by Sandy | Nov 19, 2019 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, presents Día de Muertos • A Matter of Life:
“The Day of the Dead commemoration is deeply rooted in ancient indigenous beliefs of life after death and a spiritual existence within the universe. After the 16th century Spanish encounter of America, celebrations for the deceased were mainly observed on All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days (November 1 & 2) throughout Mexico. Today, various Mexican communities and regions honor their dead in unique ways. From the Afro Mexican towns along the Costa Chica, to the Mixteca towns in the state of Puebla, each region observes the age-old practice in unique ways. “
“Come enjoy the unique installations of traditional and contemporary ofrendas to the dead!…”
Día de Muertos • A Matter of Life
Until December 8, 2019
National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W. 19th street
Chicago, IL 60608
by Sandy | Oct 9, 2019 | Blogroll, Culture, Education, Exhibits, Learning, Museums
This wonderful, amazing space is always packed during the Summer. Maybe a nice Fall visit will give an opportunity to see more ~ without the lines 🙂
The National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in September 2016. There’s lots to see and experience. The museum’s 11 massive galleries contain more than 30,000 priceless artifacts collected from all over the country.
Oprah Winfrey has her own exhibit devoted to her 25 years on T.V. Video highlights from her shows, letters & journals, photographs, etc all gathered to acknowledge an amazing life – Oprah!
Founding director Lonnie Bunch says, “This is not (nor was it ever intended to be) the National Museum of Discrimination…For me, the African American experience is an experience not of tragedy, but of unbelievable belief — belief in themselves, belief in an America that often didn’t believe in them”.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
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by Sandy | Sep 20, 2019 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Museums
“Telfair Museums proudly presents Suzanne Jackson: Five Decades, the first full-career survey and most comprehensive presentation to date for American artist Suzanne Jackson (American, b. 1944). A luminous career that spans over five decades, the retrospective will include her visual art practice as well as her connections to dance, theatre and costume design, poetry, and social activism.”
“The exhibition will feature approximately 40 signature works made between 1959–2018, alongside ephemera such as photographs, letters, periodicals, and journals.”
Suzanne Jackson: Five Decades
Until October 2019
Jepson Center, 207 W. York St.
Savannah, GA 31401
(Image: El Paradiso,1981-1984, acrylic wash on canvas)
by Sandy | Aug 29, 2019 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Thannhauser Collection is a permanent installation at the Guggenheim. The vast art collection of Justin Thannhauser, son of an art dealer, was acquired by the museum in the last century.
The collection features “Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and modern French masterpieces including works by Degas, Cezanne, Gauguin, Kandinsky, Picasso, Renoir and more.”
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street ), NYC
by Sandy | Jul 20, 2019 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Whitney Museum of American Art’s lively exhibition, Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s, “…gathers paintings from the 1960s and early 1970s that inventively use bold, saturated, and even hallucinatory color to activate perception… At the same historical moment, an emerging generation of artists of color and women explored color’s capacity to articulate new questions about perception, specifically its relation to race, gender, and the coding of space. The exhibition looks to the divergent ways color can be equally a formal problem and a political statement.”
Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s
Until Aug 2019
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
(Image: “The Fourth of the Three, 1963” Richard Anuszkiewicz)
by Sandy | Jul 15, 2019 | Art, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits
“Barnes created some
of the twentieth century’s most iconic images of African American life. Known
for his unique “neo-mannerist” approach of presenting figures through elongated
forms, he captured his observations of life growing up in North Carolina,
playing professional football in the NFL (1960–1964), and living in Los
Angeles.“
“For many fans of
1970s American television, Ernie Barnes’ (1938–2009) painting The Sugar
Shack is no doubt instantly familiar. The 1976 work depicting a dance
scene—which was the cover art for Marvin Gaye’s album I Want You—achieved
cult status…”
Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective
Until September 8, 2019
California
African American Museum: CAAM
Exposition Park, Los Angeles,
California
(Image: The Sugar Shack (1976) Acrylic on canvas)
