by Sandy | Dec 2, 2013 | Artist, Exhibits, Museums, sculptor
Philadelphia Museum of Art highlights the work of this writer and sculptor. “Bringing together more than forty works from the United States and Europe, this exhibition examines Barbara Chase-Riboud’s artistic career, focusing primarily on her important Malcolm X sculptures. Five works from that series—among them the Museum’s Malcolm X #3 of 1969—and five closely related sculptures are included. A group of drawings from the late 1960s and early 1970s made during the development of the Malcolm X series and roughly twenty of the artist’s Monument Drawings from 1996–97 are also on view. “
Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles
Philadelphia Museum of Art Until January 20, 2014
Image: “Malcolm X #3”, 1969 Barbara Chase-Riboud (Polished bronze, rayon, and cotton, 9 feet 10 inches × 3 feet 11 1/4 inches × 9 7/8 inches)
FYI – per WikiPedia: “A stele, also stela, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerals or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the deceased or living — inscribed, carved in relief (bas-relief, sunken-relief, high-relief, and so forth), or painted onto the slab. It can also be used as a territorial marker to delineate land ownership.”
by Sandy | Nov 25, 2013 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
Born in Alaska, moved to British Columbia as a child, Robert Charles Davidson is an artist of Haida Indian heritage. He “has been a pivotal figure in the Northwest Coast Native art renaissance since 1969, when he erected the first totem pole in his ancestral Massett village since the 1880s. For over 40 years he has mastered Haida art traditions by studying the great works of his great-grandfather Charles Edenshaw and others. More recently, Davidson has interjected his own interpretation of the old forms with forays into abstraction, explored in boldly minimalistic easel paintings, graphic works and sculpture, where images are pared to essential lines, elemental shapes and strong colors.
The exhibition will feature 45 paintings, sculptures and prints created since 2005, as well as key images from earlier in his career that show Davidson’s evolution toward an elemental language of form.“
Robert Davidson: Abstract Impulse
Until February 16, 2014
Seattle Art Museum – SAM
1300 First Avenue, Seattle, WA
by Sandy | Nov 14, 2013 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Museum of Modern Art’s American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe showcases inhouse pieces. Included are works by George Bellows, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, and Andrew Wyeth.
“Drawn from MoMA’s collection, American Modern takes a fresh look at the Museum’s holdings of American art made between 1915 and 1950, and considers the cultural preoccupations of a rapidly changing American society in the first half of the 20th century. Including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculptures, American Modern brings together some of the Museum’s most celebrated masterworks, contextualizing them across mediums and amid lesser-seen but revelatory works by artists who expressed compelling emotional and visual tendencies of the time.”
American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe
Until January 26, 2014
The Museum of Modern Art / MoMA
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY
(Image: Edward Hopper. “House by the Railroad” 1925)
by Sandy | Oct 28, 2013 | Art, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
Living in California for the last few years has brought to my attention certain holidays that frankly I didn’t really notice while living in NYC. One of the most popular is “Dia de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead). Posters, event notices, etc are often adorned with beautifully rendered and stylized skulls or skeletons to acknowledge the sentiments of the occasion. The influence of most of the images came from the work of Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada, (1852 – 1913).
The Museum of Fine Arts offers a presentation that “commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913), considered the father of Mexican printmaking. Calaveras Mexicanas: The Art and Influence of José Guadalupe Posada showcases a group of approximately 50 of the artist’s prints that explore the continuing resonance of his work.”…” The exhibition also features the work of artists who were inspired by Posada, such as Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Graciela Iturbide, Luis Jiménez, and Earl Staley.“
Calaveras Mexicanas: The Art and Influence of José Guadalupe Posada
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX
by Sandy | Oct 6, 2013 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
I love cats. Grew up with them in my home – they’re so independent and often funny. (Yes, I am one of the millions of people that watch those cat videos online:) The Brooklyn Museum’s latest exhibition may not have them live, but the cats on view are beautiful.
“From domesticated cats to mythic symbols of divinity, felines played an important role in ancient Egyptian imagery for thousands of years. Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt explores the role of cats, lions, and other feline creatures in Egyptian mythology, kingship, and everyday life through nearly thirty different representations of cats from our world-famous Egyptian collection. Likely first domesticated in ancient Egypt, cats were revered for their fertility, associated with royalty and a number of deities, and valued for their ability to protect homes and granaries from vermin.“
Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt
Brooklyn Museum, 5th Flr, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
by Sandy | Sep 10, 2013 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Events, Exhibits, Museums
San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum presents Impressionists on the Water. On view are a large assortment of paintings “that explores the significant role sailing played in the lives of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.” 
“Experience the artistic side of nautical life through more than 80 remarkable paintings and works on paper by Impressionists such as Monet, Caillebotte, Renoir, and Pissarro and Post-Impressionists such as Denis and Signac—artists whose breathtaking artistry reflects their own deep understanding and engagement with pleasure boating and competition”
Impressionists on the Water
Until October 13, 2013
Legion of Honor – Lincoln Park
34th Avenue & Clement Street, San Francisco, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art highlights the work of this writer and sculptor. “Bringing together more than forty works from the United States and Europe, this exhibition examines Barbara Chase-Riboud’s artistic career, focusing primarily on her important Malcolm X sculptures. Five works from that series—among them the Museum’s Malcolm X #3 of 1969—and five closely related sculptures are included. A group of drawings from the late 1960s and early 1970s made during the development of the Malcolm X series and roughly twenty of the artist’s Monument Drawings from 1996–97 are also on view. “
