Review

(Reprint from Auntie Carrie’s Speak Easy blog)
Why I Love NYC (For Art’s Sake)
Walking through NYC today was much like wading through a bowl of luke warm, New England clam chowder. Nasty. Still, I left the comforts of AC, inspired by my friend, Michelle Haimoff’s mention of a Keith Haring “exhibit downtown”. One of the greatest [...]

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), [...]

                “Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990 – 2005”

Award winning photographer Annie Leibovitz will have 200 examples of her work on view at the San Francisco Legion of Honor, March 1 - May 25, 2008.   Included in the exhibit will be some of her famous/infamous celebrity portraits from Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone - [...]

The Transport Workers Union, Local 100 is selling 14? x 20? posters of four of the works on display in the Art of Marvin Franklin exhibit on public view through March 30, 2008.
For information on purchasing posters you may contact Local 100 at 212-873-8000 x 2204.
The Salmagundi Art club is also presenting another exhibit featuring [...]

I have to say a glimpse because I was in Belize for only one week and wasn’t even aware of the trip until two days before (not much time for researching). So, this past week, I had the pleasure and honor of working on Nyasha Liang’s documentary “Punta Rock”, about the musical culture in Belize. [...]

                       
Not just a city for poker, slots and all you can eat brunch, Las Vegas, NV will host “American Modernism” at the Bellagio Hotel Gallery of Fine Arts from Feb. 8 to Oct. 15, 2008.
More than 30 paintings featuring works of Georgia O’Keefe, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, and Arshile Gorky will be on display. [...]

Dr. Eugene Grigsby Jr. at the Heddenart Gallery, opening reception. November 1st 2007

Celebrating his 89th Birthday with 89 Paintings.
Dr. Grigsby has organized exhibitions of African art for the Heard Museum, authored a text, Art and Ethics: Background for Teaching in a Pluralistic Society, and founded the Consortium of Black Organizations and Others for the Arts [...]

An exhibit of California abstract expressionist Emerson Woelffer, (1914 - 2003) begins on 11/1 thru 12/22/07 at the Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
“The Structure of Improvisation”
250 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA
(415) 362  7152
http://www.hackettfreedman.com/
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  Centennial Exhibitions for the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
Included will be 50 paintings from 1926 to 1954.
Her revealing and sometimes painful to look at self portraits will make up most of the exhibit, but, there will also be some of her lesser known still lifes on view.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
October thru January, 2008

Philadelphia Museum [...]

American Art Collector is launching their new publication Western Art Collector with a party at Scottsdale Artists’ School, on Wednesday October 17, 2007, from 6-9 PM.

This event is open to the public—and our Best & Brightest exhibit will be hanging and available for sale!
Come help celebrate the launch of their newest publication and [...]