Mickey Hart is legendary in the music world known for his decades as percussionist for the Grateful Dead, as well as being a pivotal innovator. Deadheads and new fans will now have a chance to experience Hart utilizing an entire new art form grown from his love of rhythm. The three time Grammy award winner embarks on premiering his pulsing works as a painter.
The Renoirs have arrived in Northport.
The name comes with certain expectations. So it’s not surprising that succeeding Renoir generations expressed their artistry through other media. Jean, middle son of Impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir, was a legendary film director. Older brother Pierre was an actor while kid brother Claude created ceramics. Grandson Claude Jr. was a cinematographer. His daughter Sophie is an actress.
For most kids, 14 is an age of “becoming.” With those awkward tween years just behind, and those even more awkward teenage years still ahead, it’s a time when most kids are still getting to know themselves, and finding out what their gifts and callings might be. (Honestly, some of us are still trying to figure out what we’re meant to do on this Earth as adults—and that’s okay!)
A major PR hit for the exhibition. Major. The verified audience metric for this piece in the Huffington Post is over 31 million unique visitors: specifically: 31,021,260 Million unique visitors per month. It is written by Priscilla Frank, the Arts & Entertainment editor for the Huff Post.
Alexandre Renoir has very big shoes — or certainly a big canvas — to fill. An accomplished painter in his own right, he is the great-grandson of the great French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. And filling those shoes he is —by being one of the featured artists at the LaMantia Gallery in Northport when the gallery presents “Visions of Impressionism” on Oct. 14, 15 and 16.
