World Footprints "Judges Choice" winner Dmitri Markine
This is an image of an elder from a tribe in Ethiopia. The moment was captured by photographer Dmitri Markine–the “Judges Choice” winner in the last World Footprints Travel Photo Contest.
Taken by Scott Feldstein
This PHOTO MOMENT of the metal sculpture of Jesus was captured by photographer Scott Feldstein.
by Marsha Dubrow
Joan Miró, "Toward the Rainbow" from his "Constellations" series. The 120-painting exhibit "Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape" is at DC's National Gallery through August 12. Credit: Metropolitan Museum, NY, NY. Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998
Joan Miró, one of the greatest and most influential 20th century artists, who used his “violent” works to protest fascism in his beloved Spain, is celebrated in a new exhibit through August 12 at DC’s National Gallery of Art.
“Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape” has some 120 paintings spanning the renowned artist’s entire 65-year career and his numerous inventive, imaginative styles. A unique focus is Miró’s political and social works, second only to Picasso and his famed “Guernica”.
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Marsha Dubrow writes the DC Art Travel column on examiner.com. Her arts and travel stories have run in National Geographic Traveler, Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, as well as World Footprints. She was a Correspondent for Life, People, Punch, and Reuters. Dubrow earned an M.F.A. in Writing and Literature at Bennington College, which published her book, Single Blessedness. Her essays and fiction appear in anthologies including When Last on the Mountain and Still Going Strong.
Will the world be coming to an end on December 21, 2012 as the Maya predict? Not according to a museum in Philly.
The Penn Museum in Philadelphia will opened a Maya exhibit this Saturday and will seek to dispel 2012 myths. “Maya 2012: Lords of Time” will feature artifacts excavated from the historic Maya ruins of Copan in Honduras, including burial jewelry, food vessels and ceramic figures. Despite the apocalypse myth the show is scheduled to run through early 2013.
Read more about the Maya 2012 exhibit on Yahoo.
by Marsha Dubrow
Walker Evans, "Subway Portraits, 1941". Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Gift of Kent and Marcia Minichiello. ©Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Subways are for spying in “I Spy: Photography and the Theater of the Street, 1938–2010“, a new exhibit at DC’s National Gallery now through August 5.
Shots by Walker Evans, Harry Callahan, Bruce Davidson, and three other leaders of the street photography genre elevate people-watching to art in this free exhibit exploring voyeurism, surveillance, and privacy. Yes, surreptitious snaps were taken long before smart phone cameras, Google Earth, and even George Orwell’s “1984″.
Evans, with a camera concealed in his coat, snapped New York subway riders between 1938 and 1941. Callahan focused on women “lost in thought” on busy Chicago streets in 1950. Davidson’s color shots of the NYC subway in the 1980s range from frightening to poetic. Robert Frank photographed from windows of buses moving through NYC in 1958. Several used telephoto lenses, including Philip-Lorca diCorcia, who erected scaffolding and lights in bustling urban areas, and Beat Streuli, who created their works from the 1990s through 2010.
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Marsha Dubrow writes the DC Art Travel column on examiner.com. Her arts and travel stories have run in National Geographic Traveler, Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, as well as World Footprints. She was a Correspondent for Life, People, Punch, and Reuters. Dubrow earned an M.F.A. in Writing and Literature at Bennington College, which published her book, Single Blessedness. Her essays and fiction appear in anthologies including When Last on the Mountain and Still Going Strong.
