Spain’s national art museum, the Prado, has been around nearly 200 years and has one of the world’s biggest collections of Renaissance and Baroque art.
But only now has it devoted a solo exhibition to a female artist: the 17th century Flemish painter Clara Peeters.
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“Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11”
https://rendering.911memorial.org/
“One artist, Manju Shandler, painted a series of roughly 3,000 paintings,
with one painting for each of the victims in the attack.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/09/07/911-museum-open-first-art-exhibit-15th-anniversary-attacks/88761082/
Émile Cohl is one of the earliest pioneers of animation, along with John Stuart Blackton. Together they laid the foundations of the medium in the early 1900s, with simple caricatures and stick figures. Cohl goes down in history as the creator of the first genuine fully animated cartoon: ‘Fantasmagorie’ (1908). He was also the first to adapt a comic strip into a regular animated film series. Cohl was furthermore a well-known caricaturist in his day and made a few comics himself.
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cohl_emile.htm
http://www.tate.org.uk/search?gm=300
The 1st and 2nd DADA Art Manifestos~
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/dada/Dada-Manifesto.html
DADA: the art movement that questioned everything~
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/100-years_dada–the-art-movement-that-questioned-everything/41939442
Dada as a worldview~ http://retroavangarda.com/dada-as-a-worldview/
Dada~ Born February 5, 1916~
https://schristywolfe.com/2016/02/05/dada-born-february-5-1916/
![Vintage ad 1969 JFK, RFK, MLK](https://schristywolfe.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/gun-control-save-this-page-wm-copy.jpg "Vintage Ad- "NY Times" July 1969")
In July 1969, a full-page advertisement in the Sunday NY Times posed a request to the American public:
Hold onto this page for 1 year and hope and pray it’s ended.
The hopeful ad appeared one year after the assassination of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and 6 years after the shooting of President John Kennedy.
The copy reads:
The trouble is hoping and praying isn’t enough. Violence won’t end unless you’re willingto start the ending.
I have held onto to this yellowing page for 47 years; the hope for the end of gun violence nearly extinguished.
In the wake of Orlando, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, the Senate still can’t take small steps to curb gun violence.
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Robert Capa’s Longest Day~ http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/06/photographer-robert-capa-d-day
http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/gellhorn/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn
Images of the Week: D-Day in Color~
https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2014/06/06/images-of-the-week-d-day-in-color/
Esquire magazine 1968 Art Director George Lois
R.I.P. Muhammad Ali – we lost a legend, a champion and an inspiration.
George Lois’s powerful Esquire cover in April 1968 of the great Muhammad Ali posing as the martyr Saint Sebastian was one of the most iconic images of the decade, dramatizing the boxing greats persecution of his beliefs concerning Vietnam, race and religion.
One of the greatest magazine covers ever….of one of the greatest.
The riot turned the work into a symbol of all that modernist art was supposed to be: a break with tradition and a thumb in the eye of bourgeois taste. Yet for quite some time scholars have called into question the size, the ferocity, and the immediate effects of what definitely was a disturbance on opening night.
But the extent to which this disturbance counts as a riot really is beside the point, as is the question of what actually happened that night. What matters most is that whatever it was, it never happened again.
FROM Spring Fever~ http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/07/11/spring-fever/
A Reconstruction Of ‘The Rite Of Spring”, 2013~ https://www.wbur.org/news/2013/03/15/rite-of-spring
Biographical background~ http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~tan/Stravinsky/biography.html
I haven’t counted, but I would guess that at least 10% of people who meet me ask if I play basketball. I haven’t.But when you are almost 6′ tall, that’s a fair question.
It might seemsurprising then that someone who cannot dribble to save her life might choose Christopher Myer’s Jabberwocky, the Classic Poem from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereas her favorite item in the Alice 150 exhibit. But I have my reasons. Myers’brilliant recreation Carroll’s most famous poem as a pick-up basketball game is visually engrossing and thought provoking and hisstriking illustrationspulse with energy. Myers uses his original illustrations in tandem with Carroll’s original poem to create a “Jabberwock” who is the towering king of an urban basketball court…up until now!The oversize, oddly shaped and multicolored font sprawls across the page in between large, fiery-eyed players who seem as if they are somehow…
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The Misty Miss Christy 