by Sandy | Feb 6, 2009 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums, sculptor
Newark Museum has grouped together 50 works of the last 15 years by artists that represent creativity from all parts of the world. Painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and jewelry are examples of “global” art for modern times.
Included are Martin Puryear, Diego Romero, Kwesi Owusu-Ankomah, Lu Wen Xia, Lorna Simpson, Vivan Sundaram, Gonkar Gyatso, Rossinah Maepa, Senzeni Marasela and many more.
According to the program curators, the exhibit is “A dynamic thematic display highlighting the universal concerns and ideas that inspire artistic creativity, creating unexpected connections or groupings that transcend traditional divisions based on geography, genre or media.“
The Newark Museum – 2/11/09 thru 8/16/09
49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ
by Bob Martin | Dec 11, 2008 | Art, Creativity, Exhibits, sculptor
Faith Ringgold by Alice Neel
Museums offer a source of both entertainment and knowledge. Reasonable in terms of cost and entertaining because some of what you find in and outside of a museum is often delightful and awe inspiring.
Faith Ringgold’s Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad will still be on view at the Danforth Museum in Framingham, Mass. over the holidays and a beautiful way to draw a connection between the history of African Americans and the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States.
Maman by Louis Burgeois
The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, offers you the opportunity to dream and wonder. To wonder about creativity and your own process of creating art.
by Sandy | Dec 5, 2008 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Exhibits, Museums, sculptor
Calder Jewelry * December 9, 2008–March 1, 2009
I never knew that American-born artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976) made earrings.
He is best known for his mobiles, sculptures, and paintings etc. In this exhibit, his necklaces, rings, bracelets and earrings, in gold, silver, brass, will be on display at The Met. I expect his jewelry will be as beautiful, inventive and abstract as his other art pieces.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12/9 – 3/1/09
The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Gallery,
Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, Modern Art, 1st floor
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
www.metmuseum.org
Also a book:
Calder Jewelry
by Mark Rosenthal (Contributor), Alexander S. C. Rower (Editor), Holton Rower (Editor), Maria Robledo (Photographer)
by Sandy | Nov 15, 2008 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, sculptor
Asian/American/Modern Art:
“Shifting Currents, 1900-1970”, thru Jan. 18, 2009
This 95 piece exhibit, lauded as “the first comprehensive survey of 20th century Asian American art”, will include work by:
Painter and watercolorist Dong Kingman
Sculptor Isamu Noguchi
Video artist Nam June Paik
“Shifting Currents, 1900-1970”
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
(Image “Setting Sun: Sacramento Valley,” a 1925 scroll painting by Chiura Obata)
by Sandy | Nov 5, 2008 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, sculptor
“These things are very dear to me. They’re a part of me…They’re my treasure. If I sold these, I’d be really poor.”
Sculptor and self taught wood carver Ulysses Davis, 1913-1990, will have the 1st major exhibit of his work in 25 years at the High Museum in Atlanta, GA beginning December 6, 2008.
Featured will be “approximately 115 works including representative works from every genre in which Davis worked: portraits of U.S. and African leaders, religious images, patriotic works, carvings influenced by African forms, fantasy, flora and fauna, love, humor, abstract decorative objects and utilitarian objects such as canes and furniture.”
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309
http://www.high.org/
by Bob Martin | Sep 2, 2008 | Art, Creativity, Culture, Museums, sculptor
Stop by and meet Joan Waters at the Herberger Theater Center Art Gallery The Artist’s Reception is Friday, September 19th, 5:30 to 7:00 PM. RSVP by Sept 17th at 602-254-7399 ext. 198
