Modernist Uruguayan painter Joaquín Torres-García (1874—1949) “one of the most influential artists of the early 20th century to have emerged from Latin America” will have is work presented at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston until 11/29/09.
“Joaquin Torres-Garcia: Paintings in Houston Collection”
Until November 29, 2009
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, MFAH
If you are in town please stop by “The Breadfruit” in Phoenix”. Will have a few paintings on the wall for the month of Oct.
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Just a quarter of a century ago, in the neighborhoods you were told to stay clear of , the theory was that the new “Cosby Show” was not reality. The show was funny, responsible and smart, but some people thought it was a fairy tale.
The Huxtables
The focus on this one fictional Black Family mirrored the lives of many Africans American families whose existence had been overlooked by the general media as well as those who needed and deserved a different kind of role model.
How important is the media!
Last year when then candidate Obama was running for the Presidency it was said (often) that people where now open to this possibility having seen movies and a TV show with an African in American as commander and chief.
The Cosby show first aired at a time when MTV, a breeding ground exclusively for white recording artists, was under pressure to include more colorful acts. At that time, the thought of an African American quarterback leading a team to a Superbowl win was seen as a bigger fantasy then a Black doctor with a stable home life.
I don’t think there is a show on the air now that represents the promise of the kind of change in cultural understanding that the Cosby Show offered. Maybe there is one, but I’ve not seen it yet.
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Beginning October 10, MoAD, Museum of the African Diaspora, and 2 other Bay Area museums, Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz and de Saisset Museum in San Francisco, will present a retrospective of abstract artist Richard Mayhew, who was born in Amityville, NY in 1924, and now resides in California.
Mayhew describes himself as “an improvisationalist.” when describing his work. He says that he uses “painting terms like expressionism only as reference point for others. They don’t understand improvisation…real, gut feeling, the act of improvising as the act of discovery. That’s abstract expression. That’s jazz.”
The exhibit will display “the best of Mayhew’s paintings that combine his unique style, philosophy for painting, and synthesis of artistic and social influences that set the trajectory of his artistic career… The MoAD exhibition will explore the personal and professional foundations of Mayhew’s style as a young man of African and Native American descent coming of age in New York during the 1950s explosion of Abstract Expressionist art.“
October 10, 2009 – January 10, 2010
MoAD – The Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission Street San Francisco, CA
Few people ever have or give themselves the time to study, consume a
nd then understand something outside of themselves. Monet’s paintings in Giverny reminds me of a solitude reached by chanting or prayer. Eventually you arrive at an understanding.
September 13, 2009–April 12, 2010
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45 pieces by Saint-Gaudens, 1848-1907, will be presented at The Met until November. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he moved to the U.S. as a child and apprenticed in New York City. He is credited with steering American sculpture away from the usual classical subjects of the time to a more natural, dynamic style.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens * until 11/15/09
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC