by Sandy | Oct 21, 2023 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
Closed for 2 years, the “National Museum of Women in the Arts“, or NMWA, has reopened.
It is one of many museums in the DC area, but this one is special because it “is the only major museum in the world solely dedicated to recognizing women’s creative contributions.”
Created in 1987,with more “than 4,000 works, NMWA’s wide-ranging collection provides a comprehensive survey of art by women from the 16th century to the present, with new acquisitions added regularly”.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
New York Avenue and 13th Street, NW, DC
(“Cuatro Pescaditos”, Graciela Iturbide – Oaxaca, Mexico, 1986)
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by Sandy | Oct 11, 2023 | Art, Blogroll, Culture
“Experience the beauty and complexity of Blackness in Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo’s debut solo museum exhibition Soul of Black Folks.”
Love his portraits. Love how he does skin.
“When I’m making paintings,
I want the characters to be strong,
I want them to be free,
I want them to be independent,
I want them to be unapologetic.”
— Amoako Boafo
Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
Simonyi Special Exhibition Galleries
by Sandy | Jul 3, 2023 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, CDs, music
Ms Streisand was all over PBS a few years ago with her show “Barbra Streisand: One Night Only At the Village Vanguard”. She can still touch people with her voice and it was fun to listen and watch her wrap her tiny audience (the NYC club only seats about 150) around her finger – or vocal chords in this case. She is still amazing.
I wanted to hear more, so dug I out an old Barbra Streisand record “The Broadway Album” (yes, “album” – like I said “old”, but now on CD) and again was in awe of her renditions of some great songs from past musicals. I have a weakness for Broadway show tunes, especially those songs from Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Gershwin – music from Porgy & Bess, Carousel, West Side Story, The King & I, etc. This music appeals to me because it usually has a story to tell, an emotion to crystallize, a longing to express.
Over the years, these little song poems, have become “standards” – they haven’t gone away, they are being sung someplace, somewhere every day. Whether in person or on CD, Ms Streisand’s versions are beautiful, soaring, romantic, funny & perfect.
Barbra Streisand – a treasure!
(Originally posted May 2020)
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by Sandy | Jun 17, 2023 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
Ansel Adams in Our Time: The Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, CA presents a group of more than 100 pieces of his work.
“Laid out in seven sections tracing Adams’s artistic development, the exhibition features some of his most-loved photographs, including images of Yosemite, San Francisco, and the American Southwest.”
Ansel Adams in Our Time
Until July 23, 2023
Image : Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite ~ Ansel Adams, 1902 – 1984
by Sandy | May 28, 2023 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits
“Museum of the African Diaspora is proud to present “Meet Us Quickly: Painting for Justice from Prison”, an exhibition of the work of twelve artists incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison…”
They have also provided notes about themselves and their work.
Meet Us Quickly: Painting for Justice from Prison
MoAD – The Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission Street San Francisco, CA
(Image: Gentle Giants, Antwan “Banks” Williams)
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