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| Ralph Eugene Meatyard |
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| Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American, 1925–1972) is not one of the most familiar names in photographic history, but his impact on the field, belatedly recognized, is significant. An optician in Lexington, Kentucky, Meatyard sustained a lifelong interest in visual perception. Well read and deeply connected to a circle of poets and philosophers, he made photographs rich in literary allusion. In his last decade, Meatyard kept returning to the tropes of dolls and masks, often photographing his children posed in abandoned houses and landscapes in the environs of his home. These pictures put an uncanny spin on family photography, exploring the contrasts between youth and age, childhood and mortality, intimacy and unknowability, sharing and hiding. Drawn primarily from the photographer’s estate, and including three prints recently acquired by the Fine Arts Museums, this exhibition of almost 60 photographs examines dolls and masks across different bodies of work as a window onto this enigmatic photographer’s larger practice |
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| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CENTER FOR HUMANITIES HOSTS
‘FLORIDA AT THE CROSSROADS’ CONFERENCE
500 YEARS OF ENCOUNTERS, CONFLICTS, AND EXCHANGES WILL BE DISCUSSED |
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| To mark the 500th anniversary of Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León’s landing on the shores of Florida, the University of Miami Center for Humanities will host “Florida at the Crossroads: Five Hundred Years of Encounters, Conflicts, and Exchanges” on February 9-11, 2012. Twenty-six scholars from the State of Florida, around the United States, and Spain will offer a thought-provoking dialogue revisiting the past, heeding the present, and envisioning the future of Florida as a crossroads of peoples, quests, and exchanges. Conference activities are open to the public free of charge and will take place on the UM Coral Gables campus.
The conference is supported by a generous grant from the Florida Humanities Council awarded to the Center for the Humanities and to project director Dr. Viviana Díaz Balsera, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at UM. The event will open on Thursday February 9, 2012, with a keynote address by distinguished colonialist Dr. Raquel Chang-Rodríguez (Graduate Center and City College, City University of New York) on the chronicles describing the early European contact with the indigenous population of La Florida. On Friday February 10, and Saturday February 11, scholars from anthropology, archeology, art history, geography, history, Latin American studies, literature, political science, sociology, Spanish literature, and urban studies will discuss Florida’s past, present, and future. Friday evening, renowned expert on immigration and ethnicity Alex Stepick (Florida International University) will give the second keynote address “Florida: Still on the Edge?” The conference will close Saturday evening with a dramatic reading of “Hail, God of Seeds!” by seventeenth-century Spanish colonial poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, set to period music performed by instrumentalists and choral ensemble. |
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| Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Masters of Venice showcases a rich selection of Venetian 16th-century paintings by artists of true genius. Together Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese and others translated a revolutionary appreciation for the sensual beauties of nature into a mode of artistic representation capitalizing on the poetic potential of rich atmospheric effects and lustrous color. Visitors will thrill to this worldwide exclusive opportunity to experience 16th-century Venetian paintings through the collections in Vienna. Featured are outstanding examples collected by the Archdukes and Emperors of the Hapsburg family, the most celebrated holdings in the collections of the Gemäldegalerie (Picture Gallery). Key works include Titian’s sumptuous Danae (1554), Mantegna’s resigned Saint Sebastian (ca. 1490) and four of the very rare and evocative paintings by Giorgione including Three Philosophers (1508 –1509) and Laura (Portrait of a Young Bride) (ca. 1506). |
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| Excalibur – PartyScape Package |
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| · Room rates starting from $28
· 10% off retail items at Royal Treatment Spa & Fitness Center
· 25% off retail items at Kids of the Kingdom, Excalibur Essentials, Excalibur Edge, Sweet Habits and Dragon’s Lair
· Complimentary shot of Whiskey with a purchase of a Guinness at RíRá, the authentic Irish pub inside Mandalay Place between Luxor and Mandalay Bay
· $1 Jell-O shots at The Lounge or Octane
· Participating pub crawl venues include The Lounge and Octane |
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| New York-New York – PartyScape Package |
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| · Room rates starting from $55
· Complimentary admission for two at ROK Vegas, The Bar at Times Square, Nine Fine Irishmen and Coyote Ugly
· 2-for-1 admission to The Roller Coaster
· One complimentary drink upgrade at either Starbucks location
· 25% off spa services with a $75 purchase at The Spa at New York-New York
· Participating pub crawl venues include Bar at Times Square, Nine Fine Irishmen, Center Bar and Pour 24 |
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| Monte Carlo – PartyScape Package |
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| · Room rates starting from $49
· 20% off menu selections at Dragon Noodle Co. & Sushi Bar and d.vino Italian Food & Wine Bar
· Complimentary appetizer with purchase of entrée at BRAND
· Half-price buckets of beer during Dueling Pianos at The Pub
· 20% off spa treatment at the Spa & Salon Monte Carlo
· Participating pub crawl venues include The Pub, Ignite Lounge and Big Chill |
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| Luxor – PartyScape Package |
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| · Room rates starting from $38
· Complimentary admission for two at LAX Nightclub
· $30 off teeth whitening treatment at Nurture Spa
· 10% off menu selections at Rice & Company
· 25% off at retail items at LX Fashions, LX Fight Shot, Bazaar the Marketplace, Essentials and 24/7
· Participating pub crawl venues include Liquidity, Flight and Aurora |
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| Art and design in the modern age |
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| ART AND DESIGN IN THE MODERN AGE: SELECTIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
Overview
Ongoing
Art and Design in the Modern Age provides an intriguing overview of The Wolfsonian's exceptional holdings and showcases the museum's collection, which spans the period 1885 to 1945. The nearly 300 works on display provide insight into the ways design has influenced and adapted to the modern world. The installation explores the many focal points of The Wolfsonian's collection, including design-reform movements, architecture, urbanism, industrial design, transportation, world's fairs, advertising, political propaganda, and labor iconography.
Art and Design in the Modern Age engages the observer both visually and intellectually. The wide-ranging themes and objects provide not only a picture of the past, but a path to understanding today's cultural and political issues. Among the items exhibited are ceramics, sculpture, exquisite handmade and innovative mass-production furniture, graphic design, books, ephemera, and household objects. Some of the more outstanding objects on display include a handmade box combining Arts and Crafts tenets with Maori decorative motifs by New Zealand silversmith Reuben Watts; Electricity, a bas-relief produced for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair; mass-produced moderne furniture by American industrial designers Kem Weber and Paul Frankl; and Alexander Stirling Calder's sculpture, Star, a female figure he created for the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915.
Unveiled in November 1996, the installation is ongoing and updated periodically; it is located on The Wolfsonian's fifth floor, where it fills fourteen galleries. |
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| Bernini’s Medusa |
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| Musei Capitolini in Rome are lending San Francisco one of their greatest treasures, the remarkable Baroque masterpiece The Medusa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 –1680), one of art history’s finest sculptors and a leading figure in Italian Baroque art and architecture. Recent conservation efforts have restored this sculptural triumph to its full glory and revealed previously hidden artistic techniques. Believed to date from around 1638 to 1648, this extraordinary work takes its subject from classical mythology, as cited in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It shows the beautiful Medusa, one of the Gorgon sisters, caught in the terrible process of transformation into a monster. The Medusa will be displayed exclusively in the U.S. at the Legion of Honor in the museum’s Baroque gallery 6 where it can be seen in context with the Museums’ great collections of paintings and sculpture from the era of Bernini. |
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