by Sandy | Feb 24, 2010 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
King Tutankhamun’s San Francisco revisit is coming to an end. First seen in 1979, the boy king returned to the de Young Museum in a brand new exhibit featuring 130 pieces – jewelry, statues, masks, gold objects and of course that famous golden sarcophagus.
“Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” provides insight into the life of King Tut and other royals of the 18th Dynasty (1555–1305 BC). All of the treasures in the exhibition are more than 3,000 years old.” Gorgeous!
Tutankhamun until March 2010 – de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA
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by Bob Martin | Feb 23, 2010 | Art, dvd, Film, Movies
Paris I love You
This kind of compilation has always been for me difficult to watch. This movie worked I think because each (18) story is about the same length as a short info commercial, with each segment acted, produced and directed as if it was the only story being told. There is a lot of leeway with a title of “Paris, I love you”. My favorite segments are 1) “Parc Monceau” with Nick Nolte, 2) “Quais de Seine” 3) “Bastille” & 4)”Tour Eiffel”. There are many more bright spots and is worth a second look.
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by Sandy | Feb 23, 2010 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
Next month, the Newark Museum of Art presents:
“Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s”
The intention is to offer a “ground-breaking exhibition of 90 works from the 1920s through 1950s and the first to present the Pan-American scope of geometric abstraction. The exhibition investigates the conceptual connections and exchanges that existed between artists from South and North America, highlighting a vital period when painters, sculptors, photographers and filmmakers infused the language of abstraction with new perspectives and innovations.
Represented will be such diverse artists as: Alexander Calder, Joaquín Torres-García, Jesús Rafael Soto, Gyula Kosice, Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Geraldo de Barros.
“Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America” – until May 23, 2010
The Newark Museum, 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ
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by Bob Martin | Feb 19, 2010 | Actors, Directors, Film, Movies
I am most likely the last person to see this movie and seeing it last night moved me. The story was so familiar to me, as if it were a story about my neighborhood, friends and the strain of transforming yourself from a kid to an adult.
What grabbed me most was the feeling of being trapped in what is most comfortable, sometimes called the box we are born into. I believe this was Dito Montiel first time directing and it was masterful. If there any other, late to the party people, like me I suggest you place it on your Nextflix list.
by Sandy | Feb 17, 2010 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Directors, Exhibits, Movies, Museums
The Museum of Modern Art, NYC presents a retrospective of artist and film maker Tim Burton.
The program is a celebration of the gifted and often bizarre and controversial director of such movies as “Sweeney Todd”, “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, “Ed Wood” and “The Corpse Bride”.
The exhibition and film series is to highlight “Burton‘s career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator.”
Tim Burton at MOMA – thru 4/26/10
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by Sandy | Feb 16, 2010 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, sculptor
The Seattle Art Museum showcases American artist Alexander Calder, 1898 – 1976. 
“Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act”, includes over 40 pieces from the 1920s to 1970s. “From miniature maquettes, works on paper and jewelry to monumental sculptures and one of the artist’s largest mobiles” attests to the “development and amazing creativity of the American master sculptor, with particular depth in his most celebrated period, the late 1940s”.
“Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act” – until April 11, 2010
SAM * Seattle Art Museum
1300 First Avenue, Seattle, WA
(Image: “Polychrome Dots and Brass on Red”, 1964)
by Bob Martin | Feb 15, 2010 | Artist
There are a number of painters who paint on small canvases and yet the work is flowing and loose as if the artist was working on a surface that was at least a hundred times the size. One of many artists who’s work I like is Bill Sharp who is able to create architectural structure and atmosphere with large brush strokes on a small canvas.
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by Sandy | Feb 15, 2010 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
As part of its program called “The American Season”, MFAH presents “Painted Truths”, devoted to the colorful and intense work of artist Alice Neel, 1900 – 1984. She is “best known for her psychologically acute portraits. Intimate, casual, direct and personal, satirical at times, they chronicle the social and economic diversity of mid-20th-century American life.”
“Alice Neel: Painted Truths” * March 21 – June 13, 2010
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / MFAH, 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX
(Images: “Hartley”, 1966 and “Dana Gordon”, 1972)
by Sandy | Feb 12, 2010 | Art, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
The Art Institute of Chicago presents:
“ Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900–1950s”
“To celebrate the long-awaited release of American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago: From World War I to 1955, a scholarly catalogue showcasing the Art Institute’s expansive permanent collection of American art, the Department of Prints and Drawings has organized this companion exhibition. Approximately 140 prints, drawings, collages, and watercolors from the permanent collection offer the opportunity to ruminate on what constituted “modern” at various moments during the first half of the 20th century.”
“Modern In America” – until 4/4/10
The Art Institute of Chicago/ AIC
111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
(Image: “Free Clinic”, Jacob Lawrence, 1937)
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by Bob Martin | Feb 11, 2010 | Actors, Art, Movies
Claire Danes and Julia Ormond
Being different is to be gifted. I’ve never been more certain of this after listening to interviews with Dr. Temple Grandin,who sees and understands the world in an extraordinary way. The HBO movie about Temple Grandin which first aired this past Sunday (Super Bowl Sunday) features Claire Danes as Dr. Grandin, helps to open our eyes to how little we know about anything, especially conditions like Autism. Temple Grandin through her accomplishments provides all of us an opportunity to begin to understand and appreciate.
I think it is important to acknowledge HBO for producing this film and to also acknowledge Claire Danes for her wonderful performance.
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