Speed of Life

From the Biden family to yours – Happy Thanksgiving. pic.twitter.com/r0mhQtQS69 — President Biden (@POTUS) November 25, 2021 From Asilomar (The Big Music)                                                                                            Gregg Chadwick United States Painting, Oil on Linen Size:  24 W x 30 H x 1.5 D in   Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, 1988. Elliott Erwitt Happy Thanksgiving! https://t.co/zkaGK2JOxi — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) November 25, 2021

In this episode of "The Way I See It," actor and comedian Steve Martin looks at paintings by two early pioneers of American abstraction and takes us on a journey of seeing—shape and color transform into mountains, sky, and water. Find "The Way I See It" on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: https://moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist.  #TheWayISeeIt #SteveMartin #StantonMacdonaldWright #MorganRussell #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart

As you are shopping, prepping and preparing your Thanksgiving meals, we'd like you to know a little more about the work behind every ingredient and the people doing that work. Here's a thread for everyone who wants to thank a farm worker this week. #WeFeedYou pic.twitter.com/XPpRfbOmiA — United Farm Workers (@UFWupdates) November 22, 2021 Mayita shared this photo taken in the sweet potato fields of California. Her youngest daughter wanted a picture in the fields to show she was proud of her mom being a farm worker and proud of how hard she worked to invest in her children’s opportunities. pic.twitter.com/97EU425Pmv — United Farm Workers (@UFWupdates) November 22, 2021 Here’s where we pause to remind you: we say #WeFeedYou because you’d have nothing on that Thanksgiving table without farm workers. Supporting us during the season of thanks and giving will help fund change all year long. DONATE HERE: https://t.co/dnHjgtuTOh pic.twitter.com/QWWZyo93GJ — Un...

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Nutritious Food is a Human Right. Through community-fueled solutions, grassroots support, and scaling out sustainable, agroecological food production, WhyHunger meets people’s immediate food needs with dignity while also building a movement to end hunger in the U.S. and around the globe. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the hunger crisis, leaving nearly 54 million Americans and 2 billion people worldwide struggling to feed themselves. In the face of crisis and urgent need, there is still great hope that a healthy, just, and hunger-free world is possible. Together, we can turn hope into action. ——— Special Thanks to: Our Organizational Partners: Jesús Vázquez Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico Facebook: @organizacionboricua Twitter: @orgboricua Instagram: @organizacion_boricua Katrina Sanders, Judy Belue Delta Fresh Foods Initiative - Bolivar Cou...

  On a warm summer afternoon, a couple strolls arm in arm in my painting "Promenade". Peace, love, and light reign in this moment. Thanks to  @saatchiart ,  @theotherartfair ,  @nicolegarton ,  @bsalatinooo_  for all their hard work in featuring and placing my work. To my new collectors - Thank You! Life is fragile folks - spend time with the ones you love. #art   #artsales   #theotherartfair   #theotherartfairla   #Promenade   #UnderTheMilkyWay   #todayistheday

 by Gregg Chadwick (First Published November 11, 2010) Winslow Homer The Veteran in a New Field 24 1/8" x 38 1/8" oil on canvas 1865 Metropolitan Museum of Art Veterans Day is more than just a day off. Instead it is a time to reflect on duty, honor, service, and life. Winslow Homer's  The Veteran in a New Field  portrays a Union veteran of the American Civil War back at work on the farm. But the painting is not instantly celebratory. There are no angels and there is no parade. Instead a psychic weight seems to be guiding the veteran's scythe as it cuts the stand of grain, much like the volleys of shot and shell mowed down troops, on both sides of that brutal war. There is hope though in the warm, life giving color of the wheat, a Northern crop, and the cerulean sky. All wars must eventually come to an end. Uniforms are cast off. Homer paints the ex-soldier's jacket and canteen tossed onto the newly cut field. Life does go on. The soldier will inevitably struggle t...

by Gregg Chadwick "Every child put down your toys And come inside to sleep We have to look you in the eye and say we sold you cheap Let’s confess we did not act With serious urgency So open up the floodgates To the rising seas" - Rising Seas Written by Jim Moginie (Midnight Oil) Gregg Chadwick Ocean, Otters, Oil  (detail) 40"x40"oil on linen 2021 On walks along California's Central Coast, I often stop and peer into the swirling mix of seaweed and surf looking for the telltale bob of a sea otter as it breaks to the surface. The tap, tap, tap of otters cracking shells across rocks carried on their chests as they float on their backs in the kelp filled water also gives away their location. Sea otters are voracious eaters, clearing coastal seabeds of purple sea urchins that would otherwise decimate the growing kelp forests.   By keeping the purple urchin population down, sea otters remove kelp's major nemesis. Sea urchins feed on the holdfasts that keep kelp an...

  Gregg Chadwick Ocean, Otters, Oil 40"x40"oil on linen 2021 My oil on linen painting "Ocean, Otters, Oil" was painted as a celebration of nature and as a warning of the dangers of oil spills and environmental destruction. The artwork will be displayed through the month of November 2021 in my latest group exhibition  "SOS - Save Our Seas"at  @lagunaartgallery  in Mission Viejo, California.  Please join me at the opening on November 6, 2021 from 3-6 pm. 555 THE SHOPS AT MISSION VIEJO, MV, CA 92691 suite 928A TF. 1-888-9-FINEART | Gallery 949-257-9008 info@lagunaart.com Gallery Hours: MON - SAT 11AM - 7PM SUN 12PM - 6PM This artwork is part of a new series of paintings that considers the threats to our planet from Climate Change, greed, hate, and war. There is a mysterious beauty to life itself that I am constantly inspired by. I first became aware of the fragile nature of our planet as an elementary school student at Linda Vista Elementary School in Missio...

Wampum Exhibition at Sea City Museum , Southhampton, UK  (Created by  SmokeSygnals   creative agency)   In today's New York Times , Dana Hedgpeth explains that "for the Wampanoags and many other American Indians, the fourth Thursday in November is considered a day of mourning, not a day of celebration." The Wampanoags helped the Pilgrims survive only to enable "a slow, unfolding genocide of their people and the taking of their land."  As we reach the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621, the Wampanoags tell their story at the Mashpee Wampanoag Museum.  On their website the Museum explains that it is located at "the geographic core of the Mashpee Wampanoag people. Eighty-five percent of Wampanoag people live within 20 miles of the Museum." The history and culture of the Wampanoag from the Stone Age to the present are presented in a range of exhibits. Established under the guidance of the Mashpee Historical Commission, the Museum i...

From Maria Popova at Brainpicker: Patti Smith Reads Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe About How He Taught Her What It Means to Be an Artist “You drew me from the darkest period of my young life, sharing with me the sacred mystery of what it is to be an artist.” brainpicker · Patti Smith reads her letter to Robert Mapplethorpe Patti Smith by Robert Mapplethorpe (Courtesy of Tate Museum)

Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color from Reel Plan/Jon Gann on Vimeo . For beloved D.C. artist Alma Thomas, beauty wasn’t just about art. It was essential to life, too. Full article by Philip Kennicott here . Alma Thomas’s “Red Azaleas Singing and Dancing Rock and Roll Music,” 1976.  (Smithsonian American Art Museum)