“Judy Chicago: A Retrospective pays homage to the pioneering feminist artist… whose lifelong fight against the suppression and erasure of women’s creativity has finally come full circle…The exhibition includes approximately 130 paintings, prints, drawings, and ceramic sculptures, in addition to ephemera, several films, and a documentary.”
Judy Chicago: A Retrospective
De Young Museum
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
The Museum of African Diaspora / MoAD in San Francisco, CA has reopened. (The Museum has been closed since March 2020 due to Covid – 19.)
“Founded in 2005, MoAD is a self-described contemporary art museum that celebrates black culture. It’s one of the few prominent institutions in the country dedicated to black art”.
All visits, tours, and events had been postponed or canceled. But there was a successful online auction – “important to invest in the sustainability of the institution.”
Some of the participating artists:
Otis Kwame Kye Oquaicoe, Amoako Boafo, Manuel Mathieu, Ferrari Sheppard, Wangari Mathenge, Andrea Chung, Cassi Namoda, William Cordova, Purvis Young, Adia Millett, Lava Thomas, Didier William, Raelis Vasquez, Dewey Crumpler, Wesaam Al-Badry, Enrico Riley, Alexandria Smith, Tiffany Alfonseca, February James, Whitfield Lovell, Peter Uka, Kwame Brathwaite, Ludovic Nkoth, Jerrell Gibbs, Dominic Chambers, Clotilde Jiménez, Todd Gray, Rashaad
MoAD – The Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission Street San Francisco, CA
(Image: AMOAKO BOAFO, “untitled,” 2020 (oil on canvas)
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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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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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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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“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