{"id":20977,"date":"2013-03-08T16:39:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T21:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=20977"},"modified":"2013-03-08T16:39:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T21:39:03","slug":"aarp-sponsored-exhibit-of-artists-ages-50-and-over-is-on-display-at-harlems-leroy-neiman-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=20977","title":{"rendered":"AARP-sponsored exhibit of artists ages 50 and over is on display at Harlem\u2019s LeRoy Neiman Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" style=\"padding: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Sekmet, the Powerful One by Betty Blayton\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.1274148.1361917761!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_635\/aarp27b-2-web.jpg\" width=\"508\" height=\"777\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 11px; color: #666666; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase;\">COURTESY BETTY BLAYTON<\/h4>\n<div class=\"story-rail p402_hide\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; width: 200px; float: right; color: #000000; line-height: 12px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"story-body p402_premium\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; color: #333333;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; color: #333333;\">AARP New York\u2019s \u201cLasting Legacy: The Journey of YOU\u201d is now open and features 20 works by 19 renowned and emerging artists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; color: #333333;\">\u201cPeople now feel that new possibilities are ageless and we want to help New Yorkers build on their life experiences and fulfill their goals and dreams at any age,\u201d -Dionne Polite, of AARP.she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; color: #333333;\">Betty Blayton, 75, who co-founded The Studio Museum and The Children\u2019s Art Carnival of Harlem, has exhibited nationally and internationally. \u00a0Her colorful collage, \u201cSekmet, The Powerful,\u201d (pictured here) depicts the ancient Egyptian warrior goddess.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; color: #333333;\">Other artists include the graffiti legend Nic 707, 53 (\u201cHe\u2019s Got Attitude\u201d, \u201dAscension Transmutation\u201d) and \u00a0\u2014 feature his iconic bubble letter tag and kilroy-like figure. \u00a0He\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;\">gained notoriety in the mid-1970s for tagging trains and creating the crew OTB (Out to Bomb).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;\">\u201cLasting Legacy: The Journey of YOU\u201d will be on view at the LeRoy Neiman Center, 2785 Frederick Douglass Blvd., through April 10. An opening reception will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; color: #333333;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COURTESY BETTY BLAYTON AARP New York\u2019s \u201cLasting Legacy: The Journey of YOU\u201d is now open&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124718155],"tags":[124715348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20977"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21123,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20977\/revisions\/21123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}