The Importance of Mirrors

Last weekend we traveled to Vegas for a wedding and was surprised that most the people I saw looked nothing like the commercials. What happens here, stays here. They took it with them and I was disappointed. There were the young guys with two beers in their hands, drawing as much attention to themselves as...

Yo-Yo * That Face!

As Yo-Yo Ma played, Joy, Passion, Rapture, all danced across the face of this great musician as he attacked Dvorák's Cello Concerto during the "Live From Lincoln Center" gala on PBS last week. Intense.Then, when all done, he stood, the audience is released from his hold and a beautiful smile spreads across...

Sherrie McGraw at the Scottsdale Artists’ School

The Creative Process Lecture Series Begins October 2, 2007 The Language of Art by Sherrie McGraw The Scottsdale Artists’ School kicks off its 2007-2008 The Creative Process Lecture Series with a talk, The Language of Art, by artist Sherrie McGraw on Tuesday October 2. The lecture, which will begin at...

Black Art: Treasures from the Schomburg * Thru Dec. 31, 2007

The “Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture” is giving us a chance to see works, like the painting here, not always included in gallery or museum collections.   From the Schomburg web page: “These works eloquently attest to the fact that African peoples, like all members of the human...

“Felliniesque”

I was reading a movie review and the writer described the film as “Felliniesque”.  No reference to the director, for whom the term was coined, just – “Felliniesque”. I got it. Federico Fellini (Dec. 1924 – Dec. 1976) was one of the most influential Italian...