Review

Charlie Rose’s November 24th program featured a discussion about THE ART OF LUCIAN FREUD which was insightful for me. I’ve always appreciated his work, and once traveled to London to see a retrospective at the Tate.
Standing in front of his work all the background stories, who his grandfather was, his friendship with Bacon and other [...]

Barbara Cook and Stephen Sondheim – amazing septuagenarians.
Ms Cook continues to sing, interpret and represent Broadway and its’ composers. Some famous, some not, but, “Broadway” nevertheless with all the marquee lights blazing.
When she sings Sondheim, who continues to create, she weaves the listener into the fabric of his bittersweet little song stories with such feeling [...]

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is my favorite.
I know, if I wish to impress, I should say - Hamlet, King Lear, etc.
They may be “deeper”, but, they’re not as much fun.
Macbeth has witches= 3, it has ghosts = 8 plus (Hamlet only has a flickering dad). The play has a “moving” forest and a man with a questionable [...]

This is a great story about how our artist community banded together to support a fellow artist. Scott Turner a Mouth-Wand Artist was recently in a automobile accident which resulted in both personal injuries and the loss of his Van. Some 45 plus artist from around the country have donated paintings for an exhibit at [...]

The artist formerly known as, currently known as “Prince” will be performing in Las Vegas starting in November and thru 2007. Rather than see this as a sell out or commercialization of an esteemed performer - a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, tons of gold records – I was thrilled. [...]

 
Annie Lennox’s “Bitter” from her album “Bare” there is this great rift in the middle which recalls (for me) George Clinton and Funkadelic of the 1970.

This is one my favorite tracks, the lyrics seem personal, which is consistent with Ms. Lennox and  the music’s energy seems to make it OK to ease drop on something so private makes easier [...]

How lucky I (we) am to be an artist. Not only do we create something out of nothing and have the capacity to show others how to perceive the world, we alter their psyche. I just finished watching Tarkovsky’s “Solaris” (Russia’s answer to “2001″) which has some of the most phenomenal, tactile cinematography. There is [...]

Last night the Rolling Stones played to another packed crowd out in Glendale Arizona. It looked like some of the fans needed to be assisted in order to get to the concert and there were others that could easily have been Mick Jagger’s great great grand children. In a recent book about the Beatles, John Lennon [...]

I was sitting in the park today and saw a bunch of students sitting by a fountain. One girl took her time to play with the leaves in the water. It was a wonderfully idyllic image. Very Pre-Raphaelite. I decided that that would be the inspiration for my next painting. And then in the mail [...]

It is not necessary that we come to an agreement about what is good works of art. It is important that we independently see value in the art that we like and appreciate. To have our own listening, our on sight, that we are not relaying on what others think. We don’t need talking heads [...]