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Mali – Color and Fabric

Mali – Color and Fabric
“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...

A Trip to Paris

A Trip to Paris
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...

Musée d’Orsay Masterpieces at the deYoung

Musée d’Orsay Masterpieces at the deYoung
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...

Drawings and Prints at The MET

Drawings and Prints at The MET
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,...

The Look of Fresh Paint and Gallery Space

The Look of Fresh Paint and Gallery Space
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...

Altars and Rituals of the Diaspora at MoAD

Altars and Rituals of the Diaspora at MoAD
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...

Indian Art – Cleveland Museum

Indian Art – Cleveland Museum
“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...

Photography as Art Form – SF MOMA

Photography as Art Form – SF MOMA
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 Frick and “Masterpieces”

The Frick and “Masterpieces”
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...

Exposing Time at the Phoenix Art Museum

Exposing Time at the Phoenix Art Museum
Frank Gohlke Nicholas Nixon Andrew Phelps Robert Weingarten Milton Rogovin This coming weekend (March 6th) the Phoenix Art Museum will exhibit the work of five contemporary American photographers who individually and collectively document both the subtle and dramatic changes that have...

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