“1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die” *
This 996 page book, edited by Stephen Farthing, is described as:
“highly browsable guide embraces all cultures and every style of painting from 4,000 BC to the present. A visually arresting reference for art lovers and students, it provides a truly comprehensive worldwide gazeteer of paintings organized chronologically by date of completion.”
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A popular traveling exhibit showcasing American art from an exciting period of the last Century can now be seen at the Dallas Museum of Art/ DMA. “The 1920s—“The Jazz Age,” “The Roaring Twenties”—was a decade marked by widespread urbanization, industrialization and mechanization, and social phenomena… American artists responded to this dizzying modern world with works that emphatically...
Ms Primus, 1919 – 1994, often referred to as “the grandmother of African-American dance”, will have an evening devoted to her contributions on 5/24/12 at the Schomburg Center in New York City.
“Youth dancers from the Harlem School of the Arts will open the evening with a performance of Primus’s signature work, “Bushasche, War Dance, A Dance for Peace.” Afterwards, there will be a discussion...
It is not often that we consider how other people see the world. We invade, impose, talk over, hover and seek to dominate others and they in turn do the same thing. Most times it is just equal push back. Nobody wins and or loses, except when we play the same game with children.
In his “Where the Wild Things Are” Maurice Sendak, who passed away, Tuesday May 8, 2012 reminded many of us about...
I was not aware of its existence in Washington, DC. True, the “National Museum of Women in the Arts“, or NMWA, is one of many museums in the DC area, but this one is special because it “is the only major museum in the world solely dedicated to recognizing women’s creative contributions.”
Created in 1987,with more “than 4,000 works, NMWA’s wide-ranging collection provides a comprehensive...
Here is another wonderful painting of a bathroom sink by...
I was reading a movie review and the writer described the film as “Felliniesque”. No reference to the director, for whom the term was coined, just – “Felliniesque”. I got it.
Federico Fellini (Dec. 1924 – Dec. 1976) was one of the most influential Italian writer/directors of his day.
His films were character driven, people and plots sometimes bizarre and...
I love to listen to Brazilian music when I paint: Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Stan Getz etc. I just read this absolutely fascinating article in the NY Times about the origins of Brazilian music: how it was influenced by Arabic culture & how its aesthetic was passed onto American Blues. I have to get my hands on the recently released “Musica Tradicional do Norte e Nordeste 1938″. ...
Gil Scott-Heron, an African-American truth troubadour passed away last year. It was all in the words. There were no gimmicks, no staging, nothing to take you away from the truth of his message. His poems and music are timeless. Revisit.
Here is a video of photos of Gil Scott-Hereon by Monique de Latour
The Irony is that some of the insight contained within Scott-Heron poems did not spare him a difficult...
The Los Angeles Museum of Art showcases work from 1931-1968 in their exhibit: “In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States“
“North America represented a place free from European traditions for women Surrealists from the United States and Mexico, and European émigrés. While their male counterparts usually cast women as objects for their delectation,...
