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Happy Birthday Papa!
Museumist
No, it’s not my Dad’s birthday. That was a couple of weeks ago, and I sent him a card that cracked a joke about him being old. Rather, today is Papa’s birthday: the legendary Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899. If he were alive today, he would be 101 111 and way more deserving of an “old guy” joke than...
For Soiree Au Louvre: XXXX Magazine’s Video Installation at the French Embassy
NYABlog
Last week, XXXX magazine presented a video art installation at the French Embassy in celebration of Soiree Au Louvre, an annual extravaganza organized by the Young Patrons Circle of the American Friends of the Louvre. The installation, which filled the second floor ballroom, included twenty-five films, almost all of them produced exclusively for XXXX magazine. “We prefer to publish original production,”...
Come Home to Cocktails@Cooper-Hewitt
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When the Carnegie mansion was built, it may have been lavish, but it was designed to be home. That spirit lives on in Cocktails@Cooper-Hewitt, our popular summer series. Every Friday evening, Members and museum visitors come “home” to Cooper-Hewitt to unwind for the weekend. The Ed Fuqua Group provides smooth sounds of jazz wafting through the summer air of the...
Pure Blend / Puras Misturi
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Coffee vending machine designed by a street vendor. “We are buying artifacts from all over the country, made by common people, to constitute a collection of popular design. Our intention is to show the extraordinary resourcefulness of our material culture.” – Adélia Borges Brazilian curator and former director of the Museu da Casa Brasileira in São Paulo, Adélia Borges, has organized another...
“Greater New York” Part Two: Juxtapositions
NYABlog
The 68 artists and collectives exhibiting at MoMA PS1′s “Greater New York” have filled the galleries, hallways and basement (even the elevator and boiler room). Most of the artists necessarily share the space, varying with one other or a half-dozen, creating all sorts of intriguing combinations. I noticed in my preliminary walk-through opening day that a fair chunk of the...
TheWomensMuseum
Women in the U.S. labor force currently earn just over 77 cents for every one dollar men earn. Just 1 of 36 random facts about women:...metmuseum
Curator Ken Moore tells the story behind the development an arresting musical instrument with an armadillo-shell back http://is.gd/eTeEPDallasMuseumArt
This is the final weekend for the Blue Star Museums program where active military personnel & their families get into the DMA for free.walters_museum
Walters Illuminated Manuscripts - Gold and floriated patterns; an amazing decorated leaf from a Koran http://ow.ly/2ySwcSFMOMA
Wish a journalist would do a "day-in-the-life" article @SFMOMA like this one about the @centrepompidou http://bit.ly/bJDTAQwalters_museum
Art of the Day: Round Box - This round box has a dome-shaped cover attached with chains on two sides, fastening in t... http://ow.ly/18QrwiMuseumModernArt
@hipnoticed Sorry about that. Thanks for letting us know. I will definitely pass that on.DallasMuseumArt
Luc Tuymans' "Lumumba" is the new curatorial highlight. See this piece and more before the exhibition closes on 9/5: http://bit.ly/6hgZ6H
Who do we have here?
Indianapolis Museum of Art BlogFellow blogger Matt Gipson brought it to my attention that some funny things had been turning up in the Miller House archives. Eero, the Miller House gremlin While looking through the Miller House 1985-86 archival materials, IMA archivist Jennifer Whitlock discovered this little sketch on the back of a letter pertaining to...
Wishing for Winter
Eye LevelBetye Saar's Wishing for Winter I admit, it was the title, Wishing for Winter, that first drew me to this work, as I walked around American Art on one of Washington D.C.'s more toastier days. August may have ended, but the summer is not going anyplace just yet. I let the...
In the Spirit of the United States Open, Happy Fifty-eighth Birthday Jimmy Connors
National Portrait Gallery | Face to Face blogTennis has been around for centuries. In the late medieval text The Turke and Sir Gawain, the Turke shows Gawain a castle wherein the tennis balls are so large they can only be hit by giants: Many aventures thou shalt see there, Such as thou never saw yare In all the world about. Thou...
In the Spirit of the United States Open, Happy Fifty-eighth Birthday Jimmy Connors
National Portrait Gallery | Face to Face blogTennis has been around for centuries. In the late medieval text The Turke and Sir Gawain, the Turke shows Gawain a castle wherein the tennis balls are so large they can only be hit by giants: Many aventures thou shalt see there, Such as thou never saw yare In all the world about. Thou...
Art & Crime: Zimbabwean Artist to Stand Trial for Massacre Paintings
ARTINFO: NewsOwen Maseko's recently banned exhibition has cast new light on a 30-year-old event....
$19 Broadway deal at 'Scottsboro Boys' box office
NewYorkologyWhen the Broadway box office opens Thursday for the Kander and Ebb musical “The Scottsboro Boys,” a limited number of tickets will be available for $19.31, the show’s publicists announced today. The musical, set in 1931, tells the story of a group of African-American teenagers wrongly accused of raping two white...
Oyster festivals set for September, October in NY
NewYorkologyIt looks like September 25 is going to be the big day for oysters in New York City for 2010. That’s the day for oyster festivals in Midtown at Grand Central Terminal and downtown on Stone Street. The annual Oyster Frenzy at the Grand Central Oyster Bar, from noon to 6...
