by Sandy | Nov 21, 2024 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“The Whitney Museum of American Art … is the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey (b. 1931, Rogers, Texas; d. 1989, New York, New York).”
The presentation, “Edges of Ailey consists of an immersive exhibition in the Museum’s 18,000 square-foot fifth-floor galleries—featuring works by more than eighty artists and revelatory archival material—and an ambitious suite of performances in the Museum’s third-floor theater, including AILEY in residence for one week each month during the exhibition.”
A few of the artists included: Jean Michel-Basquiat, Kara Walker, Elizabeth Catlett, Mickalene Thomas, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Edges of Ailey
Through February 9, 2025.
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
(Carmen de Lavallade, by Geoffrey Holder 1976)
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by Sandy | Feb 9, 2024 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Learning, Live Performance
“ Vision & Sound: An African American Experience program highlights the work of eight prolific artists that represent various mediums and genres of art…”
“We strive to build supportive relationships to encourage cultural equity throughout Arizona and beyond – recognizing that professional American artists of African descent are too often overlooked.”
Featured Artists:
- Patricia Bohannon
- Dorrell Bradford
- Jacqueline Chanda
- Amber Doe
- Debra Edgerton
- Jerome Fleming
- Isse Maloi
- Bob Martin
- Chip Thomas
- George Welch
- Shoreigh Williams
~Schedule of Events and Exhibitions~
Sedona, Goodyear, Peoria
*January 5-March 27, 2024
Peoria Library Exhibition / Peoria Main Library
8463 W Monroe St, Peoria, AZ 85345
Featuring the artwork and creativity of Patricia Bohannon, Jacqueline Chanda, Dorrell
Bradford, Jerome Fleming, and Isse Maloi.
*February 1-29, 2024
Sedona Arts Center Vision & Sound Exhibition & Sale
15 Art Barn Road, Sedona, AZ
Open: Mon-Sat 10AM – 5PM, Sun 12PM-5PM,
Featuring the artwork and creativity of Patricia Bohannon, Dorrell Bradford, Jacqueline
Chanda, Amber Doe, Debra Edgerton, Jerome Fleming, Isse Maloi, Chip Thomas, and
George Welch
*January 31- March 26, 2024
Goodyear Library Exhibition
Georgia T Lord Library, Goodyear, AZ
1900 N. Civic Square, Goodyear, AZ 85395
Featuring the artwork and creativity of Patricia Bohannon, Dorrell Bradford, Amber Doe,
Jerome Fleming, Isse Maloi, and Bob Martin
*Sunday-Monday, February 25-26, 2024
Vision and Sound Symposium
Sedona Arts Center, 15 Art Barn Road, Sedona, AZ
The Symposium will feature keynote speakers, panel discussions, performances, receptions,
and reflections. In addition, ADEI training will be included throughout, incorporating Critical
Response methodology. This year’s symposium will feature guest speaker Chip Thomas and a workshop led by Liz Lerman.
*Saturday, March 2, 2024, 9am-3pm
Peoria Arts Festival, City of Peoria
Vision and Sound artists will be demonstrating and providing workshops during the event.
*Saturday, March 2, 2024, 7-8:30pm
Concert featuring Don William and Friends
Peoria Center for the Performing Arts, Peoria
10580 N 83rd Dr, Peoria, AZ 85345
Join us for a special concert featuring Don William and Friends.
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by Sandy | Jan 10, 2024 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll
The Portland Art Museum has the work of 69 Black artists on view until March 17, 2024.
“Through the narrative flow of the exhibition, visitors will experience work by Black artists across decades and generations. Particular attention is given to the works of Black artists who were producing work during the Black Arts Movement of the late 1960s, ’70s, and early ’80s…”
Some of the 69 artists included in the presentation:
manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991)
damali ayo (b. 1972)
Natalie Ball (b. 1980)
J.S. Bell (1882-1925)
Harrison Branch (b. 1947)
Nikesha Breeze (b. 1979)
Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918)
Richard Brown (b. 1939)
Black Artists of Oregon
Portland Art Museum
Until Mar 17, 2024
1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR
(Image: Isaka Shamsud-Din, “Rock of Ages”, 1976)
by Sandy | Nov 18, 2023 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll
“For more than thirty years, the Los Angeles–based artist Henry Taylor (b. 1958) has portrayed people from widely different backgrounds—family members, friends, neighbors, celebrities, politicians, and strangers—with a mixture of raw immediacy and tenderness. His improvisational approach to artmaking is hinted at in this exhibition’s title, Henry Taylor: B Side, which refers to the side of a record album that often contains lesser-known, more experimental songs. “
Henry Taylor: B Side
Oct 4, 2023–Jan 28, 2024
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
by Sandy | Nov 5, 2023 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Whitney Museum, NYC, presents: “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945”.
“Mexico underwent a radical cultural transformation at the end of its Revolution in 1920. A new relationship between art and the public was established, giving rise to art that spoke directly to the people about social justice and national life… It galvanized artists in the United States who were seeking to break free of European aesthetic domination to create publicly significant and accessible native art.”
The exhibition contains about 200 works by 60 Mexican and American artists, including José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
(Image: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Echo of a Scream, 1937)
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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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