by Sandy | Sep 25, 2014 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
This American artist’s work will be all over the Whitney Museum as the building is filled with “Jeff Koons: A Retrospective” until October 19.
“Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of work by Jeff Koons (b. 1955), one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20th century, this highly anticipated volume features all of his most famous pieces.
Also included are preparatory sketches and plans for sculptures and paintings as well as installation photographs that shed light on Koons’s artistic process and trace the development of his work throughout his landmark career.“
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective
Until October 19, 2014
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC
(Image: “Michael Jackson and Bubbles”, 1988)
by Sandy | Sep 15, 2014 | Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
I really thought I was raising whatever back in the day when I graduated from “kitten” or “Cuban” heels to a 2 incher. Of course, seeing women prancing around on sky high stilettos today has put me in my place. I don’t /won’t wear them, but I think 6 inch needle heels are fierce and fascinating. The folks at the Brooklyn Museum think so too evidently. They’re putting on a show: ”Killer Heels: The Art of the High Heeled Shoe” until February 15, 2015.
“Killer Heels explores fashion’s most provocative accessory. From the high platform chopines of sixteenth-century Italy to the glamorous stilettos on today’s runways and red carpets, the exhibition looks at the high-heeled shoe’s rich and varied history and its enduring place in our popular imagination.”
Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
“The vision of the Harlem Book Fair is to partner with local and national leadership organizations under the banner of literacy awareness…”
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by Sandy | Jun 16, 2014 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
Until June 29, 2014, the Whitney Museum in NYC offers us, “American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe… It showcases the Whitney’s deep holdings of artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by the eighteen leading artists: Oscar Bluemner, Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Gaston Lachaise, Jacob Lawrence, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Elie Nadelman, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Joseph Stella. Organized as one- and two-artist presentations, this exhibition provides a survey of each artist’s work across a range of mediums.”
American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC
(Image: Sailors and Floosies, 1938 Paul Cadmus)
by Sandy | Jun 9, 2014 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
Never could quite get my “Fro” to such lofty heights. Leave it to the Brooklyn Museum to remind me with their current exhibit, Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties .
The presentation “offers a focused look at painting, sculpture, graphics, and photography from a decade defined by social protest and American race relations. In observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this exhibition considers how sixty-six of the decade’s artists, including African Americans and some of their white, Latino, Asian American, Native American, and Caribbean contemporaries, used wide-ranging aesthetic approaches to address the struggle for racial justice.”
Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties
Until July 6, 2014
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
(Image: “Lawdy Mama “, Barkley Hendrick, 1966)
by Sandy | Jun 2, 2014 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
New in San Francisco will be “Intimate Impressionism, on view at the Legion of Honor through August 3, 2014, showcasing approximately 70 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, interiors, and portraits, from the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.”
“Complementing these paintings… are depictions of artists’ studios and domestic interiors; several captivating self-portraits by Edgar Degas, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, and Édouard Vuillard; Renoir’s 1872 portrait of Monet…”
Intimate Impressionism
Legion of Honor – Lincoln Park, San Francisco, CA
(Image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Madame Henriot, ca. 1876 and Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit, ca. 1900)
“Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of work by Jeff Koons (b. 1955), one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20th century, this highly anticipated volume features all of his most famous pieces.
