by Sandy | Apr 16, 2015 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“The works presented in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture. The exhibition includes an overview of the artist’s prolific fourteen-year career and features sixty paintings and sculptures.”
“The exhibition includes a selection of Wiley’s World Stage paintings, begun in 2006, in which he takes his street casting process to other countries, widening the scope of his collaboration.“
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
Brooklyn Museum Until May 24, 2015
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
(Image: Shantavia Beale II, 2012. Oil on canvas)
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by Sandy | Feb 15, 2015 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Film, Movies
Shrove Tuesday, (February 17, 2015) and all pre Lenten celebrations, such as Mardi Gras / Carnival, immediately brings to mind the terrific 1959 film “Black Orpheus”.
Made in Brazil by French director Marcel Camus, it is the classic Greek romantic tragedy of Orpheus (Breno Mello) and Eurydice (Marpessa Dawn) set against the back drop of a high energy samba troupe.
The costumes, the music of Rio de Janeiro, the dancing, and all those pretty people being chased by a man in a skeleton mask – fabulous.
Even if you haven’t seen “Black Orpheus”, you are probably familiar with its great music by Antonio Carlos Jobim, including “Manhã de Carnaval” (written by Luiz Bonfá).
It’s on DVD, watch, do some samba steps, you’ll have fun.
Per WikiPedia: “Black Orpheus” won the Palme d’Or prize at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival as well as the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the 1960 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film.”
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by Sandy | Feb 9, 2015 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“With the advent of Modernism in the 20th century, line became its own definitive subject for artists, who no longer used it merely for representational purposes. Line: Making the Mark presents examples created since that historic shift by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Sol LeWitt, and Barnett Newma. The exhibition explores the sundry ways that artists are making marks, whether directly or indirectly. Artists may press pencil directly to paper or brush ink right onto a surface…”
“Line: Making the Mark”
Museum of Fine Arts Houston / MFAH, Until March 22, 2015
(Image: Jasper Johns, “Cicada”, 1979)
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by Sandy | Feb 5, 2015 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Galleries, Museums
“Cubism, the most influential art movement of the early twentieth century, still resonates today. It destroyed traditional illusionism in painting and radically changed the way we see the world. The Leonard A. Lauder Collection, unsurpassed in its holdings of Cubist art, is now a promised gift to the Museum.”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition includes…”eighty paintings, collages, drawings, and sculpture by the four preeminent Cubist artists: Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963), Juan Gris (Spanish, 1887–1927), Fernand Léger (French, 1881–1955), and Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973).”
The Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection
Closes February 15, 2015
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
FYI: Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso…instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. (per Wikipedia)
(Image: “Man at the Café”, Juan Gris 1914)
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by Sandy | Feb 2, 2015 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Museums
“In 1978-79 Andy Warhol produced Shadows, a monumental, 102-part series of silkscreened canvases. The work’s internal compositions are culled from photographs of shadows taken in The Factory, the artist’s New York City studio.”
“MOCA’s presentation will feature the full collection of paintings from Dia Art Foundation. Installed edge to edge, the series of abstract panels-once referred to by Warhol as “disco decor”-create a haunting, environmental ensemble.”
“Andy Warhol: Shadows”
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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by Sandy | Dec 22, 2014 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s “Monet and the Seine: Impressions of a River” explores Claude Monet’s abiding fascination with the Seine by tracing his life along the iconic French waterway. This beautiful exhibition reunites more than 50 masterworks from collections around the world to present Monet’s most famous series of paintings.”
“Monet and the Seine: Impressions of a River”
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston – Until February 1, 2015
(Image: Ships Riding on the Seine at Rouen, 1872)
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