by Bob Martin | Mar 11, 2009 | Art, Culture, Exhibits, Poem, Writers
The CAC featured Stella Pope-Duarte, reading from her books and poems. Stella Pope-Duarte is the Arizona award-winning Chicana writer and author of Fragile Night, Let Their Spirits Dance, and The Women of Juarez. Musical entertainment was provided by Carmen DeNovais, who with her husband, Zarco Guerrero, are local influential fixtures in the Arizona and the Southwest arts scene.
Stella Pope Duarte
Carmen DeNovais
A mission of The Cultural Arts Coalition’s is that these artistic expressions will call upon our humane need to dialog, to create conversations and therein to promote shared understanding- causing us to pause for meaningful discussions in a public space around critical issues and public policies.
by Sandy | Feb 8, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell
The High Museum of Atlanta’s exhibit of nearly 100 objects and works on paper presents the work of David C. Driskell, artist, scholar, and educator for the first time. His work themes, of the last 40 years, have been on the African Diaspora.
April 21, 2009 August 2, 2009
High Museum of Art Atlanta, 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta, GA
(Image: “Lady In Waiting”, D.C.Driskell)
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 Sandy | Jan 17, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Film, Movies, Museums
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice
Sixty paintings by 16th century “Venetian style” artists will be on view beginning March 15:
Titian (1485–1576), Tintoretto (1518-1594) and Veronese (1528–1588)
Venetian Style – “painters from Venice were not as concerned with sculptural form and hard edges of lines as they were with brilliant color and the sensitive use of light”
Mar 15, 2009 – Aug 16, 2009
MFA – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
617-267-9300
Image: St Mark’s Body Brought to Venice (1548), Tintoretto
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by Bob Martin | Oct 8, 2008 | Art, Culture, Events, Exhibits, Film, Museums
Nadia Hironaka My Stars, 2003
Conversations @ 11
Friday, Oct. 17, 11 a.m. – Artist Nadia Hironaka
Opening Reception
Friday, Oct. 17, 7-9 p.m.
NADIA HIRONAKA: The Late Show
In her multi-channel video installation, The Late Show, Nadia Hironaka expands the cinematic experience into the realm of the gallery environment. Synthesizing video projection, videos on monitors and audio, Hironaka entices the viewer to imagine characters leaving the confines of the projected image and entering the real space of the gallery. Using an abandoned drive-in movie theater as her point of departure to examine the convergence of cinematic and real space, Hironaka also asks us to reflect on how mood and emotion are constructed within the context of film.
ASU Art Museum Presentation
Organized by John Spiak, ASU Art Museum Curator, The Late Show will be installed in the Arizona State University Art Museum’s Nelson Fine Arts Center location.
by Sandy | Oct 8, 2008 | Blogroll, Culture
Not just Tapas and Paella, Spanish food, delicious and diverse, is so much more. You can get an idea just by watching the weekly Paltrow and Batali (or, Batali and Paltrow) traveling feast show on PBS called, “Spain… on the Road Again”.
Joined by food writer Mark Bittman and Spanish actress Claudia Bassols, Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow and Chef Mario Batali, of Food Channel fame, takes us along as they travel by car to assorted cities such as Toledo, Valencia, Madrid, Galicia, Catalunya, and north to the Basque country.
We get to see the countryside as each team visits several restaurants and legendary chefs during each episode. They taste and watch as the meal is created and chat about the ingredients and the cooking methods. Mario and Gwyneth seem to be particularly having a great time since they’ve both lived in Spain at one time and speak Spanish very well. (Their conversations with the locals have accompanying subtitles)
BTW: Visiting Spain has been on my bucket list for quite awhile. I love the PBS series “Europe Thru The Back Door” with Rick Steves when he people watches while sitting at a table in one of the Spanish town squares, travels the pilgrimage road to Santiago de Compostela, eats succulent tapas and drinks the local wine.
Spain & food, excellent idea – you betcha!
www.spainontheroadagain.com
