Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul. —Anna May Wong
Happy 119th Birthday Anna May Wong, shown above in the 1929 film, Piccadilly. 🔥🖤🤍🖤🔥
For anyone who’s not familiar with the Chinese American actress (she was from LA and apparently, her older sister Lulu was married to my dad’s Uncle Howard), Anna May Wong was Hollywood’s first Chinese American actress to gain international fame—a true visionary and icon, way ahead of her time. Can’t even imagine all the racism she must have dealt with 100 years ago.
Anna May Wong Recites a Poem from the 1932 Paramount Short, Hollywood on Parade
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Piccadilly [DVD]
Amazon.com: Piccadilly [DVD] : Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas, Charles Laughton, Cyril Ritchard, King Hou Chang, Hannah Jones, Gordon Begg, Debroy Somers and His Band, John Longden, Ray Milland, Charles Paton, Ewald Andr Dupont, Arnold Bennett: Movies & TV
(Book) Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong
Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905-1961) (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series) [Chan, Anthony B.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905-1961) (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series)
(Book) Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s... by Huang, Yunte
(Book) Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend [Hodges, Graham Russell Gao] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend
(Film) Watch Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words | Prime Video
Anna May Wong was one of the few actors to transition from silent to sound cinema, yet she spent most of her career typecast as a painted doll or a dragon lady. For years, generations of Chinese-Americans frowned upon the roles she played; but today a younger generation of Asian Americans sees her as a pioneering artist. Hong’s documentary explores the impact she had on Asian Americans in cinema
(Film) Watch The Thief of Bagdad | Prime Video
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
(Film) Watch Study In Scarlet, A | Prime Video
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies.
Georgia O’Keeffe. Black Place I, 1944. SDMA, San Diego.
The Black Place is about 150 miles from Ghost Ranch and as you come to it over a hill, it looks like a mile of elephants—grey hills all about the same size of the almost white sand at their feet… Such a beautiful, untouched lonely-feeling place—part of what I call the Far Away.
—Geogia O’Keeffe
Today’s LOVE LETTER TO ART celebrates Georgia O’Keeffe’s 136th Birthday with Black Place I (featured in San Diego Museum of Art’s SPECTACULAR O’Keeffe and Moore exhibition from earlier this year).
It is such an extraordinary work, and she, like Mark Rothko, are artists whose works I make a point of seeing in person, as most Rothkos and O’Keefes photograph poorly. Their intensity somehow does not translate at all to film, which I suppose is the best motivator to see them IRL.
In case you missed it, here’s a snippet of the SDMA O’Keeffe and Moore show below.
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QUICK GUIDE: San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) ⭐ MUSEUM HOURS: CLOSED WEDNESDAY.Open Monday–Tuesday and Thursday–Saturday 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday 12 p.m.–5 p.m. ⭐ ADMISSION: General Admission Adults $20; Seniors 65+ $15; Military $10; Students $8; Ages 17 & Under FREE. Membership starts at $75. ⭐ DISCOUNTS: Admission is FREE through the following programs: Third Tuesdays for San Diego residents (show ID); Discover and Go (Free w/library card—may not apply to all counties); Museums for All (show your EBT or Medi-Cal card/ID); Museums On Us (show your Bank of America/Merrill card/ID) on FIRST weekend of month. Blue Star (May 20–Sept 4, 2023: Free for military personnel and up to 5 family members with ID). *Additional fees apply for special exhibitions. Tickets available at the museum’s welcome desk. The sculpture garden is ALWAYS FREE. ⭐ FOOD: Panama 66 is a FANTASTIC museum eatery (great drinks) bordering the sculpture garden. Open Monday–Tuesday and Thursday 11 a.m.–5 p.m.; Wednesday 4 p.m.–10 p.m.; and Friday–Saturday 11 a.m.–9 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.–7 p.m. Dog-friendly.
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Roy Lichtenstein. Woman Contemplating a Yellow Cup, 1995. HoMA, Honolulu.
In America the biggest is the best.
—Roy Lichtenstein
Happy 100th Birthday Roy Lichtenstein!!! Love this HUMUNGOUS work (and just love bows in general), Woman Contemplating a Yellow Cup, which is part of the Honolulu Museum of Art’s permanent collection.
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QUICK GUIDE: Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) ⭐ MUSEUM HOURS: Open Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Friday & Saturday 10 a.m.–9 p.m. Closed Monday–Tuesday. ⭐ ADMISSION: Adults $20; Kamaʻāina (HI residents) $10; Ages 18 & Under FREE. Membership starts at $50. ⭐ DISCOUNTS: Free for residents 3RD SUNDAY OF MONTH. *A selection of hotels provide one FREE TICKET w/your room key. See website for participating hotels. ⭐CLASSES: The museum offers a variety of classes for children and adults. Members receive a discount. ⭐ FOOD: Coffee Bar and HoMA Café (museum restaurant with terrific ambiance, beer and wine). Admission not required to dine at HoMA Café. SEE WEBSITE FOR HOURS.
It’s Andy’s 95th Birthday!!! Shown here is 𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘺 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘩𝘰𝘭 𝘌𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘏𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳 from the Jørgen Leth film, 66 𝘚𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 (1982). 🎉🎂🍔🥫❤️✌️🌟
Everybody has their own America, and then they have the pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see. When I was little, I never left Pennsylvania, and I used to have fantasies about things that I thought were happening in the Midwest, or down South, or in Texas, that I felt I was missing out on. But you can only live in one place at a time. And your own life while it’s happening to you never has any atmosphere until it’s a memory. So the fantasy corners of America seem so atmospheric because you’ve pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books. And you live in your dream America that you’ve custom-made from art and schmaltz and emotions just as much as you live in your real one.
—Andy Warhol
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Image: Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait, 1967. SFMOMA, San Francisco.
