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 | Jul 14, 2020 | Blogroll, Books, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Learning
The annual event will be different this year. After 22 years of welcoming children and adults to their wide selections of events in person, the 2020 HBF will be “virtual”.
~ “HBF2020 will be live-streamed on Facebook Live, with simultaneous links to YouTube, Instagram Live, QBR.com, Harlembookfair.com, CAOTtv.com”
~ “Multi-platform broadcasting: The Harlem Book Fair will be available where online readers go for their information. New readers; new audiences”
~ “Your favorite books, authors, and most compelling issues presented directly to your device.”
22nd Annual Harlem Book Fair
Saturday, July 18, 2020
“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.“
by Sandy | Jun 19, 2020 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Books, Theater, Writers
The ambitious intentions of a playwright resulted in the impressive, and enjoyable, “August Wilson Century Cycle” box set. It consists of a play for every decade of the 20th century that would chronicle some part of the black experience in America.
Through the use of his great ear for dialogue, Wilson (4/45 – 10/05) was able to give us some insight into the daily life – both struggles and triumphs – of an assortment of universal characters that his audience could easily recognize.
An amazing undertaking, but, his huge vision was realized and it resulted in 2 Pulitzer Prizes, a Tony award and many other accolades. He accomplished a lot doing what he loved to do and perhaps more importantly, August Wilson left a powerful body of work that will be read and performed for years to come. Dreaming big has rewards of all kinds.
All 10 of August Wilson’s plays are collected in hard cover with a nice presentation box. Each has an introduction by an actor, director or writer familiar with his work
In 2005, August Wilson completed the ten-play cycle:
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by Sandy | Feb 23, 2020 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Photograhy
The “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983″ exhibit has been traveling the U.S. since last year. NYC, Houston and most recently last Fall in LA, it is now ending its San Francisco stay at the De Young Museum. The presentation “shines a bright light on the vital contribution of Black artists made over two decades, beginning in 1963 at the height of the civil rights movement…”
“Featuring the work of more than 60 influential artists* and including vibrant paintings, powerful sculptures, street photography, murals, and more, this landmark exhibition is a rare opportunity to see era-defining artworks that changed the face of art in America.”
* Romare Bearden, Barkley Hendricks, Noah Purifoy, Martin Puryear, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Alma Thomas, Charles White, William T. Williams
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983 (Til March 15, 2020)
De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
(Photo: A Boy in front of the Loew’s 125th Street Movie Theater, Dawoud Bey, 1976)
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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by Sandy | Jan 31, 2020 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits
The Carnegie Museum of Art presents “A Delight for the Senses: The Still Life”. “Once considered the lowliest of the painting genres, the still life has long been overshadowed in the history of art…”
“On the surface, these picturesque arrangements are easy to appreciate for their aesthetic beauty and skillful rendering. A closer look at these sumptuous arrays of objects ranging from the mundane to the luxurious reveals moral undertones and allusions to the transience of life”
A Delight for the Senses: The Still Life
Until Mar 15, 2020
Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA
(Image: “Still Life with Lemons, Oranges, and Pomegranates”, 1660, Jacob Fopsen van Es)
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