Posted by Sandy in Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Featured Articles, Museums on 01 6th, 2009 | No Comments
Munch
“Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth” Norwegian symbolist painter Edvard Munch, 1863- 1944, is the subject of an exhibition to begin February 14, 2009 at the Art Institute of Chicago. About 150 paintings, prints and drawings from Munch and his contemporaries, Vincent van Gogh,...
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Posted by Sandy in Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Featured Articles, Museums on 01 4th, 2009 | No Comments
“CB08” - 2008 California Biennial
The Orange County Museum in southern California has been presenting new, cutting edge work for the last 40 years. 54 contemporary artists will have their work presented - sculptures, paintings, photographs, video and mixed media pieces - until March 15, 2009. Image – “Frauds for an Inside Job”2008...
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Posted by Sandy in Blogroll, Books, Featured Articles, Writers on 01 2nd, 2009 | No Comments
“Easy Rawlins”Mysteries
Blonde Faith, is the final book of the popular series, written by Walter Mosley. We were introduced to Easy Rawlins in Devil in a Blue Dress, 1990. (This was also made into a great 1995 movie with Denzel as “Easy” and Don Cheadle as his explosively, lethal buddy “Mouse”.) “Easy” becomes...
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Posted by Sandy in Blogroll, Events, Featured Articles on 12 31st, 2008 | No Comments
“Another opening, another show”
2009 * A blank calendar, a blank slate - to create, to contribute, to cram full of the good things in life. Happy New Year! Btw: “Another Opening, Another Show” From “Kiss Me Kate”, Cole Porter musical (Broadway 1948, film 1953) “Another op’nin, another show In Philly, Boston, or...
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Posted by Sandy in Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Drawing, Exhibits, Featured Articles, Museums on 12 28th, 2008 | No Comments
At the Met: Drawings - 1400s to 1900s
“Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna” January 21 – April 26, 2009 500 years of drawings from the Renaissance to the 20th century will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The usual suspects from Italy, France, Holland and England are all represented in...
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Posted by Sandy in Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Books, Drawing, Featured Articles, music on 12 23rd, 2008 | No Comments
The Artist Known as Bob Dylan
We all know that he writes, he sings, he’s a poet, he’s a musician – he just received an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” Nice, but, did you know that Bob Dylan also...
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Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Concerts, Events, Featured Articles, Live Performance on 12 20th, 2008 | No Comments
Cold Enough For Ya?
If not, you can always go northwest to Vancouver, Canada for a few days. I live in San Francisco and we declare an emergency whenever the temperature drops below 45. I can’t really complain when I compare our weather to back east where digging your car out of the snow is a community event. But,...
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Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Books, Featured Articles, Writers on 12 18th, 2008 | No Comments
“August Wilson Century Cycle” – Box Set
The ambitious intentions of the playwright August Wilson, (Apr. 1945 - Oct. 2005), consisted of a play for every decade of the 20th century that would chronicle some part of the black experience in America. Through the use of his great ear for dialogue, Wilson was able to give us some insight into...
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Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Featured Articles on 12 14th, 2008 | No Comments
‘The Wire’ – A DVD Experience
All episodes of this dynamic HBO series about Baltimore are now in a DVD box set. Jaded inhabitants, dangerous streets, glaring corruption, greed that knows no gender, race or creed could probably be found in aging inner cities anywhere, but the series creators chose this eastern port city, up the...
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Posted by Sandy in Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Exhibits, Featured Articles, Museums, sculptor on 12 5th, 2008 | No Comments
Alexander Calder at the Met
Calder Jewelry * December 9, 2008–March 1, 2009 I never knew that American-born artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976) made earrings. He is best known for his mobiles, sculptures, and paintings etc. In this exhibit, his necklaces, rings, bracelets and earrings, in gold, silver, brass, will be on display...
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