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People to people connections: from traditional drums to - cell phones, text messaging, computer IM. This interactive exhibit explores the major change in communication in Africa due to technology.
“Africa.dot.Com: drums 2 digital”
MoAD - Museum of African Diaspora
San Francisco, CA - 415 358-7200
http://www.moadsf.org/
Program organized by the Student Centers and Galleries of Columbia College Chicago                    
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Following my advice given to others “freely” I have just completed and published a book of my paintings. The paintings are of people, most created in my studio with conversation I imagined them having. This has been a fun project and intend on doing another (larger) book shortly. I used the Internet publishing tool “Blurb” [...]

                       
Not just a city for poker, slots and all you can eat brunch, Las Vegas, NV will host “American Modernism” at the Bellagio Hotel Gallery of Fine Arts from Feb. 8 to Oct. 15, 2008.
More than 30 paintings featuring works of Georgia O’Keefe, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, and Arshile Gorky will be on display. [...]

                                       
Nope - I don’t mean the massive, intense attack of the Presidential Primaries on 2/5/08 (29 states on the same day) - I’m referring to the pre Lenten celebrations such as, Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Carnival!
I cannot think “carnival” without that terrific movie “Black Orpheus” flitting across my mind. The costumes, the music of [...]

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Jan. 27-Nov 2, 2008
                          
The exhibition will include the works of more than thirty African artists from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
LACMA - Ahmanson Bldg - 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 323-857-6000
(Mask - Woyo people, Dem. Rep. of the Congo, early 20th century wood, pigment)        
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Just for fun, we took a trip up north to look at some of the red mountain in Sedona and have a little lunch at the Red Planet Diner. Sedona is a tourist stop with to many gift shops, but all you need do is raise your eyes and see the real reason for being`there. [...]

                                   
The song “Because of You”, number #1 pop single of 1951, was my introduction to Tony Bennett. My mother loved that song and when my mom loved a song, she would play it over and over. (I occasionally shock myself when I hear something on the radio or in a movie and I start [...]