by Sandy | Jan 20, 2022 | Art, Blogroll, Culture, Museums
Isn’t this beautiful!
This 16th century brass piece is the head of a West African “Oba”, or king. Many such examples of royal sculpture, from the Benin Kingdom of Nigeria, Edo Empire (it flourished from 1440 to the late 1800’s), are included in the Met’s “Arts of Oceania, and the Americas” permanent exhibits.
I am so grateful that some of this former kingdom’s art has been preserved. Art can be such a history lesson sometimes. So often it represents what is most important to a people during specific periods of their time.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
*Head of an Oba, 16th century (ca. 1550)
Nigeria; Edo, Court of Benin (Brass)
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by Sandy | Nov 28, 2021 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The work of Jasper Johns is being presented concurrently at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC & the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is the most comprehensive retrospective ever… Featuring his most iconic works along with many others shown for the first time, it comprises a broad range of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from 1954 to today across two sites…The artist “helped spark movements including Pop art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism, among others, and has inspired successive generations of artists to this day.”
“Conceived as a whole but displayed in two distinct parts, the exhibition appears simultaneously here at the Whitney and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, two institutions with which Johns has had long-standing relationships.”
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
Until Feb 13, 2022
*Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
*Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA
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by Sandy | Jan 11, 2021 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
The Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving presentation, at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, “…features Kahlo’s photographs, jewelry, clothing, and much more, uncovered at the artist’s Mexico City home 50 years after her death.”
“… Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954) is today an iconic figure, known as much for her path-breaking artwork as for her striking appearance.”
The Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving
Until February 7, 2021
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Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
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by Sandy | Dec 17, 2020 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Learning, Museums
“P.S. Art is an annual celebration of achievement in the arts in New York City public schools. This juried exhibition of work created during the 2019–20 school year by talented young artists showcases the creativity of 122 prekindergarten through grade 12 students from all five boroughs, including students from District 75, a citywide district serving students with disabilities. The exhibition consists of paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs, mixed-media works, collages, and drawings…”
Click here for online Catalog info
P.S. Art 2020:
Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
by Sandy | Nov 18, 2020 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Museums
In celebration of female artists: “Women Take the Floor” challenges the dominant history of 20th-century American art by focusing on the overlooked and underrepresented work and stories of women artists. This reinstallation—or “takeover”—of Level 3 of the Art of the Americas Wing advocates for diversity, inclusion, and gender equity in museums, the art world, and beyond….”
“The exhibition features well-known artists like Georgia O’Keeffe, Ruth Reeves, Loïs Mailou Jones, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Helen Frankenthaler and Elaine de Kooning.”
Women Take the Floor
Until May 3, 2021
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
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by Sandy | Feb 17, 2020 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
I really like portraits. (I enjoy creating their back stories – what, where, why and of course, who?)
The above, by Black Renaissance artist Loïs Mailou Jones (1905 – 1998), is included in the American Art collection at the Brooklyn Museum. Work from assorted genres, created in the Americas, is represented.
“…this major reinstallation of our American Art galleries attempts to take a more inclusive approach. It embraces work by women and people of color and extends the definition of America to encompass not only the United States but Central and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean basin, beginning with the art of the first peoples who lived in the region thousands of years before contact with European colonizers.”
American Art Galleries
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
(Image: “Dans un Café a Paris“, 1939, Loïs Mailou Jones)
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