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Well, what’s art to one isn’t necessarily art to another. That’s definitely the case with a new exhibit at the LA Art Show where “Left” or “Right” is currently on display. This project by Marisa Caichiolo shows 20 punching bags with the faces of different world leaders on them. It is said to help people to release anger, hatred and resentment as they interact with and punch the bags.  The exhibit is there from January 10-14 in Los Angeles.

Here is one feature NPR did on the presentation.

Check it out here and enjoy it for yourself!

On October 8^th and 9^th, an antique show returned to the Calvary United Methodist Church in Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Directed by antiques dealer Martin Fuess, it included twenty dealers from Western Pennsylvania and Ohio selling their antiques and collectibles.

As Fuess said, “I make a concerted effort to up the diversity in terms of available merchandise, including china, artwork, glassware, jewelry, prints and more.” The actual setting is as much a treasure as are the things people found to buy. The church dates from 1893 and has a restored 1895 Farrand & Votey organ in its sanctuary.

This was the second year of the show and included Regis Bush, owner of Kensington Court Antiques in Ross, Sewickley Antiques, Shaw Galleries of Downtown Pittsburgh, Timeless Treasures of West Mifflin, Joan Rudolph of Antique Junction in Canonsburg and Brandon Riggans of Columbus, Ohio.

We aren’t all interior designers and it’s not easy to know how to set a cute table. But with a few tips, you should be able to buy the products you need from EMBraer Paper Goods, or elsewhere, and make that table look great.

First, think about the event that you’re having. Do you want wild, splashy color choices or more subdued tones? If you’re thinking about Father’s Day, for instance, you might want to go with plates in a dark brown hue for the meal and match them with light brown desert plates. The table clothes that you purchase could, similarly, fit into the brown theme. If you’re looking to buy paper goods for a child’s birthday party, you will probably want to go with something more dramatic.

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One customer of EMBraer Paper Goods, Jack Elio, described his recent party for his parent’s fiftieth anniversary. As he said, “We bought these beautiful gold plates and used the gold theme throughout. The table clothes were a mix of white and gold, the plates were gold, the silverware was white and we bought white and gold balloons. Even though the paper goods were paper and not real china, the room sparkled and everything was beautiful.”

For boat lovers and antique collectors in Florida, the Sunnyland Antique Boat Festival is worth a look. The 28^th festival is taking place today. The schedule starts with a free symposium, delivering the talk called “The Cobra and Its History” at 9:30 am in the Tavares City Hall auditorium. Then, at 10:30 there is a lecture called “Cobra Restoration” and “Engines of the Cobra” at 11:30.

The afternoon will be filled with informative lectures as well entitled “Rudder Engineering,” “Trailer Safety,” “Outboard Motors,” and “Today’s Vintage Boat Market.”

They expect about 120 boats in the water, another 44 on land and about 35 for sale. About 10,000 people are expected to attend. All of this will take place at the Wooton Park waterfront.

If you’ll be anywhere near Seattle this fall, it will be worth it to pop into the Seattle Art Museum. They will be showing the artwork of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and other pioneers in the pop art movement from October 9^th 2014 to January 11^th, 2015.

The show will also include Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jeff Koons and Barbara Kruger. The show, called “Pop Departures” looks at the influential pop art movement that started in the 1960s.

As the Seattle Art Museum website explains, “The pioneers of American Pop will be represented with key works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, John Chamberlain, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann, and Mel Ramos. The exhibition will further examine a new generation of artists in the 1980s—including Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, and Raymond Pettibon—who began to rethink ideas of commodity culture in a new social and political climate. And finally, Pop Departures will consider contemporary artistic positions in relation to commodity culture and celebrity with recent work by Josephine Meckseper, Elad Lassry, Margarita Cabrera, Mickalene Thomas, and Ryan Trecartin.”