Le Carré’s depiction of intelligence operators or “spies” is that they are people who are for the most part not physically gifted and deal with their work as if they were sitting at a giant chess board. They like puzzles and believe if they stare at something long enough it will begin to make sense. Le Carre focuses in on flaws in his characters. They are people who have...
MoMA, New York City, offers us a retrospective of the work of Holland born artist de Kooning.
“Representing nearly every type of work de Kooning made, in both technique and subject matter, this retrospective includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints. Among these are the artist’s most famous, landmark paintings—among them Pink Angels (1945), Excavation (1950), and the celebrated third...
Must admit, Hugo was a delightful surprise and it should not have been! On first learning that Martin Scorsese had succumbed to the 3D craze I wrongfully expected a film totally dependent on visual gimmicks.
Scorsese has always been a masterful story teller and Hugo is no exception and it is the story that makes this film so wonderful. The visuals are exceptional, the casting choices thoughtful and yes,...
The busy and thriving Brooklyn Museum presents – Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, until January 29, 2012.
The exhibition “brings together for the first time the work of sixty-eight painters, sculptors, and photographers who explored a new mode of modern realism in the years bounded by the aftermath of the Great War and the onset of the Great Depression.”.
Some of the artists...
Dan Hicks will be celebrating his 70th birthday Friday, April 6, 8:00pm
at Davies Symphony Hall
(SF Jazz 2012)
with a reunion of the Hot Licks band and promising special guest joining in. I love when the artist preforms for his/her on celebration.
On April 19th, Anoushka Shankar will be at the Herbst Theatre celebrating being exceptional.
There is so much more music happening every year, throughout...
Gil Scott-Heron, an African-American truth troubadour passed away this year. It was all in the words. There were no gimmicks, no staging, nothing to take you away from the truth of his message. His poems and music are timeless. Revisit.
Here is a video of photos of Gil Scott-Hereon by Monique de Latour
The Irony is that some of the insight contained within Scott-Heron poems did not spare him a difficult...
We’ve heard of Gertrude Stein and her marvelous group of artist friends, especially Picasso, but she also had siblings with the same urge to gather painters and their art. That family fascination is celebrated at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art starting with the exhibit: The Steins Collect Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
“American expatriates in bohemian Paris when the 20th...
There are actors who are able to lend their body and face to the character they are portraying. Yolande Moreau does just that for me in Séraphine a little gem of a movie about ”Séraphine de Senlis” (Séraphine Louis).
Moreau is so compelling that I found myself understanding her many challenges as if they were my own, struggling to fit, what is called the normal world, into the abstraction...
The Whitney Museum in NYC has a new presentation exploring the work of real and surreal artists of the last century.
“This exhibition, drawn entirely from the deep holdings of the Whitney Museum’s permanent collection, will focus on the tension and overlap between two strong currents in twentieth century art. Although the term “realism” has many facets, a basic connection to the observable...
Got the opportunity to have a chat with Photographer Dee Dee Woods about being an artist, the “African American Art Community” in Phoenix, her father Rip Woods and the contribution that art makes to the...
"Alyson Stanfield's book I'd Rather Be in the Studio! The Artist's No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion is the most comprehensive self-promotion advice out there for artists. And not only is it packed with information, she also shows artists of all kinds how to implement each action step.