by Sandy | Jul 10, 2016 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Books, Culture, Education, Events, Learning
Spoken word events, a forum for Caribbean writers, over 200 exhibit booths, music, panel discussions and children’s activities will be on hand at the Harlem Book Fair. It’s a great way to spend a Saturday in the city.
“The vision of the Harlem Book Fair is to partner with local 
and national leadership organizations under the banner of literacy
awareness, affirming HBF as the nation’s largest African American
literary event celebrating family literacy, community empowerment,
and community cooperation. “
18th Annual Harlem Book Fair
Saturday, July 16, 2016
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE
515 Lenox Avenue, West 135th Street,, NYC
Info:
Tel:914.231.6778 / Tel: 212.491.2200
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by Sandy | Jun 6, 2016 | Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
“Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933) is one of the most influential photographers of the last half century. Working in both color and black and white …Davidson is known for his humanist outlook and a desire to engage directly with his subject matter, approaches that owe much to his early artistic influences in photography, including Robert Frank, W. Eugene Smith, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.”
“Bruce Davidson: Gifts to the Collection”
Until September 11, 2016
De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
(Image: “England/Scotland”, 1960)
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by Sandy | Apr 20, 2016 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Seattle Art Museum presents: Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
“Kehinde Wiley is one of the leading American artists to emerge in the last decade and he has been ingeniously reworking the grand portraiture traditions. Since ancient times the portrait has been tied to the representation of power, and in European courts and churches, artists and their patrons developed a complex repository of postures and poses and refined a symbolic language… Wiley’s portraits are highly stylized and staged, and draw attention to the dialectic between a history of aristocratic representation and the portrait as a statement of power and the individual’s sense of empowerment.”
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
Seattle Art Museum – Until May 8 2016
(Image: Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness (detail), 2013, Kehinde Wiley)
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by Sandy | Apr 16, 2016 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
On March 18, 2016 the Metropolitan Museum expanded to a building at 75th and Madison Avenue. Formerly the Whitney Museum of American Art, designed by Marcel Breuer, it will be devoted to 20th and 21st Century art.
The Met Breuer, (pronounced BROY-er)
945 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10021
(Closed Mondays)
FYI: Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort St, NYC
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by Sandy | Apr 6, 2016 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“Vincent van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles is arguably the most famous chambre in the history of art. It also held special significance for the artist, who created three distinct paintings of this intimate space from 1888 to 1889. This exhibition—presented only at the Art Institute of Chicago—brings together all three versions of The Bedroom for the first time in North America, offering a pioneering and in-depth study of their making and meaning to Van Gogh in his relentless quest for home.”
“Van Gogh’s Bedrooms”
Through May 10, 2016
AIC / The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Il
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by Sandy | Apr 4, 2016 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Dancers, Exhibits, Museums
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, 1834–1917 “is best known as a painter and chronicler of the ballet, yet his work as a printmaker reveals the true extent of his restless experimentation. In the mid-1870s, Degas was introduced to the monotype process—drawing in ink on a metal plate that was then run through a press, typically resulting in a single print. Captivated by the monotype’s potential, he immersed in the technique with enormous enthusiasm, taking the medium to radical ends.“
“The exhibition includes approximately 120 rarely seen monotypes—along with some 50 related paintings, drawings, pastels, sketchbooks, and prints—that show Degas at his most modern, capturing the spirit of urban life…”
“Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty” Until July 24, 2016
The Museum of Modern Art / MoMA
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY
Image: “Three Ballet Dancers (Trois danseuses)”, 1878–80, Degas
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