Birthday Dance and Party for 90-Year-Old Dancer

Please share this video to celebrate Jean Veloz's 90th birthday dance and party.  It is almost up to one million shares and would be another great present.  Although, dancing every dance at that age is gift enough, don't you think?  

UPDATE:  Yay!  Thanks to everyone involved, this video has 1 million shares and more.  (Someone call Ellen DeGeneres).  

The Hundred-Foot Journey Official Trailer (2014) HD

Treat yourself to a food feast without gaining a single pound, by seeing "The Hundred-Foot Journey."  It was special seeing the first showing at our small movie house in Malibu.  When the audience applauded at the end it felt like a theater experience.  

"The Eternal Wonder"

I am not going to lie, when confessing that it took me three tries to get into reading Pearl Buck's, "The Eternal Wonder."  This saga of the life-long questioning of a brilliant person left me questioning my own intelligence.  But, finally, Buck's great writing started to flow for me.  Then, I couldn't put it down.  In one sentence, I can say, "it is about so much more than the story."  Written by this Novel-Prize-winning author, it is filled with importance.  

Mark Di Suvero Sculptures and Drawings at L A Louver

The kinetic steel, stainless and titanium sculptures and drawings done in pen, ink and pencil are being exhibited at the L A Louver gallery in Venice, California.  Installed in the 2nd floor gallery and skyroom, they can be viewed until August 29, 2014.  http://www.lalouver.com/html/disuvero_bio.html

Gallery Hopping in Los Angeles

It is always fun to be with an art loving friend when racing around to see as much as art as possible 

during the openings.  She was able to get us to many of the wide-spread and disparate galleries in the La Brea and La Cienega area of Los Angeles. 

Hockney at L. A. Louvre

The gallery walls were singing with the iPad generated drawings by artist, David Hockney. 

Ever the innovator, he has frequently explored making art with the most current technologies. 

The exhibition continues through August 29, 2014.  http://www.lalouver.com/html/hockney_bio_60s.html

Japanese Brush Paintings and Screens

My friends and I were privileged to be guided through the exhibit of 18th C. Japanese brush paintings and screens by our erudite colleague, who is a former curator with LACMA.  http://www.lacma.org/

 Suzuki Kiitsu, EGRET AND WILLOW,  two-panel screen; ink and color on silk 

 Nagasawa Rosetsu, BULL AND ELEPHANT,  pair of six-panel screens; ink and gold wash on paper 

 Attributed to Kitagawa Kikumaro (Tsukimaro), TWO BEAUTIES, hanging scroll; ink and color on paper (a detail)  

 Katsu Jagyoku, CROWS AND PLUM TREE , RABBITS AND PINE TREES IN SNOW, 1774, painted panel screens; ink and white pigment on paper 

Ito Jakucho, CRANES, pair of six panels; ink on paper 

Sea Lily

The Sea Lily flower shop at Trancas Canyon in Malibu opened in it's new location just in time for Spring.

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"

"My Beloved World"

Brilliant and inspiring...

Landscape Paintings at Palm Springs Art Museum

Fritz Scholder, UNTITLED (landscape with adobe), n.d., acrylic on canvas 

William Wendt, CREEPING SHADOWS, n.d., oil on canvas 

Thomas Moran, GRAND CANYON (mist in the canyon), 1915, oil on canvas 

Ralph Lauren in Malibu

I love the peaking in the window to see the new styles and their lovely garden.  

Malibu Garden Center Reopens

Our garden center is back, just in time for Spring.  

Alexander Calder at LACMA

The exquisite sculptures at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art were made even more so by the exhibition design of Frank Gehry.  

http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/calder-and-abstraction-avant-garde-iconic