Spring Gala & Art Auction

You're cordially invited

The Bronx Museum of the Arts

SPRING GALA & ART AUCTION 

MAY 18, 2011 

Honoring visual artist TANIA BRUGUERA and TONY FEHER, jazz and classical composer and pianist DR. VALERIE CAPERS, and President of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation MICHAEL WARD STOUT

6:30—7:30PM
COCKTAILS AND SILENT AUCTION 

7:30—9:30PM
DINNER, LIVE AND SILENT AUCTION,
and Performance with live music by Honoree Valerie Capers 

to be held at ESPACE
365 West 42nd Street
Between 11th and 12th Avenues
New York City 

 

Details

http://bronxmuseum.org/pages/gala_2011.html

Elizabeth Catlett in the BX

There's so much buzz for Elizabeth Catlett's appearance at the Bronx Museum next Friday, April 29. Can't say she doesn't deserve it. To be 96-years old and still creating art is a wonderful thing. 

The exhibition, STARGAZERS: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation With 21 Contemporary Artists is quickly becoming one of the Museum's more popular exhibits. Read the New York Times's April 14 article, http://nyti.ms/h5rzX1 or The Roots's article, http://wapo.st/gvngjc, from April 15. As the rapper Common said in Terminator 4, "It's beautiful!"

The panel Bronx Talks: Elizabeth Catlett Panel Discussion (RSVP on Facebook) will be moderated by the exhibition's curator Isolde Brielmaier, and include artists Sanford Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Renee Cox and Xaviera Simmons (If Ms. Catlett by herself wasn't enough). Free event but please rsvp (pleeease).

A couple of weeks ago Ms. Catlett visited the Museum to speak with our Teen Council. More beauty --teenagers interacting with a nonagenarian. (Full disclosure: I had to look up "nonagenarian" --it's so rare I speak of people in their 90s). The teens snapped some pix and will run a longer piece is its future Muse pub. Click here for a pic preview.

As the date closes in I'll post updates on Facebook and Twitter, so follow!