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Blonde Faith, is the final book of the popular series, written by Walter Mosley.
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“CB08” - 2008 California Biennial
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...
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An Inspiring Love Story - Slumdog Millionaire
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...
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Cold Enough For Ya?
If not, you can always go northwest to Vancouver, Canada for a few days. I live in San Francisco and we declare an emergency whenever the temperature drops below 45. I can’t really complain when I compare our weather to back east where digging your car out of the snow is a community event. But,...
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“Easy Rawlins”Mysteries
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...
Posted by Sandy on 01 4th, 2009 |
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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,
850 San Clemente Drive
Newport Beach, California...
Posted by Sandy on 01 2nd, 2009 |
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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 L.A. and the 10 books span a 20 year journey. What makes...
Posted by Jason on 01 1st, 2009 |
No CommentsThis 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 running with our own photo 365.
I won’t be posting each of these posts directly to this blog. Instead,...
Posted by Sandy on 12 31st, 2008 |
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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 another show.”
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Posted by Jason on 12 29th, 2008 |
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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 are part of a subconscious visual language...
Posted by Bob Martin on 12 29th, 2008 |
No CommentsDuring 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 film and I hope more people get to see it. It certainly has all...
Posted by Bob Martin on 12 29th, 2008 |
No CommentsMuseum exhibits offer a vivid way to learn about art and culture. This show at the High Museum in Atlanta runs until September 09, and looks to reflect what is seen as “masterpiece” and how our views have changed or progressed over time.
What is a Masterpiece? What is a Masterpiece? will be divided into two parts, with the first exploring the changing historical definitions of the concept...
Posted by Sandy on 12 28th, 2008 |
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“Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna”
January 21 – April 26, 2009
500 years of drawings from the Renaissance to the 20th century will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The usual suspects from Italy, France, Holland and England are all represented in all their diverse styles:
Raphael, Rembrandt, Watteau, Fragonard, Goya, Ingres, Delacroix, Manet,...
Posted by Bob Martin on 12 26th, 2008 |
No CommentsA luxury that the MOMA has is that it can stage long running exhibitions. George Lois: The Esquire Covers, April 25, 2008–March 30, 2009, provides for multiple visits and chance to recognize how radical these covers were in there time. What gets overlooked about advertising in the 1960’s is that a lot of art was created. Which means that they were not always (sometimes for sure) “Yes...
Posted by Sandy on 12 23rd, 2008 |
No CommentsWe all know that he writes, he sings, he’s a poet, he’s a musician – he just received an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” Nice, but, did you know that Bob Dylan also paints?!
His book of his art work, “Bob Dylan: The Drawn Blank Series” (March 2008) has 170 of...
A Book of Paintings and Words by Bob Martin
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