Picasso and Degas – What a Pair!

The Clark has an exhibition exploring the connection between the work of Picasso and Degas called: “Picasso Looks at Degas”.  “Pablo Picasso is said to have remarked that “good artists copy; great artists steal.” Throughout his long and prolific career, Picasso often made works of art...

Women and the Quiet Revolution

With the media supported spin of “We Want Our Country Back”, which is another way of saying we want to be backwards, I think about people like Ida Lupino, Toni Morrison, Alice Neel, Sylvia Moy and many other women artists who have enriched our lives. Ida Lupino in her way brought reality to the...

Inception-So Let’s Think About This

The movie is about the ultimate dream. An ad agencies last wish. It’s Apples’ Success. What makes this movie so successful is that what it proposes is what we all deep down want to be able to do (that is 3 levels down).  For the theater operators  tuning in–Making the sound as loud as you...

The Anti Block Buster

A result of the economy being on the downside, some museums are not pushing the big, get on line, block busters shows What is great about this is we get to see great work by lesser known artist more often. Everybody wins. I would think that the curators of these “smaller” shows would have a...

Black Book Expo * LA August 21, 2010

Los Angeles will host its popular Black Book Expo again this year on Saturday 8/21 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel. This one day event will offer “authors, storytellers, spoken word and poetry performances, musicians, exhibitors, children’s book authors, emerging writers, publishers, booksellers, panel...