by Sandy | Mar 1, 2025 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
As a celebration of Women’s History Month, March 2025, go see what’s on view at the “National Museum of Women in the Arts“, or NMWA, in D.C.
It is one of many museums in the DC area, but this one is special because it “is the only major museum in the world solely dedicated to recognizing women’s creative contributions.”
Created in 1987,with more “than 4,000 works, NMWA’s wide-ranging collection provides a comprehensive survey of art by women from the 16th century to the present, with new acquisitions added regularly”.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
New York Avenue and 13th Street, NW, DC
*Women’s History Month is celebrated each March and the 2025 theme of “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating and Inspiring Generations” resonates deeply …
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by Sandy | Nov 21, 2024 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“The Whitney Museum of American Art … is the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey (b. 1931, Rogers, Texas; d. 1989, New York, New York).”
The presentation, “Edges of Ailey consists of an immersive exhibition in the Museum’s 18,000 square-foot fifth-floor galleries—featuring works by more than eighty artists and revelatory archival material—and an ambitious suite of performances in the Museum’s third-floor theater, including AILEY in residence for one week each month during the exhibition.”
A few of the artists included: Jean Michel-Basquiat, Kara Walker, Elizabeth Catlett, Mickalene Thomas, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Edges of Ailey
Through February 9, 2025.
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
(Carmen de Lavallade, by Geoffrey Holder 1976)
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by Sandy | Sep 3, 2024 | Art, Exhibits, Museums
The Boston Museum of Fine Art offers “Dalí: Disruption and Devotion”. The presentation of 30 painting and prints by Dali (1904–1989) and other artists like El Greco, Orazio Gentileschi, and Velázquez, enables “visitors to experience a unique take on one of the most celebrated avant-garde artists of the 20th century.”
“Dalí: Disruption and Devotion”
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Until December 1, 2024
by Sandy | Aug 8, 2024 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“This exhibition is the first major survey of Joan Brown (American, 1938–1990) in over 20 years, and offers a compelling look at the prolific career of a painter known for her large-scale, high-key portraits of family, animals, and herself.”
Joan Brown
Carnegie Museum of Art
by Sandy | Jul 14, 2024 | Art, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
A current presentation at The MET, Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, is the “first art museum survey of the subject in New York City since 1987, the exhibition establishes the Harlem Renaissance and its radically new development of the modern Black subject as central to the development of international modern art.”
“Featured artists include Charles Alston, Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, William H. Johnson, Archibald Motley, Winold Reiss, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee, and Laura Wheeler Waring.”
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
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by Sandy | Apr 15, 2024 | Artist, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
“Faith Ringgold: American People” was her West Coast debut at the de Young museum in San Francisco, CA November 2022.
“Bringing together fifty years of work, this is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Faith Ringgold’s groundbreaking vision…”
“From creating some of the most indelible artworks of the civil rights era to challenging accepted hierarchies of art versus craft through her experimental story quilts, Faith Ringgold’s body of work bears witness to the complexity of the American experience.”
Faith Ringgold: American People
de Young Museum: Golden Gate Park \ 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, SF, CA
(Image: Faith Ringgold, pictured before her 1997 painting, “The Flag Is Bleeding #2”)
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