by Sandy | Jan 20, 2008 | Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Galleries
Not just a city for poker, slots and all you can eat brunch, Las Vegas, NV will host “American Modernism” at the Bellagio Hotel Gallery of Fine Arts from Feb. 8 to Oct. 15, 2008.
More than 30 paintings featuring works of Georgia O’Keefe, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, and Arshile Gorky will be on display. (“American Modernism” is thought to have developed around 1900 in response to new artists searching for a change from the popular Impressionists of the time.)
The exhibit was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
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by Sandy | Jan 11, 2008 | Artist, Concerts, Dance
The artist formerly known as, currently known as “Prince” will be performing in Las Vegas starting in November and thru 2007. Rather than see this as a sell out or commercialization of an esteemed performer – a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, tons of gold records“ I was thrilled. He will add talent and class to a city that seems to be a continuous poker tournament.
This artist and he is one, regardless of all of the eccentricities that have been applied to him creates and performs with such joy and passion that listening and watching him on stage is an example of what can be achieved when you continue to work at your craft, your bliss, whatever it is.
His recordings are great fun, but, on stage he is electricity, genius, and he can dance! He spins, he does the split while still playing guitar. Hot stuff!
I don’t think his planned Friday and Saturday night stints in a Vegas hotel lounge will change his work ethic. He will continue to be one of the “hardest working men in show business” on stage.
He will wear white silk jumps suits? Maybe his onstage wardrobe is also part of the fun, but, I have no doubt he will not disappoint, he will “put on a show” in the best theatrical tradition.
I will clap, dance, tap my feet and be transported. I will forget all about my under funded 401k and company downsizing. He will give me my money’s worth Prince is a star!
by Bob Martin | Dec 26, 2007 | Art, Artist, Events, Exhibits, Museums
If you are in New York, stop by the Metropolitan Transit Authority Museum and see the work of Marvin Franklin, read his story and appreciate him and his work.
by Bob Martin | Dec 15, 2007 | Actors, Art, Artist, Books, Directors, Movies
I got tagged by James Neil Hollingsworth a delightful and thoughtful painter. I am now required to list 5 little known facts about myself, then “tag” five other artists to do the same.
Here are my five:
- When I was 15 I had this mad infatuation (nothing more) with a niece of Edvard Munch. We worked together (she was technically my boss) I was never sure if it was because she was a relative of a famous artist and I wanted to be one or that I thought she looked like Maria Schell.
- I did and still do get confused when reading something in big type like on a movie theater billboard. As a kid I went by myself to see Samson and Delilah and the African Queen. Looking for the Lion and then the Queen. It would bother me that I didn’t seem to comprehend some things, but it worked out in the end with my feeling OK outside of my comfort zone.
- My wife and I once owned an advertising agency. I would experience pain when watching “Thirty Something” on TV
- I love Movies and wanted to be a director, believed that Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni were geniuses, named my daughter after a movie (Sundays with Cybele) , went to film school before they were hip, made one animated film (after seeing Jim Henson’s first film). Dropped out, cause I wanted to eat.
- I am married to a wonderful, powerful public speaker and coach, who is working on her second book. I am very lucky, but you already knew that.
The Artist that I’ve tagged are:
by Sandy | Dec 2, 2007 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits
Helen Frankenthaler
Flood, 1967 (Synthetic polymer on canvas; 124 x 140 in. )
“A really good painting looks as if it happened at once,” Frankenthaler has said. Her method of making an instant painting was to mix paint with turpentine and let it trickle from a coffee can onto a piece of canvas laid on the floor.”
At the Denver Art Museum thru Feb. 3, 2008, this exhibit “brings together big, bright canvases by 20th-century artists who believed that the experience of looking at color was the most important thing a painting could offer. “
Exhibit next travels to:
Smithsonian Museum of American Art (Feb. 20-May 6, 2008)
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tenn. (June 20-Sept. 21, 2008).
by Sandy | Nov 26, 2007 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits
The Art Institute of Chicago is presenting an exhibition of noted artist Jasper Johns from November 3, 2007 thru January 6, 2008. The event focuses on his use of the color “gray”.
“This exhibition emerges from broader studies of Johns’ approach to form, examining for the first time the artist’s use of gray in his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings from 1955 to the present. Featuring more than 130 works and including major new works that have never been exhibited publicly, the exhibition tracks Johns’ application of gray for more than five decades-an investigation that provides a framework for understanding the development of the artist’s entire oeuvre.”
“Jasper Johns: Gray” – The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
Regenstein Hall and Galleries 262-273
http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/
BTW – Next, the exhibit goes to:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 5-May 4, 2008
