Review

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 others. Out of the 620 pieces acquired by this avid [...]

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.

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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 simple French bistro eats, simple, fiery Indian street food, plain simple [...]

Posters that hung in the lobby of movie palaces started with simple black and white drawings at the beginning of the last century.  They were pretty, or dramatic, or scary (”King Kong”, 1932), or, just high style (Gloria Swanson rendered in Art Deco), all the way to the florid Technicolor 50’s. These examples of movie [...]

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 [...]

 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 Me”, a story [...]

Actually, it is a love story, just sort of backwards. Instead of a passion that grows and then atrophies, this story follows a dead relationship on its road to vitality and a wondrous respect.
I wasn’t quite sure why I liked “The Painted Veil”(2006). Did I fall into it so easily because of watching so much [...]

The National Black Arts Festival (NBAF), a non-profit cultural institution based in Atlanta, Georgia, celebrates the contributions of people of African descent and their impact on world cultures. Scheduled to appear are artists such as singer Roberta Flack, pictured above, actor and activist Danny Glover, and playwright Lori Parks.
The NBAF celebrates the arts in three [...]

I’ve had the privilege to live in two areas of the country that yearly have what might seen as extreme weather. What I find fascinating is that in Alaska when the temperature rose to 10 below 0, it felt like a heat wave. Now living in Central Arizona, we are enjoying a very cool 103 [...]

“Africa Onstage: Let us tell you a story…” at the Stanford Summer Theater (SST), in Stanford, CA,  will offer a look at the cultural and political impact of the West on Africa through theater, storytelling, dance, and music. Included are 4 stage productions and a Monday night film series. (now thru 8/26/07)
http://www.stanford.edu/group/summertheater/
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