Cezanne in Philadelphia

Watched “Sunday Morning” on CBS and saw a feature about an exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art – “Cezanne and Beyond”. French impressionist artist Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) had a huge effect on his contemporaries and many of the artists that came after him. 40 of his paintings and 20 of his...

American Art 1950 – 1970

This Dallas Museum of Art exhibition, a collection of the work of a few post World War II American artists, will be on view until October. “It juxtaposes monumental, totem-like abstract expressionist canvases with an intimate box construction by Joseph Cornell and the brash and bold wit of pop artists...

African Royal Sculpture

This beautiful 16th century brass piece is the head of a West African “Oba”, or king. Many such samples of royal sculpture, from the Benin Kingdom of Nigeria, Edo Empire (it flourished from 1440 to the late 1800’s), are included in the Metropolitan’s “Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas”...

JANUS FILMS – 50 years / 50 DVDs

JANUS FILMS, a distributor of foreign and classic films, fed “Art” movie houses around the country that were brave enough to show films with *sub titles*! If it weren’t for them, I would not have seen Ingmar Bergman’s “Seventh Seal” (1957), Truffaut’s “Jules and Jim” (1962), Fellini’s...

Zora Neale Hurston – Story Teller

Zora Neale Hurston, 1891 – 1960, started to publish right after the height of the Harlem Renaissance. The ability to support oneself with art that explored the African-American experience waned with the onset of the depression and she fell into obscurity until re discovered by Alice Walker (“The Color...