The gallery at A Gathering of the TRIBES is once again staying true to its name as "3 li'l NDNs", a group exhibition, will be their next show opening November 6th. "3 li'l NDNs" features the work of emerging Native American artists Donna Charging, Courtney Leonard, and Dan Loudfoot whose artistic voices are anything but "little" in the realms of the contemporary cultural dialogues that surface in their works. The mediums featured in the gallery are as varied as the conversation where the only true link is the personal indigenous identity they choose to share.

No human spirit, all toughness aside, could withstand watching Trouble the Water without tears of empathy, followed by boiling anger, growing conviction and the commitment to respond. Filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, consistently credit this feeling of good will fueled by a desire to help, as what motivated them to race to the gold coast in the aftermath of Katrina. The long time collaborators with Michael Moore had experienced a similar impetus towards action after 9/11. Turning their lens outwards on their own Brooklyn neighborhood, they made The Family Divided, a compelling short about the backlash of racism and unjust deportations which affected many American-Muslims. Determined to react artfully and effectively, Lessin and Deal, armed with their cameras found themselves in New Orleans in search of a story.

Is a Ph.D. in fine art a pre-requisite for the production of sexually offensive, hyper-color, infantile comic book styled corporate clutter? If your name is Takashi Murakami than the answer is, "yes". The self-proclaimed creator of a new art movement entitled Superflat, which refers to what Murakami has defined as the lack of distinction in Japan between high and low art, as the flat space in between. A trend he points to in traditional as well as contemporary Japanese art. According to the artist, “Japanese don't like serious art. But if I can transform cute characters into serious art, they will love my piece.”

The father is long gone to the other sidebut the raspy edge of his laughing echoes through the tunnels of her brain. She is the daughter who can't sleep without dreaming him knocking at the door of her quiet with the story he told.

He is eternally young, eternally a memory. Because he cannot defend himself, he becomes eternally an ideological figure, a figure whose connotations have unavoidably trumped his personality. Dead men tell no tales, so men with agendas do so for them.

The Sixties were a bend in the river—-a river that seems to be in danger of going the way of the Rio Grande—dried up. Susan Sherman traces the gathering currents of this river at the confluence between some of its major tributaries. For her it begins in Los Angeles in the Forties and Fifties, which was by then the heart of America’s image-making machine. Her transformation follows the larger social trajectory of a country that rose victorious and prosperous from a world war. First are her frustrated early attempts to keep step with the world of toothpaste smiles, tidy lawns, backyard barbeques, martini cocktail hours, and non-filtered cigarettes. With her move to Berkley at nineteen, and the ensuing, age-specific progression of influences, relationships and their resulting liberations and limitations, she begins her five-decade investigation into political and social change and the power and beauty of language.

Most Hollywood films, take you on exciting thrilling car chasing gun fighting journeys where beautiful people meet and have sex with other beautiful people. And you get to go along for the ride. But afterwards you walk into the street, and back home to your apartment with your sick cat and your fat wife, and all of a sudden what you thought was an alright life seems pathetic and lame in comparison.

Louise Bourgeois' Retrospective, currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, solidifies her status as a master sculptor and showcases her inarguable aesthetic triumph, situating her solidly amongst the greatest artists of the last two centuries.

"...Here we are well into fall and there’s so much catchingup to do so let’s begin where I last left off with a brief list of gigs I witnessed, before getting to the heart of this article. There was the Zorn – Lou Reed duo which culminated with guest appearances by Mike Patton, Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori, followed 2 nights later by Zorn, Reed, Ribot and Milford Graves who played impeccably and tastefully throughout the night and who during set two when Reed joined in, actually seemed to enjoy being “the drummer in the band”..."

"Es un experimento que incluye la precisión de la palabra y las estructuras poéticas, y que de alguna forma descubre las vías misteriosas del pensamiento humano—porque como Freud ya había observado en sus apuntes sobre los escritores creativos, fueron los poetas que inventaron el subconsciente."