i heart art @ Uptown Fridays: Studio Museum of Harlem, October 21, 2007

i heart art@ Sound of Art Presents...Uptown's Finest

Target First Saturdays @ The Brooklyn Museum

Please make sure to check out Target First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum and take advantage of this event that occurs every first Saturday of every month. Celebrate Brushed with Light and the Golden Age of American Watercolors, the 1920s–50s.. All information is listed below. See you there!



At the Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment each month from 5–11 p.m. All evening long, the Museum Café serves a wide selection of sandwiches, salads, and beverages, and a cash bar offers wine and beer. Parking is a flat rate of $4 starting at 5 p.m. All other Saturdays, the Museum closes at 6 p.m.

Please note that due to limited capacities, some Target First Saturday programs require tickets. Ticket lines often form 30 minutes before ticket distribution at the Visitor Center located in the Rubin Lobby. Programs are subject to change.


Celebrate Brushed with Light and the Golden Age of American Watercolors, the 1920s–50s.

6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Performance
Hall of the Americas, 1st Floor

Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra play hot jazz of the Roaring Twenties.

6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. Artist Talk
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor

Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh discusses how feminism and South Asian culture and art-making traditions inform her work. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.

6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Dance Performance
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

Bridgman/Packer Dance pairs exhilarating choreography with video projection. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 5:30 p.m.

6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Hands-On Art
Education Division, 1st Floor

Create your own watercolor landscape painting. Free timed tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 5:30 p.m.

7:00 p.m. Young Voices Gallery Talk
Meet at the entrance to Brushed with Light, 1st Floor

Student Guides Bella Yarmolnik and Anna Piazza lead an interactive tour of Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection.

7:30 p.m. Film
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor

Watch the cinematographic masterpiece Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978, 95 min., PG), a love story set on a pastoral landscape, starring Brooke Adams, Richard Gere, and Sam Shepard. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 6:30 p.m.

8:00 p.m. Curator and Conservator Talk
Meet at the entrance to Brushed with Light, 1st Floor

Assistant Curator Karen Sherry and Paper Conservator Toni Owen discuss the exhibition Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 7 p.m.

8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. "Say It Loud!"
Infinite Island exhibition, 5th Floor
Interact with Infinite Island artist Satch Hoyt's installation for free speech and discussion, and have your participation recorded for YouTube.

8:30 p.m. Film
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

Taye Diggs, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Renée Zellweger star in the Oscar-winning adaptation of the Jazz Age musical, Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002, 113 min., PG-13). Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 7:30 p.m.

9:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. Dance Party
Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor

Join DJ Paolo and the band King Memphis for a classic fifties rock "n" roll party.

Sponsored by Target

Made possible by the Wallace Foundation Community Programs Fund, established by the Wallace Foundation, with additional support from DLA Piper US LLP, The Ellis A. Gimbel Trust, KeySpan Energy, and other donors. Also supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Community Trust. Media sponsor: New York Times Community Affairs Department.

Location: 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
Telephone: (718) 638-5000; TTY: (718) 399-8440
Admission: Suggested Contribution: $8; Students with Valid ID: $4; Adults 62 and over: $4; Members: Free; Children under 12: Free
Hours: Wednesday–Friday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Saturday–Sunday: 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Subway: 2 or 3 lineEastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum

Date Farmers and San Prepare For Their Show With Fifty24SF Gallery

If you're in the San Francisco area, make sure you go and check out Date Farmers & San at the Fifty24SF Gallery. The official press release is listed below.

Date Farmers & San at Fifty24SF Gallery

FIFTY24SF GALLERY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
415.252.9144 (e) gallery@upperplayground.com

THE DATE FARMERS AND SAN
November 1-30, 2007

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 1, 2007 from 7-9:30 p.m.

San Francisco, CA (October 2007) - Upper Playground in association with FIFTY24SF Gallery is pleased to announce the opening for "The Ballad of Richie Valenz, and Other True Stories" with new work by the Date Farmers, and "Sparks and Ashes" with new work by Spanish artist, San. The Date Farmers continue to explore pop-culture signage of Mexico and the Southwestern United States with painting and collage. They will be exhibiting wooden sculptures as well as illustrations and mixed media pieces on corrugated and sheet metal. San is a meticulous illustrator, painter, and street artist from Madrid who will be exhibiting his work for the first time in San Francisco.

The Date Farmers, originally from the Coachella Valley in Southern California, are a collective consisting of Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez. Together, they are highly-recognized for painting on abandoned and recovered materials and will collage anything from found letters, bottle caps, glitter, garbage bags, or Christmas lights on their sculpted robots made from Mexican coffee cans. They have also been known to associate and integrate such signage as their own versions of the Coca Cola, Playboy, and MasterCard logos, Mickey Mouse, Bat Man, and the Hulk into their works. The Date Farmers have shown internationally, including a recent exhibition at the Leonard Street Gallery in London, as well as shows at New Image Art Gallery, in Los Angeles, and a solo show at Fifty24SF in 2006.

Date Farmers video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx4nzohqFs4

Daniel Munoz Rodriquez, aka San, is an internationally recognized illustrator, painter, and street artist from Madrid, Spain, showing for the first time in San Francisco. Born in a small Spanish village near the Portuguese border, his artwork is influenced by magical realism, graffiti, and the culinary arts. In a recent interview in Juxtapoz Magazine, he remarked, “I think today my work is a mixture of classical drawing and contemporary art languages. Nowadays, nature is the basis of my work.” San has shown his fine art internationally, as well as his street art in cities across Europe.

San Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aukj8fKkDs

About Upper Playground and FIFTY24SF Gallery
Based in San Francisco, California, Upper Playground was founded in 1999 and has become a leader in today’s progressive art movement with its innovative apparel line and art gallery, FIFTY24SF. Recognized as a catalyst for the fusion of fashion with art, Upper Playground produces apparel lines bi-annually and features designs from notable local and international artists. Upper Playground apparel is sold nationally and internationally in over 300 boutiques and online. The FIFTY24SF Gallery is based in San Francisco, CA and showcases art from some of the best contemporary artists in the world with its monthly art exhibits. Please visit www.upperplayground.com for more information.




252 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
www.upperplayground.comwww.fifty24sf.com

Uptown Magazine Style Issue: Collecting African-American Art

image courtesy of uptown-magazine.com

For all those who are interested in investing in African-American art, check out Uptown Magazine's Style issue with cover girl Alicia Keys. Writer Julia Chance carefully examines the art of acquiring a collection that is sure to appreciate in value as well as enhance the appearance of ones home. From interviews with art consultants and art dealers to expert tips and readily available resources one is sure to start on the right track to selecting affordable art that will preserve future and amass a financial fortune for generations to come.

Uptown Magazine Style Issue is now available on newsstands or view the article in its entirety at www.uptown-magazine-com.

Art word of the day: Academic Style

The Turkish Bath, 1862 (100 kb); Oil on canvas on wood; Diameter 108 cm (42 1/2"); Musee du Louvre, Paris.

Academic Style is the highly polished, finely detailed style that was promoted by the conservative 19th-century academies. Most of it was worthy but boring. A lot of it was appallingly bad. Ingres was its supreme ad brilliant master.

Cumming, Robert (2001). Art: A Field Guide (p. 372). New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Artist of the Day: Eileen Agar

The Autobiography of an Embryo, 1933-34; oil on board; 90 x 213.5 cm; Tate Gallery, London, England

Eileen Agar came to England from Argentina when she was five years old. An independent spirit, she rebelled against her prosperous Victorian upbringing, deciding at an early age that she wanted to be an artist. She was the first woman to join the Surrealist movement and her work featured in the International Surrealist Exhibition, London, 1936. Despite forming long and lasting friendships with her fellow Surrealists, Agar retained a certain distance from them. She used forms of nature to symbolize workings of the unconscious in her paintings and rejected the masculine notion of woman as muse. Her singular imagination was also developed through sculptures and assemblages. After painting The Autobiography of an Embryo, Agar was asked how she, who had never had a child, could now anything about it. The artist replied that the girl having the child does not know what is happening inside her, but what was important was to record such extraordinary metamorphosis. The four panels of this large narrative painting are intended to be read from left to right. The circles divide like cells in the process of creation.

Anson, Libby and Hodge, Nicole (2002). The A-Z of Art (p. 8). Dubai: Carlton Books

Artist on the Verge: Dianne Smith

I'vegottafeelin', 2005, acrylic on canvas, 12x12

Dianne Smith is in a class of her own: A modern-day Van Gogh with a diligence of Harriet Tubman; an apparent heir to the Harlem Renaissance; daugther of a new black artistic dusk; griot of the emerging neo-asbtract expressionism movement. A working artist since 2001, Dianne Smith has been compared to the likes of Richard Mayhew and Norman Lewis and this is only the beginning for this emerging neo-abstract expressionistic artist. Deeply rooted in the spirit and emotions of ancestry, her works can found in the private collections of Danny Simmons, UFA Gallery, OJ Simpson and many others. Most recently, Dianne just commissioned a piece entitled "Til Now We Stand At Last: for the 200th anniversary celebration of The Abyssinian Baptist Church. She puts it in this way: "human civilizations and cultures all have Africa as their mothers and are therefore more similar than we realize. I want my work to justly portray that connection, the essence of human existence, and thereby possibly affecting the whole of mankind for the better." This interview gives you the indepthness into the life, thought process, spirit and continual journey of this amazing artist.


What type of artist is Dianne Smith?
Not in your face artist. I don't feel to need to be out there in such an overexposed way.

How did you become involved in art? Did you know from an earlier age?
It all started in junior high school and being a product of New York City Public School system I was able to choice which school I wanted to attend; the choice would become the High School of Music and Art. A teacher persuaded me to apply and I was accepted. Upon graduating high school, I attended Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, and remained there for 2 years; I wasn't prepared for the "real world" and returned home and completed my studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology. After that I turned to modeling and that carried me to Europe for 3 years. After leaving Europe I actually moved back to Los Angeles and that was when I decided to become a painter. Los Angeles was not of inspiration to me so I relocated back to NYC and knew that I wanted to live in Harlem to experience the re surging Renaissance and to feel the spirits of the ancestors. Not never having a "real job" I turned back to fashion, more specifically fashion retail management and decided in early 2001 to pursue painting full-time due to a friend's persuasion. I have been creating ever since then and it has been the best decision ever.

Could you briefly describe your creative process?
The process I encounter is not a pretentious one. The way I go about creating art is by engaging in conversation with people and experiencing the everyday in every way. Whenever the moment hits me to create then it happens.

What influences you as an artist?
Inspired, not influenced, by any artist that can produce good quality work. Inspired by those great dignitaries of the Harlem Renaissance i.e. Aaron Douglas, Lois Mailou Jones and others; those artists had a sense of purpose and lived as such and I wish to do the same with my craft.

What made you decide to lean more towards "abstract expressionism?" When I first attended your showing during Harlem Arts Week, I automatically thought of "Neo-Abstract Expressionism"; these unidentifiable pieces with lush and vibrant colors not the dull, muted colors of yesteryear.
Actually I fell into the abstract category by friend and mentor Darryl Simmons. When I first started painting I fell into the trap of creating "black art" or art that reflected how I looked at myself physically. I never knew of other black abstract painters until I discovered Norman Lewis. I will never forget 3 principles that Darryl told me: "find your voice", "figure who you are as an artist" and "free up." Upon hearing that I allowed myself to do just that and I discovered my voice as artist and as a person.

Why do you feel their are not many black abstract artists?
Honestly I don't think many are given the opportunity. Black artists are placed in an unfair position at which they are subjected to backlash from their own community. Many are forced or feel that they must create art that looks the same and that is so mass produced at the same time in order to make money. The downfall of that is that you can walk into any print shop and buy the artwork but you're actually paying for an expensive frame and matting as opposed to the cost People want to buy black art but good black art; that doesn't necessarily mean it must all look the same. But then again what defines "black art?" Does it mean art painted of the black experience by a black artist versus art painted of the black experience by a white artist?

What do you want people to get from your art?
I would like for the general public to feel inspired, to get lost, become influenced, to think, to relax; whatever emotion discharge happens happens.

How often do you show your work? Are you with a local dealer?
Not very often. I am more interested in honing my skills as opposed to mass producing my work. Also I would love to expand in other states, regions and countries. Right now I am trying to collaborate on a travelling show so look for that in the near future.

So what lies in the future for Dianne Smith?
I would like to get into furniture design, very 3-dimensional pieces. Actually I have designed a couple of tables for art shows and the response has been very positive. Also more larger scale pieces of works.

How can one get in contact with you as far as purchasing pieces or viewing your works?

For all inquiries concerning art,I can be contacted at:


dianne@diannesmithart.com

Address: 101 West 130th Street

#5C

New York, NY 10027


For more information, visit the website at http://www.diannesmithart.com/

GQ Rates "The Best Seven Art Cities"

Check out the November 2007 issue of GQ as it rates "The Best Seven Art Cities" that apparently no one has ever thought of except GQ themselves; I am sure the natives always thought so. If one should ever find themselves in any of these cities at anytime, please make sure to check out the cutting-edge and unique art housed in these museums and galleries. The results are listed below:

Chicago

Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, 119 North Peoria St., 312-492-7261

Donald Young Gallery, 933 West Washington Blvd., 312-455-0100

NavtaSchulz Gallery, 1039 West Lake St., 312-421-5506


Berlin

Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstrasse 50-51 49-30-3978-3411

Kunst-Werke Auguststrasse 69 49-30-243-4590

Brunnenstrasse

Glasgow

The Modern Institute, 73 Robertson St., 44-141-248-3711

Tramway, 25 Albert Dr., 44-141-422-2023

Sorcha Dallas, 5-9 St. Margaret's Pl., 44-141-553-2662

Amsterdam

Van Gogh Museum, Paulus Potterstraat 7, 31-20-570-5200

Westergasfabriek, Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 31-20-586-0710

Stedelijk Museum CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 31-20-573-2911

Minneapolis

Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave., 612-375-7600

Frederick R. Weisman Museum, 333 East River Rd., 612-625-9494

Rogue Buddha Gallery and Creative Electric Studios
357 13th Ave, NE, 612-331-3889 and 2201 2nd St, NE, 612-706-7879

Sao Paulo

Pinacoteca do Estado, Praca da Luz 2, 55-11-3229-9844

Oca, Gate 3, Ibirapuera Park. 55-11-5574-5505

Mexico City

Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Justo Sierra 16, 52-55-5702-6378

La Coleccion Jumex, Via Morelos 272, Ecatepec ,52-55-5775-8188

Proyectos Monclova, Colima Roma 244, 52-55-5506-7319

Chocolate Jesus: Got Milk?

photo courtesy of The Associated Press

Artist Cosimo Cavallaro has done it again with the resurrection of his controversial work titled "Chocolate Jesus" which will be displayed as part of the "Chocolate Saints....Sweet Jesus show at the Proposition Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Originally displayed last year during the Holy Week, "Chocolate Jesus" is an life-sized, anatomically correct replica sans the loincloth and comprises of 200 pounds of milk chocolate; not the "blue-eyed, porcelain skin" Jesus we are used to seeing. This is not the first time a biblical figure has been depicted in a non-traditional manner. Over a decade ago, award-winning British artist Chris Ofili created his version of The Virgin Mary in which he incorporated elephant feces caused such a stir that then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani threatened to cut all funding to the Brooklyn Museum unless the installation was cancelled. Previously, Cavallaro had received many death threats for his supposedly "attack on the Catholic Church" but this time around those within the religious community are showing support and dissecting the artistic and symbiotic value of this work. Cavallaro states, " There is nothing offensive about this. If my intentions were to offend, if I did do something wrong, I wouldn't be doing this. But I didn't do anything wrong." When did artistic freedom become less than and more political and judgmental? Does he have a hidden agenda or is this purely his artistic freedom?

For more information on this exhibit, visit:

Proposition Gallery
559 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
212-242-0035
October 27-November 24, 2007
www.theproposition.com/wp/chocolate-saints-sweet-jesus

Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love

Kara Walker, Darkytown Rebellion, 2001. Cut paper and projection on wall, 14x37 ft (4.3x11.3m) overall. Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg. Photograph courtesy the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York



Through February 2, 2008, enjoy Kara Walker's thought provoking work of silhouette cutouts, watercolors and projections that confronts issues of race as well as death. For more information, go to:

The Whitney Museum of Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
212-671-5300
http://www.whitney.org/

UPTOWN FRIDAYS@ THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM

Hey!!! If you're in the neighborhood and would like an economical event to attend, don't miss this Friday, October 19, 2007 for UPTOWN FRIDAYS at the Studio Museum in Harlem. There will be plenty of music, cocktails (who doesn't like a cocktail?...OKAY) and culture. Also there will be plenty of networking so bring your business cards as well as your sexy (make sure the weaves are tight and the hard bottom shoes are polished).

The information is listed below. See you there!!!!

The Studio Museum in Harlem
144 West 125th Street, New York City
Between Malcolm X and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvds

$7 (general public), $5 (members, seniors and students)
Space is available in a first-come, first-served basis

NO RAIN DATE!!!!
DJ:Reborn

Time: 7pm-11pm (enough time left where you can still drop it at the club)

ART WORD OF THE DAY: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Abstract Expressionism is the avant-garde art of the New York School, which flourished after World War 2: big, challenging, personal, emotional, painterly and influential.


Cumming, Robert (2001). Art: A Field Guide (p. 372). New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Target First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum

Please make sure to check out Target First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum and take advantage of this event that occurs every first Saturday of every month. Join me as I indulge in the sights, sounds, food, music and culture of the Caribbean. All information is listed below. See you there!

At the Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment each month from 5–11 p.m. All evening long, the Museum Café serves a wide selection of sandwiches, salads, and beverages, and a cash bar offers wine and beer. Parking is a flat rate of $4 starting at 5 p.m. All other Saturdays, the Museum closes at 6 p.m.

Please note that due to limited capacities, some Target First Saturday programs require tickets. Ticket lines often form 30 minutes before ticket distribution at the Visitor Center located in the Rubin Lobby. Programs are subject to change.

October 6, 2007

This month's Target First Saturday celebrates the BAM 25th Next Wave Festival and the new exhibition Infinite Island. Bring your video camera for our Visitor Video Competition at YouTube. Follow us at Twitter for Target First Saturday updates throughout the evening.

6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. Reading
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor

Elizabeth Nunez reads from her recent novel, Prospero's Daughter, a retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest set in the Caribbean. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.

6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Dance
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

INSPIRIT, a dance company presents a work about the Caribbean's discovery and its Diaspora. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 5:30 p.m.

6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Hands-On Art
Education Division, 1st Floor

Create your own imaginary map of the Caribbean. Free timed tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 5:30 p.m.

6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Music
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor

Hear pianist Arturo O'Farrill and his septet, Riza Negra, blend Latin and American funk with special guest soloist, BAM Next Wave Festival artist and renowned Haitian American violinist/composer Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR).

7:00 p.m. Artist Talk
Meet at the entrance to Infinite Island, 5th Floor

Trinidadian artist Nicole Awai discusses her work. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 6 p.m.

8:00 p.m. Curator Talk
Meet at the entrance to Infinite Island, 5th Floor
Curator Tumelo Mosaka gives a tour of Infinite Island, accompanied by a Sign Language interpreter. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 7 p.m.

8:00 p.m. Performance and Discussion
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor

Samantha Thornhill's spoken word performance and discussion explore Caribbean American identity. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 7 p.m.

8:30 p.m. Film
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

BAMcinématek presents One Love (Rick Elgood and Don Letts, 2003, 100 min., PG-13), a tale of young lovers from different worlds brought together by music, starring Ky-Mani Marley. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 7:30 p.m.

9:00 p.m. Music
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor

Charanga Soleil and DJ Neva combine Cuban salsa, Congolese rumba-soukous, and Haitian music.

9:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. Dance Party
Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor

The legendary DJ Rich Medina spins his special mix of funk laced with son, rumba, and merengue.

Sponsored by

Made possible by the Wallace Foundation Community Programs Fund, established by the Wallace Foundation, with additional support from DLA Piper US LLP, The Ellis A. Gimbel Trust, KeySpan Energy, and other donors. Also supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Community Trust. Media sponsor: New York Times Community Affairs Department.

Sound of Art Presents.....UPTOWN'S FINEST

Join Sound of Art Presents as they deliver to you and to the world:

Uptown's Finest Mr. Peraltas Mr. Untouchable

The Vault
2498 Frederick Douglass Blvd (Between 134th & 133rd Sts.)
Harlem, NY 10030
212-281-1723
Thursday, October 4, 2007
6-10pm

Please come out and show your support for this amazing artist. As always you are promised to enjoy good food, good spirits, good people and good energies!!!!!!

To find out more about Sound of Art, go to: www.soundofart.net

The Rape of Europa

Another art film and just in time for the Fall Arts season. Please come out and support this documentary about art looted and destroyed by the Nazis, including Gustav Klimt's " Gold Portrait." Could you imagine with the art world without its masterpieces?

The Paris
4 West 58th Street
212-668-3800
www.theparistheatre.com
11:45am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:20pm

City Cinemas
Village East Cinemas
2nd ave at 12th Street
777-film #922
2:30, 5:00, 7:30pm


For more information on how to view this groundbreaking documentary, go to:

www.therapeofeuropa.com

MY KID COULD PAINT THAT MOVIE..

Sony Pictures Classics Present:

My Kid Could Paint That

An official selection at both the 2007 Toronto International film Festival and 2007 Sundance Film Festival, this movie looks at the life of a four year old girl and the paintings she sells for $25,000. The question at hand is if this movie provides inspiration, manipulation or does it re-evaluate the authenticity of the art world?

Starts this Friday, October 5, 2007 and only playing at selected theaters:

Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.
For info & advance tickets, call 212-757-2280
www.lincolnplazacinema.com

City Cinemas
Angelika Film Center
Corner of Houston & Mercer St.
777-Film #531


View the trailer at: www.mykidcouldpaintthatmovie.com

UPDATE ON UPTOWN FRIDAYS @STUDIO MUSEUM

Due to incliment weather, Uptown Fridays @ Studio Museum in Harlem was cancelled. I will give you an update on the next Uptown Friday as soon as I can.