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SOLID GOLD

Posted on July 20, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

Ed and I caught the elaborate Solid Gold exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum before it closed a few weeks ago. I took lots of pics to share; not all there was to see (because it was a lot!), but still … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin' | Tagged Agnes Martin, Americas, ancient, brooklyn, Christian Dior, Christian Louboutin, Cleopatra, coins, Diane von Furstenberg, Egypt, El Anatsui, Elizabeth Taylor, exhibit, fashion, Gianfranco Ferre, gold, gold leaf, Golden Globe, Grammy, Haute Couture, Janelle Monae, jewelry, John Singer Sargent, Mary McFadden, museum, Oscar, Patrick Kelly, photography, Pierre Cardin, Pistoletto, Solid Gold, The Blonds, Titus Kaphar, Zadik Zadikian | Leave a comment

PRIDE SATURDAY at the BROOKLYN MUSEUM

Posted on June 9, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

It being June, Pride Month, the Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturday was a celebration of Queer community and art. NYC Gay Men’s Chorus performs Andra Day’s “Rise Up” The Beaux Arts Court was turned into a fair for queer figure drawing, … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged Aimee Amour, Andra Day, Beaux Arts Court, Bertha Vanashun, brooklyn, Dev Doee, Drag History Hour, Emi Grate, Ethel Smyth, figure drawing, First Saturday, Harriet Tugsmen, I'm Baby, Langston Hughes, Lesbian Herstory Archives, LGBTQ, Marsha P. Johnson, Maya Hayuk, Moog, museum, Nathalie Clifford Barney, pop up market, Pride, Queer, Rise Up, Starmakers, Tourmaline, Wendy Carlos | Leave a comment

Battle for my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on January 25, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

You’re now in the very contemporary art section of the museum… And we’re back with another installment of my un-winning entries for the New Yorker cartoon caption entries. Well, un-winning according to the contest, but my husband chuckles at them. … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Literary Lyricism | Tagged art, caption, cartoon, clocks, contemporary, Contest, couples therapy, dating, fruit, Hump Day, IRL, museum, New Yorker, Planet of the Apes, Rogaine, stand up, vegetables, vultures, Whale | Leave a comment

BROOKLYN ARTISTS EXHIBIT at the BROOKLYN MUSEUM

Posted on October 11, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

The exhibit of contemporary Brooklyn artists currently showing at the Brooklyn Museum is resplendent with imagination and diversity, technically and aesthetically. Here is a sample of the highlights. “Mother Sky” – David Shaw “Game of Crazy Eights” – Rick Secen … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin' | Tagged Aisha Tandiwe Bell, Alison Kuo, An-My Lè, Anthony Goicolea, art, Artists, brooklyn, Cate Pasquarelli, Chitra Ganesh, David Shaw, E. V. Day, exhibition, Garry Grant, Geoffrey Chadsey, Gwyneth Scally, Haoua Habré, Honorroller, Isamar Gonzalez, Janaina Tschäpe, Jennifer Dalton, Johanna Burke, Jon Kessler, Josh Sucher, Josiah McElheny, Katherine Jackson, Kit Warren, Kyung Tae Kim, Lauren Seiden, Loren Munk, Lufti Janania, museum, Naudline Pierre, photography, Richard Haining, Rob Raphael, Scherezade Garcia, Shosh Goller, Soull Ogun, Stanley Greenberg, Steven Montgomery, Swan Series, Tamara Kostianovsky, Timothy Paul Myers, Tinuade Oyelowo, Tracie Dawn Williams, Yaw Owusu | Leave a comment

HERCULANEUM

Posted on September 7, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Part 3 of the Pompeii Series Above is the entrance gate into the Herculaneum museum/park, and below is the first view one gets of the ruins walking down the path to the official museum entrance. Herculaneum, like its more famous … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged altars, ancient, Augustales, bathhouse, chariots, Ed Elder, Ercolano, eruption, Herculaneum, Marcus Nonius Balbus, mosaics, museum, paintings, Pompeii, pyroclastic flow, ruins, skeletons, statues, thermopolium, Versuvius, Volcano | Leave a comment

The Homes of Pompeii

Posted on September 1, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Post 2 of the Pompeii Series In the first post we explored the streets of Pompeii, with the temples, the Forum, the amphitheatres, bathhouses and the Coliseum. This time we will look at the homes of the inhabitants of Pompeii. … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged Actaeon, ancient, art, cistern, courtyard, Diana, Ed Elder, erotica, guard dogs, mosaic, museum, Painting, photography, plaster cast, Pompeii, rituals, ruins, skeleton, slave, victims, Villa dei Misteri, Volcano, wall painting | Leave a comment

The Streets of Pompeii

Posted on August 25, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Post 1 of the Pompeii Series Pompeii. I wrote a song about it (for my Mark Twain musical) long before I finally visited it this April. And now finally I am posting my blog piece about the visit – blog … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged ampitheatre, ancient, Apollo, ash, barracks, bathhouse, bodies, chariot, Coliseum, Edward Elder, Forum, gladiator, ISIS, Italy, Jupiter, museum, phallus, photography, plaster cast, Pompeii, pyroclastic flow, ruins, stepping stones, Temple, Thermae, thermopolium, Vesuvius, Volcano | Leave a comment

MOMA Selfies

Posted on May 5, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin' | Tagged art, Blue, Danny Ashkenasi, Edward Elder, Magritte, modern art, MOMA, museum, Painting, photography, Pollock, Rothko, selfie, White, Wyeth | Leave a comment

APRIL BBG SPLENDOR

Posted on April 23, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Colorful Impressions at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on a Mid-April Day The Brooklyn Museum as seen from the BBG Many more cherry blossom pics, and flower selfies, are at the end of this post…

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin' | Tagged April, blossoms, botanic, brooklyn, cherry, cormorant, Esplanade, flowers, Garden, Japanese, lilac, museum, photography, selfie, Spring, tulip | Leave a comment

WHITNEY MUSEUM TERRACE VIEWS

Posted on January 14, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged balcony, Empire State Building, Greenwich Village, Hudson River, Manhattan, museum, New York City, photography, Terrace, Views, Whitney, World Trade Center | Leave a comment

The Sci-Fi Lego Skyscrapers of Porocity

Posted on December 23, 2021 by dannyashkenasi

I saw these nine gigantic towers of white lego building blocks in the Pompidou museum in Paris in 2018. They reminded me of science fiction movies of my childhood where fantastical models would be filmed to look like immense futuristic … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged architecture, Blade Runner, cityscape, Delft, futuristic, Lego, Logan's Run, museum, MVRVD, Paris, photography, Pompidou, Porocity, Sci-Fi, skyscrapers, The Why Factory, University of Technology | Leave a comment

P&P – Day 2 – The Merchant’s House

Posted on November 18, 2021 by dannyashkenasi

In “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre”, my second short film musical adaptation of a classic gothic tale by Edgar Allan Poe, the protagonist is seen working at his desk in a garret apartment, while soldiers of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, Poe Musicabres, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged 19th Century, camera, East Village, Edgar Allan Poe, Film Festival, film set, film shoot, garret, go-pro, location scout, Merchant's House, museum, musicabre, New York City, staircase, The Pit and the Pendulum, Theater for the New City, townhouse | Leave a comment

The Obama Portraits at Brooklyn Museum

Posted on September 6, 2021 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Notes in the News | Tagged African American, Alabama, Amy Sherald, Barack, black, blue lilies, brooklyn, Chicago, chrysanthemums, Edward Elder, first lady, Gallery, Gee's Bend, grayscale, Hawai'i, jasmine, Kehinde Wiley, Kenya, Michelle Obama, Michelle Smith, Milly, museum, National Portrait, Obama, official, portrait, President, quiltmaking, Smithsonian, tour | Leave a comment

The Broken Castle of Heidelberg

Posted on September 2, 2021 by dannyashkenasi

Before I visited I did not know that Heidelberg’s grand castle complex is actually a ruin. In 1689, after decades of warfare, the French army blew up and set fire to much of the castle so that no army may … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged 1600s, ancient Roman, apothecary, atomic bomb, barrel, Castle, church, columns, Cosmos, Damian, dragon, Ed Elder, Fat Tower, Germany, Heidelberg, Holy Spirit, Kurfürstenknödel, museum, Neckar, Old Bridge, patron saint, Philosopher's Walk, photography, ruin, sculpture, stain glass window, Tower, Wikipedia | Leave a comment

Pierre Cardin at the Brooklyn Museum

Posted on January 5, 2020 by dannyashkenasi

The Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum is coming to a close today. I went last Thursday, and found my shutterbug instincts whipped up until my cellphone needed recharging. Here are some of the images that … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On | Tagged Beauty and the Beast, Belle et la Bete, brooklyn, Diana Rigg, Emma Peeel, fashion, future, Jean Marais, museum, photography, Pierre Cardin, silhouette, The Avengers, TV Theme | 1 Comment

Sensual Statues of the Musée D’Orsay

Posted on October 5, 2018 by dannyashkenasi

Tensions of the world making you anxious? Here is much soothing, sculptural sensuality but also some less comforting, chiseled objectification Continuing my fascination with sensual statuary in Paris, the greatest concentration of such aesthetically, artistically, and, let’s admit it, amorously … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged Brahms, Chopin, classics, Degas, female, male, marble, Musee D'Orsay, museum, nature, Nocturne, objectification, Paris, Sappho, Science, sensual, statue, Symphony #3 | Leave a comment

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