And the flag is unfurled! Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) #LongBeachPride Chiachio & Giannone (Argentina, b. 1969 & 1964), Pride Flag, 2018. Handmade and dyed patchwork created with recycled fabrics. Thrilled to join my MOLAA colleagues and the Long Beach AIDS Food Store in supporting our LGBTQIA+ community.
Art and the Artist
MuseWeb 21: Lyrics&Lattes
SOCIAL EVENT TONIGHT @ 4PM CDT! If you’re a music buff that enjoys inspirational and self-development tips, Lyrics & Lattes podcast Live session is perfect for you. Join hosts Jason and Trevor as they sip the newest brew and read through the conference’s Infamous Graffiti Wall, pairing them with similar hip-hop lyrics. Hosts will also be taking song suggestions live, extracting lyrics, and using them to inspire you! Yes, they will take ANY hip-hop song you give them, and make it motivational! Inspiration is Everywhere!
Modernist Studies Association 18: Pasadena
CFP for the Modernist Studies Association’s Annual Conference
“Culture Industries”
Pasadena, CA, November 17-20, 2016
Hosts: Claremont Graduate University and Pomona College
Leonora Carrington, “I am an Amateur of Velocipedes” 1941
Just remembering my fantastic visit to the Prints and Drawings room at the Tate Britain a while back. Many thanks to Christine Kurpiel for all of her assistance!
About the piece…..
“I am an Amateur of Velocipedes exemplifies Carrington’s use of fine draughtsmanship at the service of an unexpected visionary experience. Bicycle and figures (one rather harpy-like) combine seamlessly. They may be associated with Uncle Ubriaco and his daughter Amelia (a thinly disguised portrait of Ernst and his wife) the cyclists in the 1937-8 story Little Francis (republished in Carrington 1989, pp.163-209). An equally extraordinary hybrid appears in the other drawing, Do you know my aunt Eliza? where a robed and horse-headed figure with a crucifix towers over a sinister accomplice. The horse is a central figure for Carrington, a sign of energy – often female sexual drive – but also, as here, sometimes darkly threatening. The example of Goya’s etchings may be felt both in the imagery and the technique.” - Tate Catalogue
