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Bronx Museum offers free passes in December while Bronx Zoo and NY Aquarium offers free passes when donating toys or foods
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Bronx Museum offers free passes in December
The Bronx Museum, which normally has a suggested admission of $5 is going completely FREE in December … if you have the coupon. Just for your information, The Bronx Museum is also FREE EVERY FRIDAY throughout the year.
The museum was named the culture spot of the month by NYC & Co, the city’s tourism marketing group. The coupon, available to print out during December, will get free admission for a family of up to four people. The coupon can be redeemed until June 30, 2012.
The Bronx Museum, located at 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street, is home to more than 800 contemporary paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs.
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Free Bronx Zoo and NY Aquarium passes for food drive
Zoo lovers can get a pass for a free visit to the Bronx Zoo or the New York Aquarium when donating items to the Wildlife Conservation Society food and toy drive.
To get the pass, you need to donate one new unwrapped toy or a bag with at least 10 packaged food items.
The donations can be made through Dec. 31 in exchange for a general admission ticket to the Bronx Zoo or New York Aquarium good for a visit in 2012 from Jan. 1 through June 30.
Donations can be dropped off at the Bronx Zoo, New York Aquarium, Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo or Queens Zoo, which are all operated by the Wildlife Conservation Society. There’s a limit of four free tickets per family.
The food and toy drive is co-sponsored by City Harvest, and the Bronx and Brooklyn borough president’s offices.
Carlos Lersundy: “Homecoming” at La MaMa Galleria to open 50th anniversary season in East Village.
Posted by SB in EV Artists, ev arts, EV Arts, EV People, SB in EV Arts on November 1, 2011
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October 16 – November 13, 2011
La MaMa Galleria is honored to open the 50th anniversary season with an exhibition of new paintings by Colombian artist Carlos Lersundy. He has been apart of the La MaMa family since the very beginning, creating art for Ellen Stewart and some of La MaMa’s first highly acclaimed shows.
“Ellen’s work is transcendent. There are qualities about it that need to be preserved in time, such as impeccability, excellence in execution and meaning. My intent is to capture these qualities in the works presented here.” -Carlos Lersundy
Carlos Lersundy is recognized in Colombia and Latin America as one of the relevant figures in art and advertising. He has worked as a Creative Director in prestigious advertising agencies such as Young & Rubicam, (New York and Amsterdam) and Leo Burnett (Bogotá). He has also been an independent documentary filmmaker. Founder, owner and Creative Director of the Vi-Viendo creative group- A company dedicated to the design of corporate and political advertising campaigns.
As a political advertising advisor and creative director, he has designed and produced the campaign for César Gaviria / President and the advertising campaign for the National Constituent Assembly of 1991.
For his advertising work, he was awarded two “Indias Catalina” for best commercial at the Film Festival of Cartagena and a “Condor de Oro” for the design of the Cesar Gaviria / Presidential image.
During his professional life he has shown special interest in cultural manifestations that identify the Colombians, being worthy of a scholarship from the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation to make a short film about the visualization practices of the Tucano Indians in the Amazon jungle.
Lersundy has done individual and group exhibitions internationally since 1967. For the last four years he has taught people to see anew using drawing and painting techniques.
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Prophecy in arts shown in Ha Lee’s art series of “Pretty Dictators Vs. Pretty Leaders” at SB D Gallery in East Village, NYC.
Posted by SB in ev arts, SB D Gallery, SB in EV Arts on May 10, 2011
Art reflects the philosophy of the age.
Art records the voice of the era.
Art influences the history in the making…
And a lot of times, art foresees the decades in coming.
Like shown in Ha Lee‘s two specific pieces of art series, “Pretty Dictators Vs. Pretty Leaders” that are being presented at SB D Gallery in East Village, NYC from April 30th till May 20th, 2011, the innocent coincidence brought upon serendipity.
His project is to highlight and emphasize on world peace regardless agenda, ideology, religion, race and beyond, however, it happened to have predicted the ending of hunt for Osama Bin Laden (March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011), the founder of al-Qaeda, the organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States.
These two specific pieces, Osama Bin Laden and President Obama, were done months prior to the historic death of Osama Bin Laden. Ha Lee selected nine top political figures in his series, and Obama and Bin Laden are parts of them.
There was no speculating metaphor beyond the surface according to Ha Lee. President Obama is cartoonized as Rambo, the hit Americian action hero in the movie directed by George P. Cosmatos and Sylvester Stallone starred in 1985 while Bin Laden is disguised in the biblical theme when he is muslim. Pretty unusual and paradoxic choices of theme Ha Lee made which are also found in the rest seven other political figures in his series.
It seemed to be nothing more complicated than art itself, at least until this year’s one of the world’s biggest breaking news of Osama Bin Laden’s death on May 2, 2011; a day after Ha Lee’s “Pretty Dictators Vs. Pretty Leader” exhibition opening recepted at SB D Gallery in NYC on April 30th, 2011.
The more you look at the art pieces, the more complexed it gets.
What you see is what it may not be, and what it may be is what you don’t see.
Well no art can be fully depicted in words as it delivers emotions rather than logics. If you are trying to get the most making sense out of Ha Lee’s series, yes, I wish you the best luck.
Art is prophetic and repeating itself…
“Pretty Dictators Vs. Pretty Leaders” by Ha Lee
SB D Gallery, 125 East 4th Street NYC 10003 212-979-7239 www.sbdgallery.org
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“Pretty Dictators Vs. Pretty Leaders” by Ha Lee, illustrating Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi, President Obama, North Korean dictator Kim Jungil, Osama Bin Laden and more at SB D Gallery in East Village, New York City, 2011.
Posted by SB in ev arts, EV Arts, SB D Gallery, SB in EV Arts on March 13, 2011
“Pretty Dictators Vs. Pretty Leaders” by Ha Lee will be presented at SB D Gallery from April 30th till May 20, 2011.
Ha Lee, former editorial cartoonist in Korea now based in Texas as a fine artist, portraits his belief in humanism through this sampling of dictators and leaders around the world with his paradoxic method. Lee believes that no human being is born as a dictator but only raised as one.
The arts are combination of digital and analog process, created first digitally and then printed on canvas to be hand-sewn to result in 3 dimensional effect. Each work is 30″ x 40″ big. Crossing over those two contrary environments, digital and analog, Lee tries to illustrate the embalance and dissonance of ideologies in life. Rather humaine than political voice of Ha Lee is embedded with each piece, the dictator of Lybya Muammar Gadhafi, President Obama, Osama Bin Laden, President Lee, North Korean dictator Jung Il Kim and so on.
As one last ‘pretty’ personal comment, let’s not forget about THE PRETTIEST DICTATOR, that no one may overpower… The Mother Nature… (all our prayers and thoughts are with everyone who has been affected by this horrific disaster…)
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