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 | Oct 21, 2023 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
Closed for 2 years, the “National Museum of Women in the Arts“, or NMWA, has reopened.
It is one of many museums in the DC area, but this one is special because it “is the only major museum in the world solely dedicated to recognizing women’s creative contributions.”
Created in 1987,with more “than 4,000 works, NMWA’s wide-ranging collection provides a comprehensive survey of art by women from the 16th century to the present, with new acquisitions added regularly”.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
New York Avenue and 13th Street, NW, DC
(“Cuatro Pescaditos”, Graciela Iturbide – Oaxaca, Mexico, 1986)
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by Sandy | Oct 11, 2023 | Art, Blogroll, Culture
“Experience the beauty and complexity of Blackness in Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo’s debut solo museum exhibition Soul of Black Folks.”
Love his portraits. Love how he does skin.
“When I’m making paintings,
I want the characters to be strong,
I want them to be free,
I want them to be independent,
I want them to be unapologetic.”
— Amoako Boafo
Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
Simonyi Special Exhibition Galleries
by Sandy | Sep 2, 2023 | Artist, Blogroll
Ok! It’s that time of year again. Noticed all the college Instagram posts and all the college football on TV. Twitter was full of clips of HBCU marching groups, with their fancy Drum Majors, big bands and cheerful Cheer leaders. All the best to them!
Watching reminds me of the image above. Can’t you just hear his whistle, the brass section, the drums? Strut on.
I Love it!
A former football player turned artist, Mr Barnes’s work, filled with sports figures and images of everyday people, is known for his use of bright color and elongated figures.
Ernie Barnes’, 1939 – 2009, “Drum Major”.
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by Sandy | Aug 21, 2023 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“This exhibition is the first major survey of Joan Brown (American, 1938–1990) in over 20 years, and offers a compelling look at the prolific career of a painter known for her large-scale, high-key portraits of family, animals, and herself.”
Joan Brown
Carnegie Museum of Art
Heinz Galleries until Sept. 24, 2023
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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