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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in NYC will have some special exhibits thru the summer until mid- September highlighting art from their permanent collections.
“New York In the 1940s”
European artists escaping the turmoil of World War II came to New York during the ‘40s to work and exhibit. A lot of their paintings, some in [...]
Boston Museum of Fine Arts – thru December 7, 2008
“After the Hurricane”, Bahamas, 1899
An extensive collection of work by Winslow Homer, (1836-1910), is on display at the Boston Museum. The exhibit includes paintings, water colors, illustrations (from “Harper’s Weekly” – a political magazine published from 1857 to 1916) and some etchings.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Pete Sampras * “A Champion’s Mind: Lessons From A Life In Tennis”
Tennis is one of my favorite couch potato sports. It is physical, it is mental, it is attitude – who has more of the “right stuff” on a particular day, who has it during a particular set, or even a single [...]
Kojo Griffin , Untitled from the series Field Theory: group scene , 2000
African American art from the 20th and 21st centuries on view at the Houston Museum of Fine Art . According to the museum site, the collection of over a 100 works will include “early crafts, self-taught artists, [...]
“ Benin - Kings and Rituals: Court Arts of Nigeria ”
July 10– September 21, 2008
Royal sculptures from the Benin Kingdom of Nigeria (Edo Empire) - it flourished from about 1440 to the late 1800’s - will be on display at
The Art Institute of Chicago [...]
“The Persistence of Memory” (1931), will return to MoMA as part of an event featuring the art of Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) as both painter and filmmaker - especially with Spanish director Luis Bunuel , (1900 - 1983).
Dali’s paintings, drawings, movie scripts will all be used to [...]
British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 – 1851) will have a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this summer. Labeled an “English Romantic”, he worked in both oil and watercolor and painted primarily landscapes/seascapes. He hasn’t been on view in the U.S. for more than 40 years.
“The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her [...]
“Chihuly at the de Young” * Thru 9/28/08
The de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA presents Dale Chihuly – American glass artist. You will see beautiful shapes, daring configurations, all in glorious color. Very dramatic.
His explanation of why people like his work, “People like to look at glass; it’s like looking at light”.
Born in Tacoma, [...]
Serendipity was in play this past week. I received a call to hang some of my work in a hurry. A Gallery, the Tryst at Inspirado was holding a reception for the Phoenix Black Chamber of Commerce.
Got the call on Thursday and delivered on Friday. Lots of people, some inquiries and you [...]
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