Review

A Community Art Project

Bob Martin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:00:23 +0000

A few weeks back friends of Susan Copland got to together to help in the making of flowers out of aluminum soda cans for an exhibit at the Childrens Musuem in Phoenix. I took some photos and made some flowers, great fun, great people and Great Food!!

Munch

Sandy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:35:57 +0000

“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, Max Klinger, Harriet Backer and Claude Monet, will be shown as examples [...]

Eartha Kitt-Voice, Attidute and Style

Bob Martin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:21:04 +0000

Our first introduction to Ms. Kitt may have been her 1953 hit record “Santa Baby” and her unusual featured live performance on the Ed Sullivan T.V. Show. Eartha Kitt passed away recently-Christmas Day 2008 to be exact. Eartha Kitt shattered (at that time) my limited beliefs about what it meant to be a “Negro”.

“CB08” - 2008 California Biennial

Sandy — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:52:28 +0000

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 , Amanda Ross-Ho Orange County Museum of Art, [...]

“Easy Rawlins”Mysteries

Sandy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:00:33 +0000

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 a reluctant private investigator in 50’s [...]

Photo 365 – Documenting 2009 in Photographs

Jason — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:34:23 +0000

This year I’ve really fallen in love with blogging, and have made my blogs top priority for 2009. Throughout 2008, I learned of many sites that participate in photo 365 – taking one photo every day for a year. Well, it sounded like an exciting experiment to me, so as of today, we’re off and [...]

“Another opening, another show”

Sandy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:50:35 +0000

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 Baltimo’ A chance for stage folks to say hello! Another op’nin of [...]

Tip On Pencil Portrait Drawing - The Problem Of Seeing

Jason — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:00:39 +0000

For untrained artists the problem of seeing lies in the inconsistency that exists between the actual visual reality of an object and the way the brain attempts to represent our perception of this reality on the drawing paper. This attempt always involves the tendency to draw our symbolic preconception instead of the actual reality. Symbolic preconceptions [...]

An Inspiring Love Story - Slumdog Millionaire

Bob Martin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:00:10 +0000

During the holidays “Slumdog Millionaire” was given national distribution, which means that I finally got to see it. I, like many others, endured the lines to get into the multiplex but most people were there to see the new Clint Eastwood film, Gran Torino or the many other Hollywood Christmas releases. Slumdog is a special [...]

The Louvre and the Masterpiece at High Museum, Atlanta

Bob Martin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:23:40 +0000

The Louvre and the Masterpiece explores how the definition of a "masterpiece," as well as taste and connoisseurship, have changed over time. The exhibition will feature ninety-one works of art drawn from all eight of the Musée du Louvre's collection areas, spanning 4,000 years.