Showing posts with label museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label museum. Show all posts

Saturday, August 7, 2021

people first


i went to The MET last weekend to see a few exhibits, Alice Neel again before it closed, The Medici  portraits for the first time before it gets too crowded, and The New Woman Behind the Lens, before i hear from yet another stranger what a must see it is!  







at The MET...

 

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

just Judd...

or, that surreal time i found myself almost completely alone in the MoMA galleries when they reopened this summer.... 









 
august, MoMA...








Sunday, September 27, 2020

Peace


at the Jacob Lawrence exhibit, The American Struggle, this vibrant jewel simply entitled Peace stood out to me....







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