A super important read.
Your weekend reading assignment 📖 Read an adaptation we published on the National Gallery of Art Stories of Shana Condill's catalog essay for "The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans."
Skip to main content
A super important read.
Your weekend reading assignment 📖 Read an adaptation we published on the National Gallery of Art Stories of Shana Condill's catalog essay for "The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans."
To view or add a comment, sign in
Creating, whether through abstract art or captivating words, possesses a unique beauty. Like stars in the night sky, these creations shine brightly. Do our personal legacies and words spark life? Is our existence carried forward through what we create, or do our creations continue, preserving the essence of our lives? Life itself is akin to an abstracted museum—a journey through the clouds, finding solace beneath the branches of a tree. Excerpt from my upcoming novel "Sijjil"
To view or add a comment, sign in
If you’re looking for an art-focused read, I just added a review to my blog for Patrick Bringley’s 2023 memoir “All the Beauty in the World”, which charts his experience of a decade guarding art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The book is poignant and beautifully written. Check out my latest post to learn more. https://lnkd.in/egRXXbrg
To view or add a comment, sign in
Collecting the history that is happening today is part of what museums and historical societies should do.
“[W]e’re thinking very deeply about the ways in which we use history to strengthen democracy.” Read more in The New Yorker from OAH's president, Anthea Hartig, about planning at the National Museum of American History for the nation's 250th in 2026, "rapid response collecting," and more. https://ow.ly/PwMm50PBScT
To view or add a comment, sign in
Renaissance-minded innovative physician-scientist, passionate about science, medicine, microbiology, immunology…, advancing global health via vaccines, AI/ML enthousiast, inspired and practicing different forms of art
Over the centuries, that radiance periodically dimmed. There were internal struggles and external assaults by Persia, Europe, and finally and fatally, in 1453, by Ottoman armies. Yet even when Byzantium ceased to exist as a political entity, it remained a cultural force: a symbol, for both the Christian West and the Islamic East, of an imperishable “golden age” of aesthetic refinement and intellectual breadth. The Met show introduces a useful check on this textbook account by introducing Africa as a prominent player. Africa would not seem to figure much if we consulted only old art history books, or clung to the still-lingering “dark continent” myths. A main thrust of the show — organized by Andrea Achi, the Met’s associate curator of Byzantine art, with Helen C. Evans, curator emerita, and Kristen Windmuller-Luna, curator of African art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where the show will travel — is precisely to expand those books and dispel those myth through visual evidence.
To view or add a comment, sign in
Learn how to use local museums in your classroom!
👋 Hey, educators! Did you know SAM offers guided gallery tours designed specifically for you? Explore Katsushika Hokusai’s global influence at our educator-exclusive tour of "Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" on Saturday, October 28 at SAM. Learn more and reserve your spot here: https://lnkd.in/grDzb85r. [ 🎨 "Kajikazawa in Kai Province (K?¯shu Kajikazawa)," from the series Thirty six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), about 1830–31 (Tenp?¯ 1–2), Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese, 1760–1849, woodblock print (nishiki e); ink and color on paper, Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich, Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.]
To view or add a comment, sign in
🌟 NEW BLOG POST ALERT! 🌟 Check out this fascinating post about Michael Heizer's "City": a mind-bending fusion of art and desert. It offers a rare and exclusive experience that challenges the conventional understanding of art. Discover why this monumental project remains shrouded in mystery and how its exclusivity raises thought-provoking questions about the nature of art and the relationship between the artwork, the audience, and the environment. Read the full article here: https://ift.tt/0Y8qCWr
To view or add a comment, sign in
ROGER ACKLING: 'SUNLIGHT', a purely visual critical reaction to Roger's solo show at Norwich Castle, avoiding context and art history. The full article is on my website blog. Don’t ask ‘What does it mean’, ask ‘What is it?’ Roger Ackling’s exhibition ‘Sunlight’ was opened by Simon Ofield-Kerr with these words, and they feel like a glass of fresh water. No need then to refer to context, art history, his influences and friends. What are they? ‘Sunlight’ is a gentle word, caressing, evocative, but the sun is the monstrous atomic generator of our universe, powerful beyond imagination, obliviously pumping out energy whose effects are benign and destructive. Roger sits by the sea with his little mirror forcing the mighty sun along bits of weathered wood with his will and his steady hand. Line below line - you have to ask how he makes them so straight, so uniform, so mechanical. Why this size and not that? why horizontal? Burning so evenly is an act of controlled damage like cutting, and the lines are also a way of cross-hatching, drawing, the muscular connections between brain, eye and hand operating together.
To view or add a comment, sign in
Step into the shadows of human existence with Adam Strange's art—an exploration of societal complexities and existential depths. In this review, we dissect the Canadian artist's journey, inspired by a rich artistic legacy, and delve into the unsettling beauty that emerges when questioning everything in a world shrouded in darkness. https://lnkd.in/dtt4K2Tk
To view or add a comment, sign in
Give a senior a can of spray pain and a blank wall, the following will happen: It will bring the senior closer to a form of artistic expression usually associated with the younger generation. It will prove that concepts such as ACTIVE AGING and intergenerational solidarity make more sense every day. It will demonstrate that age is just a number. Taken from the thread entitled, “LATA 65 | urban art workshop for seniors” @ https://lnkd.in/gueGxds
To view or add a comment, sign in
Conceptual artist and educator with 15+ years of curatorial and permanent art collections management
Looking forward to visiting the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth to see Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's exhibition. From Jaune's website: "I am a cultural arts worker because I, not only, paint, do printmaking, some sculpture, draw, make collage, do public art, but I am also an independent teacher/professor and activist. I lecture, teach printmaking workshops, jury, curate, write and organize exhibitions for the Native community. In my work I use humor and satire to present narratives on ethical treatment of animals, humans and our planet. My work is philosophically centered by my strong traditional Salish beliefs."
“Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map” opens at the Modern on October 15, in less than two weeks. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, this retrospective brings together nearly fifty years of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures. Across decades and mediums, Smith (b. 1940, citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation) has deployed and reappropriated ideas of mapping, history, and environmentalism while incorporating personal and collective memories. The retrospective offers new frameworks in which to consider contemporary Native American art and shows how Smith has led and initiated some of the most pressing dialogues surrounding land, racism, and cultural preservation—issues at the forefront of contemporary life and art today. Learn more about the exhibition: https://lnkd.in/gTwhsz6m ___ #MemoryMap #JauneQuicktoSeeSmith #NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt
To view or add a comment, sign in