by Sandy | Jul 10, 2017 | Blogroll, Books, Culture, Education, Events, Exhibits
On Saturday, 7/15/17, there will be spoken word events, over 200 exhibit booths, music, panel discussions and children’s activities will be on hand at the Harlem Book Fair. It’s a great way to spend a Saturday in the city.
“The vision of the Harlem Book Fair is to partner with local
and national leadership organizations under the banner of literacy
awareness, affirming HBF as the nation’s largest African American
literary event celebrating family literacy, community empowerment,
and community cooperation. “
19th Annual Harlem Book Fair
Saturday, July 15, 2017 – 10 AM – 6 PM
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE
515 Lenox Avenue, West 135th Street,, NYC
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by Sandy | May 22, 2017 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits
Recently highlighted in a segment of CBS Sunday Morning, is a traveling exhibit featuring artists Matisse and Diebenkorn, often with paintings displayed side by side.
There are more than “90 paintings and drawings by the French modern master, Henri Matisse, and one of the greatest post-war American painters, Richard Diebenkorn.”
“Diebenkorn’s long engagement with Matisse’s work is among the most productive instances of one painter looking at another’s paintings in the history of 20th-century art. This landmark exhibition brings together a stunning array of works loaned from museums and private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe to follow the trajectory of Diebenkorn’s long and successful career with some of the powerful works by Matisse that the younger artist would have seen.”
“Matisse/Diebenkorn” Until May 29, 2017
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(Images:The Yellow Dress. 1929-31 Matisse / Seated Figure with Hat. 1967 Diebenkorn)
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by Sandy | May 9, 2017 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston presents: “Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950”.
Considered to be “the most comprehensive and significant presentation of modern and contemporary Cuban art shown in the United States since 1944… it looks at how Cuba’s revolutionary aspirations for social utopia—and subsequent disillusionment—shaped 65 years of Cuban art. The exhibition brings together more than 100 of the most important works of painting, graphic design, photography, video, installation, and performance created by more than 50 Cuban artists and designers.”
Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950
Until May 31, 2017
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX
(Image: Raúl Martínez, Sin título (Untitled), 1969–70, oil on canvas)
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by Sandy | Apr 12, 2017 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
Until May 14, 2017, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Presents: “American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent”
“Although widely practiced in the US before the Civil War, watercolor painting existed at the margins of the professional art world. Considered the domain of amateurs, women, and commercial artists, it drew little interest from the mainstream painters of the mid-1800s.
Watercolor’s reputation changed with the creation of the American Watercolor Society in 1866.”
American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia
(Image: 2 cats, 1912, Stuart Davis)
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by Sandy | Apr 3, 2017 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
“Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s presents a focused look at painting from this decade with works drawn entirely from the Museum’s collection.”
“The exhibition includes work by artists often identified with this explosive period—Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sherrie Levine, David Salle, and Julian Schnabel—as well as by several lesser-known painters. These artists explored the traditions of figuration and history painting, and offered new interpretations of abstraction…”
Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s
Until May 14, 2017
Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
(Image: Ross Bleckner – “Count No Count”, 1989. Oil and wax on canvas)
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