by Sandy | Jan 29, 2019 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
“From Pop Art and psychedelia to the civil rights and anti-war movements, the 1960s was a decade of liberation—and of great loss. See how designers, artists, and architects responded to the tumultuous period that still looms large in the American imagination. Highlights include the Museum’s surprising collection of vintage rock ‘n’ roll posters and a series of powerful images of Martin Luther King Jr.”
Design in Revolution: A 1960s Odyssey
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia
(image: “Bob Dylan” Poster, 1966, Milton Glaser)
FYI: There is also a list of 60’s musical gems (Beatles, Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendryx to set the mood) Scroll down on the web page, click and listen – Fun
by Sandy | Jan 20, 2019 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Whitney has a new exhibit “Andy Warhol— From A to B and Back Again”.
“The show illuminates the breadth, depth, and inter connectedness of the artist’s production: from his beginnings as a commercial illustrator in the 1950s, to his iconic Pop masterpieces of the early 1960s, to the experimental work in film and other mediums from the 1960s and 70s, to his innovative use of ready made abstraction and the painterly sublime in the 1980s. His repetitions, distortions, camouflaging, incongruous color, and recycling of his own imagery challenge our faith in images and the value of cultural icons, anticipating the profound effects and issues of the current digital age.“
“Andy Warhol— From A to B and Back Again”
Until Mar 31, 2019
Whitney Museum of American Art
by Sandy | Jan 7, 2019 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings gathered together:
“For the first time in recent memory, all seventeen of the Met’s paintings by Vincent van Gogh—the largest collection of the artist’s work on this side of the Atlantic—are in house and on view in galleries 823, 826, and 961. Visitors can enjoy a full range of highlights from the artist’s prolific years in France, from portraits to still lifes to landscapes. These masterpieces are often committed to exhibitions around the world, making this a not-to-be-missed occasion.”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
by Sandy | Jan 2, 2019 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Museums
“Art must be an integral part of the struggle,” Charles White insisted. “It can’t simply mirror what’s taking place. … It must ally itself with the forces of liberation.”
“Charles White: A Retrospective is the first major museum survey devoted to the artist in over 30 years. The exhibition charts White’s full career—from the 1930s through his premature death in 1979—with over 100 works, including drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, illustrated books, record covers and archival materials.”
“Over the course of his four-decade career, White’s commitment to creating powerful images of African Americans—what his gallerist and, later, White himself described as “images of dignity”—was unwavering.”
Charles White: A Retrospective
Until January 13, 2019
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY
Image: General Moses (Harriet Tubman). 1965. Ink on paper
by Bob Martin | Dec 20, 2018 | Actors, Art, Concerts, Film, Movies
Bohemian Rhapsody, It’s the Music. It’s the Energy and the Memories
See Queen! Listen to the music and the fun. It is not the “Phantom Thread” nor should it be. It is pure entertainment! And It makes no difference when it happened, date time or order, it’s the entertainment. Sing along if you know the words or just dance in your seats. Just go see it, it’s fun.
Note: With all public figure we never get the whole story because no really knows what that is.
Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury
by Sandy | Oct 30, 2018 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
“Museum of the African Diaspora presents the first museum showing and first west coast exhibition of the paintings of Eritrean-American artist Ficre Ghebreyesus (1962-2012), who fled conflict in his country and made his way to the United States as a political refugee. Ficre Ghebreyesus: City with a River Running Through brings together more than a dozen of his finest works, with a particular focus on Ghebreyesus’ abstractly rendered and vivid painted landscapes, replete with water imagery and aquatic life.”
Ficre Ghebreyesus: City with a River Running Through
(Sep 19, 2018 to Dec 16, 2018)
MoAD – The Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission Street San Francisco, CA
by Sandy | Oct 13, 2018 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“The Met Breuer presents a selection of some fifty works…paintings by artists of the school of Paris, a brilliant group of erotic and evocative watercolors, drawings, and prints by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso, whose subjects, except for a handful, are nudes.”“The exhibition is the first time these works have been shown together…”
Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso
Until October 18, 2018
The MET / Breuer
945 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10021
by Sandy | Sep 30, 2018 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
Born in the Bronx (so was I), parents of Caribbean descent (Antigua, so am I) educated at Cooper Union, (no, not I). But, more importantly, Mr Bryan’s use of color immediately caught my eye.
Love it!
“Painter and Poet: the Art of Ashley Bryan is the first major art museum exhibition in Maine for the award-winning 95-year-old artist and Little Cranberry Island resident, a pioneer of African and African American representation in the children’s book medium, who has published more than 50 titles since his first collection of poems in 1967.”
Painter and Poet: the Art of Ashley Bryan
Until November 25, 2018
PMA / Portland Museum of Art
Seven Congress Square in Portland, ME
(Image: “The birds’ colors were mirrored in the waters,” circa 2002, from “Beautiful Blackbird,” collage of cut colored paper on paper)
by Sandy | Sep 25, 2018 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“P.S. Art is an annual celebration of achievement in the arts in New York City public schools. This juried exhibition of the work of talented young artists showcases the creativity of 123 prekindergarten through grade twelve 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. Each work of art demonstrates personal expression, an imaginative use of media, the results of close observation, and an understanding of artistic processes.”
P.S. Art 2018: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids
Until October 21, 2018
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
(Image: Leeann Beckford (Age 10, Grade 4). The Forest, 2018. Mixed-media collage)
by Sandy | Sep 1, 2018 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
Examples of creative longevity are on view at The Museum of Modern Art with an exhibition called “The Long Run”. Over 100 works by artists that continued working after age 45 are highlighted.
“All the artists in this presentation—drawn entirely from MoMA’s collection—are united by a ceaseless desire to make meaningful work, year after year, across decades. They include Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Melvin Edwards, Gego, Philip Guston, David Hammons, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Helen Levitt, Elizabeth Murray, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gerhard Richter, Frank Stella, and many others.”
The Long Run
(Until November 4, 2018)
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY
(Image: Georgia O’Keeffe. Evening Star)
