Review

Go see art, listen to music, watch dance and make up your own mind. Don’t let some one decide for you what is not worth seeing.

Earlier this month Rennie Harris Puremovement preformed in NYC Central Park and in reading the NY Times review along with this photograph of Mr. Harris, I was intrigued. Out here in the desert, during the summer there is no Central Park

I’m asked “Why did you give a certain name to a painting” and I don’t know. Sometimes it just shows up in my head. Nothing deep or heavy, it just sounds right.
This painting was done this morning, mostly with a pallet knife and some glazes. The edges reminded me of glass. That is about as [...]

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in NYC will have some special exhibits thru the summer until mid- September highlighting art from their permanent collections.
“New York In the 1940s”

European artists escaping the turmoil of World War II came to New York during the ‘40s to work and exhibit. A lot of their paintings, some in [...]

Boston Museum of Fine Arts – thru December 7, 2008

“After the Hurricane”, Bahamas, 1899
An extensive collection of work by Winslow Homer, (1836-1910), is on display at the Boston Museum. The exhibit includes paintings, water colors, illustrations (from “Harper’s Weekly” – a political magazine published from 1857 to 1916) and some etchings.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Works by 20th century artist Robert Rauschenberg, (1925 – 2008), are on display at the Meyerovich Gallery in San Francisco, CA until August 1, 2008.
Rauschenberg journeyed from Abstract Impressionism to Pop Artist during the 50’s when he started to use material not usually seen in a painting, (he often found interesting trash in the street), [...]

“The Persistence of Memory” (1931), will return to MoMA as part of an event featuring the art of Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) as both painter and filmmaker - especially with Spanish director Luis Bunuel , (1900 - 1983).
Dali’s paintings, drawings, movie scripts will all be used to [...]

British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 – 1851) will have a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this summer. Labeled an “English Romantic”, he worked in both oil and watercolor and painted primarily landscapes/seascapes. He hasn’t been on view in the U.S. for more than 40 years.

“The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her [...]

“Chihuly at the de Young” * Thru 9/28/08

The de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA presents Dale Chihuly – American glass artist. You will see beautiful shapes, daring configurations, all in glorious color. Very dramatic.
His explanation of why people like his work, “People like to look at glass; it’s like looking at light”.
Born in Tacoma, [...]

Artist Eugene Grigsby born in 1918 has taught at Arizona State for 20 years and spent two decades teaching in Phoenix public schools.

What are the ideas or points of view that you’ve wanted to communicate in your paintings? I don’t know what I am communicating really until the paintings is done. While I am [...]