagination and passion, and renew their sense of joy.

Recommended reading: Cousineau, Stoking the Creative Fires and The Art of Pilgrimage; Cousineau and Chadwick, The Painted Word.

Gregg Chadwick
Die Kathedrale Der Bücher (The Cathedral of Books)              
36"x48" oil on linen 2013

More Info at:
http://www.esalen.org/workshop/weekend-december-12-14/courage-create

Phil Cousineau

Phil Cousineau

Phil Cousineau is a freelance writer, filmmaker, teacher, and youth baseball coach. He has published more than 30 books, including the bestselling The Hero's Journey: The Life and Work of Joseph Campbell. He has written award-winning documentary films, and is the host of "Global Spirit," a nationally broadcast series on LINK TV and PBS.

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Gregg Chadwick

Gregg Chadwick

Gregg Chadwick creates his artwork in an old airplane hangar in Santa Monica, California. The recurring sound of airplane take-offs and landings from the active airport runway outside his studio reminds him of his own history of travel. Chadwick has exhibited his artworks in galleries and museums both nationally and internationally. He earned a Bachelor's Degree at UCLA and a Master’s Degree at NYU, both in Fine Art. He has had notable solo exhibitions at the Manifesta Maastricht Gallery (Maastricht, The Netherlands), Space AD 2000 (Tokyo, Japan), the Sandra Lee Gallery (San Francisco), and the Lisa Coscino Gallery (Pacific Grove) among others. He has participated in nearly one hundred group exhibitions including at the di Rosa Preserve's Off the Preserve (Sonoma), the San Francisco Art Institute, the Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, the Monterey Art Museum, the LOOK Gallery (Los Angeles), the Arena 1 Gallery (Santa Monica), and the Arts Club of Washington (Washington DC). Chadwick’s art is notably included in the collections of the Adobe Corporation, the Gilpin Museum, the Graciela Hotel in Burbank, the Harbor Court Hotel in San Francisco; the Kimpton Group’s headquarters in San Francisco, the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Nordstrom Company Headquarters, the W Hotel Hollywood, and Winona State University.

Chadwick is frequently invited to lecture on the arts; in 2011-14 he spoke at UCLA, Monterey Peninsula College, the Esalen Institute, at Demand Media during NewCo LA, and at the World Views forum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands as well as at Categorically Not, a monthly forum that considers the arts and science, in May 2013 and December 2014.

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A Memory Museum

by Gregg Chadwick

Holland  Cotter has a wonderful new piece in the New York Times entitled A Memory Museum. 

Cotter writes," I’m also a curator of my memory, which carries traces of art encounters from over the years. A few of those encounters — with certain objects, books, buildings — have altered the atmosphere, changed how I see and joined a permanent collection that I regularly revisit."

He then challenges us to describe experiences with art that has changed our lives and to post them in the comment section in his article. I find this to be an enlightening question:
Which works of art have changed the way you look at the world? 

I answered Mr. Cotter with the following:

The place of memory in the arts is so revealing. One of my first experiences with an artwork happened in Amsterdam when I was a six year old and the experience changed me forever. My father had finished his tour in Vietnam as a USMC JAG and we reunited as a family in Europe. During that trip we visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. There I found myself slack jawed in front of Rembrandt’s iconic group portrait "The Sampling Officials of the Amsterdam Drapers Guild."  I recognized it as the same image on the Dutch Masters’ cigar box, my father’s go-to brand. The connection was phenomenal; I was hooked and I knew that someday I would become an artist.