Roberta will be discussing her new work, influences and what’s next this coming Friday December 10th , 7:30 PM at Urban Beans, 3508 N. 7th Street, Suite 100 Phoenix, AZ 85014.
Roberta’s work will be on display until January 31st. 2011
I could never listen to Poetry. Had to read it in order for it to make sense. If there was a beat or music, then that’s all I recognized, never really catching the lyrics. Which is to say there has been a ton of “Rap” that has eluded me.
On reading about the reunion of the “The Diplomats” the famed Harlem Hip Hop group, I decided to listen to a few of their raps while reading the lyrics. To be truthful, I was singing along with them silently. I still have the moves while sitting, just wished I had a hat that I could turned to the side.
Conceptual artist John Baldassari will have his work on view at The Met until January 2011. 
“If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn’t do art.”, Baldessari
“The exhibition brings together a full range of the artist’s innovative work over five decades, from his early paintings and phototext works, his combined photographs, and the irregularly shaped and over-painted works of the 1990s, to his most recent production. A selection of his videos and artist’s books will also be included in the exhibition.”
“John Baldessari: Pure Beauty” until January 9, 2011
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
(Images: “God Nose”, 1965)
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A personal observation and not a critique of these two performers. They seem similar to me, except Lady Gaga scares me a bit and I find Katy Perry fun. I am not their target market and I am fascinated by their performances. They remind me of high wire or trapeze artists, it looks dangerous (and it is) and they have it under control, for now.
Attending 3rd Friday in Phoenix this past Friday we noticed a delightful and joyous smile inside the Five 15 Galley . It was fellow artist and friend Joan Waters who introduced me to artist Catherine Ruane, her drawings and her family. Catherine’s “Out West” exhibit is beautiful and speaks to her commitment to see the desert in all of it mystery and beauty.
The exhibit is on view until the 26st of September.
Born in Armenia, Arshile Gorky, 1902-1948, escaped the tragedy of war and genocide by moving to NYC where he taught himself to paint. He is considered one of the founders of “Abstract Impressionism”. 
“At a time when the American avant-garde privileged originality over traditional working methods, Gorky was a nonconformist who developed his personal vocabulary through a series of intensive apprenticeships to the styles of other artists, including Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, and Joan Miro, before developing his own unique and deeply influential visual language in the early 1940s. Gorky’s prominence in the New York art scene led him to befriend Andre Breton and Roberto Matta-fellow emigres and key figures in the surrealist group-who came to have an enormous impact on Gorky’s mature style.“
“ARSHILE GORKY: A RETROSPECTIVE” * Until SEPT 20, 2010
MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA