Category: art

call forth its riches

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…write about what your everyday life offers you; describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty. Describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison… Rilke

The Ground Beneath our Feet

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Museum of Art + Design in collaboration with Word + Image Lab (WAIL) presents the new exhibition, Downtown Miami: The Ground Beneath Our Feet, showcasing a one-of-a-kind artists book created by 24 south Florida writers and artists.

Collaborating together on twelve unique page spreads, each artist/writer team focused on an architectural site located in the downtown Miami vicinity. The writers participating in this book are Jaswinder Bolina, Adrian Castro, John Dufresne, Denise Duhamel, Luis Eligio D Omni, Andrea Gollin, Nadege Green, Michael Hettich, Lori Colleen Kelly, Jessica Machado, Molly Mcgreevy and Susan Weiner. Participating visual artists are Jenny Brillhart, Rosemarie Chiarlone, Felice Grodin, Gary Moore, Lea Nickless, Ernesto Oroza, Brian Reedy, Onajide Shabaka, Sara Stites, Carol Todaro, Tom Virgin, and Michelle Weinberg.

Paul Klee, Possibilities at Sea, 1932

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Encaustic and sand on canvas
38-1/4 x 37-5/8 in. (97.2 x 95.6 cm)
Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
P.1953.067
© Norton Simon Museum
The artist, consigned in 1933 and later sold (by Lily Klee) in 1942 to Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.

Audio via Norton Simon Museum.

Paul Klee, 1879-1940 : a retrospective exhibition; Catalog of an exhibition held February 17 – April 30, 1967 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

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