by Sandy | Oct 21, 2023 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
Closed for 2 years, the “National Museum of Women in the Arts“, or NMWA, has reopened.
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
(“Cuatro Pescaditos”, Graciela Iturbide – Oaxaca, Mexico, 1986)
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by Sandy | Jun 17, 2023 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
Ansel Adams in Our Time: The Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, CA presents a group of more than 100 pieces of his work.
“Laid out in seven sections tracing Adams’s artistic development, the exhibition features some of his most-loved photographs, including images of Yosemite, San Francisco, and the American Southwest.”
Ansel Adams in Our Time
Until July 23, 2023
Image : Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite ~ Ansel Adams, 1902 – 1984
by Sandy | May 3, 2023 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“Naudline Pierre: What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared”
“The DMA presents the first solo museum exhibition of works by Naudline Pierre, whose vividly hued paintings portray opaque, otherworldly narratives through depictions of supernatural beings entangled in complex scenes of struggle and intimacy.”
Dallas Museum of Art / DMA
1717 North Harwood
Dallas, Texas
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by Sandy | Jan 20, 2023 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The exhibition, “Edward Hopper’s New York takes a comprehensive look at Hopper’s life and work, from his early impressions of New York in sketches, prints, and illustrations, to his late paintings, in which the city served as a backdrop for his evocative distillations of urban experience.”
Edward Hopper’s New York
Until Mar 5, 2023
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York, NY
* Image: Edward Hopper, “New York Movie”, 1939
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by Sandy | Dec 11, 2022 | Art, Exhibits, Museums
“In celebration of its status as the first public museum in the United States to purchase a painting by Vincent van Gogh—Self-Portrait, 1887, which was acquired in 1922—the Detroit Institute of Arts is organizing the first exhibition dedicated to the introduction and early reception of the iconic artist’s work in America.”
“Van Gogh in America”
Until January 22, 2023
Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan
by Sandy | May 16, 2022 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
President & Mrs. Obama’s official portraits have been touring the United States and they will be at the de Young Museum, San Francisco starting June 18, 2022.
“From the moment of their unveiling at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., in February 2018, the official portraits of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama have become iconic.”
De Young Museum
June 18 ~ August 14, 2022
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
(Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of President Obama and Amy Sherald’s portrait of the former First Lady)
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