"art is our compass to the cosmos."
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Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
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so much style
so much to celebrate.
good night for now, America the beautiful!
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| kamala harris, jill biden, michelle obama inauguration day, photo credit nbc news...
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Sunday, September 27, 2020
Peace
at the Jacob Lawrence exhibit, The American Struggle, this vibrant jewel simply entitled Peace stood out to me....
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the series demands the viewer's attention to both paintings and accompanying text and given social distancing protocols, requires time and patience to view but is well worth taking in, slowly walking around the room, and then perhaps again, quietly, deliberately, in rhythm with the bold tempera brushstrokes applied by Lawrence to his 30 small masterpieces that lead us through critical moments in our nation's early history as interpreted through the eye of the confident, caring artist...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/arts/design/jacob-lawrence-metropolitan-museum.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/these-missing-jacob-lawrence-paintings-are-finally-in-a-museum--and-theyre-masterpieces/2020/01/23/aec3ffa2-3d21-11ea-b90d-5652806c3b3a_story.html
Monday, September 7, 2020
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Friday, September 20, 2019
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Sunday, September 15, 2019
uniform
The African Diaspora and the theme of renewal was on the minds of Rosario Dawson and Abrimah Erwiah at Studio 189 who traveled to Ghana earlier this year by invitation of President Nana Akufo-Addo to celebrate Year of Return.
On the runway, diversity was celebrated through fabric, color, pattern, dance, song and symbolism.
The red white and blue stripes amidst the bold African prints stood out, particularly on the day before the anniversary of the September 11th tragedy. Vogue later shared in an interview with the designers that this nod was a way of exploring heritage and shared history.... https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-2020-ready-to-wear/studio-189
This is the third year for me attending the show, consistently brilliantly theatrical and collectively shared, with costume and ceremony key to conveying the roots of the collection and the profound creative and social impulses propelling this women led initiative.
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019
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