The Train Tracks – Live Performance – Check It Out

The Phoenix Art Museum offers up a fun idea. The “Train Tracks“ is a vehicle for local musicians in Phoenix to showcase their talents. A variety of artists, groups, and singers perform acoustically on the light rail in Phoenix/Tempe. There is a competition associated with this event with rounds...

Golden Age of Dutch Art

The largest concentration of Dutch 17th century works of art – includes paintings, drawings, decorative arts – will be on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery from May 10 thru September 13, 2009. This period in Holland, known as the “Golden Age”, produced a huge output of work paid for by the...

“Design for a Living World”

The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum shows its concern for earth conservation with an exhibit starting in May that promotes new uses for material grown and harvested in sustainable ways that “support, rather than deplete endangered places”. On view, will be drawings and products from...

Visiting New York – Go to The Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is one of New York City’s treasures which is not often mentioned as a destination when visiting the city. Currently you can see the jewelry designs of Art Smith, Assyrian Panels that date back to 850 BC and the works of notable American artists, like Sargent, Diebenkorn,...

Congratulations!

Brooklyn playwright Lynn Nottage has won the 2009 Drama Pulitzer Prize for “Ruined” – a powerful play set in the African Congo at the height of its civil war. It follows the plight of a group of women amidst the brutality and the chaos – a celebration of endurance. Ruined – Manhattan...