“Solomon’s Gift: The Founding Collection of the Guggenheim, 1937 – 1949” * Now thru Jan 9, 2008

In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the creation of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the museum will display some of the artwork that was donated between 1937 and 1949.  Mr. Guggenheim collected works by Kandinsky, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Henri Rousseau, Chagall and Moholy-Nagy and many...

Annual Breakfast 8/15/07

The Arts and Business Council of Greater Phoenix will be having their 17th Annual Breakfast with the theme Art and Soul The event will be held at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort in Phoenix....

Anthony Bourdain * Traveling Chef

How does he stay so thin?  On his Travel Channel TV series, “No Reservations”, author and Chef Anthony Bourdain wanders the world in search of “good” food.  He doesn’t use the word “gourmet” – but, he does intone the word “simple” a lot. Plain...

Learning How to Simplify your Paintings

One of the most difficult things for me to do, is to leave a painting simple. It is as if I need to prove that I’ve put a lot of work into a painting in order for it to have value. Of course the value is in the ease in which the painting is able to communicate its message. The same goes for all forms...

Don Cheadle – He Stands Out

 Is he terrific or what??! Whether he is acting in a film of serious social commentary, “Traffic” and “Crash” or fun stuff, the “Ocean’s” films – (11, 12 and 13), Mr. Cheadle always stands out. Whether crying with him in “Hotel Rwanda” or laughing with him in his latest film, “Talk to...