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Songs Without Words: The Art of Music November 20, 2021 – March 6, 2022

I don’t know how many of our readers are familiar with the Nassau County Museum of Art.
I personally was surprised when a friend asked me to go there this weekend to see its new installation called ”Art of Music”. What a pleasant discovery that was!
This show exists in different levels: exploring music, dance, visual art.
It’s  travelling through different cultures and times, creating the connection between the different styles of art and bringing you through the times from Bach to Kandinsky, to Romare Bearden, one of the best colorist of modern art, to Betty Davis – one of the best singer of the twenty century jazz, from Edgar Degas, Henry Matisse, Juan Gris and Juan Miro to Larry Davis, Dorothy Dehner and, another surprise, Lady Gaga, from the silent world of deaf artist to the tragedy of deaf composer, to the inimitable style of Jasper Jones’s art .

It’s amazing to see all the beautiful legendary musical instruments of the different times and cultures that found their temporary home in the historic building of the museum.

The western culture is organically connected to sounds of Pacific islands and dances of South American Indians tribes.  The exhibition organizers performed a wonderful job establishing  this exhibition and creating very unusual and beautiful show that takes you on the road where you want to find more and more about the world of the visualization of sound and the spiritual side of music.

Bella Gurfel <bellagny2@gmail.com>

Museum Hours: The Mansion Closed Monday Tuesday – Sunday 11am to 4:45pm
Last entry is in the 3:30-4 pm
Nassau County Museum of Art
One Museum Drive Roslyn Harbor, NY 11576
Phone: (516) 484-9338

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November 16, 2021 at Tenri Cultural Institute the iconic event took place in the New York`s cultural life, – this is an opening of the exhibition of contemporary art, named “By virtue or despite of…” organized by International Art Alliance and Ukrainian artists of America, jointly with their Ukrainian colleagues.  
The event takes place in the famous district of Manhattan, Chelsey, which focused in itself cultural pulse of our multinational city.
Almost two years of Pandemic impacted on lives of artists not only in the USA but also in the whole world. And finally, after these two years thanks to the efforts of the exhibition´s curator Tatiyana Borodina, this event was destined to be.
The Union of Ukrainian artists of America  is a structure, which integrated in itself creative people with Ukrainian roots living in the USA and Canada. Among the members of the organization there are a lot of artists working in various genres – from decorative applied arts to contemporary culture. The aim of the Union is to preserve cultural connections of Ukrainian people with their historical motherland as well as to represent among American audience the cultural heritage of Ukraine.
Current art exhibition in Chelsey is designed to fulfill this important mission. The vernissage turned out to be vivid and diverse. Basically, painting, graphics and jewellery are presented here.
On the exhibition one may enjoy the works both by masters of art and by young artists. Among them Mikhail Turovsky (USA), Mikola Zhuravel (Ukraine), Elena Lezhen (USA), Armine Bozhko (USA), Ola Rondiak (USA), Miroslav Duzinkevich (USA), Anna Miklashevich (Slovenia), Oksana Movchan (Canada), Tatyana Rusetskaya (Ukraine). The art of jewellery is represented by Kira Koktysh (USA).
Exposition of the exhibition contains works of various genres, one may contemplate here urbanistic landscapes, abstract art, portrait genre, still-lifes  and surrealistic canvases. Stylistics of performing varies from graphic expressionism, linear graphics, realistic portraits to vividness of palette of contemporary painting. All this characterises no ordinary development of contemporary artistic processes, absorbing in themselves both historical tradition and modern tendencies of the world´s artistic culture.    
The exhibition given became a real culture present for art specialists as well as for ordinary art lovers. One may enjoy the vernissage till November 22, 2021.

Bella Gurfel