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Depression Era Photos * Atlanta High Museum

Depression Era Photos * Atlanta High Museum
“Signs of Life: Photographs by Peter Sekaer“ Exhibit highlights 87 images taken between 1935 -1945.  Referred to as a “photo-documentary” artist, American born Sekaer, 1901-1950, focused on people as they endured the  Great Depression in several American cities. “As I see it, the...

Imagination

Imagination
The Embrace by Patricia Piccinini I am fascinated by artist who image the “real”. The creations Patricia Piccinini have given reason to question what we look like and why we interpret intelligent life to look like us. Every time I see “The Embrace” I a startled a little as I am...

Oakland Museum Gallery of California Art

Oakland Museum Gallery of California Art
Oakland Museum of California has re opened after an extensive renovation. California art and design is the Oakland Museum’s reason for being – “representing the region’s creative output and its relationship to, and influences on, the nation and the world, from the mid-1800s to the present…The...

Cezanne Goes to Phoenix

Cezanne Goes to Phoenix
“Cezanne and American Modernism” – Until  September 26, 2010 “French master Paul Cézanne, one of the most recognizable names in art, is celebrated worldwide for his Post-Impressionist masterpieces. However, Cezanne’s greatest legacy may be the transformative effect his work had on 20th century...

Progeny: Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas

Progeny: Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas
The distinction we make about race must be some primal system that forgot to grow up. We’ve all heard ourselves at one time or another claim to be color blind and mean it and be both surprised and ashamed of our private thoughts about people who are not like us. In the last two years we’ve...

Telling a Story-Little Films

Telling a Story-Little Films
Films that are dependent on story and story alone are what I think of as little films. Claire Danes in Polish Wedding They are little films because they are not blockbusters. Blockbusters are ordained to be big and successful, little films have to grow in popularity and unfortunately may never be successful....

Seattle Art Museum * Imogen Cunningham

Seattle Art Museum * Imogen Cunningham
New at SAM / Seattle Museum of Art*: “Everything Under the Sun: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham “ – until 8/29/10   “Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) was one of the most well-known photographers from the Northwest. Working at a time when women photographers were few, Cunningham dedicated...

Musée d’Orsay Masterpieces at the deYoung

Musée d’Orsay Masterpieces at the deYoung
The de Young Museum of San Francisco has a current exhibition focusing on Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art from Paris. “Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay presents nearly 100 magnificent works by the famous masters who called France their home during the mid- to...

The Best Annual Breakfast

The Best Annual Breakfast
The “Arts and Business Council of Phoenix” puts on, in my opinion, the best and most efficient awards ceremony. Schuff Steel’s commitment to The Children’s Museum of Phoenix The Oscars should take notice. It starts when it is supposed to and ends right on time. Attendees are fed, informed,...

African Masks * Dallas Museum of Art

African Masks * Dallas Museum of Art
I love the “art” of masks. Art may not have been the reason for the creation, but “art” certainly can be the result. On August 22, the Dallas Museum gives us an opportunity to see some examples. “The African mask is a highly developed and enduring art form. African Masks: The Art of Disguise,...

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