Day 4994: 5 Curated Quotes & New LACMA Museum.

"CourAGE": junk collage., ink.

                                                                       

  

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    Click: Lionel Richie, Just to be Close to You, Girl.

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 Curated (short) Quotes:

Pliny the Younger , Roman senator, lawyer, and author:

"An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit."

Simone Weil on offering someone your complete focus:

"Attention is the rarest & purest form of generosity."

To quote Waylon Jennings:

“If it ain’t one thing, it’s another one on the way.”

Nora Langdon, 80+ weight lifter:

“Keep that body moving until the Lord call you home.” 

 Albert Einstein:  

"Creativity is Intelligence having fun."

  

Can an art museum tell a non-linear version of art history and still be legible to its visitors? That’s the question guiding the David Geffen Galleries, the new Peter Zumthor-designed building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that opens to members on April 19 and to the public on May 4.⁠

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This one-level museum eschews traditional museological hierarchies. European paintings are not given priority, Greco-Roman sculptures are not awarded long marble hallways, and art of the Americas, Africa, and Oceania is not tucked away in dusty corners. Instead, art from LACMA’s 15 curatorial departments can go anywhere in the building—no department has an earmarked space, and some departments, like the one for costumes and textiles, even have more on view than ever before.⁠

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“If this is what the future of museological display is, count me in,” @maxduron writes.⁠

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Read about the 25-year process of rethinking LACMA—and its triumphant new galleries: https://www.artnews.com/.../lacma-david-geffen-galleries.../

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A 6+ minute video, Moonlight Sonata for Mongkol,  here.

 

 

Just because ...

  

Grey Crowned Crane.

The grey crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) is a bird in the crane family, Gruidae. It is found in nearly all of Africa, especially in eastern and southern Africa, and it is the national bird of Uganda.

The grey crowned crane is approximately 1 m (3 ft 3 in) tall, weighs 3.5 kg (7.7 lb), and has a wingspan of 2 m (6 ft 7 in). Its body plumage is mainly grey. The wings are predominantly white but contain feathers with a range of colours, with a distinctive black patch at the very top. The head has a crown of stiff golden feathers. The sides of the face are white, and there is a bright red inflatable throat pouch. The bill is relatively short and grey, and the legs are black. They have long legs for wading through the grasses. The feet are large, yet slender, adapted for balance rather than defence or grasping. The sexes are similar, although males tend to be slightly larger. Younger cranes are greyer than adults, with a feathered buff face.

This species and the black crowned crane are the only cranes that can roost in trees, because of a long hind toe that can grasp branches.

Monday's Smiles ... 

 

   

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