by Bob Martin | Oct 21, 2009 | Art, Artist, Exhibits, Galleries, Lecture, Theater
Artists on Artists: Thursday Oct. 22nd 6:30PM
Free “Arte Gigante Variety Hour”
Stage 2 Theater – Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
“A fantabulous cross-disciplinary event combining artist panel, game show, and reality competition. Get to know artists and their works as they compete in a brain busting quiz game, shake their money-makers as they dance with the stars, and finally, spend some quality time chatting with the lovely hosts who just happen to be members of SMoCA’s Artist Advisory Committee.”
by Bob Martin | Oct 21, 2009 | Artist, Exhibits, Lecture
Just saw this! it is this evening.
“REFLECTIONS”
LOCALS ONLY and PHANTOM SIGHTINGS: ART AFTER THE CHICANO MOVEMENT
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 4pm and 7pm
Phoenix Art Museum – Whiteman Hall Central at McDowell
Admission is Free – Everyone is Welcome
A panel discussion featuring artists’ reflections on Phoenix Art Museum’s 
two recent shows Locals Only and Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement will be moderated by Dr. Sara Cochran, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. This lively discussion will range from artists’ personal philosophies and aesthetic practices to broader questions of identity and the duality and richness of cultural expressions. While Phantom Sightings emphasized the work of a newer generation of Latino artists who addressed a tradition of conceptual art and urbanism that emerged during the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Locals Only explored a diversity of artists’ voices paint, print and sculpt here in the valley.
Panel members include artists Claudio Dicochea, Annie Lopez, Martin Moreno and Hector Ruiz who represent two different generations. Additional comments will be made by April Bojorquez and Casandra Hernandez, graduate students at ASU who organized Exhibiting Ourselves: Representing Cultures in Museums and Cultural Centers, a very successful national symposium that addressed key topics of cultural representation within arts institutions. Phantom Sightings was organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art. However, Locals Only, dealing with valley artists who are working in parallel context and thinking about complementary concerns and questions, was conceived and arranged by Phoenix Art Museum’s Dr. Sara Cochran.
by Bob Martin | Oct 20, 2009 | Art, Artist, Exhibits, Museums
For travelers to Spain, The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum will exhibit approximately 60 paintings by the Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, October 19th to January 17th 2010. 
Paintings rich with paint and thought.There is great care with lights and darks a sort of foreshadowing of black and white movies of the early 20th century.
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by Sandy | Oct 19, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Galleries
“New Selections From the Gallery’s Collection”
Work by 12 American modern, contemporary artists, on paper and canvas, will be on display at the Krevsky Gallery in San Francisco until October 31, 2009.Included are Reginald Marsh, Milton Avery, Guy Diehl, Helen Berggruen and more.
George Krevsky Gallery/ American Art
77 Geary St. 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA
Images: “Boardwalk Beauties”, Reginald Marsh and Pier 23, San Francisco – Otis Oldfield
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by Bob Martin | Oct 17, 2009 | Art, Art Travel, Artist, Exhibits, Galleries
Edvard Munch Self Portrait
When seeing promos for any of the “slasher/horror” movies series “Scream” I don’t think movie, I think Munch.
Munch has always represented fear, despair and death. An exhibit at the Leopold Museum has all of this plus works that depict his view of love. I had been fascinated by his work which set my table for Bergman.
Munch’s work reminds me of the dreams I don’t want to have or the reality that I know exists. I can only guess that Munch was tormented by his dreams or his life, I really don’t know. His self portrait gives me a clue on how he thought of himself, an accessory to life
The exhibit will be at the Leopold Museum beginning Oct 16th to January 18th 2010.
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by Bob Martin | Oct 17, 2009 | Art Travel, Artist, Exhibits, Galleries
More then 160 works will be on exhibit in Italy over the next 12 months as tribute to the iconic 
American Artist Edward Hopper, beginning October 14, 2009 to January 31 2010 at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, to be followed February 16 to June 13, 2010 in Rome, at the Fondazione Roma Museum, and ending June 25 until October 17, 2010 at the Fondation de l’Hermitage in Lausanne. The exhibit will feature many of Hopper’s well known paintings as well as some of his preliminarily sketches and drawings.
