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Ubuhle bentsimbi: The beauty of beads
The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, is currently showing an exhibit entitled “Ubuhle bentsimbi: The beauty of beads.” It highlights southern Nguni beadwork highlights from the Eastern Cape. The exhibition will be accompanied by demonstrations of traditional beading techniques. The show goes through October 10th.
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts – Art in Bloom 2010
I recently visited the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts for their Art in Bloom exhibition, where florists interpret Museum holdings in flowers. Click on any picture to enlarge! Here are links to previous years’ photos, if you’re interested — it’s fun to see different floral interpretations of the same piece of art: 2009 Art in…
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Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
The mineral specimens were my favorite part of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History: The Hope Diamond and other outstanding examples of gems, set into jewelry and displayed as cut gems are also on display. This is the Wittelsbach-Graff diamond, perhaps from the same mine as the Hope: And my final picture from this museum…
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is in a beautiful building (as seem to be all of the museums in Washington, D.C.), and has a captivating array of art. There’s Georgia O’Keefe: The gentleman from D.C. who made an aluminum foil altar in his garage (Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly,…
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Marcus Amerman at the Heard Museum
The Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona just opened an exhibit entitled “Pop! Popular Culture in American Indian Art.” For the exhibit, “pop culture and innovation collide with traditional art forms and cultures in artwork that reflects contemporary issues and imagery in an often comedic, tongue-in-cheek way. Fashion, graffiti art, comics, pottery and beadwork are formats…