The Train Tracks – Live Performance – Check It Out
The Phoenix Art Museum offers up a fun idea.
The “Train Tracks“ is a vehicle for local musicians in Phoenix to showcase their talents. A variety of artists, groups, and singers perform acoustically on the light rail in Phoenix/Tempe. There is a competition associated with this event with...
Posted by Sandy in Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Galleries, Museums on 04 28th, 2009 | No Comments
Golden Age of Dutch Art
The largest concentration of Dutch 17th century works of art – includes paintings, drawings, decorative arts – will be on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery from May 10 thru September 13, 2009.
This period in Holland, known as the “Golden Age”, produced a huge output of work paid for by...
“Design for a Living World”
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum shows its concern for earth conservation with an exhibit starting in May that promotes new uses for material grown and harvested in sustainable ways that “support, rather than deplete endangered places”.
On view, will be drawings and products from...
Visiting New York – Go to The Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is one of New York City’s treasures which is not often mentioned as a destination when visiting the city.
Metallic Boa Necklace
Currently you can see the jewelry designs of Art Smith, Assyrian Panels that date back to 850 BC and the works of notable American artists, like Sargent,...
Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Creativity, Culture, Theater, Writers on 04 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
Congratulations!
Brooklyn playwright Lynn Nottage has won the 2009 Drama Pulitzer Prize for “Ruined” – a powerful play set in the African Congo at the height of its civil war. It follows the plight of a group of women amidst the brutality and the chaos – a celebration of endurance.
Ruined – Manhattan...
Posted by Sandy in Art on 04 21st, 2009 | No Comments
Beads!
The Newark Museum has extended its current exhibit, “Glass Beads of Ghana”, from June 2009 until March 2010.
The popular presentation details the over 400 year old use of decorative beads as an art form in Africa. This tradition has been maintained and expanded in the west African country of Ghana.
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Introduction to Africa – Via HBO
Recently it had been suggested that HBO was off it’s game once the Sopranos and the Wire finished there runs. And yes it took some time to come up with a series that satisfied my taste, but The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency has been well worth the wait. The series is adapted from the books...
Posted by Sandy in Art on 04 19th, 2009 | No Comments
The “West” in Art
DAM, the Denver Museum of Art, is showcasing America’s “West” and how it is presented by the American artist.
Charles M. Russell, (1864-1926) Charles Deas (1818-1867), N.C. Wyeth 1882-1945) and others painted Cowboys, Indians, gunslingers, landscapes and legendary ‘Rocky Mountain Men” as...
Posted by Sandy in Art on 04 15th, 2009 | No Comments
DVD Corner: “The Departed”
This 2006 film, directed by Martin Scorsese, was just on network TV a few days ago. If you can, watch the DVD to have a seamless experience and no bleeps.
The Departed is a violent, hard film, no sweetness here, no happy ending. A young police officer goes undercover in a local gang, just as a gang...
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Collection
The Art Institute of Chicago has revamped and refurbished its extensive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Works by Pierre August Renoir, Jean Carriès, Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet are all together in a new space for easier viewing. (An example is Renoir’s...
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