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Turkey to the British Isles, explore the complex and subtle relationship between art and politics. Hollywood Thru 05.23
Balbone Martinez: Speaking in Parables Will Get You Nowhere With This Crowd Art and Culture Center of Hollywood http://artandculturecenter.org
Balbone Martinez is a collaborative project by Michael Balbone and Emily Martinez.
For the most part, they like working somewhere between the world of fine arts and contemporary culture and between the world of handmade craft and consumerism. Their latest installations consist of two-dimensional found objects, decorative items, and recontextualized information portrayed in a schizophrenic carnival aesthetic. Some of the themes the artists keep in rotation are: fine art versus product marketing, socio/economic/political mythologies, and the concept of salvation in art. Jacksonville Thru 08.08
Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection
of Jazz Portraits by Paul Rogers The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
the time, including artistic references to well-known artists who were particularly inspired by jazz music.
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Artist Paul Rogers teamed with jazz musician Wynton Marsalis to create the book Jazz ABZ, which highlights jazz greats from A
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Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville www.mocajacksonville.org
(Louis Armstrong) to Z (Dizzy Gillespie) through art and poetry. Each portrait and poem is evocative of the particular musician’s sound, and each work of art alludes to song titles, artifacts, and other markers of
Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe captures the spark, sex appeal and sensation that was Marilyn Monroe through the art of more than
1. Balbone Martinez, Speaking in Parables Will Get You Nowhere With This Crowd, 2010, Google image search, Photoshop, and incantations, courtesy of the artist 2. Paul Rogers, Charlie Parker, 2005, acrylic and ink on Strathmore illustration board, 12 ½ x 12 ½”, on loan from the artist, © Paul Rogers 3. Milton H. Greene, Marilyn Monroe, NYC, “Ballerina” sitting, 1954, fine art inkjet, Artoma Collection, Hamburg, © 1994, Milton H. Greene Archives, Inc.
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