Creative Review - Exhibits, Music, Film, Paintings
Exposing Time at the Phoenix Art Museum

Exposing Time at the Phoen...

Frank Gohlke Nicholas Nixon Andrew Phelps Robert Weingarten Milton Rogovin This coming weekend (March 6th) the Phoenix Art Museum will exhibit the work of five contemporary American photographers who individually and collectively document both the subtle and dramatic changes that have occurred in this country. Change is always going forward and we are always nostalgic about the past...
Maurice Prendergast – Watercolors of Italy

Maurice Prendergast –...

The work that he produced in Italy is the focus of the exhibit of American Impressionist artist Maurice Prendergast, 1858 – 1924, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston until May 9, 2010. “Prendergast in Italy features more than 60 picturesque views of Venice, Rome, Siena, and Capri drawn from a number of public and private collections…The presentation demonstrates Prendergast’s ranking in American...
Focus On Artists- SFMOMA

Focus On Artists- SFMOMA...

Now until May 23, 2010, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is showcasing, “Focus On Artists – Selections from the Collection” “This exhibition looks at SFMOMA’s long-term relationships with several modern masters whose iconic works were influential in defining movements from Abstract Expressionism to Postminimalism and beyond. To illustrate the depth of these relationships,...
Art’s Neutrality – Telling It Like It Is

Art’s Neutrality ...

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 people thinking they are doing the right thing, killing or dying because someone has asked them to....
Tutankhamun * SF deYoung

Tutankhamun * SF deYoung...

King Tutankhamun’s San Francisco revisit is coming to an end. First seen in 1979, the boy king returned to the de Young Museum in a brand new exhibit featuring 130 pieces – jewelry, statues, masks, gold objects and of course that famous golden sarcophagus. “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” provides insight into the life of King Tut and other royals of the 18th Dynasty...
Paris, je t’aime

Paris, je t’aime...

Paris I love You This kind of compilation has always been for me difficult to watch. This movie worked I think because each (18) story is about the same length as a short info commercial, with each segment acted, produced and directed as if it was the only story being told. There is a lot of leeway with a title of “Paris, I love you”.  My favorite segments are 1) “Parc Monceau”...
Newark Museum – Abstract Art Exhibit

Newark Museum – Abstract...

Next month, the Newark Museum of Art presents: “Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s” The intention is to offer a “ground-breaking exhibition of 90 works from the 1920s through 1950s and the first to present the Pan-American scope of geometric abstraction. The exhibition investigates the conceptual connections and exchanges that existed between artists from...
“Caravaggesque” at AIC

“Caravaggesque” at AIC...

The Art Institute of Chicago has an exhibit called “Four Followers of Caravaggio”. The display highlights 4 artists that were inspired  by the paintings of  artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1571-1610, who is acknowledged for “his revolutionary style and for his unconventional process of painting directly from live models”. “The special loan of Orazio Gentileschi’s The Lute...
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

A Guide to Recognizing You...

I am most likely the last person to see this movie and seeing it last night moved me. The story was so familiar to me, as if it were a story about my neighborhood, friends and the strain of transforming yourself from a kid to an adult. What grabbed me most was the feeling of being trapped in what is most comfortable, sometimes called the box we are born into. I believe this was Dito Montiel first time...
Art In Louisiana * NOMA

Art In Louisiana * NOMA...

“Louisiana Art” is one of the mainstays of the permanent exhibits at the New Orleans Museum of Art. “NOMA’s collection includes an outstanding survey of Louisiana art from the 19th and 20th Centuries, including important works by contemporary Louisiana artists.” The New Orleans Museum of Art’s other permanent collections include photography, decorative arts and drawings from all...

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