“Houston Collects: African American Art” * 8/3 – 10/26/08

Kojo Griffin , Untitled from the series Field Theory: group scene , 2000 African American art from the 20th and 21st centuries on view at the Houston Museum of Fine Art . According to the museum site, the collection of over a 100 works will include “early crafts, self-taught artists, Southern...

Bronzes From West Africa

“ Benin - Kings and Rituals: Court Arts of Nigeria ” July 10– September 21, 2008 Royal sculptures from the Benin Kingdom of Nigeria (Edo Empire) – it flourished from about 1440 to the late 1800′s – will be on display at The Art Institute of Chicago beginning...

“Dali: Painting & Film” * June 29 – September 15, 2008

“The Persistence of Memory” (1931), will return to MoMA as part of an event featuring the art of Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) as both painter and filmmaker – especially with Spanish director Luis Bunuel , (1900 – 1983). Dali’s paintings, drawings, movie scripts will all be...

J.M.W.Turner at the Met 7/1- 9/21/08

British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 – 1851) will have a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this summer. Labeled an “English Romantic”, he worked in both oil and watercolor and painted primarily landscapes/seascapes. He hasn’t been on view in the U.S. for more than 40...

Magical Possibilties for Youth with Disabilities and their Families

In the last two weeks, I’ve seen two productions of the Jungle Book performed by the Arizona Magic of Music & Dance. Both productions were equally fabulous. What had these performances work is the four days at the Arizona Magic of Music and Dance Camp. Quoting Sue Grzybowski, Camp Volunteer...