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 | Jan 6, 2009 | Art, Creativity, Education, Museums
A few weeks back friends of Susan Copland got together to help in the making of flowers out of aluminum soda cans for an exhibit at the Childrens Musuem in Phoenix. I took some photos and made some flowers, great fun, great people and Great Food!!
by Sandy | Jan 2, 2009 | Blogroll, Books, Writers
Blonde Faith, is the final book of the popular series, written by Walter Mosley.
We were introduced to Easy Rawlins in Devil in a Blue Dress, 1990. (This was also made into a great 1995 movie with Denzel as “Easy” and Don Cheadle as his explosively, lethal buddy “Mouse”.)
“Easy” becomes a reluctant private investigator in 50’s L.A. and the 10 books span a 20 year journey. What makes the perspective so interesting and different is that in addition to solving “who dunnit” (or, who didn’t) we get a chance to follow the black detective as he maneuvers gingerly thru life making a living, forming relationships, etc. in an often hostile environment. Very entertaining!
Easy Rawlins mysteries
by Sandy | Dec 18, 2008 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Books, Writers
The ambitious intentions of the playwright August Wilson, (Apr. 1945 – Oct. 2005), consisted of a play for every decade of the 20th century that would chronicle some part of the black experience in America. Through the use of his great ear for dialogue, Wilson was able to give us some insight into the daily life – both struggles and triumphs – of an assortment of universal characters that his audience could easily recognize.
An ambitious undertaking, but, his huge vision was realized and, btw, it resulted in 2 Pulitzers and a Tony award. He accomplished a lot doing what he loved to do and perhaps more importantly, August Wilson left a powerful body of work that will be read and performed for years to come. Dreaming big has rewards of all kinds.
All 10 of August Wilson’s plays are collected in hard cover with a nice presentation box. Each has an introduction by either an actor, director, or writer familiar with his work.
In 2005, August Wilson completed the ten-play cycle:
by Sandy | Nov 23, 2008 | Art, Blogroll, Books
“30,000 YEARS OF ART- THE STORY OF HUMAN CREATIVITY ACROSS TIME AND SPACE” is a book that charts the history of art from 28,000 BC to the present day – 1,000 masterworks of art in chronological order.
“30,000 YEARS OF ART”
A really big book! = 1072 pages, Phaidon Press Inc
