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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...
Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Books, Cable, Creativity, Events, Writers on 08 5th, 2010 | 1 Comment
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,...
Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Creativity, Museums on 07 27th, 2010 | No Comments
Tie Dye Lives!
I love textiles. Texture and color just spurs imagination. Remember “Tie Dye”? It did not begin and end in the 60’s – the dyeing continues and the San Francisco de Young Museum’s presentation called “To Dye For: A World Saturated in Color“, explores the past and also brings us up to date.
“To...
Arshile Gorky at MOCA
Born in Armenia, Arshile Gorky, 1902-1948, escaped the tragedy of war and genocide by moving to NYC where he taught himself to paint. He is considered one of the founders of “Abstract Impressionism”.
“At a time when the American avant-garde privileged originality over traditional working methods,...
Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Creativity, dvd, music on 06 25th, 2010 | No Comments
Michael Jackson
“This Is It” is the DVD documentary that captured the final days of the “King of Pop” as he prepared for a concert tour in 2009. I’ll be honest, I began to watch with some hesitation – Is this going to be a sad, tragic documentary about a frail former super star? (I didn’t really want...
Photography as Art Form – SF MOMA
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has always supported the idea of Photography as art.
“SFMOMA was one of the first museums in the country to treat photography as an equal to painting and sculpture. In celebration of the museum’s 75 years of engagement with the medium, this exhibition explores...
Ansel Adams * Phoenix Art Museum
120 photographs from the Center for Creative Photography’s “Ansel Adams Archive” will be on display at the Phoenix Art Museum until June 6, 2010.
Included in the exhibition are “dozens of archival documents including video footage, original correspondence, photographic equipment, proof prints,...
Art’s Neutrality – Telling It Like It Is
Steve Mumford's "Dying Soldier" 2009 oil on linen.
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...
Passage on the Underground
Today I got the chance to meet Stephen Marc again and to see his incredible book of photo montages and composites “Passage on the Underground“. Talking with Stephen is inspiring, full of lessons and new understanding about the history of the African in America.
While on his Underground Railroad...
Posted by Bob Martin in Actors, Art, Creativity, Live Performance, Movies, Theater, Writers on 12 15th, 2009 | No Comments
“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels”
This quote, attributed to Tennessee Williams is said differently in the 2008 film Transsiberian (“Kill off my demons and My angels might die too”) can be said about all of us. The heroine Jessie, played by Emily Mortimer who’s beauty is hidden by the innocent gangling lumber of her...
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