Review

The Phoenix Museum recently completed an expansion which has allowed it to offer its visitors the opportunity to see more great works of art from all over the world. Starting this week there is “Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art: Treasures from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam”.

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I love to listen to Brazilian music when I paint: Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Stan Getz etc. I just read this absolutely fascinating article in the NY Times about the origins of Brazilian music: how it was influenced by Arabic culture & how its aesthetic was passed onto American Blues. I have to get my [...]

I like the buzz from the Independent film festivals. The Golden Globe, The Film Critics Awards and the Oscars feel like last years stuff, and it is. These Indie films, most times, provide dialog, mystery, intrigue and acting, things that some of the big movies try to avoid. Here is a fellow bloggers Pre-view [...]

Save the date postcards are in the mail for the 13th annual Beaux Arts’ Fundraiser, which will be held Saturday April 28th,
at:
The Scottsdale Artists’ School, 3720 North Marshall Way, Scottsdale, AZ 85251

Tickets can be purchased by calling the School at (480) 990-1422
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As part of the 2007 Celebration of African American Authors
held at the
Glendale Public Library 5959 West Brown St. (1 block South of Peoria), Glendale Arizona 85308
For more information, please call 623-930-3553 or email clandrum @glendaleaz.com.
Ms. Rhodes is the Artistic Director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She [...]

JANUS FILMS, a distributor of foreign and classic films, fed those “art” houses around the country that were brave enough to show movies with *sub titles*!
If it weren’t for them, I would not have seen Ingmar Bergman’s Seventh Seal( 1957), Truffaut’s Jules and Jim (1962), Fellini’s La Strada (1954) and classic English films like Brief [...]

Panelists from three Scottsdale galleries: Joan Griffith of Trailside Galleries, Tuppi Long of Long Gallery, and Vicki Boyce of Victoria Boyce Galleries, will discuss the the behind the scenes workings and relationships between Artist and Galleries. The lecture and discussion will held at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 E. 2nd Street [...]

2007 Celebration of African American Authors at the Glendale Public Library 5959 West Brown St. (1 block South of Peoria) Glendale Arizona 85308 February 3, 2007 1-3pm Lisa Teasley is the author of the critically acclaimed, Glow In The Dark, Dive, and Heat Signature. Ms. Teasley is also the writer/host of the BBC [...]

(Above: “Falling down stairs saves time”)
Last night, I was googling for images regarding “falling down” and accidentally came across this artist’s site called Exploding Dog. I loved it. I loved his images. They are so simple yet convey so much. I suppose it could be easy to dismiss them for their simplicity. Many of us [...]

This is Vincent (with both ears) modeling his Christmas Outfit.
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