by Sandy | Dec 8, 2014 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
The Studio Museum in Harlem’s “Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art“ explores the ways contemporary artists use Ebony and Jet as a resource and as inspiration in their practices. “
“…Speaking of People features over thirty works by a multi-generational, interdisciplinary group of sixteen artists… includes photography, painting, sculpture and sound works that will occupy the Studio Museum’s Main galleries and Project Space. Artists in the exhibition: Noel Anderson, Jeremy Okai Davis, Godfried Donkor, Ellen Gallagher, Theaster Gates, Lyle Ashton Harris, David Hartt, Leslie Hewitt, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Ayanah Moor, Lorna Simpson, Martine Syms, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas and Purvis Young.”
“Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art”
Until March 8, 2015
The Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, NYC
(Image: “Hare”, Ellen Gallagher, 2013 -Ink, watercolor, oil, pencil and cut paper on paper)
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by Bob Martin | Oct 17, 2014 | Art, Books, Culture, Learning, Writers
It is not often that we consider how other people see the world. We invade, impose, talk over, hover and seek to dominate others and they in turn do the same thing. Most times it is just equal push back. Nobody wins and or loses, except when we play the same game with children.
In his “Where the Wild Things Are” Maurice Sendak, who passed away in 2012, reminded many of us about how changeling is to be child.
A Big Thanks To Max!
by Sandy | Sep 15, 2014 | Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
I really thought I was raising whatever back in the day when I graduated from “kitten” or “Cuban” heels to a 2 incher. Of course, seeing women prancing around on sky high stilettos today has put me in my place. I don’t /won’t wear them, but I think 6 inch needle heels are fierce and fascinating. The folks at the Brooklyn Museum think so too evidently. They’re putting on a show: ”Killer Heels: The Art of the High Heeled Shoe” until February 15, 2015.
“Killer Heels explores fashion’s most provocative accessory. From the high platform chopines of sixteenth-century Italy to the glamorous stilettos on today’s runways and red carpets, the exhibition looks at the high-heeled shoe’s rich and varied history and its enduring place in our popular imagination.”
Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
by Bob Martin | Aug 28, 2014 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Culture, music
Discovery is what Spotify has been all about for me. I’m finding musicians and music that I’ve not heard before or music that I thought I would never hear again.
Listening to Joe Cuba brings visions and memories of Hunts Point Palace, in the Bronx, where both Latin and Jazz bands performed almost every weekend. For 3 to 4 dollars we got to dance and listen to Coltrane, Miles, Tito Puente live like they were our neighbors and friends.
Music and Musicians where so accessible, they didn’t have an entourage or handlers, they weren’t rock stars. Spotify has made the world a better place.
by Bob Martin | Aug 18, 2014 | Art, Drawing, Learning
Working quickly capturing two models in short poses is a great drill. You have to make a decision about what is important in what you are seeing and want to capture on paper. You have to think fast and draw slow. Recently I’ve gotten to work with two drawing models, this was a five minute pose.
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by Bob Martin | Jul 23, 2014 | Art, Learning
Originally posted June 3, 2008:
Being uncomfortable is most often thought of as a way to have a breakthrough on what ever kind of creativity process you are working on.
After struggling for the last month or so, I am not so sure that being uncomfortable is everyone’s salvation.
