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Surfaces Seen and Unseen: African Art at Princeton

Surfaces Seen and Unseen: African Art at Princeton will be on view at the Princeton University Art Museum July 2–Oct. 9, 2016.

Urhobo artist, Mask, 1800–10. Wood, pigment, and metal. Promised Museum Acquisition from the Holly and David Ross Collection

How ritual additions to the surfaces of African sculptures alter an object’s appearance and power over time is the focus of a fascinating new exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum. These surface accumulations – such as layers of organic materials that have cultural and spiritual value, or encrustations that reveal the additions made by multiple hands – offer insight into the history and life of the object.

Surfaces Seen and Unseen: African Art at Princeton presents some 20 exceptional works of African art from the Princeton University Art Museum, including newly acquired works from the Holly and David Ross Collection as well as gifts and loans from important private collections.

“Collecting and exhibiting African art has been a priority of this museum in recent years,” said Nancy A. Nasher–David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director James Steward. “We are fortunate indeed to have the support of such good friends as Holly and David Ross in supporting these efforts.” He continued, “This exhibition affords an opportunity to highlight recent collections growth and to focus on an often undervalued aspect of African art in the rich physical layers that reveal both spiritual and ritual meaning.”

The exhibition, which is curated by Juliana Ochs Dweck, the Princeton University Art Museum Mellon Curator of Academic Engagement, will be on view July 2 through Oct. 9, 2016, at the Princeton University Art Museum.

The original form of an African object sculpted by an artist may be added to over many years by a range of users. In some cases, substances such as soil, oils or grains applied to a sculpture during ritual offerings activated the object for power or healing and transformed the object’s patina. Other objects were empowered over time as ritual experts attached materials such as feathers, fabrics and mirrors. Masks were often repainted for subsequent performances.

Among the Kongo of West Central Africa, for example, a ritual expert attached medicines to a wooden figure, carved by a sculptor, to empower it as a container for spirits. An Urhobo mask, danced in southern Nigeria for the local water spirit, was recolored by its owner for new performances but also worn down through use. In northern Nigeria, a Wurkun specialist refreshed sculpted figures with libations of millet beer and seed oil so they could aid healing.

For much of the 20th century, dealers of African art in the West removed these surface accumulations, cleaning and polishing the objects to make them more desirable to collectors. More recently these additions, layers of color, encrustations and attachments have been studied and understood as significant artistic and cultural interventions.

Among the works on view will be a striking Dan mask (20th century), which incorporates wood, metal, encrustation and hair residue; a Senufo oracle figure (20th century) used as a divination device, whose underlying carved wooden body has been covered with cloth, mud, twigs and feathers and a Kongo Nkisi figure (early 20th century), which would have been carved by an artist and then passed to a ritual expert, who embedded unseen medicines inside the object and affixed beads and fabric to augment its form and increase its power.

Surfaces Seen and Unseen: African Art at Princeton has been made possible by support from the Francis E. and Elias Wolf, Class of 1920, Fund, with additional support from the Friends of the Princeton University Art Museum.

Birthdays Today, April 25: Daniel Sharman, Al Pacino; Hazel E, Tim Duncan

He was born in London, England in 1986, he appeared in The Collector and he’s our Top#1 Famous Birthdays Today, April 25. He’s… Daniel Sharman! From Yareah, we wish him and his family all the best in this special day. Congrats and happy birthday, Daniel Sharman!

Famous Birthdays Today, April 25: Daniel Sharman at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con International in San Diego, California.. Source: Wikipedia. Author: Gage Skidmore

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think that’s wonderful. To be able to lose it, in many ways, is just great fun to do.

Daniel Sharman

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Daniel Sharman

More famous birthdays today, April 25: Al Pacino, actor, Academy Award winner… a legend; Hazel E, reality star; and Tim Duncan, basketball player.

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

Famous Birthdays Today, April 25 Video: Werewolf Con – Daniel Sharman dancing the Macarena

Prince said that everyone has a rock bottom. What do you think?

On April 21, Prince died at his Paisley Park studio and home in Chanhassen, Minnesota. It was a sad day, no doubt. A great artist and personality had disappeared. We miss him and his music. R.I.P.

Prince. Dirty Mind. Cover

Once, he said that everyone has a rock bottom. What do you think? Our quotes of the day are by this great artist. Listen to him!

“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.”

Prince is an icon! His music integrates a wide variety of styles, including funk, rock, R&B, soul, psychedelia, and pop. Music was his life!

“The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.”

“Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.”

Prince won seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award. Woow! He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Rolling Stone ranked Prince at number 27 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. However, nothing is eternal and on April 15, 2016, returning home from a performance in Atlanta, Georgia, he became unresponsive and his plane made an emergency landing in Illinois. He was admitted to a hospital because he had been exhibiting flu-like symptoms for several weeks. On April 21, he died… Really, really sad!

Prince: Gold Original Video. Enjoy it once again, because some artist never die and art is forever. Prince was simply the best!

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

“All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?”

“When everyone recognizes Jehovah’s name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.”

New York auction. An Officer Paying Court to a Young Woman by Metsu at Sotheby’s

Sotheby’s New York auction of Master Paintings on 26 May 2016 will feature one of the finest Dutch genre scenes remaining in private hands: Gabriel Metsu’s An Officer Paying Court to a Young Woman (estimate $6–8 million).

An Officer Paying Court to a Young Woman by Gabriel Metsu at Sotheby’s auction

This refined interior stands as a lasting achievement of painting in the Golden Age of the mid-17th century, when Metsu and his peers – including Johannes Vermeer, Gerrit Dou and Frans van Mieris – were creating vivid scenes of everyday life. The work is further distinguished by the many historical labels on its reverse, which tell its fascinating journey through one of the most momentous periods in recent history.

The picture entered the Viennese Rothschild family’s legendary collection by 1866, and descended in the family for decades. The contents of the family’s palace in Vienna were targeted and seized by Nazi authorities in 1938, and the collection – including the Metsu – was removed to the central depot of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

The Rothschild Metsu was one of the masterpieces selected for the grandiose museum that Hitler planned to construct in Linz. When this treasure trove was in danger of Allied bombing, the Metsu and some 6,500 other paintings – including Jan van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece – were moved for safekeeping to the salt mines in Altausee. The Allied Forces’ celebrated Monuments Men later recovered these works, thwarting a plan by the Nazi district leader to destroy the mines in response to Hitler’s Nero Decree. After having been inventoried, photographed and identified by the Monuments Men as the property of the Rothschild family, the present picture was returned to Vienna in November 1945.

At this time, the Baroness von Rothschild was determined to recover her collections and export them to her new home in the United States. She was granted export licenses for the bulk of the works, but only on the condition that she donate a number of her most important pieces to the Austrian state. In 1948, some 250 highlights from the family collection entered the inventories of Viennese museums, with The Rothschild Metsu returning to the Kunsthistorisches Museum – the very museum where it had previously been held after its original seizure from the family palace.

Under the restitution laws introduced in Austria in 1998, the Rothschild family was able to reclaim the paintings they had unwillingly donated in 1948. And so it was that The Rothschild Metsu was returned to the family, and sold at auction in 1999 to the present owner.

Christopher Apostle, Head of Sotheby’s Old Master Paintings Department in New York, said: “Gabriel Metsu ranks as one of the most important painters of his day, and An Officer Paying Court to a Young Woman is both a beautiful and quintessential example of his best work. The painting represents a near perfect distillation of the class Golden Age genre scene, containing many of the hallmarks of this category: two elegant people dressed in rich fabrics, a dog – representing fidelity, or in this case a lack thereof – jugs and wine glasses, all set in a typical Dutch interior space. No finer work by the artist has ever been offered at auction, making our May sale a rare opportunity for collectors to acquire such a masterpiece.”

Auction. Sotheby’s to Offer One of the Greatest Dutch Genre Scenes in PrivateHands: THE ROTHSCHILD METSU.

Painted circa 1658-60, An Officer Paying Court to a Young Woman is a testament to the time in which time Metsu was at the peak of his artistic powers and commercial popularity. Having begun his career at the age of 14 in his native Leiden, he soon established himself as a master in his field and became a founding member of the painter’s guild in 1648. His early technique was influenced greatly by Gerrit Dou, whose transformational style ushered in a taste for small scale, minutely-detailed pictures featuring an excess of genre subjects.

Once Metsu moved to Amsterdam in 1654, he found himself gravitating towards portraying elegantly-dressed upper class subjects, shifting away from large-scale historical, allegorical and religious subjects – at the time dominated by Rembrandt and his followers. In Amsterdam, Metsu discovered a rapidly expanding market for this underrepresented collecting category, and was able to carve out his niche as the preeminent genre painter.

An Officer Paying Court to a Young Woman is a quintessential example of the artist’s unique style, drawn from the very best elements of Dutch genre painting. Set in a quiet moment inside of a tavern, the painting depicts a silent exchange between an elegantly dressed man and woman. Of particular beauty are the figure’s luxurious costumes, which mirror Metsu’s meticulous application of paint to mimic the play of light.

Sunday Poetry with Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: burn baby burn

Ken O’neill. Casino Woman in Red Throwing Dice

burn baby burn

just shuffle the deck

and make your bet

cause you gotta pay

the snarlin= shark=s way

he ain=t gonna wait another day

goin= for broke to go your way

but the house hits a two and a one

and now the dealin=s done

so toss the dice with a little kiss

close your eyes and make a wish

then watch the wheel turn

but miss your mark >n come up short

and you=re gonna

burn baby burn

~

TV Shows Today, April 24: Game of Thrones, Quantico, The Good Wifew

Well, no doiubt at all because they are back and we want to watch more and more… our Top#1 TV Shows Today is for… Game of Thrones. Today’s episode: The Red Woman. Season 6. Episode 1. 9:00 pm. HBO. From Wikipedia: Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin’s series of fantasy novels, the first of which is titled A Game of Thrones.

Our secon d choice is for Quantico. Today: Fast. Season 1. Episode 19. 10:00 pm. ABC.

And our last recommendation is for The Good Wife. Today’s episode: Party. Season 7. Episode 20. 9:00 pm. CBS.

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

TV  Shows Today, April 24 Video: Game of Thrones Season 6: Trailer #2 (HBO)

Birthdays Today, April 24: Kellin Quinn, Kelly Clarkson, Ryan Newman, Alli Simpson

He’s the lead singer for the band Sleeping with Sirens and he’s our Top#1 Famous BHirthdays Today, April 24… and his name is… Kellin Quinn! From Yareah, we wish him and his family all the best in this special day. Congrats and happy birthday, Kellin Quinn!

Famous Birthdays Today, April 24: Sleeping with Sirens performing at the Skydome, SM City North EDSA, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, on February 16, 2013.. Source: Wikipedia. Author: Josh Lim (Sky Harbor)

I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.

Kellin Quinn

A huge thing for me growing up was going to see my favorite bands and feeling like, ‘Okay, cool, they proved themselves and did things in a special way.’ That’s the most important thing.

Kellin Quinn

More famous birthdays today, April 24: the pop singer Kelly Clarkson, born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1982; Ryan Newman, actress; and Alli Simpson, singer.

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

Famous Birthdays Today, April 24 Video: Sleeping With Sirens – “Better Off Dead”

Landscape Architect Roberto Burle Marx at The Jewish Museum in New York

Innovative 20th Century Landscape Architect Focus of First U.S. Exhibition to Showcase Full Range of His Artistic Output.

Roberto Burle Marx at The Jewish Museum in New York

From Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro to Biscayne Boulevard in Miami Beach,throughout Brazil and around the world, the innovative and prolific work of Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) has made him one of the most prominent landscape architects of the twentieth century. From May 6 through September 18, 2016, the Jewish Museum will present the first New York City exhibition to focus on Burle Marx in more than two decades, and the first exhibition in the United States to showcase the full range of his artistic output. Through nearly 140 works, Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist will explore the richness and breadth of the artist’s oeuvre – his landscape architecture, painting, sculpture, theater design, textiles, and jewelry – as well as related works by contemporary artists and examples from Burle Marx’s varied collections. Following its New York presentation, the exhibition will travel to Berlin, Germany and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is a strong year for design and architecture at the Jewish Museum with the presentation of three major design exhibitions: Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History (on view through August 9), Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist, and Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design (November 4-March 26).

Roberto Burle Marx Exhibition Opens May 6 at the Jewish Museum.

Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist is curated by Jens Hoffmann, Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Public Programs, and Claudia J. Nahson, Morris and Eva Feld Curator, with Rebecca Shaykin, Leon Levy Assistant Curator, The Jewish Museum. The exhibition was designed by Galia Solomonoff and Alejandro Stein of SAS/Solomonoff Architecture Studio with graphic design by Miko McGinty and Rita Jules of Miko McGinty Inc.

This exhibition is organized by the Jewish Museum, New York, in collaboration with the Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, Rio de Janeiro. Works have been lent by the Sítio Roberto Burle Marx and by Burle Marx & Cia. Ltda. (Burle Marx Landscape Design Studio), both in Rio de Janeiro, and other generous lenders.

The Sítio Roberto Burle Marx is a cultural site on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and the former residence of Roberto Burle Marx. A unique estate, the Sítio is the main repository of Burle Marx’s artistic output, also housing his collections of Brazilian popular and sacred art, religious paintings of the Cuzco School, seashells, glass, and Precolumbian artifacts. The Sítio’s extensive gardens feature the artist’s living collection of tropical and semitropical plants, one of the largest in the world.

Burle Marx & Cia. Ltda. (Burle Marx Landscape Design Studio) was founded in 1955. Haruyoshi Ono, the current Director, joined the firm in 1965, working with Roberto Burle Marx for some thirty years and collaborating with him in all landscape design projects beginning in 1968. Since Roberto Burle Marx passed away in 1994, Haruyoshi has continued his legacy. The firm oversees the Roberto Burle Marx archives, offers consultancy for the restoration of its early gardens, and develops new landscape design projects.

Seven Artists Discuss their Experiences at Fuller Craft Museum

Defying Gravity. Artists of Color “Making It” in the Baystate Artist Roundtable. Saturday, May 14, 6:00 – 10:00 pm.

Chachi Carvalho

Intimate conversation as seven creatives discuss their experiences “making it,” literally (creating) and figuratively (succeeding) in the Baystate. How do they speak to relevant social issues in the context of their work. Organized in collaboration with Yale Boston, Yale Black Alumni Association (Boston Chapter), and Fuller Craft Museum. Moderated by Titilayo Ngwenya, Communications Director, Fuller Craft Museum.

6:00 – 8:00 pm Roundtable.

8:00 – 10:00 pm Cocktails and Conversation with live band, food and cash bar.

$15 Students, $25 Advance Tickets (by May 1) $30 Museum Members ($35 Nonmembers)

About Our Roundtable Presenters:

Alison Croney, Wood Sculptor, Eliot School; Chachi Carvalho, Hip Hop Artist; Renee Dongo, Filmmaker; Michael Holley, Radio Sports Commentator (WEEI’s Dale & Holley show) & Author; Saraswathi Jones, singer/songwriter, co-producer of Hindie Rock Fest; Jason Talbot, Co-Founder, Artists for Humanity; David Sun Kong, Ph.D., Founder of East Meets West Bookstore, Synthetic Biologist, Community Organizer, Musician, Photographer.

Biographies.

Alison Croney:

Wood Sculptor, Alison Croney creates objects that walk the line between function and sculpture. Using techniques such as coopering, shaping and bending, she highlights forms found in nature while creating objects that encourage interaction. In her work, Alison strives to find a balance between being a maker, craftsperson and educator. She strongly believes that positive change in communities will only happen if young people are empowered by knowledge, skills, and experiences, and is committed to working with young people to help them along this path of positive change. She currently works as the Associate Director of the School Partnership Program (SPP) at the Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts where she plans, coordinates and facilitates visual arts and woodworking programs at public schools and community sites around Boston, reaching over 1,500 children yearly. Through SPP, Alison also teaches woodworking to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders at the McCormack Middle School in Dorchester. Alison received her BA in Furniture Design from Rhode Island School of Design. She received her MA in Sustainable Business and Communities from Goddard College.

Rene Dongo:

Rene Dongo is a Boston-Peruvian video-maker who explores socially conscious issues from a youthful perspective. He strives to understand community issues through his films and work with youth. He began making films in the ICA’s Fast Forward program and has graduated from Emerson College. He has gone on to produce award-winning films and music videos and currently works as a teaching artist at the ICA Boston and Urbano Project. His films have shown internationally at ‘Media that Matters’, The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and locally at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Michael Holley:

Michael S. Holley is a television and radio sports commentator, sports reporter, and author. Holley worked as a reporter and columnist for the Boston Globe from 1997-2001 and then again from 2002-2005, briefly leaving the paper to work for the Chicago Tribune. In 2005, Holley left the Globe to co-host the WEEI midday sports radio talk show, Dale & Holley Show with announcer Dale Arnold to discuss the various Boston sports teams. Now broadcast at 2 – 6 pm. He formerly wrote columns for the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Plain Dealer, and Akron Beacon Journal. While working for the Akron Beacon Journal in 1993, Holley was one of several reporters who worked on a project studying race relations in Northeastern Ohio. The series, entitled “A Question of Color,” won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service. In 2008, Holley hosted Celtics Now, a weekly program on Comcast SportsNet that covers on and off court stories related to the Boston Celtics. Holley is the author of three books one of which, Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion (2005), made the New York Times Best Seller list for nonfiction. Holley has appeared on the ESPN television program Around the Horn as well as I, Max on Fox Sports Net. His other books include: Never Give Up: My Stroke, My Recovery and My Return to the NFL with Tedy Bruschi (2008), Red Sox Rule: Terry Francona and Boston’s Rise to Dominance (2009), War Room: The Legacy of Bill Belichick and the Art of Building the Perfect Team (2012).

Jason Talbot:

Jason Talbot is a co-founder and alumnus of Artists For Humanity (AFH), a South Boston non-profit organization that combines art and entrepreneurship to address society’s most challenging social, economic and racial issues. The largest employer of Boston teens, AFH provides some of the city’s most under-resourced youth with the keys to self-sufficiency through paid employment in art and design. Born and raised in Roxbury, Jason is an advocate for inner-city teens. Currently serving as Special Projects Director and member of AFH’s Board of Directors, Jason has dedicated the last 24 years of his life ensuring that these young people are not ignored by encouraging their self-expression through art, and by serving as an example of how to create a bright future. Jason’s reach in the Boston area extends beyond the walls of AFH’s EpiCenter. In 2009, he participated in the cohort of the prestigious Emerging Leaders Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. In 2012, Jason was chosen as one of Bank of America’s Neighborhood Builders, and the following year he received the Mentor of the Year Award from Youth Design. Jason is also a member of WGBH’s Board of Overseers.

Saraswathi Jones:

Boston-based artist Tanya Palit aka Saraswathi Jones is a singer/songwriter and a purveyor of what she calls “postcolonial pop rock.” Raised in Michigan with roots in India, she draws from the well of South Asian history, culture and aesthetics for her own music and performance. Jones released her first solo EP Lingua Franca in 2013, and performs also with her band Awaaz Do, which re-imagines classic Bollywood songs as rock and roll anthems. Saraswathi Jones and Awaaz Do hosted and co-produced Hindie Rock Fest — an annual music festival in Cambridge, MA featuring South Asian American artists and activists from a broad array of genres and causes. She is a volunteer and board member of Girls Rock Campaign Boston, a feminist nonprofit which runs summer programs for girls ages 8-17 and employs musical education and performance to foster empowerment and self expression. In 2004, she was awarded a Fulbright grant and spent the year in Dhaka, Bangladesh studying women’s roles in rural and urban economic development.

David Sun Kong:

David Sun Kong is a Synthetic Biologist, community organizer, musician, and photographer based in Lexington, MA. He conducted his graduate studies at MIT’s Media Laboratory, receiving a Master’s degree for developing technology for printing nanostructures with energetic beams and a Ph.D. for demonstrating the first gene synthesis in a microfluidic (“lab-on-a-chip”) system. He was an inaugural fellow for the Synthetic Biology Leadership Accelerator Program (LEAP) and serves as a mentor for the current class of fellows. He is chairing a new Hardware Track for the International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition (iGEM), served as a guest faculty member at the Marine Biology Lab in Woods Hole, and currently conducts synthetic biology, microfluidics, and digital fabrication research at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory with a focus on open-source hardware and democratizing technology.

He has also worked as a community organizer for more than a decade and is the founder and director of EMW, a new art, technology, and community center in Cambridge, MA. EMW’s mission is to empower communities through the transformative power of artistic expression. They emphasize serving marginalized communities and develop programming with values rooted in social justice. Their community programs explore numerous forms of artistic expression, from poetry to electronic music, beatboxing to bio-hacking and more.

David has performed as a DJ, beat-boxer, vocalist, and rapper at hundreds of venues, including South by Southwest, the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and Brooklyn Bowl, where he opened for Tonight Show band-leader and hip hop legend Questlove. He is also an award-winning vocal arranger and producer. His photography has been exhibited at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian, the Japanese American National Museum, and other museums and galleries across the country.

Chachi Carvalho:

“When rap is something you do, it’s easy to hide behind image and lies. When hip-hop is something you live, you can’t help but tell the truth.” –Charles “Chachi” Carvalho. While many rappers prefer to talk about guns and violence, Chachi Carvalho talks about the realities that all of us can relate to: everyday struggles, love for one’s family, and a passion for music. Chachi comes from a long line of musicians and singers in his Cape Verdean family, and he’s a native born-and-raised Rhode Islander, coaching football and opening a recording studio in his hometown of Pawtucket. In his career he’s won acclaim from Vibe magazine in its roundup of the best MCs state to state, and he was a two-time winner of the Wild Out Wednesdays competition on BET’s 106 & Park. Chachi was recently awarded the 2014 Cape Verdean Music Award for best hip-hop act. His two previous album releases, In Dust Real Evolution (2012) and Cape Verdean In America (2013) were both well received in numerous markets and are available on iTunes and other digital mediums. His recent wave of accomplishments includes performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Atlantic Music Expo in Praia, Cabo Verde, the Moshito Music Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, 15 trips to Cape Verde Islands over the past 5 years, and lecture/performances at Roger Williams University, Trinity College, Providence College, and Harvard. Chachi continues to write and record new music as one of the most prominent voices on Rhode Island’s hip-hop scene, and he continues to spread his message of positivity and gratitude through song, community activism and in raising his own family. Chachi is geared up to release his 3rd and 4th official solo album releases in 2016, Rapfrohouse and Sensitive Dependence. He is a talented young man with a wealth of knowledge to share and an optimistic view on life. He would much rather count his blessings than count his problems.

The artKitchen Café Performance Series is funded in part by the following cultural councils: Abington, Attleboro, Bridgewater, Brockton, Duxbury, East Bridgewater, Easton, Foxborough, Hanson, Mansfield, Middleborough, Norton, Pembroke, Plympton, Randolph, Sharon, Stoughton, Westwood, and Whitman. These local agencies support the arts with funding provided by Massachusetts Cultural Council. We are grateful for their support.

TV Shows Todaay, April 22: Grimm, Hawaii Five-0, The Vampire Diaries

It’s Friday and it’s time for great television series. First, we recommend the show,Grimm. Today’s episode: Good to the Bone. Season 5. Episode 18. 9:00 pm. NBC. From Wikipedia: Grimm is an American police procedural fantasy television drama series. It debuted in the U.S. on NBC on October 28, 2011. The show has been described as “a cop drama—with a twist… a dark and fantastical project about a world in which characters inspired by Grimms’ Fairy Tales exist”, although the stories and characters inspiring the show are also drawn from other sources. On April 5, 2016 NBC renewed Grimm for a sixth season.

Our second choice is for Hawaii Five-0. Today: Ka Pono Ku’oko’a (The Cost of Freedom). Season 6. Episode 21. 9:00 pm. CBS-

And our last recommendation is for The Vampire Diaries. Today’s episode: Somebody That I Used to Know. Season 7. Episode 19. 8:00 pm. CW.

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

TV Shows Today, April 22 Video: Grimm 5×18 Promo “Good to the Bone” (HD)