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Keith Haring–A Shape-Changer

Written by diana on May 16, 2012. Posted in Art, Unhealed Wound. 4 Comments on Keith Haring–A Shape-Changer

Last week while we were in New York City, we stopped by the Brooklyn Museum to see a retrospective — Keith Haring: 1978–1982. The Haring exhibit presents rarely seen archival works, including seven videos, and artist notebooks of Haring’s evolution as an artist dating back to his time as a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York. As an openly gay artist who died of AIDS before his 32nd birthday, Haring was just gaining momentum when his life ended. Some of the pages from his remarkable diary/notebooks can be viewed online (https://keithharing.tumblr.com/) and expose...

Picasso–Multiple Images of the Master

Written by diana on August 30, 2011. Posted in Art, Unhealed Wound. 5 Comments on Picasso–Multiple Images of the Master

Opening on June 11 and closing on October 9, the deYoung Museum in San Francisco continues to host an exhibition of more than 100 masterpieces of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) from Paris’s world-renowned Musée National Picasso. The Bay Area exhibition is made possible only because of the Musée’s temporary closing for extensive remodeling. I have seen the collection in Paris, of which there are more than 5000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and collages, an almost overwhelming experience. About two percent of that collection is now on view at the deYoung, demonstrating some but...

“The Fall” — A Mind-Bending Marvel

Written by diana on August 16, 2011. Posted in Art, movie reviews. 6 Comments on “The Fall” — A Mind-Bending Marvel

The visual splendor and breathtaking imagination of “The Fall” made me actually dream of some of the scenes, an experience I rarely have. Reality and fantasy blur into a magical realism that so dazzles the eyes, it suggests a psychedelic otherworldly, perhaps drug-induced journey. This movie is a magical, mystery tour–“The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen” meets “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”. “The Fall” (2008) is two movies in one–and I don’t mean the story within a story that grounds the mind-blowing imagery. I...

Seattle: A Blast from the Past

Written by diana on March 14, 2011. Posted in Art, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on Seattle: A Blast from the Past

On a recent trip to Seattle, in lightly falling snow, I took a guided walking tour of the city’s mid-19th century “underground” origins: its musty subterranean passageways of abandoned toilets, pipes, cast-off furniture and windows that once were the main first-floor storefronts of old downtown Seattle. Like layers of fossils built one sedimentary deposit over another, the city’s hidden foundations are revealed. Approximately 25 square blocks of wooden buildings were either burned to the ground or flooded during the Great Seattle Fire of 1896. What were once the first floors of thriving...

A Harvest of Images: A Feast for the Eyes!

Written by diana on March 4, 2011. Posted in Art, Monterey Peninsula College, MPC Print Club. No Comments on A Harvest of Images: A Feast for the Eyes!

The Pajaro Valley Arts Council gallery (PVAC) in Watsonville is featuring over 100 images that showcase a wide range of both traditional and experimental printmaking processes, including digital media. The show, “A Harvest of Images”, was juried by the highly regarded artist Howard Ikemoto, art instructor at Cabrillo College for over 30 years, now retired, who resides near Watsonville. The show opened on February 24 and will close on April 17. Everyone is invited to a reception at the gallery on Sunday, March 13, 2:00-4:00 pm. The exhibit is an outstanding survey of contemporary...

BLOOD LOTUS: Discovering New Voices in Literature and Art

Written by diana on January 31, 2011. Posted in Art, Literary and Art Journals, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on BLOOD LOTUS: Discovering New Voices in Literature and Art

I discovered the online journal, Blood Lotus, while doing a Google search for submitting my short stories to small boutique journals. While spending hours looking for an appropriate fit for my edgy short stories about growing up with wounds, both healed and unhealed, I discovered this literary and quarterly gem. Blood Lotus, established in 2006, with the belief everything has not already been written, has a mission to promote not only distinctive writing but also unusual art. Two poets, Stacia Fleegal and Teneice Durrang Delgado, are its co-founders. Stacia M. Fleegal (co-founder, managing...