Daily Archives: February 22, 2016

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

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Andy Warhol Died 29 Years Ago Today,
Here’s a Look at One of His First Silkscreens.
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Blake Gopnik, Monday, February 22, 2016  Andy Warhol died 29 years ago today in a hospital in New York, after a routine gallbladder operation. It seems only fitting to commemorate the end of his artmaking by revisiting its beginnings. The work I’ve chosen as today’s Daily Pic was made in the spring of 1962, as one of the very first of the silkscreened canvases that became Warhol’s signature mode for the next quarter century. It’s the titular work in a touring exhibition called “Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne,” curated by the art historian Joseph Wolin and now at the Wallach Art Gallery of Columbia University.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/andy-warhol-died-29-years-ago-today-here-is-when-he-started-to-matter-431666

Andy Warhol, A Documentary Film~

Andy Warhol Biography


The Andy Warhol Museum~ http://www.warhol.org/museum/
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts~ http://warholfoundation.org/

The Abu Simbel Sun Festival~ 2/22 & 10/22

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For ten minutes, the statues of the main divinities of the time, Ra-Horakhty, Amun-Ra and the deified king Ramesses glow from the morning sun’s first rays. The creator god of Memphis, Ptah, being associated with the underworld in one of his guises, remains partially in the shadows.

This solar alignment used to occur a day earlier; however the remarkable moving of the temple to higher ground in the 1960s saw the solar event occurring one day later than it did originally. The two temples at Abu Simbel were relocated, block-by-block, to save them from the rising waters of the new Aswan High Dam’s reservoir, Lake Nasser.

The original dates, October 21 and February 21 are often cited as being chosen to acknowledge Ramesses’ birthday and coronation days, however there is no evidence at all to support the idea. It is probably more likely that the dates have an important religious significance.

https://www.nilemagazine.com.au/2015-october/2015/10/22/the-abu-simbel-sun-festival

Abu Simbel: The Temples That Moved~ https://www.livescience.com/37360-abu-simbel.html

Photographs: Egypt’s Twice-Annual Sun Phenomenon Wows Crowds~
https://www.voanews.com/a/egypt-sun-festival/4266365.html