Argument Chair

Mike Tyson should have one of this in his home. Well, it is a chair cushioned with boxing gloves called the Argument Chair. It is made of Nickel plated hardened steel and real Everlast leather boxing gloves and measures 30″W x 36″D x 48″H. The Argument Chair will cost you a whopping $5,895.

I Do Like Ike!

David Fernandez Duany

Por el mar de las Antillas, 2004, mixed media on canvas, 100 cm x 100 cm

David Fernandez Duany, born in 1964, apart from painter, is also a sculptor. He has given his heart to both art forms. Although born in the eastern part of Cuba he resides now in Matanzas, a province in the Northern part of the island. David is mainly inspired by serious and deep topics, which he expresses with the frequent use of dark colours.

http://www.lasbellasartes.nl/index.php

Cabeza de Monada

Cabeza de Monada, 1997, painted ceramic plate, 18 in (diam.)

Warhol-Basquiat Palladium poster with spelling error

In 2004 Christie's Australia was auctioning off a poster that was originally printed to advertise the Warhol/Basquiat collaboration show party at the Palladium in New York on September 14, 1985.

The poster was never used because of a spelling error ("addmission"). A set of ten was produced before the error was noticed and the poster they were offering was one of the ten.

The poster was to be sold with the actual boxing glove used for the image on the poster. The pink glove was signed and painted by Warhol, possibly making it more valuable than the poster.

The poster and glove together were estimated to sell for $1,000 - $1,500 Australian dollars. The sale was part of their International and Contemporary Paintings auction held August 23-24, 2004. The lot number was 273.

Sylvain Delcourt. Gravures

"Ce que j'ai fait, ce que je suis en train de faire et ce que je vais faire...des dessins, des peintures, des projets et parfois des textes, peut-être, avec pleins de fautes d'orthographes, bien sur."

http://sylvaindelcourt.blogspot.com/search/label/gravure

Igor Visotski. Fragmento de entrevista

Igor Visotski fue el famoso boxeador soviético que derrotó dos veces a Teófilo Stevenson. En una entrevista reciente con Alexei Andronov y Alexander Shmurnov, para Gazeta, respondió entre otras cosas lo siguiente:

¿Qué piensa de las canciones de Vladimir Visotski? ¿Es pariente suyo?

Me gustan mucho sus canciones, pero no somos parientes. Yo siempre he dicho que tenemos un perfil diferente: él es cantante, actor y poeta, y yo boxeador. Hay una canción suya sobre boxeo en la que cuenta, con mucha precisión, cómo se puede ganar a veces sin golpear mucho, cómo una pelea puede ganarse con sólo un último golpe.

¿Cómo fueron sus combates con el cubano Teófilo Stevenson?

Me preparé durante largo tiempo sólo para Stevenson. Mi padre, que también fue boxeador y mi entrenador, me dijo que más tarde o más temprano tendría que enfrentarme a Stevenson y me preparó especialmente para ello. Desde la infancia, me enseñó a resistir muchos rounds. Esa era mi principal ventaja, buena velocidad y buena resistencia. Un buen golpe debe combinarse con las manos y los pies. El boxeo es como el ballet, un arte.

Cuando los espectadores ven el boxeo, muchas veces sólo ven la fuerza bruta masculina, olvidando el intelecto, la técnica y la táctica de los boxeadores. ¿Qué porcentaje hay de arte, de ballet, en un peleador profesional?

El boxeador, al igual que el bailarín, trabaja con la limpieza del movimiento, en una combinación de movimientos de manos y pies sobre una superficie, buscando lograr armonía. Tanto en el arte, como en el ring hay una meta, una culminación. Durante la pelea, el boxeador piensa, analiza la situación y luego todo fluye automáticamente, incluso los reflejos.

(Gazeta, #156, agosto 20, 2008)

F. X . Toole

F. X. Toole (Jerry Boyd) (1930-2002)

F. X. Toole was born in 1930. Having worked as a bullfighter, professional boxing "cut man," taxi driver, and saloon keeper, Toole published his first book of fiction at age seventy. He died in 2002, before seeing his short story "Million Dollar Baby" become an Academy Award-winning film.

Tilly Strauss

Boxer Closet, 2008, watercolor and ink on paper, 9 in x 9.75 in

Johnny Burrito (Ugly Money)

Buenavista West Neighborhood Syndicate nos conecta con Johnny Burrito, de Charlotte, North Carolina, que además de clásicos burritos tiene una asombrosa colección de "dinero feo" (billetes y monedas alterados por la gente).

http://www.johnnyburrito.com/

Cien mil cañas

Blinky Palermo

Joseph Beuys with Blinky Palermo, Für Blinky, 1976

Blinky Palermo, Ohne Titel/Untitled, 1969

Blinky Palermo was born Peter Schwarze in Leipzig in 1943. He and his twin brother, Michael, grew up as adopted children under the name Heisterkamp. In 1962 he entered the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Joseph Beuys and, in 1964, adopted the name "Blinky Palermo," which he appropriated from an American boxing promoter and mafioso. In 1968 Palermo showed his Wall Drawings at the Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich. After visiting New York with Gerhard Richter in 1970, he established a studio there in 1973. Palermo died in 1977, while traveling in the Maldives. His last work, To the People of New York City (1976–77), was shown at the Heiner Friedrich Gallery, New York, in 1977, and at Dia in 1987. Before his death, Palermo participated in more than seventy exhibitions and represented Germany at the São Paulo Bienal in 1975. He has had posthumous retrospectives at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur (1984) and the Kunstmuseum Bonn (1993).

Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Roger Worms

La minute de repos, 1933, huile sur toile, 128 cm x 105 cm

Musée National du Sport, France.

Les impressionnistes, puis tout particulièrement les cubistes comme Robert DELAUNAY, ou des artistes suivant leur propre
chemin tels qu'André DUNOYER de SEGONZAC, ont abordé le sport, son mouvement, ses formes et ses couleurs. Le climat
d'une époque, d'un lieu et de ceux qui s'y réunissent, il est bien présent dans une toile telle que ce "Combat de boxe"
de Roger WORMS (né en 1907 à EPERNAY), lequel s'attacha au sujet sportif entre 1925 et 1937, et fonda en 1930 le Salon "Le Sport et les Artistes".

Elsita (the new other face of Elsa Mora)

Her name is Elsita and she is a Cuban artist living in LA. She masters paper cut and paper sculptures.

F. Lennox (Lenny) Campello

Multinational Peacekeeping Force Medal for Service in Cuba, 2007,
oil on gessoed paper, 12 in x 36 in

A ribbon for the future envisioned medal which will be awarded to the service men and women of various nations for participation in the future peacekeeping operations that will be required in Cuba once Castro dies and the prison island begins to descend into chaos.

http://lennycampello.com/

Sir Peter Blake

The Tarzan Family, 1995-2005, acrylic on canvas, 27 in x 49 in
Waddington Galleries, London, UK

Arbelio Fontes

Compay Segundo, 80 cm x 65 cm

Arbelio Fontes graduated in 1996 from San Alejandro Academy in Havana with painting as specialization. He has taken part in several collective exhibitions from 1986 until now, including a large number of exhibitions in Cuba, Brazil, Mexico and Spain. Besides those he also had two individual exhibitions in 1993 and 1996 in the provinces Holguin and Havana respectively. Arbelio created his own style with his Buena Vista Social Club series. Arbelio calls his technique ‘plastico’, in which he, while using a spatula and special materials, creates a 3-dimensional effect. Colours used are mainly several tones of brown and white. His favourite musicians of the 17-membered Cuban band are Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo.

http://www.lasbellasartes.nl/index.php

David FeBland

Navidad on the Malecon, 2003, oil on canvas, 36 in x 60 in

William Franklin Draper. Lieutenant Commander, USNR

Boxing Match, 1944, 0il on canvas, 40.n x 45 in

Born in Hopedale, Massachusetts in 1912, Draper attended the National Academy of Design and the Cope Art School in Massachusetts and also studied in France and Spain. Commissioned early in 1942, he created a series of paintings during his coverage of the Aleutians, Bougainville and the Marianas campaigns, many of which later appeared in color reproductions in the National Geographic Magazine. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his meritorious work as a combat artist in the Aleutians and under enemy attack in the South Pacific.

After returning to civilian life, William F. Draper earned an international reputation as a portraitist. His subjects have included John F. Kennedy (1962), the Shah of Iran (1967), James Michener (1979) and Richard M. Nixon (1981), as well as numerous other political, social, and corporate leaders. His work is included in the collections of a number of major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.

Thomas Eakins

Between Rounds, 1898-99, oil on canvas, 50.25 in x 40 in
Philadelphia Art Museum

The inherent drama of boxing has appealed to artists and writers from the first recorded bout – in Homer’s “Iliad.” The paintings of Philadelphia’s Thomas Eakins, an avid outdoorsman and sportsman, captured the grace of several of the day’s popular contests, including this gripping 1899 depiction. Eakins based this painting on a sketch he made of “Turkey Point” Billy Smith, a journeyman professional fighter he watched box at the Arena Athletic Club on North Broad Street the night of April 22, 1898.

Samuel Murray. sculptor

Turkey Point (Billy Smith), 1899, 30 inches tall

Samuel Murray was a friend of the famous American painter Thomas Eakins, who used the boxer Billy Smith as the model for his 1899 boxing painting "Between Rounds", now in the collection of the Philadelphia Art Museum.

Hop-hop, ropa de boxeo

http://www.habitamos.com/pics/2816610

Meet Santiago

www.riceandbeanz.net

Jonathan L. Baretz

Boxing, 2006, acrylic on canvas, 36 in x 24 in