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Care Home Residents Remember the Music in Dementia Awareness Week

Resident Rosalie Dent and Gloria Gazey

Much loved music from the past will help stir memories and the imagination for more than 360 care home residents thanks to an iPod Amnesty event being staged by Morris Care Morris Care as part of their unique approach to caring for those living with dementia.

The leading care provider is launching an appeal with all its staff, their families and friends, for old and unused iPods to be donated to coincide with national Dementia Awareness Week 15-21 May 2016 Dementia Awareness Week .The devices will be restored and filled with music from different eras and genres so that residents in their care homes who are living with dementia can tune in to the music which provided a soundtrack to their lives.

The hope is that it will help stimulate the brain and unlock memories connected with the songs.

Research has shown that music can soothe, stimulate and even bring back forgotten memories. This research links with Morris Care’s Cedar Philosophy by offering an alternative form of therapy for residents living with dementia. The Cedar Philosophy was developed by Morris Care alongside the University of Stirling as a way of focusing on an individual’s holistic well-being and personal needs, not just their nursing requirements.

Alison Hearle, who has recently been appointed as Dementia and Social Life Lead at Morris Care said: “Part of my role is to develop and embed our Cedar Philosophy across all homes and the iPod Amnesty gives residents the opportunity to ‘remember the music’ and maybe even ignite a spark that could lead to the unlocking of a forgotten memory. This is a great example of how our Cedar Philosophy looks at every element of our residents’ well-being.”

“We are supporting Alzheimer’s Society Alzheimer’s Society in its fight against dementia which is something close to our hearts. We really hope that we can further improve the quality of life for those living with dementia.”

The Amnesty is to be rolled out across all of Morris Care’s six homes and their head office on the Welsh Bridge in Shrewsbury on 15 May. All Morris staff, families and friends are being encouraged to dig out and donate their dusty old iPods and give them a new lease of life.

Basquiat at the X Contemporary Art Fair in LA

In the sprint of 1982 Basquiat was invited to prepare works for an exhibition at the Larry Gagosian Gallery. In a fairly spars rented studio space Basquiat lived with the radio on listening to the latest Michael Jackson’s latest hit Thriller while watching President Reagan in Berlin on the TV.

Jean Michel Basquiat, ND

His meeting and subsequent friendship with television writer and producer Thad Mumford led to a friendship that continued beyond the artist’s time in Venice CA. In exchange for much needed cash Basquiat sold Mumford a selection of works made especially for him on cardboard, each work is both intimate and personal.

This exhibition focuses on these 19 unique series of works that were originally purchased by Mumford yet have never been on public display before this presentation at the X Contemporary Art Fair. The art works will be supplemented with documentary photography and ephemera of Basquiat’s time in LA.

Enjoy your day, Yareah friends. Art is everywhere and up to you.

The annual Museum Mile Festival takes place rain or shine in New York

Now celebrating its 38th year, the annual Museum Mile Festival takes place rain or shine on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.

The annual Museum Mile Festival

Over 1.5 million people have taken part in this annual celebration since its inception.  Festival attendees can walk the Mile on Fifth Avenue between 82nd Street and 105th Street while visiting seven of New York City’s finest cultural institutions, which areopen free to the public throughout the evening.  The Museum Mile Festival’s opening ceremony takes place at 5:45pm at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street).  Traditionally, the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs and other city and state dignitaries open the Festival.

THE 38TH ANNUAL MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL. TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2016 FROM 6PM TO 9PM. FREE MUSEUM ADMISSIONS, OUTDOOR ART ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN.

Fifth Avenue is closed to traffic and becomes a strollers’ haven for New York City’s biggest block party.  Special exhibitions and works from permanent collections are on view inside the museums’ galleries and live music from jazz to Broadway tunes to mariachi is featured in front of several of the museums.  The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Neue Galerie New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; The Jewish Museum; The Museum of the City of New York; and El Museo del Barrio are the seven institutions participating in this highly successful collaboration.

Additional street entertainers perform along Fifth Avenue all evening.  Exhibitions on view include: Antonio Lopez: Future Funk Fashion, exploring the artist and illustrator’s daring exploration of race, gender and the body through fashion, at El Museo del Barrio; Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs, featuring more than 200 works by this distinguished artist, and showcasing her keen eye for the absurdities and insecurities that permeate daily life, including many situations that are particular to New York City, at the Museum of the City of New York;Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History, the first museum exhibition to focus on the influential American fashion designer, artist, and entrepreneur, at the Jewish Museum; Beauty – Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, exploring aesthetic innovations through 250 works by 63 designers from around the globe, at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of László Moholy-Nagy to appear in the United States in nearly fifty years, revealing a utopian artist who believed that art could work hand-in-hand with technology for the betterment of humanity, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Gustav Klimt’s iconic portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer I at Neue Galerie New York; and Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, exploring how designers reconcile the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Established in 1978 to increase public awareness of its member institutions and promote public support of the arts, the Museum Mile Festival serves as a model for similar events across the country.

Participating museums offer programs and services for visitors with disabilities. Please contact the museums you plan to visit to arrange access accommodations and for further information.

MUSICAL ENTERTAINERS will perform in front of these participating institutions:

104th Street  El Museo del Barrio – It’s Showtime NYC: music by DJ Mickey Perez spinning Afro Latin disco.

92nd Street   The Jewish Museum – Mariachi Flor de Toloache, in collaboration with Bang on a Can.

89th Street     Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum – Alsarah and the Nubatones, performing Nubian/Sudanese inspired East-African Retro-Pop.

86th Street     Neue Galerie New York – cabaret singer Kim David Smith.

A wide variety of additional entertainers will be featured along Museum Mile that evening, including Magic Brian;    Daisy Doodle’s Parties, Magic, Face Painting & Balloons; Silly Billy the Very Funny Clown; and Sammie & Tudie’s Imagination Playhouse.

FAMILY ACTIVITIES:

There will also be an array of outdoor family activities for Museum Mile Festival attendees: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will offer chalk drawing. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum entertainment will include Imagination Playground in the museum’s garden, and a sidewalk design activity in conjunction with the exhibition Pixar: The Design of Story.  Visitors to the Jewish Museum can create an abstract fabric design using stamps and drawing techniques inspired by imagery in the exhibition Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist and the looks on view in Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History. El Museo del Barrio will offer art-making for the entire family.

EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW:

El Museo del Barrio: Antonio Lopez: Future Funk Fashion; Figure and Form: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection; Joiri Minaya: Redecode; Sarah Zapata: Siempre X.

Museum of the City of New York: Chris “Daze” Ellis: The City Is My Muse; Scenes from the South Bronx, 1976-82; Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs; New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway; Picturing Prestige: New York Portraits, 1700 – 1860; Activist New York; Gilded New York; and Timescapes.

The Jewish Museum: Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History; Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist; Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings: Beatriz Milhazes; Masterpieces & Curiosities: The Fictional Portrait; The Television Project: Some of My Best Friends; Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey; for children, Archaeology Zone: Discovering Treasures from Playgrounds to Palaces.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial; Thom Browne Selects; Pixar: The Design of Story;Energizing the Everyday: Gifts from the George R. Kravis II Collection; Passion for the Exotic: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Lockwood de Forest; Fragile Beasts; Immersion Room.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa; Moholy-Nagy: Future Present; Guggenheim Collection; Thannhauser Gallery.

Neue Galerie New York: Neue Galerie New York invites attendees of the 2016 Museum Mile Festival to visit the second floor gallery where Gustav Klimt’s iconic portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) hangs on permanent display. This work is joined by a selection of landscape and portrait paintings by Klimt, and a display of Austrian decorative arts from the early twentieth century.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology; The Roof Garden Commission: Cornelia Parker, Transitional Object (PsychoBarn), weather permitting; and P.S. Art 2016: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of NYC Kids.

HBO News. Comedy special Quincy Jones: Burning the Light debuts June 2

QUINCY JONES: BURNING THE LIGHT,  THE YOUNG COMEDIAN’S FIRST HBO COMEDY SPECIAL, DEBUTS JUNE 2

A young stand-up comic battling cancer, who recently told his story on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” stars in his first HBO special when QUINCY JONES: BURNING THE LIGHT debuts THURSDAY, JUNE 2 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT).

Other HBO playdates: June 2 (2:40 a.m.), 14 (12:55 a.m.) and 29 (4:05 a.m.)

HBO2 playdates: June 8 (8:00 p.m.), 16 (1:35 a.m.), 19 (4:45 a.m.) and 20 (11:30 p.m.)

The special will also be available on HBO NOW, HBO GO and HBO On Demand.

Taped at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on April 4, the exclusive presentation features Jones’ take on a variety of topics, including gay marriage, the race card and the challenges of finding true love.

Originally from Seattle, the 32-year-old Jones moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in comedy. At the time of his diagnosis of terminal cancer in July 2015, he was performing an estimated 1,000 stand-up sets a year in order to develop his skills, and continues to perform today, despite ongoing chemotherapy.

To help Jones achieve his dream of starring in a stand-up comedy special that would be his legacy, friend and fellow comedian Nicole Blaine, along with her husband, Mickey Blaine, launched a Kickstarter campaign, which led to his March 15 appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and his subsequent HBO deal. Jones found out that HBO would air his special in his return appearance on the show, which aired March 21.

The executive producers of QUINCY JONES: BURNING THE LIGHT include Quincy Jones, Nicole Blaine and Mickey Blaine. Other executive producers include Andy Coleman for Link Entertainment and Lisa Shapiro and Olivia Doud for Mosaic. Directed by Mickey Blaine; written by Quincy Jones.

Boston events. Arab Film Weekend at MFA

Boston events. For the first time ever, MFA Film presents a survey of the very best contemporary films being produced in the Arab region of North Africa and the Middle East. For an introduction to Arab cinema or for experienced fans, this mini-festival is not to be missed. Co-presented with the Boston Palestine Film Festival.

Boston events. Arab Film Weekend at MFA

Boston events. June 2-5 2016.

FILMS:

Theeb by Naji Abu Nowar (Jordan/UAE/Qatar/UK, 2015, 100 min.). Nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film, this Arab Western follows a young boy, Theeb, as he makes a perilous trek across the Ottoman Empire desert in 1916. As war rages in the Middle East, Theeb’s mission to guide a British officer to his secret destination is threatened by bandits, enemy soldiers, and the natural hazards of the desert climate.

Thursday, June 2nd 7:00 pm. Sunday, June 5th 12 pm.

A Syrian Love Story by Sean McAllister (UK/France/Lebanon/Syria, 2015, 80 min.). Amer and Raghda met in a Syrian prison cell 15 years ago. He first saw her bloodied face after a beating when she was placed in a neighboring cell. Over several months they communicated – and fell in love – through a tiny hole they’d secretly made in the wall. When released, they got married and started a family. This intimate portrait tells the story of a family torn apart by the tyrannical Assad dictatorship, helping us to understand why people are literally dying for change in the Arab world.

Friday, June 3rd 6:00 pm. Saturday, June 4th 4:00 pm.

As I Open My Eyes (A peine j’ouvre les yeux) by Leyla Bouzid (Tunisia/France/ Belgium/UAE, 2016, 102 min.). Tunis in the summer of 2010, a few months before the Arab Spring: eighteen-year-old Farah passes her Baccalaureat exam, and her family insists that she pursue a career as a doctor. But Farah, who sings in an activist rock band, is awakening to the thrills of her city at night. Her controversial music draws the attention of police, setting her on a path that her family never intended.

Friday, June 3rd 8:00 pm. Saturday, June 4th 10:30 am.

In the Last Days of the City (Akher ayam el madina) by Tamer El Said (Egypt/Germany, 2016, 118 min.). Downtown Cairo, 2009: A 35 year old filmmaker named Khalid is struggling to make a film that captures the soul of his city while facing loss in his own life. With the help of his friends, who send him footage from their lives in Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin, he sets out to create a requiem for a city in pain.

Saturday, June 4th 1:00 pm. Sunday, June 5th 2:30 pm.

Tickets may be purchased starting on May 26 at mfa.org/film, by calling the MFA Ticketing Line at 800.440.6975, or in person at any MFA ticket desk. Tickets are $9 for members, $11 nonmembers, and $5 for students at local universities.

The Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Film Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is funded by the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation.

Film at the MFA is sponsored by Bank of America.

The Media Sponsor is The Boston Globe.

Book lovers. The Nantucket Book Festival features a stellar line-up of authors and events

The Nantucket Book Festival, an event for book lovers of every stripe, features a stellar line-up of authors and events for its upcoming Festival.  From June 17-19, readers will gather in historic Nantucket venues for author readings, panel discussions, and social events that provide unique opportunities to engage with their favorite authors—a hallmark of the Festival.  Most events are free with the exception of the ticketed social events.

The Nantucket Book Festival

Among the author participants this year are 2015 Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James (A Brief History of Seven Killings), the first Caribbean author to win the esteemed prize since V.S. Naipaul; legendary broadcaster Diane Rehm talking about her new book, On My Own; U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins; food blogger Michael Ruhlman (How to Sauté), celebrated author of 20+ cooking related works; Nantucket-based bestselling authors Nathaniel Philbrick (Valiant Ambition), Nancy Thayer (The Island House), and Elin Hilderbrand (Here’s to Us); Anthony Marra (The Tsar of Love and Techno); National Book Award winner Evan Osnos (Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China); and Diane Ackerman (The Human Age), who brings her unique insight into the natural world and our place in it.

Sebastian Junger (War, Tribe) will be a part of panel discussion of journalists and war heroes including Matt Gallagher (Youngblood), Emma Sky (The Unraveling), and J. Kael Weston (The Mirror Test) who will share their diverse perspectives on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Presentations by authors with special interest to Cape and Islanders will be held in the Atheneum Garden Tent on Friday from 10am-5pm, and on Saturday the Garden will feature local authors selling and signing their books from 10am-4pm.

Typewriter Rodeo, a quartet of Austin TX-based poets, will be appearing throughout the weekend, composing and typing free poems on demand on vintage typewriters for patrons on any subject requested.

Children’s programming includes breakfast with Newbery Medal winner Jack Gantos on Saturday morning at the Dreamland Theater (free for children, $10 for adults) and storytimes in the Atheneum Garden on Saturday morning (told in a variety of languages).

Poetry lovers will have plenty of choices this year with appearances by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins, National Book Award winner Mark Doty, Belarusian rising star Valzhyna Mort, and Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA, Richard Michelson.

Festivalgoers will have an opportunity to mingle with some of the authors on Saturday evening at 10:00pm at the Breeze Bar at the Nantucket Hotel for a reprise of the popular “Authors in Bars” event.

Tickets are now on sale for author-hosted social events which include: Friday: breakfast with Alice Hoffman and Ann Leary; luncheon with Diane Ackerman; and for the first time, Meet the Authors Dinner, a fundraiser for the Festival.  On Saturday: breakfast with Jack Gantos; luncheon with Elin Hilderbrand and Nancy Thayer; lunch with Geraldine Brooks (sold out);  and a sauté culinary event with Michael Ruhlman.  Sunday activities feature a breakfast with Billy Collins; the annual Cisco Brewers Send-off featuring music, food, author mingling and of course brews; and a Book to Film Panel with Diane Ackerman, Marlon James and Nathaniel Philbrick wraps up the Festival in the evening.  Tickets are available for purchase at http://nantucketbookfestival.org.

The Nantucket Book Festival is a multi-day cultural event celebrating the rich literary history and community on Nantucket Island. Founded in 2012, The Festival seeks to create and renew enthusiasm for books, connect authors with readers, encourage a love of reading and writing in a younger generation, and raise funds for literary causes.

The Festival has a partnership with the PEN/Faulkner’s Writers in Schools Program to bring celebrated authors to the Nantucket public schools.  Additionally, the Nantucket Book Festival hosts a Young Writer Contest, and the Young Writer Award will be presented during the course of the Festival weekend.

TV Shows Today, May 11: Empire, Arrow, Nashville

It’s Wednesday and we’re happy. Today, our Top#1 TV Shows is for… Empire. Today’s episode: Rise by Sin. Season 2. Episode 17. 9:00 pm. FOX. From Wikipedia: Empire is an American musical drama television series which debuted on Fox on January 7, 2015. Although filmed in Chicago, the show is based in New York and it centers on a hip hop music and entertainment company, Empire Entertainment, and the drama among the members of the founders’ family as they fight for control of the company.

Our second choice is for Arrow. Today: Monument Point. Season 4. Episode 21. 8:00 pm. CW.

Our last recommendation is for Nashville. Today’s episode: After You’ve Gone. Season 4. Episode 19. 10:00 pm. ABC.

TV Shows Today, May 11 Video: Empire Season 2 Ep 17 First Look: “Rise by Sin” | EMPIRE

Birthdays Today, May 11: Prince Royce, Sabrina Carpenter, Cam Newton, Holly Frazier

He was born in New York City in 1989 and he i sour Top#1 Famous Birthdays Today, May 11. He’s Prince Royce! From Yareah, we wish him and his family all the best in this special day. Congratulations and happy birthday, Prince Royce!

Famous Birthdays Today, May 11: Prince Royce. Source: flickr. Author: Lunchbox LP

When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe ‘Corazon Sin Cara’ would never had been made. It’s a very inspirational story.

Prince Royce

I think that Valentine’s Day is only as good as you want it to be. You know, I don’t think it should be anything fancy, nothing crazy. As long as you’re spending time with that person that’s special, I think that’s a great Valentine’s Day.

Prince Royce

More famous birthdays today, May 11: Sabrina Carpenter, actress and singer born in Lehigh Valley in 1999; Cam Newton, football player; and Holly Frazier, reality star.

Happy birthday to all of them. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

Famous Birthdays Today, May 11 Video: Prince Royce – Culpa al Corazón (Official Video)

The Photographers’ Gallery presents Punk Weekender

The Photographers’ Gallery presents Punk Weekender, a weekend of special events marking forty years of punk heritage and influence in London.

Shirley Baker, Two punks drinking cider, Stockport, 1983 © Shirley Baker Estate, Courtesy of Shirley Baker Estate/ Mary Evans Picture Library

Staged as part of the year long initiative, Punk London, these include a spotlight Print Sales exhibition, a digital presentation plus an exclusive live gig by The Raincoats. The Punk Weekender is also accompanied by two offsite exhibitions on display at Sonos Studio.

The Punk Weekender is a cultural examination of the punk movement, with a focus on the ideological, social and political context for its insurgence in Soho and Greater London. The programme explores the Do-It-Yourself ethos and avant-garde spirit that led to various punk subcultures and the reinvention of self- expression and personal identity which played out against the turbulent politics and economics of late 1970s Britain.

The Print Sales Gallery features never before exhibited images of punks shot by Shirley Baker in the 1980s. Best known and celebrated for her warm and humorous street photographs of inner city life in Manchester, Baker’s punk pictures reveal a different aspect to her work. Alongside black and white prints, the display contains rare colour portraits, which capture the provocative style and attitude of punk youth culture and offer a glimpse into the vibrant and dynamic nature of various punk cliques.

A digital presentation on the Gallery’s Media Wall showcases iconic work by photographers Janette Beckman, Anita Corbin, Owen Harvey, Derek Ridgers and Gavin Watson alongside archival images from Photographic Youth Music and Culture Archive (PYMCA) and the world’s largest music and technology archive, EMI Archive. The exhibition surveys a plethora of subcultures that followed on from punk, drawing together significant bodies of works from over the last forty years and featuring skinheads, mods and female youth tribes.

Also presented on the Media Wall is an especially commissioned timeline from Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio. Based around interviews Knight conducted with key punk figures, the timeline comprises images, videos and texts tracing the evolution of punk through the decades.

Other highlights include a screening of Derek Jarman’s 1978 film Jubilee, family workshops, late evening Bookshop events and an exclusive performance on Saturday 25 June on the Gallery’s studio floor by the seminal all female post-punk band The Raincoats. Formed in the late 1970s, the band was admired for their off-kilter and idiosyncratic music, which paved the way and influenced feminist musicians such as Beth Ditto, the German art-punk collective Chicks On Speed and later icons such as Nirvana.

In September of this year artist, designer and punk historian Toby Mott will be signing his new book Showboat: Punk, Sex, Bodies in the Gallery’s Bookshop. An avid follower of punk music, graphics and fashion, Mott began his expansive personal collection of ephemera as a 13 year-old punk in 1977. Drawing from this collection, rare punk memorabilia will be on display and Mott’s publications available to purchase in the Bookshop.

In addition to this series of events, The Photographers’ Gallery in collaboration with Sonos Studio presents Swagger & Spit. On display from 17 May 2016, the exhibition explores the vibrant characters and visual legacy of some of the era’s most iconic stage performers.

The first of two pop-up exhibitions curated by the Gallery, Swagger & Spit delves into the archives of acclaimed subculture and street photographers Derek Ridgers (b. 1950, UK) and Janette Beckman (UK). Ridgers’ portraits capture the raw energy, aggression and exhibitionism of lead vocalists in legendary London clubs, while Beckman’s candid street images depict the evolution of punk as it transitioned from an underground youth culture to mainstream re-appropriation. This collection of black and white portraits includes Adam Ant, Joan Jett, Lydia Lunch, Siouxsie Sioux, Poly Styrene, Ari Up and The Raincoats.

The second exhibition in Sonos Studio is set to open in September, displaying a newly commissioned series of portraits by Brian David Stevens looking at punk’s fusion with reggae and dub.

The Photographers’ Gallery Punk programme is supported by Metro Imaging, UK.

Pablo Picasso and The Great War at Columbus Museum of Art

Pablo Picasso and The Great War at Columbus Museum of Art. From June 10 to September 11, 2016.

Pablo Picasso, Harlequin Musician, 1924, Oil on canvas, 51 3/16 x 38 ¼ in (130 x 97.2 cm), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Given in loving memory of her husband, Taft Schreiber, by Rita Schreiber

CMA is the last of only two venues for Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change. The exhibition examines a pivotal moment in the career of Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. Co-organized with the Barnes Foundation, it explores Picasso’s work between 1912 and 1924, prior to, during, and after the tumultuous years of World War I when the artist began exploring both cubist and classical modes in his art. To date, it is the most ambitious exhibition to be presented in CMA’s newly opened Margaret M. Walter Wing. Complementing the exhibition is Pablo Picasso: 25 years of Edition Ceramics, an installation of 40 ceramic works – plates, vases and pitchers created by Pablo Picasso in collaboration with George and Suzanne Ramie and the artisans at their Madoura pottery workshop in Vallauris, France, between the years 1947 and 1971.

Inspired by the Columbus Museum of Art’s Picasso Still Life with Compote and Glass, 1914-15 and the Barnes’s extensive Picasso holdings, Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change features some 50 works by Picasso drawn from major American and European museums and private collections. The show includes oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and four costumes the artist designed for the avant-garde ballet, Parade, in 1917. Several important canvases by Picasso’s contemporaries – including Henri Matisse, Fernand Leger and Diego Rivera – will also be presented.

Curators:

Simonetta Fraquelli, an independent curator and specialist in early 20th-century European art, David Stark, Chief Curator at the Columbus Museum of Art and Martha Lucy, Consulting Curator at the Barnes Foundation and Assistant Professor of Art History at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Publication:

A fully illustrated exhibition catalog, published by Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers, Inc, will be available in the Museum Store.