Review

                                     
Wear something that sparkles. (Everybody has a sequin stashed away somewhere.)
Drink anything that bubbles. (Shake up a Dr.Pepper if you have to)
2008! Fill your new calendar with days of joy, peace, & creativity.  
(Prosperity too please!)
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If you are in New York, stop by the Metropolitan Transit Authority Museum and see the work of Marvin Franklin, read his story and appreciate him and his work.
 
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“Jazz Icons“, 8 and 9 DVD box sets, contain a fabulous group of Jazz artists captured on film.  Some pieces are from television shows of the 50’s/ 60’s, others are film clips from old Jazz festivals, etc.
I don’t know if Jazz is “In” or “Out” today? Perhaps it depends on who is writing about this [...]

                                           
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I really remember movies that make me laugh out loud.  “Some Like It Hot” is one of them and it’s included with the 30 movies in this celebratory “United Artists 30-Disc Deluxe Gift Set“.
Short sample of the movies in this assortment:
“The Apartment”, “Midnight Cowboy”, “Raging Bull” “Marty” ,”Twelve Angry Men”, “The Magnificent Seven”, “Judgment [...]

I got tagged by James Neil Hollingsworth a delightful and thoughtful painter. I am now required to list 5 little known facts about myself, then “tag” five other artists to do the same.
Here are my five:

When I was 15 I had this mad infatuation (nothing more) with a niece of Edvard Munch. We worked together [...]

                   “Writing was … the most extraordinary way of thinking and feeling. It became the one thing I was doing that I had absolutely no intention of living without.”  Toni Morrison
Decided to clean, clear, coordinate, control my bookcase contents.  Found some great stuff that I had forgotten. I discovered that I own a lot of [...]

              
FYI - in case you decided not to crochet/knit holiday gift items and/or you won’t re gift that door stopper fruit cake (as a matter of principle)
“30,000 YEARS OF ART- THE STORY OF HUMAN CREATIVITY ACROSS TIME AND SPACE“ is a book that charts the history of art from 28,000 BC to the present day. It [...]

    
Helen Frankenthaler
Flood, 1967 (Synthetic polymer on canvas; 124 x 140 in. )

 
“A really good painting looks as if it happened at once,” Frankenthaler has said. Her method of making an instant painting was to mix paint with turpentine and let it trickle from a coffee can onto a piece of canvas laid on the [...]