Focus On Artists- SFMOMA

Now until May 23, 2010, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is showcasing, “Focus On Artists – Selections from the Collection” “This exhibition looks at SFMOMA’s long-term relationships with several modern masters whose iconic works were influential in defining movements from Abstract...

Art’s Neutrality – Telling It Like It Is

After witnessing war first hand, an artist’s depiction never resembles Rambo or the animated Xbox games like “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″   or any other fictional account of war. It is almost always a portrait of people thinking they are doing the right thing, killing or dying because...

Tutankhamun * SF deYoung

King Tutankhamun’s San Francisco revisit is coming to an end. First seen in 1979, the boy king returned to the de Young Museum in a brand new exhibit featuring 130 pieces – jewelry, statues, masks, gold objects and of course that famous golden sarcophagus. “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the...

Paris, je t’aime

This kind of compilation has always been for me difficult to watch. This movie worked I think because each (18) story is about the same length as a short info commercial, with each segment acted, produced and directed as if it was the only story being told. There is a lot of leeway with a title of...

Newark Museum – Abstract Art Exhibit

Next month, the Newark Museum of Art presents: “Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s” The intention is to offer a “ground-breaking exhibition of 90 works from the 1920s through 1950s and the first to present the Pan-American scope of geometric abstraction. The...