“Rhythm and Hues: Cloth and Culture of Mali, West Africa” is an exhibit on view until May at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco. Mali is not only the country of ‘Timbuktu”, it is also a treasure trove of fabric artisans.
The program “highlights the enduring significance of textiles as a major form of aesthetic in Mali. Featuring works beyond the mudcloth tradition, this exhibition...
Lucian Freud Self Portrait (abstact)
Paris is everybody’s favorite city, or at least this what we say when asked. In Paris my favorite Museum is the Centre Pompidou because once when I was stranded in Paris with out a room waiting for flight to NY the next morning the Museum was my host for the day. Now there is another reason for me to hang out at the Pompidou and that is the Lucian Freud...
Beginning May 22, 2010, the de Young Museum of San Francisco focuses on Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art from Paris.
“Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay presents nearly 100 magnificent works by the famous masters who called France their home during the mid- to late-19th century and from whose midst arose one of the most original and recognizable of all artistic...
Until April 11, 2010, drawings and prints from the 16th to the 21st centuries will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work, from the museum’s permanent collection, represents artists from America, Italy, France, Holland and England in all their diverse styles: Raphael, Rembrandt, Goya, Ingres, Delacroix, Manet, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Matisse, Hockney and...
I don’t know that Galleries have a smell and when I see pictures of the Betty Cuningham Gallery I can do one better then smelling it I can almost taste it. When I see paintings with tons of space around them for viewers to soak up each painting as if it were for them alone I feel joy and some envy (sorry, but true).
Betty Cuningham Gallery NYC
This set up is from the current exhibit of William...
Beginning March 20, 2010, the Museum of the African Diaspora showcases photographer Bryan Wiley’s portfolio dealing with Altars and Rituals from around the world.
“Wiley has assembled his photographs of altar objects from Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, South Carolina and New Orleans into large ornate frames creating collages that reveal the blurred lines between sacred and secular worlds. Wiley’s assembled...
“Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection” * March 7 – May 30, 2010
“This exhibition of about 145 objects from the Thaw collection of the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York will re-introduce the museum visitors to American Indian art in a broad survey that samples Native artistic accomplishment before and after the arrival of Europeans.”
Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150...
Lauren Graham
First of all Peter Krause (Six Feet Under) belongs on HBO or Showtime and maybe this creation from Ron Howard and Brian Grazer may prove too big and complicated for NBC, which has been stuck in “Law and Order” mode for the last 10 years, and the show will wind up on cable, just like Southland. Parenthood has a large cast that helps to answer the question “I wondered...
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has always supported the idea of Photography as art.
“SFMOMA was one of the first museums in the country to treat photography as an equal to painting and sculpture. In celebration of the museum’s 75 years of engagement with the medium, this exhibition explores the variety and vitality of California’s photographic tradition from the 1840s to the present.”...
Beginning March 9, 2010, the Frick will showcase “Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery”.
“The Frick Collection is pleased to announce the loan of nine Old Master paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, one of the major collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century pictures in the world.“
Included in the exhibit will be paintings by, Rembrandt,...