Saturday, May 09, 2020

Swans For Relief





32 premier ballerinas from 22 dance companies in 14 countries perform Le Cygne (The Swan) variation sequentially with music by Camille Saint-Saëns, performed by cellist Wade Davis, in support of Swans for Relief.

Organized by Misty Copeland and Joseph Phillips, 100% of the funds raised will be distributed to each dancer’s company’s COVID-19 relief fund, or other arts/dance-based relief fund in the event that a company is not set up to receive donations. To donate please visit,
https://charity.gofundme.com/SwansFor...

Ballet companies are largely dependent on revenue from performances to pay their dancers and fund their operations, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, all performances have been halted.

Consequently, many dancers are unable to depend on paychecks and are facing the hardship of paying rent and/or buying food and other necessities.

Below are the featured ballerinas and their respective companies:

•Stella Abrera
American Ballet Theatre, USA

•Precious Adams
English National Ballet, England

•Nathalia Arja
Miami City Ballet, USA

•Isabella Boylston
American Ballet Theatre, USA

•Skylar Brandt
American Ballet Theatre, USA

•Misty Copeland
American Ballet Theatre, USA

•Monike Cristina
Joburg Ballet, South Africa

•Ashley Ellis
Boston Ballet, USA

•Greta Elizondo
Nacional de Danza Mexico, Mexico

•Nikisha Fogo
Vienna State Ballet, Austria

•Angelica Generosa
Pacific Northwest Ballet, USA

•Sarah Hay
Freelance Ballerina, USA

•Frances Hayward
The Royal Ballet, England

•Robyn Hendricks
The Australian Ballet, Australia

•Whitney Jensen
The Norwegian National Ballet, Norway

•Yuriko Kajiya
Houston Ballet, USA

•Maria Khoreva
Mariinsky Theatre, Russia

•Ako Kondo
The Australian Ballet, Australia

•Misa Kuranaga
San Francisco Ballet, USA

•Stephanie Kurlow
Freelance Hijabi Ballerina, Australia

•Sara Mearns
New York City Ballet, USA

•Ginett Moncho
Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Cuba

•Katherine Ochoa
Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Cuba

•Hannah O'Neill
Paris Opera Ballet, France

•Denise Parungao
Ballet Philippines, Philippines

•Tiler Peck
New York City Ballet, USA

•Tina Pereira
The National Ballet of Canada, Canada

•Ida Praetorius
The Royal Danish Ballet, Denmark

•Jemima Reyes
Ballet Philippines, Philippines

•Ingrid Silva
Dance Theater of Harlem, USA

•Bianca Teixeira
San Francisco Ballet, USA

•Xu Yan
The National Ballet of China, China

Le Cygne (The Swan) with music by Camille Saint-Saëns, performed by cellist Wade Davis (USA),


choreography by Michel Fokine

Cocktails with a Curator: Constable's 'The White Horse'

Cocktails with a Curator: Turner's 'Harbor of Dieppe'

Friday, May 08, 2020

Livestream Saturday, 5/9 at 9pm ET: Aoife O’Donovan Performing The Album "Nebraska"




Livestream Saturday, 5/9 at 9pm ET: Aoife O’Donovan Performing The Album "Nebraska"

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During a 2011 residency at Rockwood Music Hall in New York, Aoife sang Springsteen’s Nebraska album front to back. She's doing it for a second time this Saturday. A portion of the proceeds will benefit MusiCares Covid-19 Relief Fund. 

Thursday, May 07, 2020

Bob Dylan - False Prophet (Official Audio)

Bob Dylan - False Prophet (Official Audio)

Waitin' On A Sunny Day #WeAreAsburyPark





Please support the Asbury Park Music Foundation:
https://asburyparkmusiclives.org/donate

Written by:
Bruce Springsteen

Performed by:
Patty C
Jarod Clemons
Matt Cook
Tara Dente
Rachel Ana Dobken
Luke Dowler
Kevin Duggan
Brian Erickson
Natalie Farrell
Matt Fernicola
Owen Flanagan
Ryan Gregg
Zach Kornhauser
Ray Laux
Bobby Mahoney
Mark Masefield
Jessie McCormick
Ashley McKinley
Chad Morales
Lou Panico
Joe Pomarico
Avery Rose Puryear
Nick Ryan
Zack Sandler
Dillon Schindler
Deseree Spinks
Mike Squillace
Marc Tappan
Taylor Tote
Max Viner

Produced by:
Joe Pomarico at Telegraph Hill Records

Check out more Asbury Park music at Telegraph Hill Records Website:
https://www.telegraphhillrecords.com/

Email for Press:
Promo@TelegraphHillRecords.com

Playlist of Cast:
https://telegraphhillrecords.helpgive...

#WeAreAsburyPark

Real presidents lead. Reality TV presidents don’t.

Monday, May 04, 2020

Mourning in America



Please VOTE for Biden in November!

Michelle Obama's "Becoming" Premieres on Netflix on May 6

Sunday, May 03, 2020

Yo-Yo Ma Plays Elgar's "Salut d'Amour."

Friday, May 01, 2020

Missing Sounds of New York



















The New York Public Library along with creative agency Mother New York has created an aural love letter to NYC: "an album of audio landscapes that evoke the sounds of New York City."
The NYPL explains:
"The New York we know and love is one click away: cabs honking, pigeons cooing, bike messengers whizzing by, strangers gossiping, the hum of a local library. Anywhere you are can now become the city—all you need is Missing Sounds of New York, The New York Public Library’s new album. Missing Sounds of New York, connects New Yorkers around the familiar sounds of urban life that they love and miss during this unprecedented time of social separation.Each track uses a combination of sounds to create familiar, ambient canvases on which mini stories are placed: a glass breaking in a bar, a dance performance on the subway, an overly enthusiastic baseball fan. Missing Sounds of New York reminds us of what makes New York so special for so many people."
Spotify users can head here to listen (listening on Spotify requires using or creating a Spotify account, including free accounts). Or you can take a listen above!

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Dorothea Lange | Live Q&A with Sarah Meister and Sally Mann | VIRTUAL VIEWS





Explore how Dorothea Lange’s iconic works redefined how we see America . Our next #MoMAVirtualViews, “Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures,” launches this Thursday, April 30, with a live Q&A with curator Sarah Meister and photographer Sally Mann

OVER AND OVER BY JESSIE WAGNER

Venice Art Walk: Benefit Auction 2020

Gregg Chadwick
The Reader (Botanical Garden)
14"x11" oil on panel 2019


I am honored to have my painting The Reader (Botanical Garden) up for auction in this year’s Venice Family Clinic Art Walk and Auction. I’ve donated a painting to the auction for 15 years now and am excited to have this sensitive artwork in this year's auction.
To pick up a book and be transported to another world is one of life's great pleasures. In my oil on panel painting, a woman sits with quiet dignity and reads. One can almost smell honeysuckle in the air and feel a cool breeze on a warm day.

The Venice Family Clinic Art Walk and Auction has moved exclusively to an online art auction for 2020. From May 3 - May 19, visit artsy.net/veniceartwalk to view the online collection. Art lovers and artists unite to benefit Venice Family Clinic, now commemorating 50 years of providing quality health care to people in need. Venice Family Clinic + Artsy are thrilled to present Venice Art Walk: Benefit Auction 2020 featuring works by artists including John Baldessari, Gregg Chadwick, Trine Churchill, Deborah Lynn Irmas, Claudy JongstraAlex Prager, the Haas Brothers, Ramona Otto, Gwen Samuels and more. 

Browse lots and place bids before the sale closes on Tuesday, May 19th, at 12:00pm PDT (3:00pm EDT).
Auction proceeds will provide vital health care to nearly 28,000 low-income, uninsured and homeless patients in Los Angeles. Venice Family Clinic's innovative, integrated approach includes primary medical care as well as specialty care, dental, behavioral health, substance use treatment, vision, early child development, health education, pharmacy, domestic violence counseling, HIV services, street medicine for people experiencing homelessness and health insurance enrollment services.
Now more than ever, we need healthcare for everyone. Auction proceeds will also help strengthen Venice Family Clinic's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Venice Family Clinic’s patients are among the most vulnerable in our community, and they need you more than ever. If you can, please give generously to the Venice Family Clinic so they can make healthcare a reality for all. 

[🎨: Gregg Chadwick, The Reader (Botanical Garden), 2019. 14”x11”. Oil on panel. 
Featured in the 2020 Venice Family Clinic Art Walk and Auction.]⠀

#VeniceFamilyClinic #VeniceFamilyClinicArtWalk #VeniceArtWalk #GreggChadwick #DeborahLynnIrmas 

Monday, April 27, 2020

All Art is Political

Don't Forget to Dance!

Saturday, April 25, 2020

Thanks for Singing San Francisco!










Please Sing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" With Tony Bennett Today at Noon PDT










House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joins with San Franciscans around the world, and others, to salute our brave health care workers in the fight against COVID-19: encouraging participation in the sing-a-long of "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" on Saturday, April 25 at 12 noon PDT.

Hashtag #SingOutSF


Thursday, April 23, 2020

Making six huge frames for Titian's mythological paintings | National Ga...



Peter Schade, the Head of the Framing department at the National Gallery, shows the process of creating six huge matching frames for the Titian: Love Desire Death exhibition. Matthias Wivel, Curator of 16th-century Italian paintings, and curator of the exhibition, discusses how these frames complement the paintings, known as Titian's 'poesie'. Watch the process of these frames being created, from workshop to exhibition. This includes sourcing materials, planing, carving, gilding, and toning the frames. Titian: Love, Desire, Death 16 March – 14 June 2020 🎟️Book now: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ex... Learn more about Titian the artist 🖌️: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ar... Paintings shown in this video: 🎨Venus and Adonis - https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-c... 🎨Diana and Actaeon - https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/pa... 🎨Diana and Callisto - https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/pa... 🎨Death of Actaeon - https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/pa... 🎨Rape of Europa - https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experie... 🎨Perseus and Andromeda - https://wallacelive.wallacecollection... Subscribe to our channel and never miss a video: http://bit.ly/1HrNTFd Follow us on social media: Like the National Gallery on Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/thenationa... Follow the National Gallery on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NationalGallery Follow the National Gallery on Instagram: https://instagram.com/nationalgallery

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Happy Earth Day - When the Earth Moves Film





When the Earth Moves reclaims the authentic story and original vision of Earth Day as a bipartisan and socially just environmental movement and highlights the need for people across generations and on both sides of the political aisle to play an active part. It also calls attention to the urgent need for Americans to unite around a common goal and purpose.



Jersey 4 Jersey - Bruce Springsteen & Patti Scialfa





Land of Hope and Dreams and Jersey Girl

Happy Earth Day!

by Gregg Chadwick

"The thing that really surprised me was that it [Earth] projected an air of fragility. And why, I don’t know. I don’t know to this day. I had a feeling it’s tiny, it’s shiny, it’s beautiful, it’s home, and it’s fragile."


— Michael Collins, Apollo 11





Gregg Chadwick
30”x36” oil on linen 2020 

My oil on linen painting Terra Nostra was inspired by the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and the first photograph taken by a human of the globe from space. On December 7, 1972, the astronauts on board Apollo 17 looked out of their spacecraft and saw the entire earth illuminated by the sun. It glowed like a blue jewel. From then on, our conception of our shared earth changed. Eugene Cernan, the pilot of that flight said to Al Reinert in an interview in Atlantic Magazine: "You have to literally just pinch yourself and ask yourself the question, silently: Do you know where you are at this point in time and space, and in reality and in existence, when you can look out the window and you're looking at the most beautiful star in the heavens -- the most beautiful because it's the one we understand and we know, it's home, it's people, family, love, life -- and besides that it is beautiful. You can see from pole to pole and across oceans and continents and you can watch it turn and there's no strings holding it up, and it's moving in a blackness that is almost beyond conception."

I thought it important to get a sense of what NASA astronauts described as the Overview Effect. From space the Earth is revealed to be fragile with a thin atmosphere. And from space, there are no boundaries. No lines demarcating countries or regions. We are united as citizens of earth and we need to protect each other and our planet. 

I first became aware of the fragile nature of our planet as an elementary school student. For Christmas one year, I asked my parents for the book “Wildlife in Danger” published by the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature). They are still an important organization providing information, plans, and hope for our endangered earth. Worried about the environment as a kid, I drew pictures of animals constantly. Now I am bringing out a series of paintings inspired by the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, 2020, that shed light on climate change, the beauty of the natural world, and our place with other species.




Wednesday, April 15, 2020

L.A. Love!

Elizabeth Warren Endorses Joe Biden for President



Let's Go! 

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Barack Obama Endorses Joe Biden





Barack Obama Endorses Joe Biden for President!


Monday, April 13, 2020

Congrats Wisconsin for Electing Judge Jill Karofsky!










Congrats Wisconsin! Despite massive GOP voter suppression, progressive judge Jill Karofsky is projected to defeat @realDonaldTrump-endorsed Justice Dan Kelly in Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Huge upset & defeat for attempts to undermine voting rights https://thehill.com/…/491622-democrat-backed-candidate-wins… #wi #wiunion #ThankYouForVoting

Andrea Bocelli: Music For Hope - Live From Duomo di Milano

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II joins former Vice President Joe Biden for a discussion on faith

Must Listen: Here's the Deal with @RevDrBarber and @JoeBiden

https://www.buzzsprout.com/961768/3325225-here-s-the-deal-with-rev-dr-william-j-barber-ii-on-faith


Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II joins former Vice President Joe Biden for a discussion on faith and its intersection with today’s most pressing issues.
Episode Guide:
  • 1:29 Reverend Barber Joins the Show
  • 3:21 Reverend Barber Discusses Poor People's Campaign Response to COVID-19
  • 10:08 Vice President Biden on Poverty and COVID-19
  • 15:48 Reverend Barber on Faith and COVID-19
  • 21:44 Vice President Biden and Reverend Barber on Health Care
  • 33:30 Vice President Biden on Legacy and Faith 
  • 39:51 Listener Question
Note: This episode was recorded on 4/9/2020