A joint exhibition by Gennaro Garcia and Joe Ray • May 6 – 30
After Hours Gallery
116 West McDowell Road
Phoenix, AZ
Exploring aspects of mythology, religion, iconography and lust. This exhibit celebrates female deities from above and below. A full participation of life, before, during, and after.
Choreographer and Artistic Director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar-photo by: Antoine Tempé
Some anthropologists believe that the first form of human communication was dance. Embedded in the dances’ message was and still is the basic need of any community to stay together. Dance always tells the truth.
Urban Bush Women’s mission is to create dance and to create community.
“Urban Bush Women Resistance & Power” at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse , there are still tickets available for tomorrows’ performance. Sunday May 1st, 2011 3PM
John Hawkes - Winter's Bone
This wonderful small film was not for me a detective mystery as some have called it, but rather a portrait of America’s primal self. A portrait that is not at all flattering, like racism, poverty and ignorance that we desperately wish would stay hidden in the shadows.
The film immediately lays the groundwork: opportunity (next to none), respect (yes mam, no sir), family and women. The mystery is less important then the culture. We are watching a lion’s pride, not a cartoon, this is real. The pace of the movie and the soundtrack adds to its realness and I can relate to the desperation. Unlike a documentary, I never get the chance to feel distant and sorry for the people whose lives are portrayed on screen.
Life is simplistic, we will all do whatever is called for in order for us to survive another day. For me, that is the real story. Not the “who did it” or the perils of drugs (Meth), we are all looking to get by.
The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is a beautiful building and museum that houses many wonderful works of art that are not often seen outside of Russia. Many of the galleries are setup in saloon style and the viewer can be overwhelmed by a wall full of Picasso’s or Matisses hung so close together that on first look they resembled wallpaper.
Madonna and Child - Leonardo da Vinc
I visited the Hermitage in 1994 and was a little uncomfortable with how the work was hung. There seemed to be no air or white space, with some of the older paintings hung in direct sunlight, which could not be good.
I’ve been spoiled by the extravagant and often over the top displays of art in the United States. Some museums show how the amount of white space surrounding a painting on view has come to mean “increased value”. One thing that is consistent, museums contain more art from conquest than purchase, therefore visiting can be an interesting way to study history.
If you like the cold, St. Petersburg and the Hermitage deserve a visit. You might be able to find a reasonable airfare.
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Paintings and Mixed Media Assemblages by Kim Kristoff & Shari Bombeck at Trinity Cathedral & the Olney Gallery! Also “The Just Society Film Festival” will host “Somewhere near Tapachula”
Trinity Cathedral
100 W. Roosevelt St.,
Phoenix AZ 85003