DVD Corner: Roberto Rossellini

Italian Neorealist Director Roberto Rossellini, (1906-1977),  made a series of films just after World War II  labeled the “War Trilogy”. They have been issued as a  DVD box set : “Rome Open City, (1945)” “Paisan” (1946) and “Germany Year Zero”...

Photo Exhibit-Gordon Parks at the Toledo Museum of Art

Oddly, the press release on this exhibit of Parks’ photos describes him as being best known as the director of “Shaft” (org 1971).I would think that his work as a photographer, fashion and journalism, is how he is best remembered. The exhibit at the Toledo Museum is titled “Bare...

American Art at The Met

Until January  24th, The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents “American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915” -  an exhibition that includes “more than 100 masterpieces of American painting explores a major mode of artistic expression from the pre-Revolutionary era to the beginning of...

Latin Art in San Francisco

Abstracts by the colorful Alejandro Santiago and other contemporary artists, such as Roldolfo Morales and Adan Paredes, are hung along side the work of established painters such as Diego Rivera as examples of the Bond Gallery’s varied collection of Latin art. Bond Latin Gallery – Latin Masters and...

Harvey Dinnerstein

I spent some time at the Art Students League studying with Harvey Dinnerstein and admittedly imitated as I looked at some of the work done by very gifted students and being hard on myself for waiting so long to get back to painting. This morning for no apparent reason I recalled some of the conversation I...