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...
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”...
Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Directors, Film, Movies on 03 25th, 2009 | No Comments
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...
The Watchmen
Visually, comic books turned into movies are just that, visually interesting. For my taste, there needs to be more and in the case of Watchmen, there was tons of more needed. The movie has been bashed by critics since it’s release, so there is no need to pile on, besides it won’t make...
Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Film, Movies on 03 19th, 2009 | No Comments
DVD Corner: “The Painted Veil”
This is a love story – backwards, but a love story none-the-less. Instead of a passion that grows and then atrophies, this story follows a dead relationship on its road to vitality and a wondrous respect.
I wasn’t quite sure why I liked “The Painted Veil”(2006). Did I fall into it so...
Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Directors, Film, Movies, Writers on 03 17th, 2009 | No Comments
“They Shot Sonny on the Causeway”
They’re doing it again. Cable station AMC is doing another 8 hour “The Godfather” happening this Saturday. It will start at 4 pm and end at midnight.
“The Godfather” films by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the books by Mario Puzo, live on. Parts 1, (1972) and 2, (1974), re explode every 6,...
Posted by Bob Martin in Concerts on 03 16th, 2009 | No Comments
Jazz In Pink at Phoenix Herberger Theater
AKARAMA Foundation, Inc. Fundraiser
Friday, May 1, 2009
at Herberger Theater Center, Phoenix, AZ
All star female jazz band in concert… Jazz in Pink is an all star female ensemble of musical women in jazz, that projects talent, beauty, power and femininity as they embrace the...
Resist!
“Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits”, April 4 – June 14 *The Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco presents an exhibit of 70 prints which “explores photography’s role in shaping public identity and individual concepts of race and socioeconomic status over...
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