Nantucket Art

A week of star spotting on Nantucket Island culminates this weekend with the 13th Nantucket Film Festival. Unlucky perhaps for anyone attempting to nip into town WITHOUT spotting a celeb… (more…)

We spent a couple of hours on YouTube scoping out the Nantucket content and found some nice clips on there posted by Doerte Neudert at the Art Cabinet, including this virtual tour of the gallery.. a great idea.

This week’s Featured Nantucket Artist is Tim Campbell. Tim works around Nantucket and The Cape painting nautical themes and furniture. See Tim Cambell Art here >>

Money Shots is the hot new internet guerilla art phenomenon hard on the heels of the Sleeveface craze. You can see more over at the Money Shots Flickr group. We’re concerned that all the notes used so far seem to be European – come on Nantucket – get involved… but is it ART ?? !!

Cioppinos restaurants signature piece of Art “International Cuisine” – a signed limited edition print of Leroy Neiman’s, has been stolen this month.

Neiman is a widely know for his sports paintings seen around the world during coverage of the Olympics and other events. The signed art print taken from Cioppinos has hung in the dining room for the past 12 years and could be worth as much as $15,000.

“The person who took it knew what they were doing. They came right in and just took the print and nothing else,” said Root. “Nothing else in the restaurant was even slightly disturbed.”

Anyone with information is asked to call 239-370-7581 or the Nantucket Police Department at 508-228-1212. A cash reward will be offered.

Bo Diddley’s sad demise put us all in a pensive mood for a-few hours, that was somehow resolved by finding this great quote from the man himself..

“I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.”
Bo Diddley

Now we can’t be sure that the big fella was referring directly to the Beatles (although there is documented resentment against the British Invasion from some of the original bluesmen, who were neither credited nor rewarded for cover versions) – but there was a certain pathos felt in the Nantucket Art offices when we viewed this footage of Paul McCartney choosing to play ‘A Day In The Life’ – for the 1st time ever – on Sunday in his home town of Liverpool…