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Joe Henry August 16, 2015 this is the young woman i met shortly after our family's move to michigan in 1975 --as i entered my sophomore year of high school and, she, her senior one. together, we were in the Thespian Society; and in that winter's first production, we were cast as mother and son --the wife and child of ralph waldo emerson-- in a play about thoreau. she was whip-smart and short on patience; and to tell the truth, she scared me more than a little. but along with her sister Paula, her presence upon my landscape nudged open a door through which i would pass and find my life utterly and forever changed...that unusual and sprawling family becoming, years later, my own. no one is more surprised than i by the way our lives have expanded; by the way that our journeys have diverged and become entangled. like anyone, i can sometimes forget to see the flesh and blood/heart and mind behind the parade float that is her public persona. but then i will find myself across the kitchen table from her, sharing a martini, and be additionally shocked to recognize anew the compact, terse-yet-compassionate human at the switches. i have told this tale before, but it bears repeating: when elvis presley died on this date in 1977, this upstart professed in real-time that she felt his spirit had passed out of his body and through her own in exodus. i laughed at her then for such outrageous self-possession, at the arrogance that i assumed must allow her to declare such publicly. today, when there is laughter, it is the laugh of recognition i hear --and it begins somewhere high above me, where things that once seemed implausible play with wild abandon and in broad daylight. happy birthday, madonna louise veronica ciccone.

Watching M dancing with snakes gave me the idea to recap her previous interaction with animals. Feel free to complete the list! DOG CAT HORSE SNAKE ELEPHANT LION COUGAR MONKEY GOLDFISH OCTOPUS (at 0:50) HENS

woof. I love Madonna with the dogs

oh saw the video after posting my comment so me and bob were in the same boat!!! Thank Enrico!

Yes, of course ;) OK, thanks. I have not Instagram, so I didn't seen this video before. This is the reason why few minutes ago I was not able to understand what you were talking about

The birthday dance with the sn... it's the thing that I'm most afraid of, I can't even spell it out, sends shivers down my spine. This woman is just fearless, is she afraid of anything???? Respect!

@ Enrico We can all agree the most interaction is in the Who's That Girl movie when Murray is returned at Mr Bell's: on top of his roof he created a Brazilian Rainforest filled with animals.

Sorry I don't have any pics to include. Bad Girl, cat And there's also CGI I guess Takara commercial, dragon Frozen, doderman and crows Love Profusion, dragon flies, fish

Baby goat And I've always liked this pic

They replied to my question about the use of M vocals on the musical numbers and the answer was yes they are using M vocals on the music parts

Looked it up yesterday, and doesn't appear so. She was invited to his tribute after his death but seems didnt go ahead for whatever reason.

Madonna Is Secretly an Art World Influencer by Stephanie Eckardt August 16, 2018 https://www.wmagazine.com/story/madonna-art-collection-basquiat Madonna has made her impact on earth known in countless ways in the 60 years that she’s been here. But not all of her impacts are so obvious. And this includes her influence on the art world: Beyond pioneering the crossover between pop and art by hanging with the likes of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and her former flame Jean-Michel Basquiat in New York in the ’80s, Madonna’s art world impact has been made almost entirely behind the scenes. Take for example, Basquiat, whom Madonna dated in the early ’80s, when they were both on the brink of fame. Now one of the most popular artists on the market, Basquiat died in 1988, at just 28 years old, meaning that there’s only so much of his work out there to be bought and put on display (which is partly why his work continues to break records at auction). And, as Madonna revealed to Howard Stern in 2015, there’s even less of it because of his reaction to their breakup in 1984. JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT'S MILLION-DOLLAR MESSAGES Slide 1 of 11 Next 1/11 "Moses and the Egyptians," 1982. Acrylic and oilstick on canvas. Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa; Gift of Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich. © The Estate of Jean- Michel Basquiat / Licensed by Artestar, New York. Since it wasn’t out of the ordinary for Madonna to wake up in the middle of the night and find that Basquiat wasn’t lying in bed but was on his feet painting, it’s only natural that over the course of a couple of years Madonna came to own quite a few pieces of Basquiat’s art. Those, however, will never be seen. “When I broke up with him, he made me give [the paintings he gave me] back to him, and then he painted over them black,” she told Stern. It’s unclear just how many Basquiats we lost to spite—Madonna was hardly the only notable woman he dated, although certainly the mostnotable—but we do know there’s only a single Frida Kahlo that Madonna has been keeping from the public eye, thankfully. Unfortunately, it happens to be arguably one of the most amazing works Kahlo ever produced. Painted in 1932, My Birthis true to its title: It’s a self-portrait, but Kahlo’s head isn’t in its usual place, atop her shoulders—instead, it is in the process of emerging from the womb. It’s quite a sight to see, and quite a privilege to see it, given that Madonna turned down the Detroit Institute of Arts’ many pleas to feature it in a 2015 exhibition of the works that Kahlo made while she and Diego Rivera lived in Detroit. (“You have no idea what we went through,” the institute’s adjunct curator said at the time.) Madonna had, in fact, loaned the painting to the Tate back in 2005, and wouldn’t have exactly been artless without it; as Vanity Fairreported in 1990, back then, at least, she also owned works by Diego Rivera, Man Ray, Weegee, Tina Modotti, Herb Ritts, and even Fernand Léger. To be fair, her appreciation for the work seems to be the reason behind her unwillingness to share it: “If somebody doesn’t like this painting,” Madonna told the magazine, “then I know they can’t be my friend.” For all the great art Madonna has effectively kept from us, she’s also gone out of her way to bring art to the mainstream—not exactly surprising, given that she’s a fan of artists like Banksy and JR, who remind her of Basquiat and Haring. “You can see Banksy’s work driving by it on the street, and JR’s work—the way he takes photographs of people and turns them into heroes in their communities and makes people proud of who they are,” she told David Blaine in 2014, adding that her son was even interning for JR. Madonna has brought art to the streets herself in a way too, like when she used the video Green Pink Caviar by the provocative New York–based artist Marilyn Minter, with whom she’s friends, as the backdrop for a portion of her Sticky and Sweet tour, preceding its stint as part of a public art project in Los Angeles. More recently, Madonna also fundraised for her nonprofit Raising Malawi by launching a contest that would give two “art world virgins” the chance to accompany her to Art Basel Miami Beach for an ultra-exclusive, up-close look at a plethora of blue chip art (and, as it turned out, at her twerking with Ariana Grande, which has likely only appreciated in market value since).

Wow guys, rhe reconstruction work looks amazing! This is really gonna be an interesting busy fall, her new material as first, of course, Leonard's tribute album and this early years docufilm: I'm absolutely here for all this

Madonna has reinvented herself over a 40-year career and as she turns 60, we take a look at her most memorable moments, outfits and controversies. Here's a look at her glittering career: https://trib.al/z1ds3mo

@LivingForLove94As you requested, I merged the two threads! As for the trailer: she is stunning, so similar! But this we knew already. As I feared, her voice sounds much different though. But you can't have it all... I also wish they will use original material with Madonna's real voice for the musical performances (maybe the "bedroom tapes"?), and not covers like for the new song (Cold Wind) which is also featured in the trailer. I can't wait to see the whole movie... The interviews look so interesting!!!! If the movie really covers the period until Everybody, I am very curious to see the whole Emmy/Gotham treatment.

It looks good

Happy birthday to the original Queen of Popl! Listen to some of your favorite Madonna hits and join in on the celebration! : https://lnk.to/HbdMadonna

Finally

Madonna holds out on DIA's Kahlo exhibit http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/arts/2014/12/25/madonna-holds-dias-kahlo-exhibit/20902881/ When Madonna blew through Detroit on a rare visit last June, she put her concern for the city front and center, dropping in on worthy organizations from a charter elementary school to a startup that helps outfit the homeless for winter. The superstar did not, however, stop by the Detroit Institute of Arts, despite the fact that curators had been trying for over a year to win her agreement to a loan of the seminal painting, Frida Kahlo's "My Birth," for the DIA's upcoming exhibition, "Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit." The exhibition opens March 15. Hayden Herrera, who wrote the definitive biography of Kahlo, called the painting's absence from the show "a huge omission." "My Birth" is one of five paintings Kahlo completed in Detroit, of which the DIA secured three. Like Kahlo's "Henry Ford Hospital," which will be in the show, "My Birth" represents a turning point in the young artist's career, when she began using her own body and experience as subject matter, often to shocking effect. "We tried to get it," said Mark Rosenthal, DIA adjunct curator for contemporary art who organized the show. "You have no idea what we went through. But I can't describe all that." Madonna's New York publicist Liz Rosenberg wrote in an email, "We will not be commenting on this." A loan to a museum would not have been unprecedented. Madonna allowed London's Tate Modern to exhibit "My Birth," which shows a bloody, adult-looking Kahlo emerging from between her mother's legs, as part of their 2005 Kahlo show. Nor is this apparently a case of indifference. Madonna is said to be deeply attached to the painting. In a 1990 essay in the New York Times, author Herrera said the one-time Detroiter uses the painting as a test. "Those who do not like 'My Birth,' " she wrote, "are dismissed." According to Herrera, the painting —finished shortly after Kahlo returned to Detroit after her mother's death — refers both to that loss and Kahlo's own miscarriage at Henry Ford Hospital on July 4, 1932. Kahlo came to Detroit early in 1932 with Rivera, her husband, who'd been commissioned to paint the "Detroit Industry" murals at the DIA. While Kahlo painted before her arrival in the Motor City, it was here that her art shifted toward Surrealism. "In Detroit, she had these powerful emotional upheavals," Rosenthal said, "which became the impetus to paint her interior life. Diego recognized it right away," he added, "as something unseen in art history — a woman painting her emotional life in such a vulnerable, unabashed way." Bad enough to lose out on a critical work, even if the others in the DIA show are likely to wow visitors. But the museum's never gotten a firm answer one way or another from the superstar or her representatives. "There are people at the museum who still hope," Rosenthal said, "but my wife calls that magical thinking." Of Madonna, Vince Carducci, editor of the online Motown Review of Art and dean of undergraduate studies at the College for Creative Studies, said, "People are funny. You never can tell with collectors. My suspicion is that the request never bubbled up to her. Or," he added, "maybe she was going to have Kate Middleton to lunch and needed it as a litmus test."

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Marvel at #Madonna's greatest 200 magazine covers by #BoyCulture's Matthew Rettenmund http://www.boyculture.com/boy_culture/2014/09/madonnas-200-greatest-magazine-covers.html Unlike any star since—and unlike only a precious few before—her, Madonna has made the act of being on the cover of a magazine into an art form. A gung-ho participant in creating a visual record of her beauty, her aesthetic, her political and quasi-punk challenging of social norms and her status as a visual icon, Madonna has always taken her covers seriously, in some cases as seriously as other rockstars take music videos or even albums. - See more at: http://www.boyculture.com/boy_culture/2014/09/madonnas-200-greatest-magazine-covers.html#sthash.f0qQFiRp.dpuf

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/detroit/index.ssf/2014/08/madonna_detroit_institute_of_a. Madonna, Detroit Institute of Arts could collaborate for Frida Kahlo exhibit; pop legend an avid collector DETROIT, MI -- Madonna could play a key role in a Detroit Institute of Arts celebration this spring of a Mexican artist that was the focus of a 2002 movie starring Selma Hayek. The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) confirmed Tuesday in a statement sent to MLive.com that "The Material Girl" is an avid collector of Frida Kahlo, the wife of painter Diego Rivera. That leads to speculation Madonna — born in Bay City and raised in Pontiac and Rochester HIlls — could be willing to sell some of her Kahlo collection to the DIA or loan it out for an upcoming exhibit called "Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit." Several attempts by MLive.com to reach Madonna's publicist Liz Rosenberg, to gauge her client's interest in selling or loaning part of her Kahlo collection to the DIA, were unsuccessful. But Madonna has appeared to have a renewed interest in Detroit, its charities and efforts to overcome bankruptcy. Less than two month ago, she agreed to help fund three organizations in the city including a youth boxing gym. Work displayed by Rivera and Kahlo, best known for her self-portraits, should make for one of the most popular DIA exhibits in recent memory. It be held March 15 to July 12. Madonna's has said often publicly that Kahlo is an inspiration to her, and she reportedly wanted to play the role of Kahlo in the 2002 film "Frida" before Hayek received it. She even wrote last fall in an essay for Harper's Bazaar that Kahlo's mustache in her self-portrait helped her tackle living in New York city. An excerpt from the essay: “Sometimes I would play the victim and cry in my shoe box of a bedroom with a window that faced a wall, watching the pigeons s*** on my windowsill. And I wondered if it was all worth it,†she wrote. “But then I would pull myself together and look at a postcard of Frida Kahlo taped to my wall, and the sight of her mustache consoled me. Because she was an artist who didn’t care what people thought. I admired her. She was daring. People gave her a hard time. Life gave her a hard time. If she could do it, then so could I.†It's unclear exactly how many Kahlo paintings Madonna owns, but the website FridaKahloFans.com says she at least owns Kahlo's 1940 "Self Portrait with Monkey." The reported sale price for that painting: a cool $1 million. Rivera lived with Kahlo in Detroit in the early 1930s and painted the two iconic Detroit Industry murals that are displayed inside the DIA's main entrance. These works of art took most of 1932 and 1933 to create, and they were commissioned Edsel Ford, according to The New Yorker. Rivera died Nov. 24, 1957 at the age of 70 in Mexico City; Kahlo was 47 when she died July 13, 1954 in Mexico City. News of Madonna's collection of Kahlo artwork and the DIA exhibit comes the same week that news surfaced about a new opera focussed on Kahlo life's. "Frida" opens March 7 and March 8 at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts in Clinton Township. Subsequent performances will be held March 21-22 at the Berman Center for the Performing Arts in West Bloomfield and March 28 at the DIA's Detroit Film Theatre, 5200 Woodward Ave. in Detroit. For more information, visit the opera's website.

#Madonna By #KateSimon '83 portrait @NPG in #DC #nationalportraitgallery #smithsonian #AmericanCool #CulturalICON

Madonna is the art.

M has always been part of the POPART.

Didn't want to start a new thread for this. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/5/moore-10th-traverse-city-festival-most-popular/ http://squaremadonna.com/2014/08/05/madonna-handprints-at-the-traverse-city-film-festival-walk-of-fame/ Madonna handprints for the Traverse City Film Festival TRAVERSE CITY — Filmmaker Michael Moore’s long-time dream for a Hollywood-style “Walk of Fame†in Traverse City is a step closer to becoming reality. Visitors to downtown Traverse City could compare their handprints with the likes of Madonna’s, Susan Sarandon’s, Matthew Modine’s and Rosie O’Donnell’s if a design for a heated sidewalk in front of the State Theatre and other East Front Street businesses is approved. Film Fest officials hope an online auction that would feature star-studded items will help pay for the Walk of Fame, which festival founder Moore hopes will be installed “before it starts snowing on Labor Day.†“I hope it raises $30,000 or $40,000 at a minimum to pay for this,†Moore said. “I would love to raise over $100,000 to keep it maintained for a while.â€

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2593207/Who-real-kings-cool-National-Portrait-Gallery-runs-exhibition-100-coolest-Americans-including-Steve-McQueen-Frank-Sinatra-Miles-Davis.html If you are in Washington DC don’t forget to visit the exhibition American Cool at the National Portrait Gallery. The exhibit looks back at the stars who have shaped and embodied the concept of cool through 100 photographs of icons including Madonna. The Alt-100 List recognizes those icons over whom we argued the longest and hardest. These public figures point up the richness and depth of American popular culture. Photograph by Kate Simon (1983) One of the most prominent cultural icons for over three decades, Madonna has achieved an unprecedented level of power and control for a woman in the entertainment world.

http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-news/2013/11/1/elton-john-madonna-among-entertainment-industrys-top-25-art.html Global pop superstars makes tons of cash, and since there are only so many mansions and cars you can buy, it’s no wonder that some of them sink their fortunes into art. The Hollywood Reporter has created a list of the entertainment industry’s “Top 25 Art Collectors,†and Madonna is on the list. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Madonna got her art start in 1987, when she paid a million bucks for a painting by renowned artist Fernand Leger. Since then, she's amassed over 300 works, from big names such as Salvador Dali, Maxfield Parrish, Frida Kahlo, Damien Hirst and Man Ray. In 2000, she paid $4.7 million for a Picasso work, and her collection was appraised at over $100 million in 2008. This year, she auctioned off one of her Legers for more than seven million bucks and donated the profits to support girls' education in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

^ Her love for art is real. She's not a pretender.