by Sandy | Mar 18, 2023 | Art, Blogroll, Culture, Events, Exhibits, Learning
Until March 31, 2023: The City of Goodyear Library and Sedona Arts Center Gallery presents, Vision & Sound: An African American Experience.
The exhibit highlights the work of eight prolific artists that represent various mediums and genres of art.
Michael Cunningham, Founder
Norma Cunningham, Founder
*Vision and Sound: An African American Experience* founded in 2015
cunninghamart@ cox.net ~ Phone 623-680-0538
www.visionandsound.org
https://www.goodyearaz.gov/government/departments/parks-recreation/library-fine-art-shows
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by Sandy | Jan 20, 2023 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The exhibition, “Edward Hopper’s New York takes a comprehensive look at Hopper’s life and work, from his early impressions of New York in sketches, prints, and illustrations, to his late paintings, in which the city served as a backdrop for his evocative distillations of urban experience.”
Edward Hopper’s New York
Until Mar 5, 2023
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York, NY
* Image: Edward Hopper, “New York Movie”, 1939
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by Sandy | May 16, 2022 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
President & Mrs. Obama’s official portraits have been touring the United States and they will be at the de Young Museum, San Francisco starting June 18, 2022.
“From the moment of their unveiling at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., in February 2018, the official portraits of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama have become iconic.”
De Young Museum
June 18 ~ August 14, 2022
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
(Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of President Obama and Amy Sherald’s portrait of the former First Lady)
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by Sandy | Apr 24, 2022 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“Judy Chicago: A Retrospective pays homage to the pioneering feminist artist… whose lifelong fight against the suppression and erasure of women’s creativity has finally come full circle…The exhibition includes approximately 130 paintings, prints, drawings, and ceramic sculptures, in addition to ephemera, several films, and a documentary.”
Judy Chicago: A Retrospective
De Young Museum
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
by Sandy | Feb 16, 2022 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
The Museum of African Diaspora / MoAD in San Francisco, CA has reopened. (The Museum has been closed since March 2020 due to Covid – 19.)
“Founded in 2005, MoAD is a self-described contemporary art museum that celebrates black culture. It’s one of the few prominent institutions in the country dedicated to black art”.
All visits, tours, and events had been postponed or canceled. But there was a successful online auction – “important to invest in the sustainability of the institution.”
Some of the participating artists:
Otis Kwame Kye Oquaicoe, Amoako Boafo, Manuel Mathieu, Ferrari Sheppard, Wangari Mathenge, Andrea Chung, Cassi Namoda, William Cordova, Purvis Young, Adia Millett, Lava Thomas, Didier William, Raelis Vasquez, Dewey Crumpler, Wesaam Al-Badry, Enrico Riley, Alexandria Smith, Tiffany Alfonseca, February James, Whitfield Lovell, Peter Uka, Kwame Brathwaite, Ludovic Nkoth, Jerrell Gibbs, Dominic Chambers, Clotilde Jiménez, Todd Gray, Rashaad
MoAD – The Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission Street San Francisco, CA
(Image: AMOAKO BOAFO, “untitled,” 2020 (oil on canvas)
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by Sandy | Jan 20, 2022 | Art, Blogroll, Culture, Museums
Isn’t this beautiful!
This 16th century brass piece is the head of a West African “Oba”, or king. Many such examples of royal sculpture, from the Benin Kingdom of Nigeria, Edo Empire (it flourished from 1440 to the late 1800’s), are included in the Met’s “Arts of Oceania, and the Americas” permanent exhibits.
I am so grateful that some of this former kingdom’s art has been preserved. Art can be such a history lesson sometimes. So often it represents what is most important to a people during specific periods of their time.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
*Head of an Oba, 16th century (ca. 1550)
Nigeria; Edo, Court of Benin (Brass)
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