Review

To be different, the Metropolitan Museum, in NYC, is celebrating Rembrandt’s 401st birthday this year, instead of his 400th last year, like other museums across the world. The Met will exhibit all of its 228 Dutch paintings, beginning in September, in an event called “The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of [...]

 David with the Head of Goliath, c. 1609. Oil on panel

Watching a PBS program called “Simon Schama’s - Power of Art”, I learned that although one of my favorite artists was gloriously talented, he was also a youthful offender - violent and incorrigible. Not a “Denis the Menace” (he murdered a rival) but, as Schama labels him [...]

There is a saying that says Busy People get things Done. Well I’ve been busy and I am challenging that statement. I’ve not gotten much done lately and I have deadlines to meet.  
A bright spot this past week (I should say a brighter spot) was that our daughter came to town unexpectedly to visit my [...]

The usual suspects, not the film, but the movies you would expect, made the list of American Film Institute’s “100 films/100 years” - “All About Eve”, “Casablanca”, “Lawrence of Arabia” and the same #1 as 10 years ago when AFI published its 1st poll, Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane”. 
(Don’t quite know how accurate this all is, [...]

 I got a chance to see “Radio Golf” while visiting NYC a few days ago. This is the final play of August Wilson’s 10 play cycle - taking us from 1910 to the mid-1990’s. His plays address events and issues of different parts of Black life across America, particularly, Pittsburgh, PA. Some of the same [...]

African film makers highlighted in the July’07 “Africa issue” of Vanity Fair Magazine, pg 184, can be said to be the sons and daughters of  the “Father of African Cinema” Mr. Ousman Sembene. The 84 year old recently passed away in his native city, Dakar, Senegal.
These artists - writers, directors, producers - from Ghana, Nigeria, [...]

It’s easy to get tired of yourself, in what you do, see and say.
Take some chances, Marlon in Guys and Dolls, Denzel in Training Day, Miles with everything.

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Can some explain why we are bombarded with information that neither educates or propels our vision. We are served up the same old same oh stuff. We pay for things that are free and feel good about it. We love people who apologize, we adore them when they go to jail and we hate them [...]

Winner of 4 Tony awards, nominated again this year for her starring roll in the musical revival, “110 in The Shade”, she is definitely a “Broadway Baby”.Like another of my favorites, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ms McDonald can usually be found on the Broadway musical stage, they’ve worked together several times, most notably in “Ragtime”.She too [...]

International Center for Photography, NYC - portraits of men and women of achievement from 1850 to the present:
Earth Kitt, Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong Marian Anderson, Langston Hughes, Judith Jamison.
The exhibition includes portraits produced by photographers such as Berenice Abbott, James VanDerZee, Edward Weston, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Carl Van Vechten.
It’s called the history of black achievement, [...]