Thursday, January 26, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Lost, but Found
It was always something at the Columbia Silver Company.
"Weegee, at an East Side murder, 1943"
Look at the man who is looking over the woman's shoulder in the upper right corner of the Weegee photo. Who does he look like?
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
1403 Gough Street, San Francisco
Is this 1403 Gough Street in San Francisco... where Allen Ginsberg once lived?
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Coming soon!
The Renaissance Portrait, from Danatello to Bellini.
The New American Wing, galleries for paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art!
The New American Wing, galleries for paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art!
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Queen Sofía Spanish Institute
Joaquin Sorolla & the Glory of Spanish Dress Exhibit
This spectacular exhibit, cited as “one of the most chic pairing of clothes and paintings,” highlights the history of Spanish traditional clothing styles though the eyes of Valencian painter, Joaquin Sorolla. Conceived by Oscar de la Renta, one of the world’s most famous fashion designers, it features more than 10 paintings and over 30 rare examples of men and women’s clothing styles and accessories from 11 regions of Spain. The exhibit also includes a selection of clothing from designers like Balenciaga, YSL, Christian Lacroix and others.
The Museum at FIT
Daphne Guinness
Dress by Chanel. From the collection of Daphne Guinness.
Fashion, A-Z: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum at FIT, Part One
Rick Owens, bat wing jacket and skirt, black denim, wool felt, distressed leather, grey silk crepe, fall 2008, France, gift of Rick Owens.
Dress by Chanel. From the collection of Daphne Guinness.
Fashion, A-Z: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum at FIT, Part One
Rick Owens, bat wing jacket and skirt, black denim, wool felt, distressed leather, grey silk crepe, fall 2008, France, gift of Rick Owens.
Friday, December 30, 2011
The Museum of the City of New York
Today, I saw two fascinating exhibits at The Museum of the City of New York:
Police Work: Photographs by Leonard Freed, 1972-1979
"Police Work: Photographs by Leonard Freed, 1972-1979 features a selection of vintage prints by the Brooklyn-born photographer who documented "life on the beat" with NYPD officers during the tumultuous 1970s. During a time when New York City faced near bankruptcy and was internationally notorious for its high crime rates and social disorder, Freed's photographs reveal the complexity, the harshness, and the camaraderie of the city's public safety servants and the people they protected. Highlighting a recent gift to the Museum of the City of New York by his widow Bridgette Freed, the exhibition is a gritty, realistic portrait of ordinary people doing a "sometimes boring, sometimes corrupting, sometimes dangerous and ugly and unhealthy job."" - from The Museum of the City of New York
Police Work: Photographs by Leonard Freed, 1972-1979
Cecil Beaton: The New York Years
"From the 1920s through the ‘60s, Manhattan’s artistic and social circles embraced British-born photographer and designer Cecil Beaton (1904-80). Cecil Beaton: The New York Years brings together extraordinary photographs, drawings, and costumes by Beaton to chronicle his impact on the city’s cultural life. Beaton’s relentless energy and curiosity spurred him to pursue new fields, from fashion and portrait photography to costume and scenic design for Broadway, ballet, and opera, and to put his own aesthetic stamp on each of these endeavors."" - from The Museum of the City of New York
Cecil Beaton: The New York Years
Police Work: Photographs by Leonard Freed, 1972-1979
"Police Work: Photographs by Leonard Freed, 1972-1979 features a selection of vintage prints by the Brooklyn-born photographer who documented "life on the beat" with NYPD officers during the tumultuous 1970s. During a time when New York City faced near bankruptcy and was internationally notorious for its high crime rates and social disorder, Freed's photographs reveal the complexity, the harshness, and the camaraderie of the city's public safety servants and the people they protected. Highlighting a recent gift to the Museum of the City of New York by his widow Bridgette Freed, the exhibition is a gritty, realistic portrait of ordinary people doing a "sometimes boring, sometimes corrupting, sometimes dangerous and ugly and unhealthy job."" - from The Museum of the City of New York
Police Work: Photographs by Leonard Freed, 1972-1979
Cecil Beaton: The New York Years
"From the 1920s through the ‘60s, Manhattan’s artistic and social circles embraced British-born photographer and designer Cecil Beaton (1904-80). Cecil Beaton: The New York Years brings together extraordinary photographs, drawings, and costumes by Beaton to chronicle his impact on the city’s cultural life. Beaton’s relentless energy and curiosity spurred him to pursue new fields, from fashion and portrait photography to costume and scenic design for Broadway, ballet, and opera, and to put his own aesthetic stamp on each of these endeavors."" - from The Museum of the City of New York
Cecil Beaton: The New York Years
Sunday, December 25, 2011
West 153rd Street, NYC
On Tuesday, Sonny Rollins will receive a Kennedy Center Honor. In today's New York Post, he says: "When I was about 14, I got everything Coleman Hawkins made on record. He was my idol. I went waiting for him one day — at his stoop — with my 8x10 glossy. I’d cased the place and knew he’d be coming home around that time. So he came in and there I was, and I asked him to sign it for me. It was great. I didn’t tell him I played — I was a little too shy.”
This is a photo of West 153rd Street, where Coleman Hawkins lived, as it is today.
Coming soon!
This is Cabbage Row, a revolutionary war era structure, which housed a tenement in the early 1900s. It was known locally as “Cabbage Row." The building was the setting for the novel, “Porgy,” by DuBose Heyward, and the location was named “Catfish Row” because the story was set on the waterfront.
Coming soon: Porgy and Bess
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Jazz!
I went today to see: Paris Blues Revisited: Romare Bearden, Albert Murray and Sam Shaw, at Jazz at Columbus Circle. It was a very interesting exhibit.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
James Whitcomb Riley museum home
This is the James Whitcomb Riley museum home, located at 528 Lockerbie Street in Indianapolis, IN. The area is quite historic, lovely, and picturesque. And here is a link to more historic house museums in Indiana.
The Rubin Museum of Art
I went today to the Rubin Museum of Art to see Hero, Villain, Yeti. I enjoyed the exhibit very much!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Going Forward
This blog is becoming so yesterday! Please go to: marjorie-digest to read excellent interviews, view interesting photos, and to read some bittersweet poetry.
Thank-you.
Thank-you.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Gettin' Their Freak On
I see my friends at BBB have been tawkin' me up in the underground COOP. I am flattered and honored. Let me guess the TOPIC. Could it be my recent tweets to the oh-so-special and shrine-worthy mods?
My chutzpah? Shocking!
It reminds me of these "Mavens!"
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
The Morgan Library
Charles Dickens at 200
Alfred Bryan (1852–1899). Caricature of Charles Dickens, [18--].
Gift of Miss Caroline Newton, 1974.1974.7
Photograph by Jeremiah Gurney, 1867
I also saw: David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France: Drawings from the Louvre
Portrait of Guillaume Guillon Lethiere, (1815)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867)
Portrait of a Boy
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867)
Sunday, October 16, 2011
de Kooning at MOMA
de Kooning: A Retrospective
Willem de Kooning. Pink Angels. c. 1945. Oil and charcoal on canvas, 52 x 40" (132.1 x 101.6 cm). Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles. © 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Pink Angels. c. 1945. Oil and charcoal on canvas, 52 x 40" (132.1 x 101.6 cm). Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles. © 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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