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Women, Art and Social Change at Princeton University Art Museum

Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise. May 7-July 10, 2016. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, N.J.

Esther Huger Elliot, decorator ; Joseph Meyer, potter, Plate with a Design of Cactus Flowers, ca. 1904. Ceramic. Collection of Caren Fine

The Newcomb Pottery forged a distinctly Southern brand of the American Arts and Crafts movement and is considered one of the most significant makers of American art pottery of the 20th century, its works both critically acclaimed and highly coveted. Established in 1895, Newcomb Pottery (housed within Newcomb College, Tulane University’s former women’s college, in New Orleans) was a pioneering educational experiment focused on training young women to support themselves financially by designing, producing and selling handcrafted art objects.

Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise is the largest and most comprehensive national exhibition of Newcomb Pottery in nearly three decades, and the one-of-a-kind objects on display offer insight into the extraordinary women who made a lasting contribution to American art and design.

Content:     The exhibition represents half a century of inventive achievement in the decorative arts and features more than 100 objects, including the iconic pottery for which the Newcomb women became best known as well as lesser known textiles, metalwork, jewelry, graphic arts and bookbinding.

Coordinators:     Martin Eidelberg, professor emeritus of art history at Rutgers University, and Karl Kusserow, Princeton’s John Wilmerding Curator of American Art.

Credits:    Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise is organized by the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and is supported in part by the Henry Luce Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition at Princeton has been made possible by the Frances E. and Elias Wolf, Class of 1920, Fund; the Kathleen C. Sherrerd Program Fund for American Art; and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support has been provided by the Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Exhibitions Fund; the Curtis W. McGraw Foundation; and the Friends of the Princeton University Art Museum.

Publication:     The exhibition is accompanied by a 340-page hardcover publication titled The Arts and Crafts of Newcomb Pottery, which includes essays by Sally Main, former senior curator at the Newcomb Art Museum, and other American art history and decorative arts scholars in addition to a timeline, artist biographies and vibrant new photography of 250 remarkable Newcomb Pottery objects.

Programming:

Saturday, June 18, 3 p.m.

Lecture – “Newcomb Pottery: Myths of Regionalism and Gender”

Martin Eidelberg, professor emeritus of art history, Rutgers University

Dr. Eidelberg has published extensively on the American Arts and Crafts movement and Art Nouveau, with particular emphasis on American ceramics and the work of Louis C. Tiffany. He will share insights related to the special exhibition Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise. A reception will follow in the Princeton University Art Museum.

Cosponsored by the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, which is hosting the companion exhibition Early Newcomb Pottery from the Barbara and Henry Fuldner Collection

Saturday, May 7, through Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016

http://www.stickleymuseum.org/

Sydney exhibitions. Disintegration Anxiety by Andjana Pachkova

Sydney exhibitions. Andjana Pachkova at Paper Plane Gallery, 727 Darling Street, Rozelle. 11-20 May 2016.

The Outback through my European Outlook – why isn’t it darker? Andjana Pachkova
(mixed media on pastel paper)

Sydney exhibitions. Ukainian-Russian-American artist, Andjana Pachkova, now finds greater happiness when painting the surrounding landscape of her Sydney home and looking after her young family of boys, than practising corporate law on Wall Street.

Growing up in communist Soviet Union was tough, she says, but her parents, although poor, were well educated and ambitious for their daughter. Following Perestroika in the early 1990s, Andjana took classes at the Stroganov Moscow State University of Art & Industry.

In 1997 she won a prestigious Davis Fellowship and moved to the US to study Political Science at Dartmouth College. All the while taking visual art classes. Andjana holds a Bachelor of Law from Moscow International University, a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) and a Master of Law from Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). After moving to Sydney she further continued with her art studies with courses at Northbridge Visual Art School, Willoughby Art Centre and Woollahra Waverley Art School. She cites artist Tony Tozer her greatest mentor and teacher.

The artist’s personal life has been both greatly blessed and equally challenged.

Sydney exhibitions. The Western Plains of NSW and other landscapes.

I did not come to art early or directly or easily but I am here to stay because this path is deeply felt, thought-through and wished for. Besides being an artist is probably one of the few careers where having a life of experiences is a positive thing – a thing that gives you meaning and context. (from Artist Statement – full statement on Press Release).

Seeing the Australian landscape from a non-Australian perspective is not a new theme. But for this Ukrainian-Russian-American artist, this new landscape is also her greatest inspiration. Many of the works are painted around the myriad of bays and bushland around her home in Northbridge on Sydney’s leafy north shore, others of the far western plains of NSW, from Bathurst to Dubbo and then others imagined Australian landscapes and contours.

Andjana is interested in the mutual interaction between people and the landscape and how both are shaped and altered by this interconnection. She explores in her work a sense of uncertainty, perhaps anxiety, “…that how we experience our natural surroundings is changing rapidly”, she says.

In 2013 she relocated to Sydney with her husband Martin Herbst (General Manager Gumtree Australia) and their three young sons. At this time she gave up Law and began her new artist life.

Birthdays Today, May 4: Audrey Hepburn, Grace Phipps, JME, RaeLynn

Yes, she was great and she was an icon of beauty and elegance. She was Audrey Hepburn and she is our Top#1 Famous Birthdays Today, May 4. She was born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1929 and she died in 1993. Rest in peace, Audrey Hepburn.

Famous Birthdays Today, May 4: Photo of Audrey Hepburn. Source: Paramount-photo by Bud Fraker

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

Audrey Hepburn

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Audrey Hepburn

More famous birthdays today, May 4: Grace Phipps, known for her role on The Vampire Diaries; JME, rapper; and RaeLynn, country singer born in Baytown, Texas in 1994.

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

Famous Birthdays Today, May 4 Video: Moon River – Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Five new works by women artists at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center

Boston Cyberarts and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA) will present five new works created by five teams of women artists for “Art on the Marquee,” the largest and most dynamic digital display for public media art in Boston.

Catherine Siller and Mags Harries, SUBMERGE

Five internationally renowned female artists will be paired with five new media artists to collaboratively create the new work for the 80-foot-tall multi-screen LED marquee outside the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA in South Boston. An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, June 1, 6:30-8:30pm.

According to Boston Cyberarts Director George Fifield “We are thrilled to be presenting work by ten of Boston’s most accomplished female artists who’ve received significant acclaim both nationally and internationally for their work. With this round, we hope to expand the possibilities of the marquee by marrying unique styles and ideas.”

The artist pairings are Mags Harries (public art) and Catherine Siller (interdisciplinary artist/performer); Nathalie Miebach (sculptor) and Alison Maria Rodriguez (multi-media artist & filmmaker); Emily Eveleth (painter) and Amy Baxter Macdonald (animation and digital artist); Deb Todd Wheeler and Lina Maria Giraldo; and Ambreen Butt (painter) and Cindy Bishop Sherman (interdisciplinary artist).

ABOUT THE ARTIST TEAMS:

MAG HARRIES AND CATHERINE SILLER.

Mags Harries’ public art projects have received national recognition and have won many awards. Her early projects Asaroton and Glove Cycle have become icons of the Boston area. Mags frequently designs her work with landscape materials and responds to environmental issues. She has an increasing interest in water and city scale elements of infrastructure, pathways and connections. www.harriesheder.com

Catherine Siller is an artist and performer whose interdisciplinary work investigates the relationship between digitally mediated language, the body, and identity. She currently lives and works in Boston, MA. Siller holds an MFA in Digital + Media from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University. www.catherinesiller.com

NATHALIE MIEBACH AND ALISON MARIA RODRIGUEZ.

Nathalie Miebach’s work focuses on the intersection of art and science and the visual articulation of scientific observations. Using the methodologies and processes of both disciplines, she translates scientific data related to astronomy, ecology and meteorology woven sculptures. Her method of translation is principally that of weaving – in particular basket weaving – as it provides her with a simple yet highly effective grid through which to interpret data in three-dimensional space. By staying true to the numbers, these woven pieces tread an uneasy divide between functioning both as sculptures in space as well as instruments that could be used in the actual environment from which the data originates. www.nathaliemiebach.com

Alison Maria Rodriguez is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary multi-media artist and filmmaker. She received her MFA from Tufts University/SMFA and holds a BA in Language, Literature and Culture from Antioch College in OH, obtained also through study at Oxford University in England and Kyoto Seika University in Japan. Her work has been exhibited throughout the country and extensively in the New England area, in both traditional and non-traditional art spaces. She has curated/co-curated several local group exhibitions and screenings, predominantly via work in artist collectives such as the Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance and the former Axiom Group. www.allisonmariarodriguez.com

EMILY EVELETH AND AMY BAXTER MACDONALD.

Amy Baxter Macdonald is an artist and adjunct instructor currently teaching animation at Montserrat College of Art and the New England Institute of Art. Born in Haverhill, MA and raised in upstate New York, where her father coached swimming at Hamilton College, she continues to paint, draw, and create animated films from her studio in Boston’s Fort Point Artist Community. www.amybmacdonald.com

Emily Eveleth’s paintings form a genre unto themselves. Spanning the boundaries between portrait, landscape, and object of projected desire, her ongoing series of paintings of doughnuts invests this unlikely subject with unexpected presence and identity. “Eveleth’s paintings restlessly shift across a spectrum of meanings, covering along the way all the distances between opposing significances; prosaic and profound, profane and sacred, banal and intriguing, to say nothing of the axis between cool asexuality and gushing, if veiled, sexuality.”1 www.emilyeveleth.com

DEB TODD WHEELER AND LINA MARIA GIRALDO.

Lina Maria Giraldo is a Boston-based media artist born in Colombia who holds a Master of Professional Studies on Interactive Telecommunications (ITP) from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where she was the recipient of both the Paulette Godard and the Tisch School Scholarships. She was awarded the Tsongas Scholarship at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she majored in Studio of Interrelated Media (SIM) with Departmental Honors and Academic Distinction. Her work has been displayed in galleries, museums, and public spaces throughout Massachusetts, New York and Colombia. She has produced content for the Art on the Marquee LED screen at the Massachusetts Convention Center and Fenway Cinema. www.linamariagiraldo.com

Deb Todd Wheeler is a media artist who produces installations, photographs, and sculptural objects that explore the aesthetic impact of human productivity in the natural world. From power generating interactive installations to cataloging prints of plastic as a possible new species of marine life, to working with live Western Harvester ants where, as Ann Wilson Lloyd wrote in Art in America, “ants are perfect collaborators for Deb Todd Wheeler, as their industry is a micro-complement to her own intensive, finely wrought crafting, and her ongoing interest in science and nature.” Recent exhibitions include the ICA at MeCA in the exhibit EXCHANGE, a solo exhibit at Miller Block Gallery, The New Britain Museum of American Art, as well as the Megapolis Audio Art and Documentary Festival. She teaches in the 3D Department at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. www.debtoddwheeler.com

AMBREEN BUTT AND CINDY SHERMAN BISHOP.

Ambreen Butt is a Pakistani/American artist best known for her drawings, paintings, prints, and collages. She was born in Lahore, Pakistan and received her BFA in traditional Indian and Persian miniature painting from the National College of Arts in Lahore. She moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1993 and attended Massachusetts College of Art and Design earning her MFA in painting in 1997. Since then, her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. Butt’s work is rooted in her bi-cultural identity and retains the intricate, decorative patterning that characterizes Indian and Persian miniature painting. She has updated the medium’s painstaking technique with new materials, such as PET film, thread and collage. www.ambreenbutt.com

Cindy Sherman Bishop is a visual artist, filmmaker, and digital creative. Originally a software developer and a painter, her work ranges from creating new tools for artistic expression to realizing immersive, interactive environments. She received her MFA in Dynamic Media at Massachusetts College of Art in 2013, and is continuing to explore the intersection of art, video and technology at MIT with a fellowship at the Open Doc Lab @MITOpenDocLab. There, she has further developed the StoryBot family archive, which is now patent-pending, and has authored the Haven project, which facilitates 3D storytelling/prototyping in the browser. www.cindyshermanbishop.com

SolarCity Sustainable Film Series. Bikes vs Cars Documentary Screening at Fuller Craft Museum

Bikes vs Cars Documentary Screening at Fuller Craft Museum. Part of the SolarCity Sustainable Film Series at the South Shore Indie Music Festival. Saturday, June 11, 12:00 – 8:00 pm.

Bikes vs Cars Documentary Screening at Fuller Craft Museum

Cyclists, noncyclists, and environmentally conscious individuals, please join us for a spectacular documentary that follows individuals around the world who are fighting to create change through the bicycle and investigates the daily global drama in traffic around the world.  The screening and panel are hosted by Brockton cycling club Velo Urbano, Founder, Paul Chenard.  Fuller Craft Museum would like to celebrate Velo Urbano becoming one of the newest Massbike chapters by selecting this film to kick off their SolarCity Sustainable Film Series, part of the South Shore Indie Music Festival. Join us on Saturday, June 11, 12:00 pm for a screening and panel discussion of the award-winning documentary “Bikes vs Cars”  a film by Fredrik Gertten. Our panel includes: Glynnis Ritter, one of the film producers (via skype from Sweden); Pete Stidman, former director of the Boston Cyclist Union; Kioko Mwosa is the President of the Blue Hills Cycling Club; Michelle Cook co-founder of Black Boston Cyclists/ Roxbury Rides; and Deb Roher, a bicycle advocate from the New Bedford/Fall River area. Make Fuller Craft Museum your bike club destination that day at noon for film and discussion about issues around urban cycling.

Art Sustains Us…

This is the slogan for our South Shore Indie Music Festival. To that end Fuller Craft Museum has partnered with Equal Exchange, Project Green Schools, and SolarCity to program sustainability films, tiny talks, craft activities, demos, and guest speakers that will share information about lessening our environmental impact on the earth for future generations.  This programming is as an integral part of our “3-D” indie music festival (music • craft • nature), and includes a large interactive communal sculpture designed by artist Duken Delpe out of recyclable materials

Panel:

Paul Chenard, Velo Urbano.

Paul Chenard is a Californian that has found himself living in Easton and working in Brockton. Paul has a M.A. in Transportation Planning from New York University and a B.A. in Urban Studies and Planning from San Francisco State University. Paul has been involved in bicycle transportation advocacy since high school. During the week you will find him riding to work where he does Transportation Planning at the Old Colony Planning Council in Brockton, working on a variety of transportation planning issues including bicycle infrastructure. Paul is the founder of Velo Urbano, a pop up bicycle cafe that he hopes to turn into a fully operating storefront location serving bicyclist and the community delicious coffee and bicycle repair. Paul is also president of the newly formed MassBike Southeast chapter.

Michelle Cook, Co-Founder of Black Boston Cyclists/ Roxbury Rides.

Kioko Mwosa, President of the Blue Hills Cycling Club.

Kioko Mwosa is the President of the Blue Hills Cycling Club, which is one of the largest multi-disciplined cycling clubs in the New England area. Blue Hills Cycling is based in the Milton, MA area and has representation in many of New England’s Road, Mountain Bike, Cyclocross and Triathlon disciplines. In addition, Blue Hills Cycling members often raise money and ride in many of the charity rides that are fixtures in the regular season calendar including Best Buddies, B2VT and the Pan Mass Challenge. Kioko is a Cat 4 and Master’s Racer. He lives in Milton, MA with his wife Thato and 3 kids.

Deborah Roher, Attorney, Bicycle Advocate.

Deborah Roher has been a car owner from the age of 33, a driver from the age of 28, and a bike rider all her adult life. She has taken part in long bike tours in Massachusetts, New York, and Indiana, but mostly rides for errands and to commute to work between New Bedford and Fall River. She participates intermittently in meetings and events sponsored by both the New Bedford and Fall River Bicycle Committees. When not biking, she is self-employed as a lawyer emphasizing consumer protection, bankruptcy, and landlord-tenant issues, and volunteers with the Coalition for Social Justice on an issues agenda that includes improving public transportation. She is especially interested in creating sustainable transportation systems that unite trains, buses, and bicycles.

Pete Stidman, Founder and former Director of the Boston Cyclists Union.

Pete Stidman has worked as a photographer, a reporter, a community organizer and now as a transportation planner for Howard Stein Hudson. As founder and director of the Boston Cyclists Union he helped organize communities to take down a 1950s era highway-style overpass in Jamaica Plain, add world class protected bike lanes to a design for Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, and start a planning process now underway at the DCR to study adding bikeways to all DCR-owned parkways. He is now managing several projects for Howard Stein Hudson, including a study of the Downtown Crossing pedestrian zone, a study to add transit priority and bikeways to the Mt. Auburn corridor in West Cambridge, and a complete streets prioritization plan in Everett, Mass.

About Bikes vs Cars Director Fredrik Gertten.

Fredrik Gertten worked as a journalist for newspapers, radio and television in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe during the 1980s and 1990s.[1] In 1995 he published the travel book Ung man söker världen (Young man looking for the World) through the publisher Gong Gong förlag. He wrote for the newspaper Arbetet from 1990 until it ceased publication in 2000 and for Kvällsposten in 2001-2003. He has also been the producer of documentaries and entertainment shows for the Swedish television channels SVT, TV 4 and TV 3. In 2009, Gertten’s production company WG Film was sued for defamation by Dole Food Company after the US screening of Bananas!*, a documentary film about a conflict between Dole and banana plantation workers in Nicaragua over alleged cases of sterility caused by the pesticide DBCP.

Chantal Akerman at the MFA. ‘I Don’t Belong Anywhere’ is an iconic documentary

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston celebrates the life of the late French/Belgian/Jewish avant-garde filmmaker with By and About Chantal Akerman, a program comprised of two films produced during the final years of Akerman’s life.

Chantal Akerman at the MFA

I Don’t Belong Anywhere: the Cinema of Chantal Akerman (Icarus Films; dir. Marianne Lambert; Belgium, 2015, 67 min.). Filmed before Akerman’s death in 2015, this documentary explores some of the nomadic filmmaker’s 40 plus films and charts her international travels, exploring the cities and spaces that influenced her work. Akerman shares with Marianne Lambert her cinematic trajectory, one that never ceased to interrogate the meaning of her existence. In conversation with her editor and long-time collaborator, Claire Atherton, she discusses the origins of her film language and aesthetic stance. I Don’t Belong Anywhere includes excerpts from many films made throughout Akerman’s career, including Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), News from Home (1976), The Rendezvous of Anna, Je, tu, il, elle (1974), South (1998), From the East(1993), From the Other Side (2002), Là-bas (2006) and what would be Chantal Akerman’s last film, No Home Movie (2015).

No Home Movie (Icarus Films; dir. Chantal Akerman; France, 2016, 115 min.). For the last several years of her life, Chantal Akerman filmed her surroundings with no real direction or narrative in mind. When she had amassed about 20 hours of footage, she began to sculpt it slowly into a two-hour feature. The work that emerged from this process was No Home Movie, a film about the artist’s elderly mother who survived the Holocaust and now rarely left her Belgian apartment. This poignant film would be Akerman’s last.

Tickets may be purchased now 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.

NY exhibits. French designer and architect Pierre Chareau at the Jewish Museum

NY exhibits. In November 2016, the Jewish Museum will present the first U.S. exhibition focused on French designer and architect Pierre Chareau (1883-1950).

NY exhibits. French designer and architect Pierre Chareau at the Jewish Museum

Showcasing rare furniture, light fixtures, and interiors, as well as designs for important projects in Europe and America, including the famous Maison de Verre in Paris and the Robert Motherwell House in East Hampton, Long Island, the exhibition will bring together rarely-seen works from major public and private collections around the world. Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design will be on view from November 4, 2016 – March 26, 2017.

Pierre Chareau rose from modest beginnings in Bordeaux to become one of the most sought after designers in France. Creating custom furniture and interiors for an elite clientele that included leading figures of the French-Jewish intelligentsia, Chareau uniquely balanced the opulence of traditional French decorative arts with the clean lines and industrial materials of Modernism. Through his highly distinctive artistic language, Chareau established himself at the intersection of tradition and innovation, becoming a major figure in 20th century design. The exhibition at the Jewish Museum will place Chareau in the context of the interwar period in Paris, highlighting his circle of influential patrons, engagement with the period’s foremost artists, and designs for the film industry. The architect’s active patronage of the arts-and his collection of paintings, sculptures, and drawings by significant artists such as Picasso, Braque, Lipchitz, Mondrian, Chagall, and Modigliani-will be another important aspect of Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design at the Jewish Museum.

The exhibition will also explore the enduring consequences of Chareau’s flight from Nazi persecution, the dispersal of many of his pieces during and after World War II, and his attempts to rebuild his career while in exile in New York during the 1940s.

Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design is one of several major design exhibitions at the Jewish Museum this year, following Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History (through August 9) and Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist (on view May 6 – September 18). “Design exhibitions are central to the Jewish Museum’s program, reflecting the range of our collection as well as the diversity of art and Jewish culture,” said Claudia Gould, Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director. “We are also incorporating a contemporary perspective by commissioning new work and collaborating with leading architects, designers, and artists to enliven these exhibitions, creating dynamic experiences for our visitors.”

Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design is organized by Esther da Costa Meyer, Professor, History of Modern Architecture, Princeton University, and Daniel S. Palmer, Leon Levy Assistant Curator, the Jewish Museum. Exhibition Design by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

NY exhibits. Support:

Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design is made possible by The Jerome L. Greene Foundation.

Additional support is provided by The Peter Jay Sharp Exhibition Fund, Susan and Benjamin Winter, The Grand Marnier Foundation, Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis, the Leon Levy Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and other generous donors.

The publication is made possible in part by endowment funds from the Dorot Foundation and funds from the Barr Ferree Foundation Fund for Publications, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University.

The Jewish Museum gives special thanks to the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

TV Shows Today, May 2: Reign, Jane the Virgin, Gotham

It’s Monday and we have great recommendations for you. First, Reign. Today’s episode: No Way Out. Season 3. Episode 12. 8:00 pm. CW. From Wikipedia: The series, created by Stephanie SenGupta and Laurie McCarthy, airs on The CW and premiered as part of the 2013–14 American television season. The leading roles are played by a combination of Australian, Canadian, English, and New Zealand actors.

Our second choice is for Jane the Virgin. Today: Chapter Forty-Two. Season 2. Episode 20. 9:00 pm. CW.

And our last recommendation is for Gotham. Today’s episode: Wrath of the Villains: Azrael. Season 2. Episode 19. 8:00 pm. FOX.

We hope you enjoy the shows. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

TV Shows Today, May 2 Video: Reign 3×12 Promo “No Way Out” (HD)

Birthdays Today, May 2: Mr. T, Notorious B.I.G., Kevin Quinn, Brandi Maxiell

He starred on The A-Team, he was born in Chicago in 1952 and he’s… Mr. T! His real name is Laurence Tureaud, he’s our Top#1 Famous Birthdays Today, May 2 and, from Yareah, we wish him and his family all the best in this specia.l day. Congrats and happy birthday, Mr. T!

Birthdays Today, May 2: Mr T in the Hall of Fame. Source: flickr. Author: Miguel Discart

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

Mr. T

My mother told me, ‘Son, nobody else but God knows.’ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

Mr. T

More famous birthdays today, May 2: Notorious B.I.G., rapper born in New York in 1972, died in 1997; Kevin Quinn, actor; and Brandi Maxiell, reality star.

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

Famous Birthdays Today, May 2 Video: Mr. T Treat your mother right

Manon Recordon’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong

Manon Recordon: I was walking through the fields, when suddenly a building sprang from the earth.

Manon Recordon’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong

Opening with the artist on Saturday 7 May, 4 – 6pm. To be officiated at 4pm by Mr Julien-Loïc Garin, Chief Executive Officer of Le French May arts festival

I was walking through the fields, when suddenly a building sprang from the earth is Manon Recordon’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, part of Le French May arts festival.

The exhibition showcases an installation of photographic and video works bringing life to Impressionist paintings and questioning the perception of landscape in the contemporary context of digital modes of representation.

Using montages and associations of still and moving images, Recordon juxtaposed Impressionist brushstrokes and pixels of video games, and constructed an assemblage of different temporalities. The artist conceived her installation as a décor, with photographic fragments of Claude Monet’s Nymphéa as backdrop and on the floor. She invites the visitor to take a walk through the scattered videos and contrasting images, wishing to involve him or her as an actor of History.

The commission of this new work to Manon Recordon was prompted by the preparation of the exhibition Claude Monet: The Spirit of Place by Le French May arts festival at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum. With I was walking through the fields, when suddenly a building sprang from the earth, Mur Nomade wishes to offer a complementary perspective to the Monet exhibition with a reading of the artistic languages of the past through the eyes of a contemporary artist and their translations into new modes of expressions.

Born in 1985, Manon Recordon lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Paris Academy of Fine Arts (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris) in 2009. Previously, she obtained a Master in Cinematographic Studies from Paris VII University, and also studied at the Villa Arson, National School of Fine Arts of Nice. A former resident of the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, Recordon is also one of the founders of the artists’ journal M.E.R.C.U.R.E. Recordon’s interests and artistic practice extend across history, text, film and photography. Her artworks are assemblages and layering of still and moving images, using elements collected from historical archives or archaeological sites, film footages of Impressionist paintings or Ancient Greek sculptures, flashes of collective memory, snippets of news and fragments of modern daily life.

I was walking through the fields, when suddenly a building sprang from the earth is curated by Amandine Hervey.

Mur Nomade and the artist would like to thank Aurore Blanc of Le French May arts festival for sharing her knowledge, encouraging our ideas, facilitating the development of this project.

The exhibition will continue until 11 June 2016.