22 — Sunday, March 23, 1997 — North Shore News

Tour takes in NYC

By Layne Christensen
Community Reporter
This May, Kiff
Holland will take his
llth trip to the Big
Apple, a city that gets
his artistic juices flow-
ing.

As with past visits, he’s

inviting the public ro come
slong.

Arr history books do the
best they can, he save, but
never replace sertny the real
thing.

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absoluteh in love

with the whole business of

seeing the original art.” savs
Holland. who shares with bis

Lour-goers a pamter’s view of

the world.
That means giving them 4
little insider information.
“People think that ia a
vallery, every painting isa

With New York artist masterpiece,” he save. Not
Katie Reid, he’s true.
hosting an art And to demon
appreciation tour. “T?m strate he'll point

The tour, May OUt a few Not-so-
8-18, is a joint absolutely hor Van Gohs.
venture between ; fe owy The = pace ts
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lege, where the whole “Pm net into
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and Infinity business Of  ‘muscum feet,”
Travel. “Singer- 20] o says Holland,
Sargent nuts” hke SCCINS, the noting that fast
Holland ean original year's group
extend their stay ” tanued in age
to include three art. from 25 to 84.

days in Boston,
which has the
best collection of Singer-
Sargent outside New York.
Accommadations are at
the Y — not just any Y, but
the Vanderbilt YMCA, which
Holland says is fabulous
because it meets all three of
his requirements: it’s safe,
it’s clean and it’s ceniral.
Situated in  mid-town
Manhattan, it’s a five-minute
walk to Times Square.

Most) museum

tours are maxi-
mum two hours tong and
take place in the morning so
the afternoon is free for vis-
its to “Saks and Bloomie’s.”
After a happy hour at 3:30
p.m., everyone assembled
disperses to take in a gallery
opening or an off-Broadway
show. Holland’s presence
helps open doors — like at
the Brooklyn Museum where
priceless Singer-Sargent

NEWS pnoto Mike Wakefield

ARTIST Kiff Holland will share his insight of the East
Coast art scene with art lovers on a planned tour of New

York and Boston this May.

watercolors are brought up
from the vault in locked
attaché cases. Holland says
the tour is ideal for art lovers
who are first-timers to New
York.

He takes care to street-
proot his charges immediate-
ly upon touchdown and by
the end of the trip, they're
acting like true New Yorkers:

“They walk faster and

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