Saturday, October 8, 2016

Friday, October 7, 2016

National Gallery Of Art East Building Re Opens

http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/press/2016/eastbuilding.html

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hahn/Cock

Here is the blue rooster in Trafalgar Square in London.
 It now sits on top of the National Gallery Of Art East Building.

That is the Alexander Calder Room(new)at the National Gallery Of Art East Building.
All the way up near the top. Below I am standing in the room. One of The Last Of The Mobile Hotshots is standing in a room full of mobiles.

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Tuba Skinny 'Someday Sweetheart', Steamboat Stomp New Orleans, 9/24/16

Tuba Skinny @ Duke Heitger's 4th Annual Steamboat Stomp, September 23rd ...

I've been waiting for this one and the above to show up on you tube. Yay!
Published on Oct 5, 2016
Top Deck this wonderful warm and sunny afternoon onboard Paddle Steamer The Natchez, cruising up and down the mighty Mississippi, Tuba Skinny made their first appearance on the River. Quoting from Steamboat Stomp's presentation: "Tuba Skinny came together in New Orleans in 2009 as a loose collection of street musicians and has since evolved to a fully formed professional band. Their unique sound evokes the rich musical heritage of New Orleans from the early jazz and blues and the twenties and thirties, ragtime, and traditional jazz. The band consists of tuba, trombone, cornet, tenor banjo/guitar,
vocals, washboard, and occasionally clarinet. The band has gained a loyal following through their  sound, their commitment to reviving long-lost songs, and their barnstorming live performance

Bob Dylan Now Making Iron Sculptures

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Here is the story in the link below.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2016/09/08/this-26-foot-long-bob-dylan-sculpture-will-welcome-visitors-at-national-harbor-casino/#comments

This one above is from a show in London.
More from the London show called Mood Swings.

The artist selecting his objects.
Here he is hard at work.

An artist in William Faulkner's novel WILD PALMS tells a man at a party in the French Quarter in the 1920s that she makes sculptures that when you drop them they hurt your foot.



Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Teatro Tasso-Sorrento Musical Thurs Sept 6th 2012

This is clearer.

Sorrento Musical 8

This is the finale.