Music
After Hours & Behind the Scenes at Museums
Museums are an obvious place to find art but not in this way. Several DC museums are open after hours on specific nights and times. This is the second year the museums have joined the ranks of nightlife clubs and it’s a popular thing. Tickets sell out in advance. Here’s the story, Mingling at the Museum, with the details of which museums are participating their website links. If you’re looking for more artwork that’s not usually on view, try going behind the scenes. Many museums have archived artwork in storage that can be viewed, as seen as an example here at the New York Historical Society. You don’t have to…
Musical Bat and One Last Guitar
A few stories, one about a violinist creating a musical bat and another about an engineering professor creating Coil an electric guitar that can produce a customized sound, and another that I stumbled upon about a guitar maker losing his hearing as he builds his last guitar recently captured my attention in the Washington Post as being very attentive to the arts. A Swing and a Hit for Violinist by Anne Midgette is about Glenn Donnellan, a classical violinist with the National Symphony Orchestra, who has fashioned a bow instrument out of a baseball bat for children’s musical outreach programs. His video below not only Kick Starts the weekend but…
Art & Palate
Going from discovering an Australian blogs to Australian artists who paint food images…These artists featured in the book The Artist’s Lunch also have submitted recipes for this opulent book. Here’s a fantastic painting of Quinces by Jeffery Smart. And the cover of the book is equally as splendid — a feast for the eyes! That rooster’s tail feathers could be angel hair pasta. I like the artist, Salvatore Zofrea’s quote, “I see the dish on the table as the link that brings everyone together to become one.” Here’s a blog to check out, Feasting on Art. I like the way it’s set up to pair artwork with actual recipes. Very…
