Birmingham Urban Mural

This beautiful mural was started in 1996 to celebrate the Olympic venues here in Birmingham by Space One Eleven. The second panel was finished in 2000. It's a jewel on the side of Boutwell Auditorium that faces our Birmingham Museum of Art. I love it!

In Or Out?

Birmingham Museum of Art entrance.

Autumn Revisited

This may or may not come as a surprise to many of you but I'll let you in on a little secret. I sometimes repost photographs that I especially love and today's is one of those. I shot this at the Birmingham Museum of Art a number of years ago, I like to drag it out every autumn for old time's sake. I hope you like it too.

Light Up My Life!

This very cool light table at Bart's Artventure at the Birmingham Museum of Art is all about having fun with art. This area is just for kids, but I wanted to throw my camera down and join them!

Target I

This unusual and very colorful metal sculpture by artist John Scott, welcomes visitors at the entrance of the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Shadows

These lovely benches in the Charles W. Ireland Sculpture Garden at the Birmingham Museum of Art are a feast for the photographer's eye.

Today I will be presenting Bringing Home the Memories, a travel photography phototalk at the Hoover Library at 2:00 p.m. It is open to the public. Please join us!

Afternoon at the Museum

I love this curved bench at the Birmingham Museum of Art. 

Pop of Color

Sol LeWitt's BANDS OF COLOR IN VARIOUS DIRECTIONS makes a colorful backdrop to Craig Wedderspoon's welded aluminum sculptures, QUILTED VESSELS, in the outdoor sculture gallery at the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Throwback Thursday - Fall at the BMA

 

 Facebook friends love Throwback Thursday where they post old photos from years gone by. I decided I'd try and do that here from time to time. I've hosted this blog for 6 1/2 years daily and I'm fairly certain that not many of you have visited this blog every single day, so a re-post might be a good thing.  Today one of my very favorite autumn shots of the bench outside the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Feeling Modest?

Rodin's Jean d'Aire,  a nude study of this Burghers of Calais at the Birmingham Museum of Art, peers out through the trees in the sculpture garden.

If You Build It...

you'll come back!  

Bart's ArtVenture interactive gallery at the Birmingham Museum of Art, is a kid magnet...and photographers love it too!

The City Daily Photo June Theme Day is ZEST!!!!

City Daily Photo Theme Day - SQUARES

This graphic piece in the Contemporary Gallery at the Birmingham Museum of Art caught my eye and it seemed to fit our City Daily Photo Theme today....squares!

Untitled

1966

Gene Davis

Lent by John and Nancy Poynor

To see SQUARES around the world click HERE!

April Showers

 

Last Friday, while doing my volunteer work at the Birmingham Museum of Art, I had this beautiful view of the Charles Ireland Sculpture Garden during an April shower, in full bloom. 

Welcome Back!

One of my most favorite paintings at our wonderful Birmingham Museum of Art has to be the Bierstadt, Looking Down Yosemite Valley.  It never ceases to take my breath.  For almost two years, it has been on loan to first the Smithsonian's American Art Museum, and then the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  It's home now, and when I looked down this hall and saw it in its rightful place, it took my breath again.

Down the Up Staircase

The Birmingham Museum of Art.  My favorite hangout.

BMA Revisited

I am sure after almost 6 years of BADP, all of you know how much I love our Birmingham Museum of Art. I volunteered there for several years and then took a break. Yesterday I signed up again as a trusty volunteer. I was lucky enough to work in the museum shop for the Delacroix Exhibit.  I always take my camera, and as I was leaving took a shot at one of my favorite pieces of sculpture by John Scott. 

MR Chair

I feature the Birmingham Museum of Arts' Vanguard Views exhibit here.  Today we return with a look at a chair I'm sure you recognize.  This classic  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1926, is part of the museum's permanent collection.  I would love one of these in my home!

Vanguard Views

The Vanguard Views Exhibit at the Birmingham Museum of Art caught my eye recently.  I got so caught up in photographing this vintage motorcycle, I completely forgot to photograph the information about it. Not to worry, I contacted Graham Boettcher, the BMA's curator for American art and he had all the answers.  This exhibit was actually curated by their UAB curatorial intern Bethany McClellan, who Graham credits with the idea and the exhibit itself.

He also provided me with this information about the motorcycle: 

Gnome et Rhône M1, 1934

Manufactured by the Société des Moteurs Gnome et Rhône

France (founded 1915)

Collection of the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum

City Daily Photo Theme Day - Entry

Our Birmingham Museum of Art is a Birmingham jewel.  Since 1951, its permanent collection has grown to over 17, 000 paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings and decorative arts dating from 3000 BC to the present.  What makes it even more amazing is that it boasts FREE admission every day.

Today I join City Daily Photobloggers around the world who are sharing their vision of our Theme Day - Entry.  Click HERE to see all of their creative choices.

Breaking News....Aliens Invade the Birmingham Museum of Art !!!

 Quilted Vessel
 Craig Wedderspoon

The new Craig Wedderspoon installation in the museum's outdoor Mezzanine Sculpture Gallery is great fun. Scattered all around are his amazing undulating welded aluminum pieces.  I dare you to have a look and not smile.