by Sandy | Mar 25, 2010 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, music
Happy Birthday March 25, 2010 – you are a treasure!
“Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul”
This fabulous CD (October, 2007), covers the years 1966 to 1974. It has some unreleased songs, some outtakes and of course some of those familiar classics that did make it onto the radio such as, “Rock Steady”, “You’re All I Need To Get By”, “I Never Loved a Man, the Way That I Loved You”, (her first single on Atlantic in 1967) are collected here in this double package.
Aretha (another single name star like “Cher”, “Denzel”) has won twenty Grammy Awards, has had 20 number 1 singles and has gotten tons of other awards in her 5 decades of entertaining her legions of loyal R&B & Gospel fans.
She sings with joy, passion, and heart. Aretha sang a stirring rendition of “My Country Tis Of Thee” at the presidential inaugural in a fabulous hat. She was great!
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by Sandy | Feb 24, 2010 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
King Tutankhamun’s San Francisco revisit is coming to an end. First seen in 1979, the boy king returned to the de Young Museum in a brand new exhibit featuring 130 pieces – jewelry, statues, masks, gold objects and of course that famous golden sarcophagus.
“Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” provides insight into the life of King Tut and other royals of the 18th Dynasty (1555–1305 BC). All of the treasures in the exhibition are more than 3,000 years old.” Gorgeous!
Tutankhamun until March 2010 – de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA
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by Sandy | Feb 17, 2010 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Directors, Exhibits, Movies, Museums
The Museum of Modern Art, NYC presents a retrospective of artist and film maker Tim Burton.
The program is a celebration of the gifted and often bizarre and controversial director of such movies as “Sweeney Todd”, “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, “Ed Wood” and “The Corpse Bride”.
The exhibition and film series is to highlight “Burton‘s career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator.”
Tim Burton at MOMA – thru 4/26/10
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by Sandy | Feb 11, 2010 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Film, Movies
Columbia Best Pictures Collection
Columbia Pictures has assembled a DVD box set of their Best Picture Academy Award winners from 1934, ‘It Happened One Night” to 1982, “Gandhi”.
The movies included in this 14 DVD set:
1934 It Happened One Night
1938 You Can’t Take It with You
1949 All the King’s Men
1953 From Here to Eternity
1954 On the Waterfront
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai
1962 Lawrence of Arabia
1966 A Man for All Seasons
1968 Oliver!
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer
1982 Gandhi
(Of course, you can always rent – just to see if you agree with the winning choices)
by Sandy | Jan 31, 2010 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Museums
The French artist Matisse, (1869-1954), is known for his use of glorious color in both his paintings and lithographs. However, this exhibit, according to the Art Museum of Chicago curators, focuses on “the time between his 1913 return from Morocco and his 1917 departure for Nice witnessed the production of the artist’s most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works: paintings that are abstracted and rigorously purged of descriptive detail, geometric and sharply composed, and dominated by the colors black and gray.“
About 100 pieces will be included in:
“Matisse and the Methods of Modern Construction” * 3/20 – 6/6/10
The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
(Image: “Bathers by a River”, 1913)
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by Sandy | Jan 2, 2010 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Museums
In the 19th century, Siam (now Thailand) and Burma (now Myanmar) were neighboring kingdoms. Before they were touched by European imperialism, their traditions of luxurious arts and architecture flourished.
The Asian Arts Museum of San Francisco’s “Emerald Cities is the first major exhibition in the West to explore the rich but little known arts of Siam and Burma from this period. Many of the 140 stunning artworks—including gilded ritual vessels, mother-of-pearl inlaid furniture, colorful paintings, manuscripts, exquisite textiles, delicate ceramics, and more—were recently acquired by the museum from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and are on display for the first time.”
“Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma” * Until January 10, 2010
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
