In Art, are we able to find Excellence in Scarcity?

In a recent interview of Tom Stoppard on the Charlie Rose Show, Stoppard talks about one of the main characters, a philosopher (I believe is the real life Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin) in his epic Play The Coast of Utopia  who has the opportunity to live in France...

Painting workshop – Miguel de Allende-Mexico

Nancy Chaboun is conducting a workshop this May 13th in Miguel de Allende Painting the Figure Outdoors. The cost for the workshop is $2,100. and includes hotel, breakfast, ground transportation, instruction and models fees. For more information contact...

King Tut: Seeing Egyptian Art as Art

I had the pleasure of going to the opening of the King Tut exhibit at the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia. I promised myself to really see the Egyptian Art as Art…as being able to offer me more than just being an archeological artifact. When I was younger, Egyptian art was usually...

MOAD – Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA

This small, unassuming museum in San Francisco is celebrating its 1 year anniversary, this March. It has presented many examples of the creative – textiles, paintings, sculpture, the written word, book signings and conferences on the state of art and the artist is the 21st century. Always available...

Traveling Museum Shows

Following up on the Rembrandt show at the Phoenix Museum. To be more correct it should have called in the time of Rembrandt in that there was more work by other painters of that period then there were Rembrandt’s and I was a little disappointed. However, once I got past this, I started to...