| Boys & Girls Clubs introduces cultural arts program in Mount Kisco
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Northern Westchester recently initiated a multidisciplinary cultural arts program involving visual arts, crafts, performing arts and creative writing. Daniel Isenberg, formerly the regional director of Wingspan Arts in Westchester County, recently joined the club as cultural arts director to lead the program. The program was created in recognition of the need for expanded arts programming for school-age children. Several areas of the Mount Kisco Center, 351 Main St., the pilot program's location, have been redesigned to accommodate dance, music and arts classes. The new program will incorporate several Boys & Girls Clubs of America initiatives, including fine arts and computer design programs. Brian Skanes, the club's executive director, said the club looks forward to the new program.
Richie snaps up Nolan work
SINGER Lionel Richie, who is touring Australia, has revealed an appreciation for Australian art by snapping up a work by Sidney Nolan at a Sydney auction. Richie paid about $10,000 for the untitled work by one of Australia's best-known artists. The 1989 Nolan, painted three years before the artist's death, will hang in the hallway of Richie's new Beverly Hills home, in Los Angeles, auction sources said. The artwork is one of Nolan's spray-painted works, a psychedelic abstract in crimson, yellows and green. Share this article What is this? .
Art piece to honor Lenore Larson
In order to honor the memory of the late Lenore Larson, the idea of developing a special art display for the performing arts center under construction at Watertown-Mayer High School was pitched to the Watertown-Mayer School Board during the board's meeting on Nov. 26.Cilla Diethelm, along with France Condon, was present to represent a group of individuals who are interested in the project to honor Larson, who passed away in August and was known for leading the district's summer theatre program and her involvement in other school and community activities.Diethelm said details are still being formed at this time but the plan is to create a small committee to research the design, cost and size of the proposed piece of art and where it might be kept in the new performing arts center. The piece would be completed in time for an open house or dedication ceremony at the center.Board members seemed to be in agreement that the idea was a good one and Chairwoman Therese Salonek told Diethelm and Condon that the district would contact their group soon to get things moving.In other items, Larry Doran, the site manager of Knutson Construction, gave a brief update on the school projects.
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November 24, 1957 - World-famous Mexican painter influenced by C�zanne, an active communist, and a husband of Frida Kahlo, died in 1957. Rivera's large wall works in fresco established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with works by Orozco, Siqueiros, and others. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, New York City. His 1931 retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City was their second. Rivera paintings are exhibited by many of the greatest museums. When his patron discovered in 1933 that Rivera had painted a portrait of Lenin in the mural Man at the Crossroads at Rockefeller Center, Nelson Rockefeller angrily insisted the figure be painted out. Rivera refused and Rockefeller fired him and destroyed the unfinished work.
At the Met museum, a new take on the 19th century
Can the Metropolitan Museum of Art get any better? Of course it can, but each new renovation adds another coat of polish to its luster. The latest is the refurbished and expanded galleries for 19th and 20th century art, which parade the glory of the Met's collection in entirely new ways. Ironically, they also uncover unsuspected voids in the museum's holdings we might never have noticed otherwise.
Nineteenth century art at the Met has favored the French at least since 1929, when its principal donors, Louisine and H.O. Havemeyer, gave the museum dozens of Corots, Courbets, Manets, Degas and Monets. The Havemeyer couple, under the guidance of Mary Cassatt, had collected Impressionists and postimpressionists when they were still avant-garde, and their fondness for these movements put its mark on the museum.
Arts, Crafts Show Saturday
Shoppers searching for that perfect gift may find just what they are looking for on Saturday at the annual St. Joseph's Halle Craft Show.
Artists and craftsmen from the Fredericksburg and surrounding area will be displaying their handiwork on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in St. Joseph's Halle, located in the 200 block of West San Antonio.The public is invited to attend and there is no admission charge.Offered will be homemade cakes, cookies and breads; handmade baskets; hand-painted punched tin signs; hand-knitted sweaters and scarves; new crop pecans and pecan cooking oil; folk art dolls and decorative items, and handmade jewelry.
Also, mesquite cutting boards and crosses; gourd birdhouses and decorative hand-painted sayings; mosaic stained glass; soy candles and soaps; decorative wreaths and garlands; hand-painted scriptures and inspirational signs, and homemade jams and jellies.
Artist's creations offer therapeutic respite
LAS CRUCES - Sparkling in the desert sun, Carol Mack's creations catch the eyes of visitors at the Las Cruces Farmers and Crafts Market. You have to get close to make out the source of the glittery bling. Two trees are festooned with lovingly crafted glass and beaded ornaments. "These things are absolutely beautiful. I do crafts, too, and this beading is really well done. This is full of the Christmas spirit," said Bette Smith of Las Cruces as she examined the unusual ornaments. One tree hosts elegant angels and the other is home to bevies of spiders in brilliant jewel tones. "Personally, I'm terrified of spiders," Mack said. But the aversion doesn't carry over into her creative endeavors, and her artistic arachnids were born after a kit and a legend attracted her attention.
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