Tag: Brooklyn Museum

• Artist a Day Challenge No. 20: Kehinde Wiley

  Los Angeles born artist Kehinde Wiley has developed his career in New York as a portrait artist whose work is being celebrated in an exhibition that recently opened at the Brooklyn Museum.  In  “A New Republic” his work depicts men and women placed in traditional forms of portraiture fusing that history with a present day aesthetic.  It is…

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  February 23, 2015

  Art, Art/Culture, black history, Museums, Music, sculpture

  Brooklyn Museum, jean antoine houdon, kehinde wiley, Nina Simone, portraits

• My 2012 Art Forecast Calls for Travel, lots of Travel…

  Now that the holidays are behind us and the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday is slowly coming to an end, my mind starts to drift toward thoughts of my next mini-vacation.  Thanks to an article I read on HVW8 Gallery’s Facebook page, I’ve been inspired to travel around some of the shows highlighted in Complex Magazine’s…

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  January 16, 2012

  Art/Culture, Contemporary Art, Museums, Street Art

  BCAM, Brooklyn Museum, Cindy Sherman, Complex Magazine, Eli Broad, HVW8 Gallery, Keith Haring, MoMA, Os Gemeos, Parra, PrismLA, SF MOMA