The Complete Album Collection, Vol. 1
A 45 CD Box Set of Bob Dylan’s live and studio albums, some re mastered, has been released just in time for the holidays. Heavy – it weighs approximately 20 Lbs.
In addition to the CDs, there will be a book with artwork, photos and all will be available on a limited edition USB drive.
San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum presents Impressionists on the Water. On view are a large assortment of paintings “that explores the significant role sailing played in the lives of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.” 
“Experience the artistic side of nautical life through more than 80 remarkable paintings and works on paper by Impressionists such as Monet, Caillebotte, Renoir, and Pissarro and Post-Impressionists such as Denis and Signac—artists whose breathtaking artistry reflects their own deep understanding and engagement with pleasure boating and competition”
Legion of Honor – Lincoln Park
34th Avenue & Clement Street, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Wilson is one of my favorite playwrights. He wrote plays for every decade of the 20th century that would chronicle some part of the black experience in America. Through the use of his great ear for dialogue, Wilson was able to give us some insight into the daily life, both struggles and triumphs, of an assortment of universal characters that his audience could easily recognize. In 2005, August Wilson completed a ten-play cycle that is now being recorded to be enjoyed by future generations.
Tickets are sold out for just about all the live performances at the tiny Greene Space Theatre in NYC, however, the plays can be viewed online via webcast. I thoroughly enjoyed “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” a few days ago. True, the actors sit in seats in front of microphones, but they were so good and August Wilson’s stories are so compelling, that the imagination kicks in and provides the scenery and action. (For those of you not old enough to remember, we did this during radio programs all the time back in the day:)
“The Piano Lesson” is next on Monday 9/9/13 at 7PM EDT. The Greene Space site has a calendar of events, actor lists, etc.
August Wilson’s American Century Cycle
The Greene Space, 44 Charlton Street, New York, NY
BTW – the recordings are done in the order that the plays were written, not in chronological order as listed above
The De Young Museum in San Francisco presents Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966
“During his years in Berkeley, Diebenkorn was deeply engaged with the unique setting of the Bay Area, saturating his works with color, light, and atmosphere. More than 130 paintings and drawings, beginning with the artist’s earlier abstract works and moving through his subsequent figurative phase, display his profound influence on postwar American art.”
Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966
Until September 29, 2013
De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, S.F.
With Intersecting Modernities, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston offers a look at their collection of Latin American art. “…more than 100 masterworks created by artists at the height of their careers—including Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Diego Rivera, and Joaquín Torres-García—from The Brillembourg Capriles Collection of Latin American Art.”
“…This extraordinary exhibition brings together artists who were influential in avant-garde movements in Europe, Latin America, and the United States and whose contributions to art bridge aspects of Modernism from both sides of the Atlantic.”
Intersecting Modernities until September 2, 2013
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX
(Image: El Reto (The Challenge), 1954, David Alfaro Siqueiros)
Everyone knows who Mr. Belafonte is – just listening to a few chords of “Day-O” or “Ma-tilda” brings his handsome face to the mind’s eye. At 85, he is still attractive of course, but Harry Belafonte: Sing Your Song, a fascinating documentary on DVD, fills in and rounds out the well lived life of the entertainer to be more than a man in a sexy shirt and tight pants. Besides being a singer, actor, husband and father, Mr. Belafonte is an activist, a pioneer and a humanitarian. A full life.
BTW: There is a book My Song: A Memoir and a CD, Harry Belafonte Sing Your Song: The Music that also celebrate this man’s life and music.